Tag: Middle

Free Download Gabriella Mazzon, "Interactive Dialogue Sequences in Middle English Drama"
English | 2009 | pages: 241 | ISBN: 9027254303 | PDF | 1,9 mb
This book looks at mediaeval English drama using the theoretical frameworks of historical sociopragmatics and dialogue analysis. It focuses on the collection of cycle plays known as the N.TownPlays, preserved in a manuscript from the fifteenth century. The book examines various linguistic markers that are important for the expression of social relations and pragmatic stance: pronouns and terms of address, modal markers, performatives, and sequential structures such as question-answer, imperative-compliance, etc. These elements are examined separately and then brought together to arrive at a more integrated analysis of dramatic dialogue and of the dynamics of interaction it portrays. A separate chapter is devoted to tracing the same mechanisms on a different communication level, i.e. in ‘dialogue’ with the audience, which is particularly relevant to the instructional purposes of the plays. The book will be useful to students and scholars of pragmatics, historical linguistics, dialogue studies and drama studies.

Free Download Emily N. Savage, "New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages"
English | ISBN: 1032019271 | 2024 | 272 pages | PDF | 27 MB
This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the archive, and contributors examine material from Seville to Prague, from the early Christian period through the Reformation.

Free Download V. Allen, "On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 0230100392 | 2007 | 252 pages | EPUB | 689 KB
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the ‘paternal dungheaps’ of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.

Free Download S. Akbarzadeh, "America’s Challenges in the Greater Middle East: The Obama Administration’s Policies"
English | ISBN: 0230112773 | 2011 | 283 pages | EPUB | 617 KB
Barack Obama has faced many challenges in reversing U.S. policy on the Middle East. This book highlights points of resistance to Obama’s efforts regarding U.S. foreign policy and what lessons may be learned from this experience for the remainder of his presidency and his potential second term in office.

Free Download Robert B Satloff, "The Politics Of Change In The Middle East"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 036731052X, 0367295067 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 1.0 mb
This book examines regime stability and political change in the heartland of the Middle East. It discusses the distribution of power within each regime of the Middle East; the sources of regime legitimacy; and the social, economic, and ideological trends influencing change in the region.

Free Download A. J. Carlyle, "Political Liberty: A History of the Conception in the Middle Ages and Modern Times"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367179148, 0313214824 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 0.6 mb
Originally published in 1988, this book explores the history of political liberty. There is an opinion that the conception of Political Liberty, however important it may have been in Athens and Republican Rome, disappeared in the period of the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, and has only been recovered in the last two centuries. This work is primarily an attempt to set out the continuity of the development of the conception of Political Liberty during the Middle Ages and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries – the development, but even more, the continuity of development, for this has been inadequately appreciated in the past.

Free Download Food, Heresies, and Magical Boundaries in the Middle Ages
by Andrea Maraschi, Francesca Tasca
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9463727965 | 255 Pages | True PDF | 2.3 MB

Free Download Gavin Hyman, "Traversing the Middle"
English | ISBN: 149821407X | 2013 | 230 pages | EPUB | 224 KB
In recent philosophy, theology, and critical theory, postmodern thought has been much criticized on specifically ethical and political grounds. In particular, it has been argued that postmodernism has induced passivity and is impotent in the face of the challenges presented by the hegemonic global market. In response numerous thinkers have called for the "return of the metanarrative" or have insisted on the necessity of the domain of the "universal." In this book, Gavin Hyman accepts the diagnosis, while contesting the cure. Through detailed engagements with the work of Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek, and John Milbank-as well as discussions of the work of Simon Critchley, Michael Hardt, and Antonio Negri-Hyman argues that many contemporary thinkers merely invert the problems intrinsic to postmodernism and therefore do not effectively escape them. He argues that the ethical and political are best preserved and perpetuated through the negotiating of an ongoing tension between the domains of the universal, the particular, and the singular. To proceed thus would be to traverse the terrain of the middle-ethically, politically, and religiously.

Free Download Meet Me in the Middle: 8 Mother-Daughter Conversations About Life and Faith (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNF6H8G6 | 2024 | 5 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Sandra Stanley, Allie Stanley Cooney
Narrator: Sandra Stanley, Allie Stanley Cooney
You can have an open and trusting relationship with your teenager. Mother-and-daughter team Sandra Stanley and Allie Stanley Cooney offer in alternating chapters to you and your middle school/early high school daughter in this unique, interaction-prompting book that will help you grow in connection, communication, and faith. Some conversations between parent and child don’t happen until a crisis forces them to occur. At that point, defenses go up, lines are drawn, feelings are hurt, and solutions seem out of reach. But what if those conversations happened before a crisis? This book helps make that happen. As leaders at one of the country’s largest churches, Sandra Stanley and Allie Stanley Cooney not only have professional backgrounds working with young people, they have walked this path together. Meet Me in the Middle guides you to a loving, trusting relationship with your tween or teen daughter as you grow closer, seek out God together, and enjoy each other along the way.

Free Download Edited by Mojtaba Mahdavi, "Rethinking China, the Middle East and Asia in a ‘Multiplex World’ "
English | ISBN: 9004391606 | 2022 | 284 pages | PDF | 17 MB
The contemporary Sino-MENA-Asia relations and the Belt and Road Initiative are in the making in an emerging ‘multiplex world’. This edited volume includes new researches in fifteen chapters, examining China’s complex relations with Iran, Turkey, Egypt, GCC, Pakistan, central and south Asia.