This significantly updated and beautifully produced second edition survey of over a thousand years of Western art and architecture introduces the reader to a period of extraordinary historical and geographical extent ranging from ancient Rome to the age of exploration. The monum…
Contrairement aux scribes ± de bibliothèque ?, les scribes ± d?archives ? ? l?étiquette désigne ici de façon ouverte tous les acteurs de la pratique scripturaire dans le champ foisonnant des sources documentaires ? sont très souvent les auteurs intellectuels des textes qu?ils tr…
Pierluigi Leone Gatti beleuchtet die Geschichte der philologischen Rezeption von Ovids Werk. Anhand von exegetischem Material (Scholien, Glossen und Zusammenfassungen) verfolgt er die Stellung Ovids und seiner Werke von der Antike bis ins Mittelalter. Die verschiedenen Sprachten…
"Herakles Inside and Outside the Church: from the first Apologists to the Quattrocento explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe. Each chapter takes a parti…
Questo volume offre la più ampia raccolta di bestiari tardoantichi e medievali che sia stata finora pubblicata. I lettori, per la prima volta, avranno a disposizione tutto il corpus fondamentale dei bestiari, in versi e in prosa, con il testo originale a fronte (greco, etiopico,…
"This book contains eleven essays, prefaced by a general introduction, on a set of related themes: the characteristic traits and diverse functions of holy men; the fashioning of saints out of a small minority of holy men and a number of other individuals of high social status bu…
Zusammenfassung: Costumes and coiffures of Orissa; a study
"This volume commemorating the late Armenian scholar Karen Yuzbashyan comprises studies of mediaeval Armenian culture, including the reception of biblical and parabiblical texts, theological literature, liturgy, hagiography, manuscript studies, Church history and secular history…