Catalog for the exhibit: Life and Death Under the Pharaohs: Egyptian Art from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands. Lavishly illustrated catalog with photographs and text describing the 300 artifacts featured in the exhibition, as well as overview articles on the four sections of the exhibition; 1. The Egyptian World: Creation, Gods and the Land of Egypt. 2. The King and His Officials. 3. Daily Life. 4. Life After Death. This exhibition has traveled throughout Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and Germany, and after it's exhibition in Atlanta, Georgia, (It's only North American venue) the material will return to permanent exhibition in the newly renovated galleries at the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands.

'Life and Death under the Pharaohs, Egyptian Art from the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands' (Single Titles in Egyptology)

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Gerard Zerbolt De Zutphen. Manuel De La Reforme Interieure (Sous La Regle De Saint Augustin, 8) (French and Latin Edition)

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Marshall McLuhan described the so-called Gutenberg-Galaxy - a culture based on books, which in his opinion would come to an end due to the electronic media at the end of the 20th century - but it first emerged in Europe during the 12th to 15th centuries. Even before the invention of the printing press the written text became essential both for the intellectual development and the everyday activities of people. In various different fields and regions, the Sonderforschungsbereich 231 at Munster, has analysed these processes. The results of this work have gained an international reputation. SFB 231 'Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages' completed its 13-year programme of research in December 1999. During this period 15 different workgroups (historians, theologians, philologists [Latin, German and English]) have analysed the changes taking place from a society based almost exclusively on oral communication to a culture which relies decisively on the written word. The European-wide phenomenon is examined mainly for Germany, Italy, the Low Countries, England and France. The written letter replaced the herald, and letters were not only exchanged between clerics and other 'literati', but also between merchants and their business partners and wives. What used to be an oral agreement between two men, witnessed by their relatives and friends, now became a notarial document. Property disputes were no longer decided by asking a council of elders but by consulting the newly established communal archives. The aim is to use the opportunities offered by this new medium to explain for each of the examples given, within seven or nine minutes, the complex findings of the SFB's research. An electronic medium is appropriate because it offers the possibility of combining pictures, graphs, charts, texts and verbal explanations. Sixteen different genres or milieux are demonstrated on this CD-ROM: (1) Bible Translation (2) Episcopal Chronicle.

Transforming the Medieval World: Uses of Pragmatic Literacy in the Middle Ages (Utrecht Studies In Medieval Literacy)

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Vaisselle de Bronze Paleobyzantine (Antiquitae Tardive) (English, French and Italian Edition)

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Gerard Zerbolt De Zutphen. La Montee Du Coeur. De Spiritualibus Ascensionibus (Sous La Regle De Saint Augustin, 11) (French and Latin Edition)

Oecumenical Councils of the Roman Catholic Church: From Trent to Vatican II (1545-1965) (Corpus Christianorum Conciliorum Oecumenicorum Et Generalium) (English and Latin Edition)

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Christian Books & Bibles

Includes research by Jean Martin, entitled Julien dit l'apostate, ecrits autobiographiques.

Empereur Julien Et Son Temps (Antiquite Tardive) (English, French and Italian Edition)

Quaestio 10 (2010): Later Medieval Perspectives on Intentionality (English and Italian Edition)

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Philosophy

Yearbook of Langland Studies 25 (2011)

The patronage, making, preservation, and use of medieval manuscripts across cultures and across the centuries: essays by eminent scholars in the field of manuscript studies. The essays in this collection pertain to art history, medieval Latin culture both ecclesiastic and legal, the history of vernacular literatures, and the devotional practices of the laity. They reflect the patronage of authors and manuscript painters, from the royal through the monastic to the urban middle class, and they trace the sometimes astonishing afterlife of manuscripts. The subject matter of these studies ranges chronologically from late antiquity to the later Middle Ages, adding the emergent medievalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its geographic breadth extends through the major Western cultures and literatures, from England to Italy, Germany, and France. Its wide range in time and space reflects the lifetime of manuscript research, teaching, and collecting by its honorees, Richard and Mary Rouse. A particular emphasis distinguishes this volume from other such collections: its stress on the use, and usefulness, of medieval manuscripts in the teaching of most historical disciplines in Western culture, from the broad undergraduate survey (of art, literature, history) to the specialized graduate seminar. In the last half century, public colleges and universities have increasingly appreciated the pedagogical opportunities inherent in building, through gift and purchase, collections of medieval manuscripts, formerly thought to be the province only of wealthy private schools. No similar collection of manuscript studies exhibits so clearly the role of medieval manuscripts in teaching. The specialist authors represented in this volume have displayed, over the whole of their careers, an ability to combine the highest caliber of research with an eagerness to make their subject accessible to others through teaching and writing and public lectures. The essays offer the results of new and sometimes technical research, set forth in a manner intelligible not only to the expert but to the interested amateur.

Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users: A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse (Viator, Medieval and Renaissance Studies)

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