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Anthropogeography Part II
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For over sixty years, Professor Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the literary and scientific writings and achievements of Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.
Anthropogeography Part II
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For over sixty years, Professor Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the literary and scientific writings and achievements of Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.
A Census of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Advertisements and Catalogues till 1600
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The culmination of three decades of research by one of Europe’s most renowned book historians, Advertising the Early Printed Book is the necessary first resource for scholars investigating the marketing methods of publishers and booksellers in the first 150 years of printing in the West. The Census provides bibliographical descriptions of over 250 advertisements and catalogues, some not previously recorded, some no longer extant, with transcriptions of their promotional text, references to modern editions, facsimiles, and scholarship, and whenever possible notes on the provenance and condition of surviving copies.
A Census of Publishers’ and Booksellers’ Advertisements and Catalogues till 1600
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The culmination of three decades of research by one of Europe’s most renowned book historians, Advertising the Early Printed Book is the necessary first resource for scholars investigating the marketing methods of publishers and booksellers in the first 150 years of printing in the West. The Census provides bibliographical descriptions of over 250 advertisements and catalogues, some not previously recorded, some no longer extant, with transcriptions of their promotional text, references to modern editions, facsimiles, and scholarship, and whenever possible notes on the provenance and condition of surviving copies.
This volume contains Felix Jacoby’s fundamental commentaries on the Greek ethnographers whose fragments he edited in FGrHist as numbers 609-708. They include, among others, commentaries on authors who wrote on Egypt, Babylonia and Persia. Jacoby wrote these commentaries while working on his edition, but was unable to finish them before his death. The commentaries explain many of Jacoby’s editorial choices in the text edition and provide characterizations of the fragmentary authors and their works. They also contain invaluable interpretations of individual fragments. This volume continues the publication of Jacoby’s posthumous commentaries, which was initiated by Charles Fornara in 1994.
Dieser Band enthält Felix Jacobys grundlegende Kommentare zu den griechischen Ethnographen, deren Fragmente er in FGrHist unter den Nummern 609-708 herausgegeben hat. Dazu gehören unter anderem Kommentare zu Autoren, die über Ägypten, Babylonien und Persien geschrieben haben. Jacoby verfasste diese Kommentare während der Arbeit an seiner Edition, konnte sie jedoch vor seinem Tod nicht mehr fertigstellen. Die Kommentare erläutern viele von Jacobys editorischen Entscheidungen in der Edition und bieten Charakterisierungen der fragmentarischen Autoren und ihrer Werke. Sie enthalten zudem wertvolle Interpretationen einzelner Fragmente. Dieser Band setzt die Veröffentlichung von Jacobys posthumen Kommentaren fort, die 1994 von Charles Fornara begonnen wurde.
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This volume contains Felix Jacoby’s fundamental commentaries on the Greek ethnographers whose fragments he edited in FGrHist as numbers 609-708. They include, among others, commentaries on authors who wrote on Egypt, Babylonia and Persia. Jacoby wrote these commentaries while working on his edition, but was unable to finish them before his death. The commentaries explain many of Jacoby’s editorial choices in the text edition and provide characterizations of the fragmentary authors and their works. They also contain invaluable interpretations of individual fragments. This volume continues the publication of Jacoby’s posthumous commentaries, which was initiated by Charles Fornara in 1994.
Dieser Band enthält Felix Jacobys grundlegende Kommentare zu den griechischen Ethnographen, deren Fragmente er in FGrHist unter den Nummern 609-708 herausgegeben hat. Dazu gehören unter anderem Kommentare zu Autoren, die über Ägypten, Babylonien und Persien geschrieben haben. Jacoby verfasste diese Kommentare während der Arbeit an seiner Edition, konnte sie jedoch vor seinem Tod nicht mehr fertigstellen. Die Kommentare erläutern viele von Jacobys editorischen Entscheidungen in der Edition und bieten Charakterisierungen der fragmentarischen Autoren und ihrer Werke. Sie enthalten zudem wertvolle Interpretationen einzelner Fragmente. Dieser Band setzt die Veröffentlichung von Jacobys posthumen Kommentaren fort, die 1994 von Charles Fornara begonnen wurde.
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This volume contains Felix Jacoby’s fundamental commentaries on the Greek ethnographers whose fragments he edited in FGrHist as numbers 609-708. They include, among others, commentaries on authors who wrote on India, Jews, Phoenicia and Rome. Jacoby wrote these commentaries while working on his edition, but was unable to finish them before his death. The commentaries explain many of Jacoby’s editorial choices in the text edition and provide characterizations of the fragmentary authors and their works. They also contain invaluable interpretations of individual fragments. This volume completes the publication of Jacoby’s posthumous commentaries, which was initiated by Charles Fornara in 1994.
Dieser Band enthält Felix Jacobys grundlegende Kommentare zu den griechischen Ethnographen, deren Fragmente er in FGrHist unter den Nummern 609-708 herausgegeben hat. Dazu gehören unter anderem Kommentare zu Autoren, die über Ägypten, Babylonien und Persien geschrieben haben. Jacoby verfasste diese Kommentare während der Arbeit an seiner Edition, konnte sie jedoch vor seinem Tod nicht mehr fertigstellen. Die Kommentare erläutern viele von Jacobys editorischen Entscheidungen in der Edition und bieten Charakterisierungen der fragmentarischen Autoren und ihrer Werke. Sie enthalten zudem wertvolle Interpretationen einzelner Fragmente. Dieser Band setzt die Veröffentlichung von Jacobys posthumen Kommentaren fort, die 1994 von Charles Fornara begonnen wurde.
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This volume contains Felix Jacoby’s fundamental commentaries on the Greek ethnographers whose fragments he edited in FGrHist as numbers 609-708. They include, among others, commentaries on authors who wrote on India, Jews, Phoenicia and Rome. Jacoby wrote these commentaries while working on his edition, but was unable to finish them before his death. The commentaries explain many of Jacoby’s editorial choices in the text edition and provide characterizations of the fragmentary authors and their works. They also contain invaluable interpretations of individual fragments. This volume completes the publication of Jacoby’s posthumous commentaries, which was initiated by Charles Fornara in 1994.
Dieser Band enthält Felix Jacobys grundlegende Kommentare zu den griechischen Ethnographen, deren Fragmente er in FGrHist unter den Nummern 609-708 herausgegeben hat. Dazu gehören unter anderem Kommentare zu Autoren, die über Ägypten, Babylonien und Persien geschrieben haben. Jacoby verfasste diese Kommentare während der Arbeit an seiner Edition, konnte sie jedoch vor seinem Tod nicht mehr fertigstellen. Die Kommentare erläutern viele von Jacobys editorischen Entscheidungen in der Edition und bieten Charakterisierungen der fragmentarischen Autoren und ihrer Werke. Sie enthalten zudem wertvolle Interpretationen einzelner Fragmente. Dieser Band setzt die Veröffentlichung von Jacobys posthumen Kommentaren fort, die 1994 von Charles Fornara begonnen wurde.
Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Formally elegant, stylistically refined, rarefied in their display of knowledge and skill, Mannerist altarpieces are endlessly fascinating. Whereas previous scholarship aligns Mannerism with the world of secular concerns, the authors included in this volume chart a different course of interpretation. According to our argument, Mannerist altarpieces offer spectators a type of religious experience so stylized, so exquisitely beautiful that it becomes a work of art itself. In this respect, The Mannerist Altarpiece raises new possibilities for thinking about the field of Italian Renaissance art history, its past, present, and future.
Contributors include Mattia Biffis, Steven J. Cody, Sally J. Cornelison, Alexis Culotta, Marcia B. Hall, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Stuart Lingo, Celeste McNamara, Caroline Paganussi, Giorgio Tagliaferro, and Mary Vaccaro.
Contributors include Mattia Biffis, Steven J. Cody, Sally J. Cornelison, Alexis Culotta, Marcia B. Hall, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Stuart Lingo, Celeste McNamara, Caroline Paganussi, Giorgio Tagliaferro, and Mary Vaccaro.
Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Formally elegant, stylistically refined, rarefied in their display of knowledge and skill, Mannerist altarpieces are endlessly fascinating. Whereas previous scholarship aligns Mannerism with the world of secular concerns, the authors included in this volume chart a different course of interpretation. According to our argument, Mannerist altarpieces offer spectators a type of religious experience so stylized, so exquisitely beautiful that it becomes a work of art itself. In this respect, The Mannerist Altarpiece raises new possibilities for thinking about the field of Italian Renaissance art history, its past, present, and future.
Contributors include Mattia Biffis, Steven J. Cody, Sally J. Cornelison, Alexis Culotta, Marcia B. Hall, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Stuart Lingo, Celeste McNamara, Caroline Paganussi, Giorgio Tagliaferro, and Mary Vaccaro.
Contributors include Mattia Biffis, Steven J. Cody, Sally J. Cornelison, Alexis Culotta, Marcia B. Hall, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Stuart Lingo, Celeste McNamara, Caroline Paganussi, Giorgio Tagliaferro, and Mary Vaccaro.
The Moral Roots of European Legal and Economic Thought
Issues of sin and guilt are never far away when it comes to bad payers. The notion that insolvent people are fraudsters has become a commonplace. Today, it is not uncommon, especially in debates on public finance, to see economic-legal categories such as "creditors" and "debtors" pop up alongside terminology from the moral-religious sphere such as "saints" and "sinners." In addition to an economic and legal meaning, in many languages the term employed to denote debt has religious and moral overtones, as is the case with the German word "Schuld". Despite current tendencies by experts to reduce debt issues to technical legal and economic problems, moral connotations of debt persist in disputes about debt around the world. The articles collected in this volume show that at least part of the explanation lies in the deep, historical interconnectedness of law, religion, morality and the economy, especially in the medieval and early modern European tradition.
The Moral Roots of European Legal and Economic Thought
Issues of sin and guilt are never far away when it comes to bad payers. The notion that insolvent people are fraudsters has become a commonplace. Today, it is not uncommon, especially in debates on public finance, to see economic-legal categories such as "creditors" and "debtors" pop up alongside terminology from the moral-religious sphere such as "saints" and "sinners." In addition to an economic and legal meaning, in many languages the term employed to denote debt has religious and moral overtones, as is the case with the German word "Schuld". Despite current tendencies by experts to reduce debt issues to technical legal and economic problems, moral connotations of debt persist in disputes about debt around the world. The articles collected in this volume show that at least part of the explanation lies in the deep, historical interconnectedness of law, religion, morality and the economy, especially in the medieval and early modern European tradition.
The Samʾalian Inscriptions on the Statues of Hadad and Panamuwa II
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This book is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of the two Samʾalian inscriptions on the statues of Hadad and of Panamuwa II, discovered near Zincirli in the northern Levant. These inscriptions, commissioned by the kings Panamuwa I and Bar-Rākib, were manufactured in the eighth century BCE. Not only are the inscriptions an important source of information on the kingdom of Samʾal/Yʾdy and its governance, but they also illuminate the larger North Syrian political context, including the Neo-Assyrian strategy of subordinating local rulers. The book offers a new epigraphic, philological, literary and historical analysis of these two inscriptions.
The Samʾalian Inscriptions on the Statues of Hadad and Panamuwa II
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This book is devoted to the analysis and interpretation of the two Samʾalian inscriptions on the statues of Hadad and of Panamuwa II, discovered near Zincirli in the northern Levant. These inscriptions, commissioned by the kings Panamuwa I and Bar-Rākib, were manufactured in the eighth century BCE. Not only are the inscriptions an important source of information on the kingdom of Samʾal/Yʾdy and its governance, but they also illuminate the larger North Syrian political context, including the Neo-Assyrian strategy of subordinating local rulers. The book offers a new epigraphic, philological, literary and historical analysis of these two inscriptions.
Theatricality and Performativity in Bernard and Picart's Religious Ceremonies of the World
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Intersections, Volume: 104
This collection of essays explores how early modern authors, artists, and thinkers engaged with religious practices across cultures through ceremonial performance and visual representation. Using Bernard and Picart’s monumental Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737) as its focal point, the chapters examine how rituals were observed, described, and imagined as vital expressions of belief and identity. Drawing on art history, religious studies, and performance studies, contributors reveal how these depictions both reflected cultural difference and anticipated later anthropological inquiry. The volume situates these insights within broader historical and intellectual contexts, highlighting performance and proto-anthropology as central to understanding religion in the early modern world.
Contributors include: Steff Nellis, Pascale Rihouet, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Matthieu Somon, Daniel Purdy, Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Ianka Huygen, Andreas Kwanten, Fleur Syryn, Marthe Theunissen, Jules De Bruycker, and Alexander McCargar.
Contributors include: Steff Nellis, Pascale Rihouet, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Matthieu Somon, Daniel Purdy, Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Ianka Huygen, Andreas Kwanten, Fleur Syryn, Marthe Theunissen, Jules De Bruycker, and Alexander McCargar.
Theatricality and Performativity in Bernard and Picart's Religious Ceremonies of the World
Series:
Intersections, Volume: 104
This collection of essays explores how early modern authors, artists, and thinkers engaged with religious practices across cultures through ceremonial performance and visual representation. Using Bernard and Picart’s monumental Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737) as its focal point, the chapters examine how rituals were observed, described, and imagined as vital expressions of belief and identity. Drawing on art history, religious studies, and performance studies, contributors reveal how these depictions both reflected cultural difference and anticipated later anthropological inquiry. The volume situates these insights within broader historical and intellectual contexts, highlighting performance and proto-anthropology as central to understanding religion in the early modern world.
Contributors include: Steff Nellis, Pascale Rihouet, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Matthieu Somon, Daniel Purdy, Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Ianka Huygen, Andreas Kwanten, Fleur Syryn, Marthe Theunissen, Jules De Bruycker, and Alexander McCargar.
Contributors include: Steff Nellis, Pascale Rihouet, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, Matthieu Somon, Daniel Purdy, Nicolás Kwiatkowski, Ianka Huygen, Andreas Kwanten, Fleur Syryn, Marthe Theunissen, Jules De Bruycker, and Alexander McCargar.
Zur Informatik der staatlichen Verwaltung, 1960-1986
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Diese technikhistorische Studie zum Strukturwandel des staatlichen Handelns in der Schweiz rekonstruiert, wie der Einsatz von Computern und Datenbanken in den Verwaltungen seit 1960 neue politische Handlungsmöglichkeiten eröffnete und zugleich die Komplexität des Verwaltungshandelns erheblich steigerte. Ricky Wichum untersucht fünf Aushandlungszonen der staatlichen Informatik – Time-Sharing, Einwohnerdatenbanken, Information, AHV-Nummer und Datenschutz –, in denen an einer rechnergestützten Verwaltungswirklichkeit gearbeitet wurde. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Informatikforschung der ETH Zürich, die sich in den 1970er Jahren als wissenschaftliche Disziplin etablierte und ihre Expertise in die Problemlagen der digitalen Verwaltung einbrachte. Sie orientierte ihr Computerwissen an der Tradition bürokratischer Datenverarbeitung und experimentierte mit dem Föderalismus als Ordnungsmodell für vernetzte Datenbanken, um die Autonomie digitaler Systeme und ihrer Nutzer zu steigern.
Zur Informatik der staatlichen Verwaltung, 1960-1986
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Diese technikhistorische Studie zum Strukturwandel des staatlichen Handelns in der Schweiz rekonstruiert, wie der Einsatz von Computern und Datenbanken in den Verwaltungen seit 1960 neue politische Handlungsmöglichkeiten eröffnete und zugleich die Komplexität des Verwaltungshandelns erheblich steigerte. Ricky Wichum untersucht fünf Aushandlungszonen der staatlichen Informatik – Time-Sharing, Einwohnerdatenbanken, Information, AHV-Nummer und Datenschutz –, in denen an einer rechnergestützten Verwaltungswirklichkeit gearbeitet wurde. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Informatikforschung der ETH Zürich, die sich in den 1970er Jahren als wissenschaftliche Disziplin etablierte und ihre Expertise in die Problemlagen der digitalen Verwaltung einbrachte. Sie orientierte ihr Computerwissen an der Tradition bürokratischer Datenverarbeitung und experimentierte mit dem Föderalismus als Ordnungsmodell für vernetzte Datenbanken, um die Autonomie digitaler Systeme und ihrer Nutzer zu steigern.
Rechte Intellektuellendiskurse zwischen Ästhetik und Weltanschauung seit 1918
Kulturkonservative, geistesaristokratische und ressentimentale Denk- und Sprechweisen erfahren seit einigen Jahren eine erhebliche Konjunktur. Sie stehen dabei vielfach in der Tradition rechter Intellektuellendiskurse an der Schnittstelle von Ästhetik und Weltanschauung, die insbesondere seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs ihre jeweiligen Gegenwarten mit alternativen Entwürfen politischer, soziokultureller und anthropologischer Ordnungen konfrontieren. Die Beiträge des Bandes bringen anhand der wiederkehrenden, häufig in komplexer Verschränkung auftretenden Diskursphänomene Kulturkonservatismus, Geistesaristokratie und Ressentiment historische und gegenwärtige Formationen rechter Intellektuellendiskurse samt ihrer Medien und Netzwerke in eine vergleichende Konstellation.
Rechte Intellektuellendiskurse zwischen Ästhetik und Weltanschauung seit 1918
Kulturkonservative, geistesaristokratische und ressentimentale Denk- und Sprechweisen erfahren seit einigen Jahren eine erhebliche Konjunktur. Sie stehen dabei vielfach in der Tradition rechter Intellektuellendiskurse an der Schnittstelle von Ästhetik und Weltanschauung, die insbesondere seit dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs ihre jeweiligen Gegenwarten mit alternativen Entwürfen politischer, soziokultureller und anthropologischer Ordnungen konfrontieren. Die Beiträge des Bandes bringen anhand der wiederkehrenden, häufig in komplexer Verschränkung auftretenden Diskursphänomene Kulturkonservatismus, Geistesaristokratie und Ressentiment historische und gegenwärtige Formationen rechter Intellektuellendiskurse samt ihrer Medien und Netzwerke in eine vergleichende Konstellation.