Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt 9783110753028, 9783110752243

Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt 9783110753028, 9783110752243

BRAIS-De Gruyter prize winner 2020 The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth

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Coptic christology in practice: incarnation and divine participation in late antique and medieval Egypt 9780199258628

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Literary historiography

Contributed articles on comparative literature studies.

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[Dissertation] Identity, Burial Practice, and Social Change in Ptolemaic Egypt

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Reading Families: Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England 9781501731822

Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increa

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The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure?: The Literary Economy in Late Medieval France 9781487518448

The Writer's Gift or the Patron's Pleasure? argues that the French King Charles V’s unprecedented enthusiasm f

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The Jews in Medieval Egypt 9781618117489

Jewish life in medieval Egypt, hitherto an obscure and understudied theme, is revealed in this volume in all its complex

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The Ovidian Vogue: Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England 9781442617476

Moss’s research exposes the literary impulses at work in the flourishing of poetry that grappled with Ovid’s cultural au

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Writing History in Late Antique Iberia: Historiography in Theory and Practice from the 4th to the 7th Century 9789048544974

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theo

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The Sword of Ambition: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt 9781479839087

The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twel

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