In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia 9781501502507, 9781501510762

In the Wake of the Compendia: Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia 9781501502507, 9781501510762

In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between insti

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The Mythology of Ancient Mesopotamia

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The Apocalypse of Abraham in Its Ancient and Medieval Contexts 900443061X, 9789004430617

The Apocalypse of Abraham is a pseudepigraphal work that narrates Abraham’s rejection of idol worship and his subsequent

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The Making of the Platonic Corpus (Contexts of Ancient and Medieval Anthropology, 6) 3506793896, 9783506793898

The Platonic corpus is a collection of texts written under Plato's name. It is fairly inconvenient for us, modern r

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The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia 9004415378, 9789004415379

"In The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan offers the first in-depth study of the words

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Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India

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Texts and Contexts in Ancient and Medieval Science: Studies on the Occasion of John E. Murdoch's Seventieth Birthday 9004108238, 9789004108233

These studies respond to the challenge posed twenty years ago by John E. Murdoch, in whose honor they have been assemble

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Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in `Cleanness` and Its Contexts 9780300157826

In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser shows how this fourteenth-c

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The Cast of Character: The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature 9781487595869

This book is concerned with the idea of character and the methods of representing it in ancient and medieval narrative f

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Rituals of war: the body and violence in Mesopotamia 9781890951849

Rituals of War is an investigation into the earliest historical records of violence and biopolitics. In Mesopotamia, anc

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