Introduction to old Javanese language and literature :a kawi prose anthology

The oldest and most extensive written language of Southeast Asia is Old Javanese, or Kawi. It is the oldest language in terms of written records, and the most extensive in the number and variety of its texts. Javanese literature has taken many forms. At various times, prose stories, sung poetry or other metrical types, chronicles, scientific, legal, and philosophical treatises, prayers, chants,…

The emergence of Finnish book and reading culture in the 1700s

Book culture has emerged as an extremely dynamic and border-crossing field of research, internationally and in Finland. The editors and most of the writers of this book were members of the organizing and program committees of the 18th Annual Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), Book Culture from Below, that took place in Helsinki in 2010. This…

How Things Make History:The Roman Empire and its terra sigillata Pottery

Bright red terra sigillata pots dating to the first three centuries CE can be found throughout the Western Roman provinces. The pots' widespread distribution and recognisability make them key evidence in the effort to reconstruct the Roman Empire's economy and society. Drawing on recent ideas in material culture, this book asks a radically new question: what was it about the pots themselves tha…

Women in nineteenth-century Russia:lives and culture

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ISBN/ISSN

9781906924683

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ix + 249 p.; 22 cm.

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Whose history?:engaging history students through historical fiction

Whose History? aims to illustrate how historical novels and their related genres may be used as an engaging teacher/learning strategy for student teachers in pre-service teacher education courses. It does not argue all teaching of History curriculum in pre-service units should be based on the use of historical novels as a stimulus, nor does it argue for a particular percentage of the use of his…

Narratives of low countries history and culture

This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – the uses of myth and history, the past as illumination of cultural context, and historiography in focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the imp…

Popular music and public diplomacy :transnational and transdisciplinary persp…

In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop. This volume illuminates the…

Animals through Chinese history :earliest times to 1911

This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized. This innovative collection of essays…

Musical composition in the context of globalization :new perspectives on musi…

Since the early transformation of European music practice and theory in the cultural centers of Asia, Latin America, and Africa around 1900, music history has to be conceived globally - a challenge that musicology has hardly faced yet. This book discusses the effects of cultural globalization on processes of composition and distribution of art music in the 20th and 21st centuries. Christian Utz…

Authority and authorship in medieval and seventeenth century women's visionar…

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary,…

An Oral history of the Special Olympics in China volume 2 :the movement

This open access book contains the oral histories that were inspired by the work of the Special Olympics in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of its founding. The foreword and prefatory materials provide an overview of the Special Olympics and its growth in the People’s Republic of China. The sections that follow record interview transcripts of individuals with intellectual disabilities l…

Serat Pustakaraja Purwa :Serat Darmasarana karya Pujangga R.Ng. Ranggawarsita…

Dalam kesastraan Jawa Baru terutama oleh pujangga R.Ng. Ranggawarsita, cerita dalam Mahābhārata Jawa Kuna yang digubah pada masa pemerintahan Ҫrī Dharmawangҫa Těguh Anantawīkramattunggadewa tersebut disadur kembali dengan berbagai adaptasi dan inovasi seperti yang tampak dalam Kitáb Pustakaraja Purwa. Kitáb Pustakaraja Purwa, seringkali dikatakan sebagai suatu penulisan baru mengenai …

Tanah, kuasa dan niaga :dinamika relasi antara orang Kerinci dan Kerajaan - K…

Orang Kerinci atau dalam bahasa lokal disebut sebagai Uhang Kincai atau Uhang Kinci adalah mereka yang secara geografis menghuni wilayah Kerinci. Akan tetapi, batasan geografis Kerinci di masa lalu tentulah tidak sama dengan batasan administratif saat ini. Sumber-sumber tradisi lisan menyebutkan bahwa cakupan geografis Kerinci di masa Kesultanan Jambi terdiri dari dua bagian. Pertama disebut s…

Kiai Hasan Maolani, Lengkong :sejarah dan surat-suratnya dari tanah pengasingan

Kiai Hasan Maolani1 (1782-1874) adalah ulama lokal yang menjadi figur penting dalam sejarah penyebaran agama Islam di Kuningan dan sekitarnya, terutama di Desa Lengkong. Hal ini terlihat dari aktivitas Kiai Hasan Maolani dalam tarekat Syattariyah sebagaimana disampaikan oleh Fathurahman (2008: 177; 2016: 77-80). Selain tarekat Syattariyah, Drewes (1925) dan van Bruinessen (1994: 20) juga men…

Atlas of mineral deposits distribution in China (2020)

This open access book includes instruction of national mineral database 2020 and atlas of national mineral deposits distribution derived from national mineral database 2020. National mineral database 2020 is based on data from National Geological Archives China(NGAC). Moreover, it introduces the construction method and updates maintenance mechanism of the mineral deposits database and propos…

From melancholia to depression :disordered mood in nineteenth-century psychiatry

This open access book maps a crucial but neglected chapter in the history of psychiatry: how was melancholia transformed in the nineteenth century from traditional melancholy madness into a modern biomedical mood disorder, paving the way for the emergence of clinical depression as a psychiatric illness in the twentieth century? At a time when the prevalence of mood disorders and antidepressant …

Circulation and control :artistic culture and intellectual property in the ni…

The nineteenth century witnessed a series of revolutions in the production and circulation of images. From lithographs and engraved reproductions of paintings to daguerreotypes, stereoscopic views, and mass-produced sculptures, works of visual art became available in a wider range of media than ever before. But the circulation and reproduction of artworks also raised new questions about the leg…

Annunciations:sacred music for the twenty-first century

Our contemporary culture is communicating ever-increasingly through the visual, through film, and through music. This makes it ever more urgent for theologians to explore the resources of art for enriching our understanding and experience of the Judeo-Christian tradition. Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century, edited by George Corbett, answers this need, evaluating the relati…

The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity :volume 5 tumbli…

This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…

Two studies on Ming history

In the first study of Two Studies on Ming History , Charles O. Hucker presents an account of a military campaign that provides insight into the nature of civil officials' authority, decision-making, and relationship with the Ming court. In the spring and summer of 1556, a Chinese renegade named Hsü Hai led an invading group of Japanese and Chinese soldiers on a plundering foray through the nor…