This book presents an overall presentation and discussion of developments ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago. The events and stories presented increase the understanding of present debates on, and notions of, Islam and Muslims in Europe. This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The…
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. This publication provides a new understanding of the religious function of the East Javanese temples. The study of the cap-figures and their symbolism yields an outstanding contribution to the uniqueness of Majapahit culture.
This book addresses the application of computing to cultural heritage and the discipline of Digital Humanities that formed around it. Digital Humanities research is transforming how the Human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined and it has been ongoing for more than 70 years. However, we have no comprehensive histories of its research trajectory or its discipli…
Did King Alfred the Great commission the Old English translation of Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, probably the masterpiece of medieval Anglo-Latin Literature, as part of his famous program of translation to educate the Anglo-Saxons? Was the Old English Historia, by any chance, a political and religious manifesto for the emerging ‘Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’? Do we deal w…
The ethnographic approach to Indian history and genealogy; the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad; the history of Gujarat. ‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over th…
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 …
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…
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…