The Slow Fall of Babel. Languages and Identities in Late Antique Christianity, New ed, Hardback - Yuliya Minets

Explores the gradual transformation of the virtually monolingual edifice of classical culture in late antiquity as the increasingly Christianized e...

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The first book about children in one of the birthplaces of Christian monasticism, Egypt. Uses diverse written and visual sources to demonstrate how...

The biblical book of Genesis stands nearly without parallel in the shared history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The essays in this book stud...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 240Collection: Ancient EnvironmentsPublication date: 2022Dimension...

This analysis of writings about the experiences of black Christians in seventeenth-century Peru and New Granada shows that black linguistic and spi...

This book will engage readers interested in Irish fiction dealing with the United States, Asia, the Global South and Europe. A conceptually innovat...

Uses an interdisciplinary approach combining new archaeological evidence with archival material to reconstruct the lives of rural communities in th...

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...

This book represents the first collection specifically devoted to New Speaker Studies, focusing on language ideologies and practices of speakers in...

The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed Books of Babel series, following Senlin Ascends, Arm of the Sphinx and The Hod KingPublisher: Lit...

Reducere. English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluent...

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Twenty of the world's most spoken languages are analysed in terms of what makes them more prevalent than the less popular six-thousand also spoken ...

Explores power relations in the households, schools, and monasteries of late antiquity in light of social theory, in a way that will be of interest...

Explores how literary form changes when Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape. By reading little-known but hugely influential texts, this bo...

Presents work by teacher-scholars who are rethinking the relationship between matter and meaning. By emphasizing spatial, bodily, and sensual dimen...

The benefits of the digital age are huge. Our lives have been transformed, both in the developed and the undeveloped world. However, this transform...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 342Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 27Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Danut...

This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates th...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

A paradigm-shifting history that reveals how the early Christian churches in the East helped to shape the Asia and the Christianity we know todayPu...

Completely revised, re-illustrated and enlarged edition of the authoritative and classic Lion Handbook: History of Christianity, with new maps, stu...

Argues that the largest extant theatrical tradition of the third and second centuries BCE continued to be vital for writers of the first century BC...

Reducere. Is there room for the concept of rebirth in Christian dogma? The question that bothered Dr. MacGregor was quite basic: Can a Christian believe in r...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

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Revised edition of the author's Profit and pleasure, 2000.

Exploring the origins, experiences and identities of 100, 000 Africans who landed in Sierra Leone following Britain's abolition of the trans-Atlant...

Fresh analysis of elite public giving in the Greek cities in all periods of ancient history, highlighting it as a structural feature of polis socie...

Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional ...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

Advanced media technologies have transformed immigrants' relations with their departure and arrival societies. This title explores how Muslim-Arab ...

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of ...

Drawing from feminist scholarship on intimacy and political economy and using three main frameworks: Fortressing Writs/Exclusionary Rights, Mobile ...

Taming Babel examines the role of language in the making of modern postcolonial Asian nations. Focusing on one of the most linguistically diverse t...

Publisher: The Merlin Press LtdAuthor(s): Francis BeckettNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 212 x 137 x 21Cover type: Paperback ...

This new volume in the acclaimed Global Punk series extends the critical enquiry to reflect broader social, political and technological concerns im...

The Argonauts in the Pacific have not been exempt from general historical developments in the world around them. By focusing on two plays performed...

According to Unesco, of the 7, 000 languages spoken in the world, more than half are endangered, with one disappearing every two weeks. This collec...