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New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt
Looking Beyond the Text investigates the production, transmission, and reception of texts and manuscripts in ancient Egypt, focusing on the complex practices and culture of the scribes who made them. Drawing on theories and methods from other disciplines such as literary studies, neuroscience, and book history, the authors discuss the physical practices of writing, social contexts of texts and manuscripts, and scribes themselves. The papers examine a wide range of manuscripts, including letters, medical compendia, poems, religious corpora, and other text genres, written on varied media in different time periods. The resulting collection offers new perspectives on the key role of scribes in ancient Egypt and models more contextualized and materially informed modes of philology.
New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt
Looking Beyond the Text investigates the production, transmission, and reception of texts and manuscripts in ancient Egypt, focusing on the complex practices and culture of the scribes who made them. Drawing on theories and methods from other disciplines such as literary studies, neuroscience, and book history, the authors discuss the physical practices of writing, social contexts of texts and manuscripts, and scribes themselves. The papers examine a wide range of manuscripts, including letters, medical compendia, poems, religious corpora, and other text genres, written on varied media in different time periods. The resulting collection offers new perspectives on the key role of scribes in ancient Egypt and models more contextualized and materially informed modes of philology.
Betäubungsmittel in der arabisch-islamischen Kultur 1100-1800
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Opium, Bilsenkraut und Haschisch: Was berichten die vormodernen, arabisch-islamischen Quellen darüber? In diesem Buch werden sämtlich Aspekte von Gebrach und Missbrauch untersucht: Die Verwendung in der klassisch-arabischen Medizin, die Verwendung als Gifte, der juristische Diskurs um ihren Gebrauch und ihr Missbrauch als Rauschmittel. Außerdem werden die ab dem 13. Jh. entstehenden Monografien über Betäubungsmittel betrachtet und es wird der Frage nach einem vormodernen Verständnis von Abhängigkeit nachgegangen. Durch den Betrachtungszeitraum von 1100 bis 1800 werden Trends im Rauschmittelkonsum erkennbar, zahlreiche, sich verändernde juristische Positionen können nebeneinander gestellt werden und es entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der Rauschmittelkonsumenten in ihren jeweiligen Lebensumfeldern.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Betäubungsmittel in der arabisch-islamischen Kultur 1100-1800
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Opium, Bilsenkraut und Haschisch: Was berichten die vormodernen, arabisch-islamischen Quellen darüber? In diesem Buch werden sämtlich Aspekte von Gebrach und Missbrauch untersucht: Die Verwendung in der klassisch-arabischen Medizin, die Verwendung als Gifte, der juristische Diskurs um ihren Gebrauch und ihr Missbrauch als Rauschmittel. Außerdem werden die ab dem 13. Jh. entstehenden Monografien über Betäubungsmittel betrachtet und es wird der Frage nach einem vormodernen Verständnis von Abhängigkeit nachgegangen. Durch den Betrachtungszeitraum von 1100 bis 1800 werden Trends im Rauschmittelkonsum erkennbar, zahlreiche, sich verändernde juristische Positionen können nebeneinander gestellt werden und es entsteht ein facettenreiches Bild der Rauschmittelkonsumenten in ihren jeweiligen Lebensumfeldern.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Trilingual Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions of Susa I (DARIOSH STUDIES III)
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Ancient Iran Series, Volume: 17
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This volume presents part of the author’s research on the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions recovered in the ruins of the Achaemenid palaces in Susa, conducted within the framework of the DARIOSH-Louvre Project. It offers a new study of several fragmentary inscriptions in Old Persian, Achaemenid Elamite, and Achaemenid Babylonian, currently designated as DSe, DSt, DSb, DSl, DSa, DSk, DSi, DSp, D²Sb, DSj, A²Se, DSs, ‘Inc. Sb’, and others. The book provides a new edition of each inscription based on both published and unpublished fragments. Additionally, it introduces some new lexicons and cuneiform signs in the Old Persian language and script.
Trilingual Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions of Susa I (DARIOSH STUDIES III)
Series:
Ancient Iran Series, Volume: 17
Author:
This volume presents part of the author’s research on the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions recovered in the ruins of the Achaemenid palaces in Susa, conducted within the framework of the DARIOSH-Louvre Project. It offers a new study of several fragmentary inscriptions in Old Persian, Achaemenid Elamite, and Achaemenid Babylonian, currently designated as DSe, DSt, DSb, DSl, DSa, DSk, DSi, DSp, D²Sb, DSj, A²Se, DSs, ‘Inc. Sb’, and others. The book provides a new edition of each inscription based on both published and unpublished fragments. Additionally, it introduces some new lexicons and cuneiform signs in the Old Persian language and script.
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Ancient Egyptian Portraiture: History of an Idea concerns the origin, nature, and removal, the unravelling and explanation of the impasse pertaining to the definition, assessment, and judgement of Ancient Egyptian portraiture. Condensed in the syntagm different from ours, this impasse arises from the polarisation and dichotomy of idealism and realism which characterise the three main Egyptological definitions of portraiture. In offering a transcendental definition of art and portraiture that is anthropologically valid, the overarching aim of this book is to challenge assessments of Egyptian art and portraiture based on historically particularistic concepts that are foreign to its cultural premises and development.
History of an Idea
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Ancient Egyptian Portraiture: History of an Idea concerns the origin, nature, and removal, the unravelling and explanation of the impasse pertaining to the definition, assessment, and judgement of Ancient Egyptian portraiture. Condensed in the syntagm different from ours, this impasse arises from the polarisation and dichotomy of idealism and realism which characterise the three main Egyptological definitions of portraiture. In offering a transcendental definition of art and portraiture that is anthropologically valid, the overarching aim of this book is to challenge assessments of Egyptian art and portraiture based on historically particularistic concepts that are foreign to its cultural premises and development.