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"The year is 12,800 BP. Europe is entirely occupied by people of the so-called Upper Magdalenian culture. Well, not entirely. One small region, southern Scandinavia, differs markedly from its neighbours. These lines open the first book-length treatment of the cultural evolution of late Ice Age forager societies at the northern edge of Europe. 'Splendid Isolation' summarises more than ten years of research that connects the cataclysmic eruption of the Laacher See volcano in present-day western Germany with contemporary cultural changes. It also offers an in-depth treatment of the eruptions impact on plants, animals and people as well as its cultural-historical consequences. Invoking the term splendid isolation, the author argues that despite the eruptions evidently detrimental ecological impacts, it led to a regional cultural effervescence in the form of the Bromme culture. By charting this past calamity, the book also shows how the study of ancient disasters can be made useful in todays debates of resilience, vulnerability and apocalypse."--Back cover.

Antiquities. --- Auswirkung. --- Eruption. --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Volcanoes --- Volcanoes. --- Vulkan. --- History --- Germany --- Laacher Lake (Germany) --- Laacher See. --- Skandinavien --- Antiquities

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Classical literature --- Imitation in literature. --- Latin poetry --- Imitatio --- Rezeption --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical. --- History and criticism. --- Fortwirken --- Nachwirkung --- Nachleben --- Wirkungsgeschichte --- Aneignung --- Auswirkung --- Fortleben --- Nachahmung --- Mimesis --- Aemulatio --- Quotation --- Literary style --- Mimesis in literature --- Originality in literature --- Plagiarism

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This book details the devastating Mau Mau civil war fought in Kenya during 1950s and the legacies of that conflict for the post-colonial state. There were as many Kikuyu who fought with the colonial government as there were loyalists who joined the Mau Mau rebellion. Focusing on the role of those loyalists, the book examines the ways in which residents of the country's Central Highlands sought to navigate a path through the bloodshed and uncertainty of civil war. It explores the instrumental use of violence, changes to allegiances, and the ways in which cleavages created by the war informed local politics for decades after the conflict's conclusion.--Back cover.

BRITISH COLONIES -- 325.9 --- Mau Mau --- Mau-Mau. --- Auswirkung. --- Entkolonialisierung. --- Mau-maurörelsen --- historia --- Mau Mau. --- Mau Mau Emergency (Kenya : 1952-1960). --- Kenya. --- Kenia. --- Historia --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Africa --- Colonisation. Decolonisation --- anno 1950-1959 --- Kenya --- History --- 1900-1999. --- Histoire

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Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides' writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism has been overlooked: the formal reception of the Guide of the Perplexed through commentary. In Rewriting Maimonides, Igor H. De Souza offers a comprehensive analysis of six early philosophical commentaries, written in Italy, Spain, and France, by some of Maimonides' most loyal followers. The early commentaries represent the most creative period of exegesis of the Guide. De Souza's analysis dispels the notion that the tradition of commentary on the Guide is monolithic. Rather, De Souza's study illuminates how each commentator offers distinctive readings. Challenging the hierarchy of text and commentary, Rewriting Maimonides studies commentaries on the Guide as texts in their own right. De Souza approaches the form of commentary as a multifaceted cultural practice. Employing historical, philosophical, and literary methods, this publication fills a lacuna in the history of the Guide through a global perspective on commentary.

Jewish philosophy --- Judaism --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- Commentary. --- Guide of the Perplexed. --- Kommentar. --- Maimonides. --- Middle Ages. --- Mittelalter. --- Kommentar --- Rezeption --- HISTORY / Jewish. --- Fortwirken --- Nachwirkung --- Nachleben --- Wirkungsgeschichte --- Aneignung --- Auswirkung --- Fortleben --- Kommentare --- Kommentierung --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Maimonides, Moses, --- Maimonides, Moses, - 1135-1204. - Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn.

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While recent decades have seen a plethora of studies exploring the complex processes that shaped biblical books traditionally designated as Prophets, much remains to be done in order to uncover the rich history of their interpretation throughout the ages. This collection of essays aims at filling this gap by exploring different aspects of the exegesis of the Former and Latter Prophets in contexts both ancient and modern, Jewish and Christian. From the inner-biblical interpretation of the Prophets to the Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament, Patristic writings, and contemporary rhetoric, this volume sheds light on how key figures in those books were read and understood by both ancient and not so-ancient readers.

224 --- Profetische boeken van het Oude Testament --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Electronic books. --- Judges. --- Kings. --- Könige. --- Propheten. --- Prophets. --- Richter. --- Samuel. --- Frühchristentum --- Rezeption --- Frühjudentum --- Literatur --- RELIGION / General. --- Belletristik --- Dichtung --- Schöne Literatur --- Sprachkunst --- Wortkunst --- Buch --- Schriftsteller --- Spätjudentum --- Judentum --- Fortwirken --- Nachwirkung --- Nachleben --- Wirkungsgeschichte --- Aneignung --- Auswirkung --- Fortleben --- Alte Kirche --- Frühkirche --- 30-600 --- Books in machine-readable form --- Digital books --- E-books --- Ebooks --- Online books --- Books --- Electronic publications --- Schöne Literatur --- Spätjudentum --- Frühkirche