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Plants in 16th and 17th Century

In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study o…

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Karl Whittington
Queer Making

What role does desire play in the making of art objects? Art historians typically answer this question by referring to historical evidence about an artist?s sexual identity or to particular kinds of image…

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Ross Brann
Moses Maimonides

Very Short Introductions

Moses Maimonides, a scientist, physician, philosopher, rabbinic scholar, and communal leader, was perhaps the most imposing Jewish figure of the pre-modern age. Yet, more than eight centuries after his de…

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Gil Ben-Herut, R V S Sundaram
Stories of Shiva's Saints

The Kannada language boasts an ongoing literary tradition spanning more than a millennium, with a rich array of social positions and roles, religious traditions, and poetic styles that developed over the …

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Tim Newby
The Original Louisville Slugger

"Louis "Pete" Rogers Browning was one of the greatest baseball players of the nineteenth century. His skills with the bat made the difficult art of hitting a baseball appear easy. Over his …

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Beyond Banks

Scholars of credit markets have long focused on banks, but pre-modern as well as modern economies often relied on non-bank credit. This edited volume brings together international examples from across his…

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Mark Ronan
Addiction Literature's Past and Present

Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition. This book illuminates the premodern roots of the li…

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A Cultural History of Genocide in the Middle Ages

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1400, considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term "genocide" did not yet exist. In c…

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Anna Marisa Schön
Nations before the Nation-State

Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of belonging and solidarity. Even so, they d…

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Ibn Khaldun,
Ibn Khald¿n

Ibn Khald¿n is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, str…

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Paul Edward Dutton
Micro Middle Ages

Micro Middle Ages brings together five microhistorical case studies focusing on small or seemingly inconsequential evidence that leads to broader conclusions about medieval history and the way we do and u…

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Ibn Khaldun,
Ibn Khald¿n

Ibn Khald¿n is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, str…

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Anna Marisa Schön
Nations before the Nation-State

Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, thinkers understood nations as communities defined by common language, culture, and descent, and sharing strong bonds of belonging and solidarity. Even so, they d…

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Sujatha Arundathi Meegama
Temples to the Buddha and the Gods

"Temples to the Buddha and the Gods analyzes the patronage of diverse image houses built in the transnational Dråaviòda tradition of architecture in Sri Lanka--an architectural tradition that has bee…

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Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Indic Epigraphical Writing

Asien- und Afrika-Studien der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Band 63

Self-Representation and Presentation of Others in Indic Epigraphica Writing, edited by Dániel Balogh and Annette Schmiedchen, investigates the representation of public personages in inscribed texts from S…

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Francesca Rochberg
Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity

Objects of knowledge exist within material, immaterial, and conceptual worlds. Once the world is conceived from the perspective of others, the physical ontology of modern science no longer functions as a …

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John Kupchik
Azuma Old Japanese

Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern ('Azuma') Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, compar…

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Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea

Vestiges of the Three Kingdoms of Ancient Korea (Samguk yusa) is the first annotated English translation of one of the most important premodern Korean historical texts. One of only two surviving works on …

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Margaret S Graves
Invisible Hands

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial tradeIn the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, tho…

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Li Shizhen
A Catalog of Benevolent Items

"Paul U. Unschuld's translation of the Ben cao gang mu is a monumental achievement of scholarship, and one that makes available to English readers its incredible trove of information about premodern …

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