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‎Travelling Matters across the Mediterranean. Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects (10th-20th centuries)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 288 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 24 col., 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503610054.‎

‎Summary In the last two decades, objects have become increasingly relevant to historical studies as the primary focus of research discussing cross-cultural relations. Objects are produced, used, modified, preserved, and destroyed according to historically specific political and cultural settings, thus providing researchers with information and insights about their original background. However, they can also throw light on a large array of cross-cultural encounters when their mobility is put to the fore. Objects can move by being bought, gifted, bartered, and sold, borrowed or stolen, collected and dispersed, just as they can be modified, repaired, reshaped, repurposed, and destroyed in the process. The Mediterranean, as a barrier and as a meeting place for different polities and communities, and as the setting of conflicted experiences of cultural, political, economic, and social transformation, easily lends itself to this kind of historical analysis. Featuring articles on Byzantine imperial silks and bronze doors from southern Italy, eastern luxuries in Istanbul and African bolsas from the Canary Islands, Arabic geographies and Hebrew religious texts travelling from shore to shore and from manuscript to the press, and the 'dead' bodies of holy women and men, this volume intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways: focusing on the 'second-handedness' of displaced objects across the Mediterranean, the volume intersects different chronologies - from antiquity to the present-day - and varying scales, from the individual objects to the much larger one of the histories of their reinterpretation and repurposing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Rereading, Reshaping, Repurposing Objects in Motion across the Mediterranean Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste (Re)using Byzantine Textiles: Adapting and Reinventing Material Identities through the Connected Mediterranean, Seventh-Twelfth Centuries Anna Kelley Travelling Doors: Medieval Bronze Doors in the Mediterranean Judith Utz Arabic Geography and Sixteenth-Century Cartography: Guillaume Postel and the History of Ab? al-Fid??'s Manuscript Maria Vittoria Comacchi From Africa to the Canary Islands: The Double Lives of Objects (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) Claudia Geremia Manuscripts from Western Europe, Printer from the Land of Israel: Movement between Cultural Spaces in Hebrew Printing in the Eighteenth Century Oded Cohen Dazzling Objects and Ottoman Enthusiasts: Travelling Luxuries Across the Mediterranean and Beyond T lay Artan 'A stone called pourcellaine': Chinese Porcelain and Early Modern Natural History Matthew Martin Life and Afterlife of Religious Bodies: From Organic Matters to Devotional Objects. Corpses on Display in Late Modern Italy (c. 1800-1950) Leonardo Rossi The Journey of Prehistoric Remains: Re-reading the Case of Scoglio del Tonno, Taranto (1899-1950s) Fedra Pizzato Index‎

‎Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the ‎

‎Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805 1806 1807 1808. Travel notes made in Russia and Sweden in 1805-1808. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805 1806 1807 1808. Putevye zametki sdelannye v Rossii i Shvetsii v 1805-1808 godakh. Short description: In English (ask us if in doubt).In two volumes (set). In English. With numerous illustrations painted in watercolours and aquatinths into a leaf and turning a leaf. Set. London. Richard Phillips. 1809.T-1: 301c. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbab46c745c024a047‎

‎Anne ici, Selima La-bas - Collection Travelling N°40‎

‎DUCULOT - TRAVELLING n°40. 1991. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Coins frottés, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 159 pages - Annotation en page de garde. . . . Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 840.091-XX ème siècle‎

‎La Fontaine - Collection Biographies travelling.‎

‎Duculot. 1980. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 143 pages - nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains‎

‎Collection Biographies travelling. Classification Dewey : 928-Ecrivains‎

‎Medieval Science in the North. Travelling Wisdom, 1000-1500‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 232 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588049.‎

‎Summary Medieval science has become an increasingly popular area of academic interest over the past couple of decades, but much of this work has up to now concentrated on France and the Mediterranean, while relatively little attention has been paid to the north of Europe. This has led to the assumption that Northern Europe stood aside from the mainstream of scientific knowledge in the Middle Ages, when in fact the region was a vital part of the medieval network of scientific scholarship. This important volume aims to redress the balance in scholarship by bringing together for the first time a collection of studies on medieval scientific knowledge that focuses on both Scandinavia and England. The essays gathered here examine topics as wide-ranging as the intellectual network between Denmark and Paris; the role of Dominican friars in spreading scientific knowledge in Scandinavia; the practical application of technology by English armourers; fragments of scientific manuscripts found in early modern Swedish documents; the use of scientific volumes and descriptions of university life in medieval Icelandic literature; and fresh insights into the careers of the English scientists Roger of Hereford, Roger Bacon, and Robert Grosseteste. Together, these papers show the dynamism and depth of science in the medieval North, and offer new insights into how scientific wisdom travelled through, across, and between the peoples of this region. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction - CHRISTIAN ETHERIDGE AND MICHELE CAMPOPIANO Roger of Hereford and the Transformation of Computus in Twelfth-Century England - C. PHILIPP E. NOTHAFT Travelling Optics: Robert Grosseteste and the Optics behind the Rainbow - GILES E. M. GASPER, BRIAN K TANNER, SIGBJ RN S NNESYN AND NADER EL-BIZRI Language and Wisdom: Mathematics and Astronomy in Bacon s Edition of the Secretum secretorum - MICHELE CAMPOPIANO Wisdom's Trips to Denmark - STEN EBBESEN Medieval Scientific Book Fragments Held in Swedish and Finnish Archives: The Tantalizing Remains of a Greater Scientific Corpus - CHRISTIAN ETHERIDGE Friars of Science: Dominican Transmission and Usage of Scientific Knowledge in Medieval Scandinavia - JOHNNY GRANDJEAN G GSIG JAKOBSEN Master Perus of Arabia: An Exemplary Magician in Medieval Iceland - MARTEINN HELGI SIGUR SSON Science in Medieval Fiction: The Case of Konr s saga keisarasonar - FLORIAN SCHRECK Continental Ironmongers, Whalers, Smugglers, and Craftsmen: Immigration and Trade Routes and their Influence on the London Armourers' Industry - BRAD KIRKLAND‎