‎Montefiore, Simon Sebag‎
‎The World‎

‎Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 7 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599571.‎

‎Summary Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Figures, List of Abbreviations Introduction: Foreign Contacts, Landscapes, and Empire-Building ? MARK ATHERTON, KAZUTOMO KARASAWA, AND FRANCIS LENEGHAN Here, There, and Everywhere? Alfred and the East ? DANIEL ANLEZARK The Wanderings of Saturn: Psychogeography, Psalms, and Solomon and Saturn ? RACHEL BURNS Otherwheres in the Prose Texts of the Nowell Codex ? S. C. THOMSON Rome away from Rome: India, Rome, and England in Ælfric's 'Life of St Thomas' ? LUISA OSTACCHINI Christ Embracing the World: Ælfric's Description of the Crucifixion in 'De Passione Domini' ? KAZUTOMO KARASAWA A Place in the World Babel and Beyond: Thinking Through Migration in Genesis A ? DANIEL THOMAS The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle ? BRITTON BROOKS The Place of Stillness: Greek Patristic Thought in Cynewulf's Juliana ? ELENI PONIRAKIS St Rumwold in the Borderland ? HANNAH BAILEY The World of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth: A Landscape Biography ? MARK ATHERTON Nation and Empire Mapping Empire: Two World Maps in Early Medieval England ? HELEN APPLETON Good Neighbours? Representations of Britons, Welsh, Picts, and Scots in Pre-Conquest English Sources ? CAITLIN ELLIS From (North-)East to West: Geographical Identities and Political Communities in the Ninth- to Eleventh-Century Anglo-Scandinavian World ? RYAN LAVELLE Kings, People, and Lands: The Rhetoric of The Battle of Brunanburh?PAUL CAVILL End of Empire? Reading?The Death of Edward?in MS Cotton Tiberius B I ? FRANCIS LENEGHAN Index‎

‎Forordning om Neger=Handelen (i.e. Decree about the Negro-Trade). [In. Kong Christian den Syvendes allernaadigste Forordninger og aabne Breve for Aar 1792]. - [THE FIRST DECREE IN THE WORLD TO FORBID SLAVE-TRADE]‎

‎Kiøbenhavn, Høppfner, (16. Martius, 1792). 4to. The entire volume of ""Forordninger..."", 1792 bound with the entire volumes of 1790 and 1791 as well in a very nice strictly contemporary brown full calf binding with four raised bands, gilt title-label and lovely gilt ornamentatiions to spine as well as the gilt, crowned monogram of King Chritian the VII to top of spine. Light wear and a closed tear to top capital. Otherwise in splendid condition, in- as well as ex-ternally. Stamp from the Danish Royal Military Library to front free end-paper. Pp. 69-71. [Entire volume: 146, 12 pp., 1 f. blank + 288, (8) pp., two folded tables + 323, (13) pp. woodcut vignettes of the Danish Elephant-order to title-pages].‎

‎Extremely rare first printing of the very first law anywhere in the world to abandon slave trade. From the library of King Christian VII, who passed the law, with his crowned gilt monogram to spine. With the completely groundbreaking ""Forordning on Neger=Handelen"" (""Decree about the Negro-Trade"") of 1792, under King Christian VII, Denmark became the first country in the world to forbid slave-trade. Although the first law against slavery as such, not just slave-trade, would follow half a decade later, this first decree forbidding trading in slaves was a major milestone towards equality and freedom for all of mankind, in fact the very first of its kind in the entire world. Britain would be the next country to follow lead, and their first law against slave-trading was passed in 1807, 15 years after the Danish. After the British followed The US, Spain in 1811, Sweden in 1813, Netherlands in 1814, and France in 1817.From the 1660'ies until the end of the 18th century, about 111.000 slaves were sent from the Gold Coast in Danish Guinea to the Danish colony on the West-Indian islands St. Thomas, St. Jan, and St. Croix, this slave trade being part of a larger three-way trade between The Gold Coast, The West-Indian Islands, and Denmark. Weapons and alcohol were shipped from Denmark to Africa to buy slaves, and the slaves were transported to The West-Indies, from where other goods, especially sugar, were shipped back to Denmark. During the last decades of the 18th century, many Europeans were having concerns with the continuation of trading with slaves. One of these was the Danish Minister of Finance, himself a plantation owner, Ernst Schimmelmann (1747-1831), who was instrumental in the Royal Decree against slave-trade being formulated and passed. He was clearly affected by the general tendencies and the new Enlightenment view of mankind, the freedom and rights of man, and the question of the decency of trading in human beings. There was also a financial aspect of the wish to forbid slave trade, as it was beginning to become clear that society was moving towards a more humanistic view of all of mankind that would eventually make slave trading difficult. And apart from that there was also the question whether it was even profitable to transport slaves all the longs way over the Atlantic Ocean. Whatever the bearing arguments might have been, the present decree is a groundbreaking document that catapulted Denmark into a modern, humane world, 15 years before any other country, helping to spark a world-wide legal movement that was absolutely essential in order for the world to evolve into one that is free, humane, and equal for all of mankind.‎

‎The Spirit, the World and the Trinity: Origen's and Augustine's Understanding of the Gospel of John‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 276 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503589916.‎

‎Summary How come that ancient Christian authors elaborated a theology of the Holy Spirit? This innovative study tackles this question by analysing how the exegesis of the Gospel of John shaped the Trinitarian and soteriological agency of the Holy Spirit in the theologies of two of the most important Christian authors of all times: Origen and Augustine. Overall, it proposes a re-evaluation of some of the most debated doctrines of the two authors such as subordinationism in Origen and the understanding of Gods essence in Augustine, showing that the Johannine Father-Son-Spirit relation and the dichotomy between God and the world represent the foundation on which Origen and Augustine built their pneumatologies. The heuristic comparison proposed in this book is focused on the three large themes towards which Origen and Augustine represent opposite approaches: the understanding of the immanent Trinity, the dualism between God and the world, and the proper role of the Holy Spirit. On the one hand, Origen puts forward a paradigm of participation to explain the oneness and threeness of God, and of transformation to explain human participation in God. On the other, Augustine refers to God's self-relation through a paradigm of identity, and to salvation of humankind as an act of separation of the wicked world from the saved. These two trinitarian and soteriological constructions are shaped by a different understanding of the Gospel of John: while Origen's theology mostly smooths the gospel's dualism between God and the world by interpreting God's salvific act as a gradual spiritualisation of the world, Augustine tends to accentuate the Gospel's dichotomies by radicalising the Johannine dualism.‎

‎Journey Around the World series (set of 22 books). In Russian (ask us if in doub‎

‎Journey Around the World series (set of 22 books). In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Seriya Puteshestviya vokrug sveta (komplekt iz 22 knig).. Short description: In Russian (ask us if in doubt).Famous explorers and travelers share their impressions and observations with readers. Amundsen Raul. South Pole Arsenyev V.K. Journey around the Ussuriya region of Bougainville Louis Antoine de. Journey around the world on the frigate Boudez Wrangel F.P. Journey around Siberia and the Arctic Sea (set of 2 books) Golovnin V.M. Journey on the lifeboat Diana Golovnin V.M. Journey around the world on the lifeboat Kamchatka Darwin Charles. Journey around the world on the ship Beagle (set of 2 books) Kruzenstern I.F. Journey around the world (set of 2 books) Cook James. First round the world voyage (set of 2 books) Livingston David Journey around South Africa Micklehoe-Maclay N. Journey to New Guinea (set of 2 books) Pirie Robert E. North Pole 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. SKUalb522483a53520eb93‎

‎Historical and Cultural Memory of the Babylonian World. Collecting Fragments from the 'Centre of the World'‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, viii + 193 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:28 b/w, 5 col., 2 tables b/w., 2 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503595368.‎

‎Summary In the study of the ancient world, Babylon can be considered as the most impressive representation, historically, archaeologically, and in literature, of urbanism in the Near East. This first example of an urban centre and its cultural heritage ? both tangible and intangible ? provides a focal point for discussions of historical and cultural memory in the region. The eleven contributions gathered here draw together multidisciplinary research into Babylonian culture, exploring the epistemic foundations, contacts, resilience, and cultural transmission of the city and its milieu from ancient times up until the modern day. Through this approach, this volume is able to support conversations concerning the historical and cultural memory of Babylon and promote a dialogue that cuts across, and unites, both cultures and academic disciplines. TABLE OF CONTENTS Section I. The Epistemic Foundation of the Historical and Cultural Memory of Babylon The Historical and Cultural Memory of Babylon: Collecting Fragments of the 'Centre of the World' ? MARCO RAMAZZOTTI Babylon as Seen by Babylonians ? FRANCIS JOANNÈS Traces of Babylon in the Old Testament ? ALESSANDRO CATASTINI Section II. Semantic Waves in the Historical and Cultural Memory of Babylon The View of Babylon in Hittite Texts ? RITA FRANCIA The Perception of Babylonia in the Historical Memory of the Assyrians between Evocation and Negation, and its Reflections in the Urbanization of the Imperial Seats ? RITA DOLCE From Plains to Mountains: Literary and Cultural Models between Mesopotamia and Urar?u ? ROBERTO DAN and MARIE-CLAUDE TRÉMOUILLE The 'Mesopotamian Connection': An Overview of South Arabian Data Relating to Mesopotamia (1st Millennium BCE) ? ALESSIO AGOSTINI A 'Persian conception of urbanism' as Seen from the Results of New Field Researches in Fars (Southern Iran) ? PIERFRANCESCO CALLIERI Section III. The Literary Form of Cultural Memory of Babylon Reversing and Reinventing the Centre of the World: Iranian and Zoroastrian Perception of the Old Babylon ? GIANFILIPPO TERRIBILI Receiving Knowledge of the Past: Narratives of Babylon in the Medieval Arabic Culture ? LEONARDO CAPEZZONE Untranslatable Babel: A Quick Glance at the Contemporary Reception of the Biblical Myth ? GIOVANNI GRECO‎