This proceedings of a colloquium held in Rome in September 2008 by the American Academy examines the letter as it was expressed in the ancient world. The thirteen contributions, all in their original
The underlying notion is that the written word established itself as a medium because credulity was attached to what had been written down. In a 1998 conference on German and Dutch literacy, questions
Sindawi (no affiliation is noted) has gathered the extant sources for the poet and presents a unified edition (in the Arabic original), with annotation (also in Arabic). For non-Arabic readers, he pro
Danish scholar of history and religion Bjoneboe (Horsens Statsskole) focuses on three chronicles by the Cairene historian al-Jabarti that are the best known and most widely used narrative sources in A
En principe every society strives for the common good. As these articles demonstrate, the reality does not always match the ideal. Lecuppre-Desjardin of the University of Lille and Van Bruaene of the
Well-illustrated with b&w plates, this volume offers 18 essays on the iconography of profane subjects carved on misericords (choir stalls) or presented in prints in medieval Europe. The papers wer
The authors have collected a vast trove of funerary inscriptions and literature from the Islamic world (particularly North Africa, Spain, and the eastern Mediterranean). The first volume, by Diem, con
