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Lo scriba

Autor: Alessandro Roccati

Número de Páginas: 21

«C'è qui [uno] come Hardedef, c'è un altro come Imhotep? Non è nato nel nostro tempo [uno] come Neferti, Khety, il loro primo. Ti farò conoscere il nome di Ptahemdjehuti, Khakheperraseneb. C'è un altro come Ptahhotep e Kaires?» (Papiro Chester Beatty IV vs 3,5). Così esordisce il passo celebre che contiene un catalogo di scrittori. Di classici potremmo dire, perché tutti vissuti parecchi secoli prima della composizione che li menziona (XIII secolo a.C.?), e che si esprimevano nella lingua antica, alquanto diversa da quella (il neoegiziano) che era oramai subentrata nell'uso. L'ignoto autore della citazione se ne serve per ribadire il concetto che la scrittura è più duratura della pietra con cui furono costruite le piramidi; anzi chi la sa adoperare è più sicuro delle mummie che furono rinchiuse in sepolcri sontuosi.Acquista l'ebook e continua a leggere!

Genealogisch-biographische uebersicht der familie Scriba

Autor: Eduard Scriba

Número de Páginas: 174

5000 Years of Geometry

Autor: Christoph J. Scriba , Peter Schreiber

Número de Páginas: 638

The present volume provides a fascinating overview of geometrical ideas and perceptions from the earliest cultures to the mathematical and artistic concepts of the 20th century. It is the English translation of the 3rd edition of the well-received German book “5000 Jahre Geometrie,” in which geometry is presented as a chain of developments in cultural history and their interaction with architecture, the visual arts, philosophy, science and engineering. Geometry originated in the ancient cultures along the Indus and Nile Rivers and in Mesopotamia, experiencing its first “Golden Age” in Ancient Greece. Inspired by the Greek mathematics, a new germ of geometry blossomed in the Islamic civilizations. Through the Oriental influence on Spain, this knowledge later spread to Western Europe. Here, as part of the medieval Quadrivium, the understanding of geometry was deepened, leading to a revival during the Renaissance. Together with parallel achievements in India, China, Japan and the ancient American cultures, the European approaches formed the ideas and branches of geometry we know in the modern age: coordinate methods, analytical geometry, descriptive and projective geometry in ...

Officials and Administration in the Hittite World

Autor: Tayfun Bilgin

Número de Páginas: 702

There are few studies that deal with an overall treatment of the Hittite administrative system, and various other works on its offices and officials have tended to be limited in scope, focusing only on certain groups or certain time periods. This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the administrative organization of the Hittite state throughout its history (ca. 1650–1180 BCE) with particular emphasis on the state offices and their officials. Bringing together previous works and updating with data recovered in recent years, the study presents a detailed survey of the high offices of the state, a prosopographical study of about 140 high officials, and a theoretical analysis of the Hittite administration in respect to factors such as hierarchy, kinship, and diachronical changes.

Hydrophiloidea - Staphylinoidea (2 vols)

Número de Páginas: 1730

Taxonomy provides the basic building blocks of our understanding of the diversity of life on this planet. It stems from innate human curiosity; confronted with an unknown species or object we ask "what is it?" Taxonomists recognize species and other systematic unities (the taxa), define them and place them within the framework of known organisms, providing the means for their subsequent identification. The Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (edited by I. & D. Löbl) gives a taxonomic overview of the most diverse group of all living things in the world's largest biogeographical area. It fixes nomenclature needed for unambiguous transfer of information, gives information about the occurrence of species and subspecies, and contains references that provide key information of over 40,000 systematic units. The work is a scaffold for biotic surveys, ecological studies, and nature conservation. It responds also to the urgent need of assessment of the still left forms of life, actually threatened by the on-going destruction of habitats. Contributors are: Robert B. Angus, Martin Fikáček, Elio Gentili, Manfred A. Jäch, Fenglong Jia, Tomáš Lackner, Ivan Löbl, Sławomir Mazur, Yusuke...

The Colonies of Genoa in the Black Sea Region

Autor: Evgeny Khvalkov

Número de Páginas: 437

This book focuses on the network of the Genoese colonies in the Black Sea area and their diverse multi-ethnic societies. It raises the problems of continuity of the colonial patterns, reveals the importance of the formation of the late medieval / early modern colonialism, the urban demography, and the functioning of the polyethnic entangled society of Caffa in its interaction with the outer world. It offers a novel interpretation of the functioning of this late medieval colonial polyethnic society and rejects the widely accepted narrative portraying the whole history of Caffa of the fifteenth century as a period of constant decline and depopulation.

Literacy in Ancient Everyday Life

Autor: Anne Kolb

Número de Páginas: 506

This volume explores the significance of literacy for everyday life in the ancient world. It focuses on the use of writing and written materials, the circumstances of their use, and different types of users. The broad geographic and chronologic frame of reference includes many kinds of written materials, from Pharaonic Egypt and ancient China through the early middle ages, yet a focus is placed on the Roman Empire.

American Evangelists and Tuberculosis in Modern Japan

Autor: Elisheva A. Perelman

Número de Páginas: 253

Tuberculosis ran rampant in Japan during the late Meiji and Taisho years (1880s–1920s). Many of the victims of the then incurable disease were young female workers from the rural areas, who were trying to support their families by working in the new textile factories. The Japanese government of the time, however, seemed unprepared to tackle the epidemic. Elisheva A. Perelman argues that pragmatism and utilitarianism dominated the thinking of the administration, which saw little point in providing health services to a group of politically insignificant patients. This created a space for American evangelical organizations to offer their services. Perelman sees the relationship between the Japanese government and the evangelists as one of moral entrepreneurship on both sides. All the parties involved were trying to occupy the moral high ground. In the end, an uneasy but mutually beneficial arrangement was reached: the government accepted the evangelists’ assistance in providing relief to some tuberculosis patients, and the evangelists gained an opportunity to spread Christianity further in the country. Nonetheless, the patients remained a marginalized group as they possessed...

Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions

Autor: John David Hawkins

Número de Páginas: 1795

Luwian and the closely related Hittite are the oldest known languages of the Indo-European group. Luwian is written in two scripts: Cuneiform and its own Hieroglyphic, which survives mostly on stone monuments collected from Turkey and Syria. The texts fall into two main groups, those of the Hittite Empire (c. 1400–1200 B.C.), and those of the Iron Age (c. 1000–700 B.C.),with a transitional period (c. 1200–1000 B.C.). One of the editor’s principal research efforts has been the establishment of reliable texts presented in facsimile copies and photographs. His Inscriptions of the Iron Age were published as Vol. I in 2000, and the great Luwian-Phoenician Bilingual in collaboration with Halet Çambel as Vol. II in 1999. Vol. III will present the Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire along with the newly discovered Iron Age inscriptions, thus completing the whole corpus. It will then make available to the scholarly world the Luwian language in its Hieroglyphic manifestation, which will be of importance to philologists and ancient historians alike.

A Record of the Commissioned Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Privates, of the Regiments which Were Organized in the State of New York and Called Into the Service of the United States to Assist in Suppressing the Rebellion, Caused by the Secession of Some of the Southern States from the Union, A.D. 1861, as Taken from the Muster-in Rolls on File in the Adjutant-general's Office, S. N. Y.

Autor: New York (state). Adjutant General's Office

Número de Páginas: 740

Merck

Autor: Joachim Scholtyseck , Carsten Burhop , Michael Kißener , Hermann Schäfer

Número de Páginas: 709

Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world. It developed into a global corporation from a Darmstadt pharmacy that Jacob Friedrich Merck received the pharmacist’s license for in 1668. This book tells the 350-year history of the company for the first time in its entirety and on the basis of all the available sources, as well as the newest research in business history. For a long time, family-owned companies were regarded as a dying breed. The future seemed to belong to jointstock companies with an anonymous stockholder structure. Yet there are numerous successful counterexamples in Germany, such as Bosch, C&A and Bertelsmann. Merck, too, counts among them. How did the Merck family manage to keep the company in its possession for 13 generations through all the political ruptures and historical crises and turn it into a global leader among science and technology firms? With this as their central question, four acclaimed historians recount the fascinating history of the Merck company between 1668 and 2018, embedding it in the eventful course of world history.

The Oxford Handbook of Cuneiform Culture

Autor: Karen Radner , Eleanor Robson

Número de Páginas: 838

An authoritative guide to the Ancient Middle East as seen through the lens of cuneiform writing, the writing system of ancient Mesopotamia. Written by a team of international scholars, with chapter bibliographies and numerous illustrations, the Handbook is a state-of-the-art guide to the discipline as well as offering pathways for future research.

... History of Oswego County, New York

Autor: Crisfield Johnson

Número de Páginas: 326

Abrégé du parallèle des langues française et latine

Autor: Philibert Monet

Número de Páginas: 1070

1962 Census of Governments: Local government in metropolitan areas

Autor: United States. Bureau Of The Census

Número de Páginas: 716

Census of Governments : 1962

Autor: United States. Bureau Of The Census

Número de Páginas: 722

... History of Oswego County, New York

Autor: Crisfield Johnson

Número de Páginas: 792

Presents a history of the various towns of Oswego County from 1877, maps of the county, engravings of various county scenes, and information about prominent individuals of that time and earlier.

1789, History of Oswego County, New York

Autor: Anonymous

Número de Páginas: 766

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Proceedings - Board of Supervisors, Oswego County, New York

Autor: Oswego County (n.y.). Board Of Supervisors

Número de Páginas: 334

The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East

Autor: Brigitte Lion , Cécile Michel

Número de Páginas: 586

Economic history is well documented in Assyriology, thanks to the preservation of dozens of thousands of clay tablets recording administrative operations, contracts and acts dealing with family law. Despite these voluminous sources, the topic of work and the contribution of women have rarely been addressed. This book examines occupations involving women over the course of three millennia of Near Eastern history. It presents the various aspects of women as economic agents inside and outside of the family structure. Inside the family, women were the main actors in the production of goods necessary for everyday life. In some instances, their activities exceeded the simple needs of the household and were integrated within the production of large organizations or commercial channels. The contributions presented in this volume are representative enough to address issues in various domains: social, economic, religious, etc., from varied points of view: archaeological, historical, sociological, anthropological, and with a gender perspective. This book will be a useful tool for historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and graduate students interested in the economy of the ancient Near...

Theodore Metochites on the Human Condition and the Decline of Rome

Autor: Karin Hult

Número de Páginas: 337

A critical edition, with English translation and notes, of chapters 27–60 of the Semeioseis gnomikai (“Sententious notes”), a collection of 120 essays by the Byzantine statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (1270–1332). The edition is based on three manuscripts, which are briefly presented in the introduction. P (Par. gr. 2003, Paris) and M (Marc. gr. 532, Venice) were both written in the early fourteenth century; E (Scor. gr. 248, Escorial) is a sixteenth-century copy of M. After the edition, with accompanying English translation and notes, the book is concluded with a bibliography and three indexes: of quoted passages, Greek words, and Greek names. Several of the essays in this volume contain laments on the reduced state of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), and on the vicissitudes of human life and fortune. A group of short essays describe the pleasure of beholding Creation and one of the longest discusses the pros and cons of having been born, i.e. of life.

Plaza universal de todas Ciencias y Artes ... Nuevamente corregido y addicionado para esta impression. En que se comprehende una universal noticia de cada una de las ciencias ..., de todas las religiones ..., de las ordenes militares de dentro y fuera de España ..., de varias artes liberales y mechanicas, etc

Autor: Christóval Suárez De Figueroa

Número de Páginas: 762

Guía para escapar del Infierno

Autor: Elisa Menz

Número de Páginas: 375

Dagon Gunthersson, un poderoso guerrero del Infierno, es acusado de traición por su comandante. Su huida lo lleva al mundo de los humanos. Varado en una mansión abarrotada de pequeños demonios, Dagon idea un plan para regresar al Infierno y vengarse. Josephine Gardiner jamás imaginó que lograría escapar de sus controladores padres. Cuando le ofrecen la oportunidad de heredar una mansión en pésimas condiciones, decide construir allí el hogar de sus sueños. Solo tiene que ignorar a las aterradoras criaturas escondidas en las sombras. Mientras el Cielo y el Infierno amenazan con guerra, Dagon y Josephine se enfrentan a abogados, ángeles y el Departamento de Desarrollo Urbano. ¿Podrán un demonio arrogante y una mujer testaruda dejar de fingir que no se aman?

George Parkhurst Increasings

Autor: Peter G. Parkhurst

Número de Páginas: 476

George Parkhurst (ca. 1588-1675), son of John and Sarah Parkhurst, was probably born in Ipswich, County Suffolk, England. He was married to Phebe Leete and was in Watertown, Massachusetts by 1642. In 1644 he married Susanna Simson and later returned to England, although many of his descendants remained and spread throughout the U.S.

The Donkey and the Boat

Autor: Chris Wickham

Número de Páginas: 725

A new account of the Mediterranean economy in the 10th to 12th centuries, forcing readers to entirely rethink the underlying logic to medieval economic systems. Chris Wickham re-examines documentary and archaeological sources to give a detailed account of both individual economies, and their relationships with each other. Chris Wickham offers a new account of the Mediterranean economy in the tenth to twelfth centuries, based on a completely new look at the sources, documentary and archaeological. Our knowledge of the Mediterranean economy is based on syntheses which are between 50 and 150 years old; they are based on outdated assumptions and restricted data sets, and were written before there was any usable archaeology; and Wickham contends that they have to be properly rethought. This is the first book ever to give a fully detailed comparative account of the regions of the Mediterranean in this period, in their internal economies and in their relationships with each other. It focusses on Egypt, Tunisia, Sicily, the Byzantine empire, Islamic Spain and Portugal, and north-central Italy, and gives the first comprehensive account of the changing economies of each; only Byzantium has...

Manuel des antiquités romaines

Autor: Theodor Mommsen , Joachim Marquardt , Paul Krüger

Número de Páginas: 480

Manuel des antiquités romaines: Le droit public romain, Theodor Mommsen

Autor: Karl Joachim Marquardt

Número de Páginas: 472

Laws of the State of New York

Autor: New York (state)

Número de Páginas: 318

Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland

Autor: Elva Johnston

Número de Páginas: 250

Much of our knowledge of early medieval Ireland comes from a rich literature written in a variety of genres and in two languages, Irish and Latin. Who wrote this literature and what role did they play within society? What did the introduction and expansion of literacy mean in a culture where the vast majority of the population continued to be non-literate? How did literacy operate in and intersect with the oral world? Was literacy a key element in the formation and articulation of communal and elite senses of identity? This book addresses these issues in the first full, inter-disciplinary examination of the Irish literate elite and their social contexts between ca. 400-1000 AD. It considers the role played by Hiberno-Latin authors, the expansion of vernacular literacy and the key place of monasteries within the literate landscape. Also examined are the crucial intersections between literacy and orality, which underpin the importance played by the literate elite in giving voice to aristocratic and communal identities.

The Progressive Fish Culturist

Autor: U.s. Fish And Wildlife Service

Número de Páginas: 716

The Progressive Fish Culturist

Número de Páginas: 700

Mathematical Correspondences and Critical Editions

Autor: Maria Teresa Borgato , Erwin Neuenschwander , Irène Passeron

Número de Páginas: 361

Mathematical correspondence offers a rich heritage for the history of mathematics and science, as well as cultural history and other areas. It naturally covers a vast range of topics, and not only of a scientific nature; it includes letters between mathematicians, but also between mathematicians and politicians, publishers, and men or women of culture. Wallis, Leibniz, the Bernoullis, D'Alembert, Condorcet, Lagrange, Gauss, Hermite, Betti, Cremona, Poincaré and van der Waerden are undoubtedly authors of great interest and their letters are valuable documents, but the correspondence of less well-known authors, too, can often make an equally important contribution to our understanding of developments in the history of science. Mathematical correspondences also play an important role in the editions of collected works, contributing to the reconstruction of scientific biographies, as well as the genesis of scientific ideas, and in the correct dating and interpretation of scientific writings. This volume is based on the symposium “Mathematical Correspondences and Critical Editions,” held at the 6th International Conference of the ESHS in Lisbon, Portugal in 2014. In the context of ...

Ecrire et lire en Catalogne

Autor: Michel Zimmermann

Número de Páginas: 808

Du IXe au XIIe siècle, la Catalogne constitue un carrefour d'échanges entre l'Europe chrétienne et al-Andalus, un foyer d'intense rayonnement scientifique. L'abondance des documents (manuscrits, catalogues de bibliothèques, actes notariaux ...) révèle à quel point cette société était fondée sur l'écrit. L'étude montre que cette culture est l'une des voies de l'affirmation catalane.

Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières

Autor: Pierre André Latreille

Número de Páginas: 530

Ictionimia andaluza

Autor: Alberto Manuel Arias García , Mercedes De La Torre García

Número de Páginas: 986

Nadie con una mínima capacidad de asombro puede sustraerse a la admiración que causa la enorme variedad de formas, colores, tamaños y comportamientos de los animales marinos. Y es que el mar y los seres que lo habitan, sorprendentemente distintos de los terrestres, constituyen un mundo fascinante a la vez que, para la mayoría de las personas, desconocido y aun misterioso. De hecho, son pocas las que son capaces de reconocer especies que no sean las que están habituadas a ver (y que aprecian por razones gastronómicas), pues el conocimiento en profundidad de esta materia generalmente está restringido a dos grupos de expertos: por una parte, los biólogos, y, por otra, los profesionales que capturan y comercializan los productos que les ofrece el mar, principalmente los pescadores. En ambos colectivos desempeña un papel central la terminología que permite identificar, diferenciar y clasificar las especies, la terminología que hace posible la comunicación entre los miembros que integran la comunidad profesional. El ingente volumen de información acopiado, el rigor metodológico y la profundidad del análisis que caracterizan la obra son fiel reflejo de la competencia...