“…Art historians, artists, and anyone who wants to use the images of others will find themselves awash in byzantine legal terms, constantly evolving copyright law, varying interpretations by museums and estates, and despair over the complexity of the whole situation. …”
Sumario

“…An artist's materials --the bold brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf in a Byzantine mosaic, the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase-- are not just the accessories of his or her work. …”
Sumario

“…They reveal the evolution of Roman law at the end of antiquity and how imperial law was transmitted to both the Byzantine East and Latin West in the Early Middle Ages. …”

“…This latest volume of "Studies in Medievalism" explores this phenomenon with a special section on computer games, examining digital echoes of the medieval past in subjects ranging from the sovereign ethics of empire in "Star Wars" to gender identity in on-line role playing.Medievalism in more conventional venues is also addressed, ranging from early French fairy tales to nineteenth-century neo-Byzantine murals. Great innovation and extraordinary continuity are thus juxtaposed not only within each article but also across the volume as a whole, in yet further testimony to the exceptional flexibility and enduring relevance of medievalism. …”

“…The scope of the contributions encompasses archaeological and historical perspectives on eating habits, cooking techniques, diet practices and table manners in the Islamic World, the Byzantine Empire, the Crusader States, Medieval and Renaissance Europe and the Ottoman Empire. …”

“…Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and byzantine empresses, this volume explores the political agency, religious authority, and influence of imperial and near-imperial women within the Late Roman imperial court, which is understood as a complex spatial, social, and cultural system, the centre of patronage networks, and an arena for elite competition. …”

“…Following a survey of the biblical and classical background, it offers a detailed exploration of the theme of wisdom in patristic, byzantine, and medieval theology up to and including Gregory Palamas and Thomas Aquinas in Greek East and Latin West, respectively. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Bacharach -- The Dome of the Rock in light of the development of concentric martyria in Jerusalem: Architecture and architectural iconography / Rina Avner -- Textual transmission and pictorial transformations: The post-crusade image of the Dome of the Rock in Italy / Kathryn Blair Moore -- Middle Byzantine aesthetics of power and the incomparability of Islamic art: The architectural ekphraseis of Nikolaos Mesarites / Alicia Walker -- Columns and hieroglyphs: Magic spolia in medieval Islamic architecture of Northern Syria / Julia Gonnella -- A self-conscious art? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Augustine (354-430) -- The Veneration of the Saints -- The Rise of Monasticism -- The End of the second age -- The Third Age of the Church (650-1000) -- The Dark Ages -- Islam -- The Byzantine Church and the Eastern Schism -- The Barbarians -- The Papacy (955-1057) -- The End of the Third Age -- The Fourth Age of the Church (1050-1450) -- The Middle Ages -- The Crusades -- The New Religious Orders -- Scholasticism -- Medieval Mysticism -- The Medieval Inquisition -- The Spanish Inquisition -- Innocent III -- The Decline of the Papacy -- The End of the Fourth Age -- The Fifth Age of the Church (1450-1789) -- Protestant and Catholic Reformations -- The Renaissance -- The Reformation on the Continent -- The English Reformation -- The Reformation in Scotland -- Protestantism -- The Catholic response -- The Missions (1500-1800) -- The End of the Fifth age -- Chronology of the Reformation -- The Sixth Age of the Church (1789-present) -- The Modern Age -- The Enlightenment or the Age of Reason -- The French Revolution -- The Aftermath of Revolution -- The Catholic Church in the United States -- The Revival of the Missions (1800-2000) -- War and disctatorship -- Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church -- Post-World War II Catholicism -- The End of the Sixth age -- Chronological list of the Popes…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Francis of Assisi: searching for a paradigm / Xavier Seubert -- Bonaventure, Bessarion and the Franciscan coat of arms / Irving Lavin -- A Byzantine Franciscan and the coincidence of opposites / Robert Lentz…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Towards a Typology of Mudéjar and Morisco Multiple-Text Manuscripts / Innovations -- The Eusebian Canon Tables as a Corpus- Organizing Paratext within the Multiple- Text Manuscript of the Fourfold Gospel / The Ninth-Century Coptic 'Book Revolution' and the Emergence of Multiple-Text Manuscripts / Individual MTMs -- Personal Multiple-Text Manuscripts in Late Medieval Central Europe: The 'Library' of Crux of Telč (1434-1504) / The Prince and the Scholar: A Study of Two Multiple-Text Manuscripts from Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Morocco / Case studies -- Some Poetic Multiple-Text Manuscripts of the Byzantine Era / Rolling Stones Do Gather: MS Istanbul Aya Sofya 3610 and Its Collection of Mineralogical Texts / Mathematical Astronomy and the Production of Multiple-Texts Manuscripts in Late Medieval Europe: A Comparison of BnF lat. 7197 and BnF lat. 7432 / The Development of Arabic Multiple-Text and Composite Manuscripts: The Case of ḥadīth Manuscripts in Damascus during the Late Medieval Period / 'Thematic books' -- Concepts and Vocabulary for the Analysis of Thematic Codices: The Example of Greek Adversus Iudaeos Books / List of Contributors -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Persons…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of authors -- List of reviewers -- Prolegomena: The evolution of water supply throughout the millennia -- Ancient gods and goddesses of water / Water for human consumption through history / History of water and health / Diachronic evolution of water supply in the Eastern Mediterranean / Water and water supply technologies in ancient Iran / A historical perspective on the development of water supply in Egypt / The impact of climate changes on the evolution of water supply works in the region of Jerusalem / History of water supply in pre-modern China / Evolution of water supply technologies through the centuries in Crete, Greece / A brief history of urban water management in ancient Greece / Sustainable water supply in pre-Columbian civilizations in Ancient Peru and South America / Historical development of water supply in Cyprus / Water supply in the Middle East during Roman and Byzantine periods / Water supply management technologies in the Ancient Greek and Roman civilizations / Water supply sustainability of ancient civilizations in Mesoamerica and the American south-west / Water supply of Athens in the antiquity / History of the water supply of Rome as a paradigm of water services development in Italy / The historical development of water supply to Iraklion, Crete, Greece from antiquity to the present / The historical development of water supply technologies in Barcelona, Spain / Water services in Mexico City: The need to return to the IWRM principles of Tenochtitlán (700 years of water history) / The evolution of water supply throughout the millennia: A short overview…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Preface and Methodological Issues -- Chapter 2 Phrenitis in Classical (Fifth-Fourth Centuries BCE) and Hellenistic (Third-First Centuries BCE) Medicine -- Chapter 3 Psychology and Delocalizing Themes: Asclepiades, Celsus and Caelius Aurelianus -- Chapter 4 Theoretical Aspects of Imperial Nosology: Localization, Semiotics, Chronology, Aetiology (First-Sixth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 5 Phrenitic People: Patients and Therapies in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First-Sixth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 6 Quasi phreneticus: Phrenitis in Non-Medical Sources in Imperial and Late-Antique Cultures (First Century BCE-Seventh Century CE) -- Chapter 7 The Byzantine and Medieval Periods: Medical Receptions of phrenitis in Greek, Latin and Semitic Languages (Sixth-Fourteenth Centuries CF) -- Chapter 8 The Construction of the Phrenitic in Larger Society: From the Medieval to the Early-Modern Period -- Chapter 9 Phrenitis in the Modern and Early-Modern Worlds: Anatomy, Pathology and the Survival of Graeco-Roman Medicine (Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries CE) -- Chapter 10 The Modern Age: The 'Death' of phrenitis -- Appendix 1 The 'Sun Disease' -- Appendix 2 Naming, Nomenclatures, Dictionaries -- Appendix 3 Phrenitis from the Fifth Century BCE to the Twentieth Century CE: A Synoptic Table -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- General Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…South Asia -- 5. The Byzantine Empire -- 6. Europe -- 7. China -- 8. Japan -- 9. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…I,2: Amict-Azymes -- v. II,1: B-Byzantin -- v. II,2: C-Cesene -- v. III,1: Chainage-Chypre -- v. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Francis of Assisi: searching for a paradigm / Xavier Seubert -- Bonaventure, Bessarion and the Franciscan coat of arms / Irving Lavin -- A Byzantine Franciscan and the coincidence of opposites / Robert Lentz…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: quelques réflexions sur la littérature anglaise des XIVe et XVe siècles / Aude Mairey -- Les catégories des "nacions, langues et créances" chez les voyageurs des XIVe et XVe siècles / Jaroslav Svátek -- Les stéréotypes "nationaux" : usages rhétoriques et systèmes de pensée dans l'Europe du XIIIe siècle / Benoît Grévin -- Empire et nations à Byzance du Ve au XIe siècle / Michel Kaplan -- De l'empire des Romains à la nation des Hellènes : évolution identitaire des Byzantins de la fin du XIe au XVe siècle / Élisabeth Malamut -- Grecs et Byzantins dans les sources latines de l'Italie (IXe-XIe siècle) / Annick Peters-Custot -- La fabrique de la nation andalouse au XIe siècle, entre identités arabe, berbère et hispanique / Emmanuelle Tixier du Mesnil -- Nation et nations dans le récit de voyage d'Ibn Baṭṭûṭa / Yann Dejugnat -- L'amour du roi est-il une composante politique de la "nation France" au XIIIe siècle? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Charles Nicolas -- Les empereurs chrétiens et l'usage de l'armée pour réprimer les déviances religieuses aux IVe et Ve siècles / Sylvain Janniard -- L'empereur chrétien et ses gardes du corps / Maxime Emion -- Le prince bienfaisant -- Costantino, le sinagoghe e i templi / Rita Lizzi Testa -- Gli "ultimi pagani" e la crisi dell'impero d'Occidente : impegno politico e influenza culturale alla corte di Valentiniano III e Astemio / Umberto Roberto -- La titulature impériale byzantine aux VIe-VIIe siècles : l'empereur "évergète" / Federico Montinaro -- L'évergétisme des rois vandales : réalité ou chimère ? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Tabula Gratulatoria -- A Biographical Essay: The Making of the Historian / From Publishing to Prokopovich: Gary Marker's Scholarly Contributions / Word -- Once Again on Whether Byzantine Law Was Applied to the Administration of the Law in Medieval Rus' / About Peter the Great's Ship Predestinatsiia / Eighteenth-Century Botanical Literature and the Origins of an Elite Russian Gardening Community / Catherine's Liberation of the Greeks: High-Minded Discourse and Everyday Realities / A Proletarian Encyclopédie / Image -- The Parsuna of Gavrila Fetiev: Can a Picture Speak? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Daley -- Once Composite Christ: oneness and duality of Jesus in the Byzantine christology / Cyril Hovorun -- West Syrian Christology in the sixth century. …”