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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Old Devil Moon 10. The Way You Look Tonight 11. No Moon at All 12. Can't We Be Friends? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The owl in oracle-bone inscriptions and on early ritual bronzes / Wang Tao -- A study of the décor on a Shang dynasty architectural object from the site of Xiaoshuangqiao in Zhengzhou / Han Ding -- Respecting heaven and sacrificing to the ancestors: social order and ritual reflected in early western Zhou bronze drinking vessel sets / Lu Liancheng -- The Cheng Wang Fangding / Colin Mackenzie -- The western Zhou court and Hedong Salt Lake: revelations from the newly excavated Ba Bo (Elder Ba) bronze vessels / Han Wei -- Changing ideas about De, the lineage, and the individual in fifth- and fourth-century BCE China as reflected in the Wenxian Covenant texts / Crispin Williams -- The editing and publication of ancient books written on bamboo and silk / Li Ling -- The philological value of the Tsinghua bamboo-slip manuscripts / Zhao Pingan, Wang Tingbin -- A brief look at the Shanghai Museum manuscript "The state of Lu suffered a great drought" / Scott Cook -- An introduction and preliminary translation of the Jiaonü (Instructions for daughters), a Qin bamboo text / Anne Behnke Kinney -- The shape of the text: Gu prisms and Han primers / Christopher J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : Peter Burke and the history of cultural history / Melissa Calaresu, Filippo de Vivo and Joan-Pau Rubiés -- The ecotype, or a modest proposal to reconnect cultural and social history / David Hopkin -- Rituals of the viaticum : dynasty and community in Habsburg Madrid / María José del Río Barredo -- Monks of honour : the Knights of Malta and criminal behaviour in early modern Rome / Carmel Cassar -- The reception of Spain and its values in Habsburg Naples : a reassessment / Gabriel Guarino -- Venemous words and political poisons : language(s) of exclusion in early modern France / Silje Normand -- War and polemics in early modern Europe / Pärtel Piirimäe -- Colbert, Louis XIV and the Golden notebooks : what a king needs to know to rule / Jacob Soll -- Confessional cultures and sacred space : towards a history of political communication in early modern Switzerland / Daniela Hacke -- Saints as cultural history / Thomas Worcester -- How to look like a counter-reformation saint / Helen Hills -- Against propaganda : the juxtaposition of images in early modern France. …”