“…Drawing from a variety of disciplines such as archaeology, bioarchaeology, literary studies, ancient Egyptian philology, and sociocultural anthropology, this volume provides an interdisciplinary account of the ways in which the dead are able to transcend temporal distances and engender social relationships. …”

“…From philosophy to history, from literature to philology, from the history of books to the history of ideas and culture, the book is intended to be a guiding teaching tool for students, lower and high school teachers, and citizens in general who want to understand the reasons for one of the oldest and most dangerous prejudices in human history…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gehry : Frances Howard Goldwyn Regional Branch Library, Hollywood, California ; Mario Botta : Maison du Livre de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne ; Norman Foster : Carré d'Art, Nîmes ; Scogin Elam and Bray : Buckhead Branch Library, Atlanta, Georgia ; Henri and Bruno Gaudin : Archives de Paris, Paris ; Antoine Predock : Las Vegas Library, Discovery Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada ; Bolles - Wilson : New City Library, Münster, Münster ; Dominique Perrault : Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris ; Álvaro Siza : Main Library, University of Aveiro, Aveiro ; Scogin Elam and Bray : Morrow Branch Library, Morrow, Georgia ; William Bruder + DWL : Phoenix Central Library, Phoenix, Arizona ; Scogin Elam and Bray : Ross - Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona ; Mecanoo : Public Library Almelo, Almelo ; Arata Isozaki : Toyonokuni Libraries for Cultural Resources, Oita, Oita ; Paul Chemetov Borja Huidobro : Library in Evreux, Evreux ; Legorreta Arquitectos : South Chula Vista Library, Chula Vista, California ; Richard Rogers : Learning Resource Center, Thames Valley University, Slough ; Legorreta Arquitectos : San Antonio Main Library, San Antonio, Texas ; Mecanoo : Library of Delt University of Technology, Delft ; Hiroshi Hara : Miyagi Prefectural Library, Sendai, Miyagi ; Mansilla + Tuñón : Madrid Regional Documentary Center, Madrid ; Herzog & de Meuron : IKMZ (Information, Communications and Media Center) BTU Cottbus, Cottbus ; Toyo Ito : Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Miyagi ; Toyo Ito : T Hall in Taisha, Izumo, Shimane ; Fumio Toki : Kansai-kan of National Diet Library, Kyoto ; Heikkinen - Komonen : Vuotalo Cultural Center, Helsinki ; Dominique Perrault : Médiathèque, Vénissieux, Vénissieux, Lyon ; Fumihiko Maki : Fukui Prefectural Library & Archives, Fukui ; Norman Foster : Philological Library, Free University of Berlin, Berlin ; Wiel Arets : University Library Utrecht, Utrecht ; OMA : Seattle Central Library, Seattle, Washington…”

“…The volume demonstrates the importance of the Clavis, not only for the history of pharmacology and medicine, but also for Byzantine and medieval studies, Roman, Greek, Latin and Arabic philology and lexicography. Barbara Zipser (Doctor of Philosophy, Wellcome Trust University Award 2006, 2010) is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Body and Material Culture, History Department, Royal Holloway University of London. …”

“…Readership: All interested in the history of philology and Oriental studies, study of religions and languages, and those interested in the dialogue between different religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Reading in the Digital Age Innovation, Failure and the Prospects of Digital Philology / Tobias Kraft -- Between Digital Transformation in Libraries and the Digital Humanities New Perspectives on Librarianship / Christoph Müller -- Automation Approaches to Book Licensing Business Studies and Information Science Aspects of a Phenomenon from Literary Life / Christoph Bläsi -- El imparable crecimiento de los microformatos literarios digitales / Yvette Sánchez -- EDITING WORLD LITERATURE - TWO ROUNDTABLES -- Roundtable World Editors A Conversation with Leonora Djament (Buenos Aires/Eterna Cadencia), Gustavo Guerrero (Paris/Gallimard), Isabelle Gugnon (Paris/Translator), Michi Strausfeld (Berlin/Editor), and Frank Wegner (Berlin/Suhrkamp) -- Roundtable Global Book Markets A Conversation with Susanne Lange (Berlin/Translator), Diego Lorenzo (Buenos Aires/Programa SUR), Benjamin Loy (Universität Wien), María Lynch (Barcelona/Casanovas & Lynch), and Sandra Pulido (Bogotá/Bogotá Book Fair)…”

“…It contains articles on philology, literature, exegesis, history, and theology. …”

“…The texts are approached from four main perspectives: New Philology, Linguistics, Iconography and Reception studies. …”

“…Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem Translates, edits and discusses the most important Arabic medieval book list for Jerusalem – the largest known dataset on book pricesRethinks the notion of archival and documentary practices in the Mamluk period Provides a new angle on the economic history of the book in the late-medieval period Combines social history and material philology in the field of Middle Eastern historyIn the late medieval period manuscripts galore circulated in private collections and in educational libraries in the cities of the Middle East. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The two-logoi fragment: Philological and epistemic questions -- 2.1. The philological problem -- 2.2. …”

“…The book also introduces Tibetan history and the Dba’ bzhed with several introductory chapters on various aspects of the text by experienced scholars in the field of Tibetan philology. These detailed studies provide analysis of the text’s narrative context, its position within traditional and current historiography, and the organisation and structure of the text itself and its antecedents. …”

“…In this book, Nordic scholars of philology, onomastics, history, geography, literary studies, and digital humanities examine multiple aspects of ten large- and small-scale digital spatial infrastructures from the early stages of development to the practical applications of digital tools for studying spatial thinking and knowledge in pre-modern sources and societies…”

“…This volume contains studies of the historical background of the Septuagint, its textual history, philology, individual problems of Septuagint scriptures and the reception of the Septuagint. …”

“…This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. …”

“…This descriptive overview has usually centred on the diachronic evolution of philology and food offerings, focussing less frequently on offering table images as discrete elements of highly codified information. …”

“…The authors, scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Catholic and Protestant Theology, Islamic Studies, German philology etc., invited to reflect on texts of their respective disciplines in context-sensitive interpretations, taking into account the link connecting Midrash, hermeneutics, and narrative, provide illuminating narratological and/or herm…”

“…Malcolm Turnbull MP "'I find it difficult to bring to mind more than a handful of comparable enterprises in the fields of biography, history, philology or the social sciences more broadly--anywhere in the world. …”