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Thirty-Six Views

This artistic collaboration between a Chinese emperor and Matteo Ripa, a western missionary-artist, marked a significant moment in intercultural imagination, ...

A New Herodotos

Providing biographical and intellectual context for Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Anthony Kaldellis shows how the author synthesized his classical models to fashion ...

Saints and Sacred Matter

This volume explores the embodied aspects of the divine—physical remains of holy men and women and objects associated with them.

The Measure and Meaning of Time in Mesoamerica and the Andes

This volume brings together specialists in anthropology, archaeology, art history, astronomy, and the history of science to contemplate concrete and abstract ...

Dante and the Greeks

This volume taps into knowledge and skills from specialists in the medieval West, Byzantium, and Dante, and set the stage for further engagement with Dante’s ...

Food and the City

The essays in this volume discuss the multiple scales and ideologies of productive landscapes and underscore the symbiotic connection between productive ...

Concordance of Greek word forms from The Life of Saint Basil the Younger -- Word (.docx) format

Concordance of Greek word forms from The Life of Saint Basil the Younger

The Life of Saint Basil the Younger

This text, one of the longest and most important middle Byzantine saints’ lives, presents the life of a holy man who lived in Constantinople in the first part ...

Technology and the Garden

This volume examines the shaping and visualization of the landscape; the development of horticultural technologies; the construction of landscape through ...