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Gestalten 2012. Softcover, 15,5 x 23 cm, 168 pages, full color, English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9783899554311. The world is opening up more and more. Progressive globalisation, the continuous fall of national borders and trade barriers and relaxed copyright rules are clear evidence. For that very reason, however, a countermovement is spreading that starts where the opening process reaches its limits and tips over into an actual threat for many people. Not only in the barriers built between the USA and Mexico or the radical action taken against online sharing platforms, but also the increase in gated communities or the rapid growth of neopopulist protest parties bear witness to that. Traditional defence strategies such as barrier-building or counterattack are, however, inadequate long-term guarantees of security and prosperity. In fact, they even jeopardise these goals.

Gestalten 2012. Softcover, 15,5 x 23 cm, 168 Seiten, vollfarbig, Deutsch, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9783899554304. Die Welt wird immer offener. Davon zeugen die fortschreitende Globalisierung, der kontinuierliche Abbau von Landes- und Handelsgrenzen oder gelockerte Urheberrechte. Gerade deshalb macht sich aber auch eine Gegenbewegung breit, die dort ansetzt, wo die Offnung an ihre Grenzen stosst und fur viele ins Bedrohliche kippt. Dies bezeugen nicht nur der Mauerbau zwischen den USA und Mexiko oder das radikale Vorgehen gegen Online-Sharing-Plattformen, sondern auch die Zunahme von Gated Communities oder der rasche Zuwachs neopopulistischer Protestparteien. Herkommliche Abwehrstrategien wie Mauerbau oder Gegenangriff reichen in der global vernetzten Gesellschaft aber nicht aus, um Sicherheit und Wohlstand langfristig zu gewahrleisten, sie gefahrden diese sogar.

Gestalten 2012. Softcover, 15,5 x 23 cm, 168 Seiten, vollfarbig, German, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9783899554281. Ob man Veranderungen begrusst oder um liebgewonnene Gewohnheiten bangt: Fest steht, es brodelt gerade heftig auf unserem Planeten. Jetzt widmet sich die neue Ausgabe von ABSTRACT einem Thema, namlich was durch die Menschheitsgeschichte hinweg Bestand hat. Sie fragt, ob es das Leben an sich ist, das naturgemass gleich bleibt? Oder ist es der Mensch, der bewahrt? Antworten und Anregungen liefern Beitrage von Experten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen, die wissenschaftliche Seriositat und Unterhaltung, inhaltlichen Tiefgang und Uberblick, Wissenswertes und Skurriles zusammenfuhren.

Brepols - Harvey Miller 2004. Hardcover. X 420 p., 60 colour ill., one Cd-Rom, 210 x 295 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503991207. Due to an important number of salvage projects and rescue excavations in Northern Syria, Southern Turkey and Northern Iraq, the archaeological records documenting Upper Mesopotamia drastically increased these last decades. More than 300 regular or rescue preclassical excavations have been registered in Upper Mesopotamia so far. This Atlas of Preclassical Upper Mesopotamia is the result of a systematic examination of the published evidence. More than 100 collaborators have contributed to set up an analytical repertory, summing up the available data through a standardized file. This repertory enumerates each site and reports topography, dimensions of the settlement, geographical location, data on the excavations, periods of occupation (A to Z), environmental and archaeometrical studies, material culture (72 entries), 14C samplings and… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 1998. Hardback, XLIV+547 p., + 2 pl., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503043418. Languages: Latin.

Turnhout Brepols 2003. Hardback, 568 p., 84 b/w ill. + 1 colour ill., 160 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503514215. The Augustinian abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes was the first monastic house founded in the diocese of Soissons during the reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries. It played an important role in the architectural, technological and social history of its region until the French Revolution. The book is organized them thematically. Part I explores the various sources for study of the abbey, including standing architectural remains, archaeological material, archival sources and pictorial representations. Part II engages with the foundation of the abbey, the acquisition of its landed domain and the development of its parish. Part III considers first the Romanesque and then the Gothic phases of construction. The changing plan of the abbey is traced, and the ways in which construction influenced the functional life of the monastic community is treated. Using the unpublished customary, Part IV… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2003. Hardback, 568 p., 84 b/w ill. + 1 colour ill., 160 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503514215. The Augustinian abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes was the first monastic house founded in the diocese of Soissons during the reform movement of the 11th and 12th centuries. It played an important role in the architectural, technological and social history of its region until the French Revolution. The book is organized them thematically. Part I explores the various sources for study of the abbey, including standing architectural remains, archaeological material, archival sources and pictorial representations. Part II engages with the foundation of the abbey, the acquisition of its landed domain and the development of its parish. Part III considers first the Romanesque and then the Gothic phases of construction. The changing plan of the abbey is traced, and the ways in which construction influenced the functional life of the monastic community is treated. Using the unpublished customary, Part IV… Read More

Brepols - Harvey Miller 1998. Hardcover. 73 p., 242 plates, 165 x 245 mm, Languages: English, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9780888443748.

Brepols - Harvey Miller 2006. Hardcover. VIII 595 p., 165 x 240 mm, Languages: English, French, Italian, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503525327. The papers presented in this volume in honour of Alfonso Maieru cover some of the major topics of his research area. The institutional and intellectual life of university training in the Middle Ages, including the peculiar tradition of related works, is the focus of the papers by Louis Jacques Bataillon, William J. Courtenay, Jacqueline Hamesse, Zenon Kaluza, Loris Sturlese and Olga Weijers. Three papers, by Jacopo Costa, Pasquale Porro and Thomas Ricklin, deal with philosophical problems in Dante?s Monarchia and Convivio. The complex interrelations between logic and the other main aspects of medieval philosophy, with a particular attention to theology, metaphysics and natural philosophy, are the core of the other papers by Stefano Caroti, Sten Ebbesen, Barbara Faes de Mottoni, Simo Knuuttila, Alain de Libera, Olga Lizzini, Costantino Marmo,… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2007. Paperback, 252 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503526713. Comment definir les liens adelphiques ? A quelles realites biologiques, sociales, politiques, renvoient-ils dans l'Occident antique et medieval ? Les textes rassembles dans ce volume tentent d'eclairer les liens entre freres et soeurs en se fondant sur des approches linguistiques, historiques, juridiques et litteraires. Ils abordent des aspects aussi divers et complexes que le role du frere aine, le choix du nom, le lignage, les pratiques successorales, les liens du sang, la defense de l'honneur familial et la solidarite, les affinites, mais aussi les antagonismes, le fratricide et la vengeance. L'exploration de cette problematique est inevitablement pluridisciplinaire car toute reflexion sur les liens adelphiques doit interroger aussi bien l'histoire, le droit, que les textes litteraires. Language : French.

Turnhout Brepols 2001. Paperback, 242 p., 210 x 250 mm. ISBN 9782869310988. Successeur de Martin Agricola a l'ecole latine de Magdeburg, Gallus Dressler a laisse une unique version manuscrite de son cours de composition musicale. Publie une premiere fois en 1914 par Bernhard Engelke, celui-ci se devait d'etre reedite pour que son texte et ses exemples musicaux soient mieux eclaircis et pour fournir une traduction au lecteur d'aujourd'hui. Ce traite est marque par l'esprit pedagogique des cantors lutheriens. Humanistes de la Renaissance, ces derniers puisent aux sources antiques et placent la composition sous le signe de la poetique et de la rhetorique aristoteliciennes. Ainsi s'affirme a travers leurs ecrits une troisieme et nouvelle partie de l?art musical, la musica poetica, qui gouverne theorie et pratique et hisse au sommet l'activite creatrice. Gallus Dressler est, presque quarante ans avant. Joachim Burmeister, le porte-parole inspire de cette pensee artistique. La… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2012. Hardback, approx. X+443 p., 50 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503541907. This collection of fifteen studies brings together scholars of late medieval, Renaissance, and early modern Italy to reflect on the multifaceted world of ritual. The scope is expansive, covering four centuries, and the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. Because of older presumptions about the modernity of the Renaissance and hence its supposed aversion to the irrational, scholarship on ritual life in Italian city-states of the Renaissance has lagged behind the historiography on symbols and rituals in monarchies north of the Alps. Only by the 1990s had a wide range of scholars across disciplines become interested in these subjects and approaches for the late medieval and early modern Italian city-state; yet no synthesis or comparative work on rituals and symbols has peered across the regional enclaves of Italy. Through original research in libraries and archives across the Italian peninsula,… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2009. Paperback, 523 p., 178 x 254 mm. ISBN 9782503517223. Structure en 20 titres, le livre V du Code Theodosien s?ouvre par une serie de mesures relatives aux successions ab intestat (titres 1 a 4) : elles concernent notamment le droit successoral entre une mere et ses enfants et l'attribution, aux institutions dont ils relevent, des biens de leurs membres decedes intestats. Les titres 6 a 10 traitent du droit des personnes : le postliminum, disposition qui permet aux citoyens prisonniers a l?etranger de recouvrer la totalite de leurs droits et de leurs biens une fois revenus en terre romaine, par ?« droit de retour ?» ; le retablissement dans leurs droits de naissance des personnes ingenues ; la vente et l?exposition des nouveaux-nes. Les titres 11 a 19 touchent aux problemes fonciers: les domaines imperiaux et leurs modes d'exploitation, la possession, les terres desertees, les colons et les travailleurs de la terre. Le titre 20 concerne la coutume, cet… Read More

Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 2000. . Gebrocheerd, originele uitgeversomslag, 26x18cm, 304pp, als nieuw/ as new!!!! Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten van Belgie. Iuris Scripta Historica XIII.

Turnhout Brepols 2001. Paperback, 238 p., 155 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508894. L'ouvrage qui parait sous le titre " Optics and Astronomy " groupe un ensemble de communications presentees lors du XXe congres international d'histoire des sciences. Toutes relevent de ces domaines intimement lies au cours du temps. Qu'aurait ete l'evolution de l'astronomie sans le developpement de l'optique ? Quant a ce dernier domaine il a trouve un terrain de predilection dans les applications qu'en ont fait les astronomes. Dans l'antiquite, d'Euclide fonde en geometre une optique qui trouve un premier aboutissement chez Ptolemee. La grande ecole arabe prend le relais en renouvelant la theorie de la lumiere et de la vision. Le premier XVIIe siecle europeen invente la lunette, analyse ses implications optiques et construit des instruments qui modifient l'idee meme qu'on se faisait des choses et des cieux. Mecanique celeste s'appliquant principalement au systeme… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2012. Paperback, approx. 300 p., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503544724. Charles Malamoud rappelle que le terme loka, qui designe en sanskrit le monde, est apparente au latin l'cus, dont le sens premier est ?« clairiere ?». Le loka est un lieu de lumiere, eclaire par les astres du jour et de la nuit. Il n'est cependant pas directement percu comme un espace de lumiere arrache a la foret : le monde ne saurait subsister tout seul, sans le ?« non-monde ?» (aloka) qui l'entoure. Reflechir aux abords de la clairiere signifie donc saisir du meme regard la foret tout autour, penser l'articulation necessaire entre monde et non-monde. Depuis une quarantaine d'annees, les travaux de Charles Malamoud marquent le paysage des etudes indiennes en France comme a l'etranger et ne cessent d'ouvrir des pistes d'investigations, a la fois methodologiques et conceptuelles, dans les sciences humaines et sociales. Les auteurs du present volume sont des… Read More

Turnhout Brepols 2001. Paperback, 298 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 9782503508382. For some 40 years, A.G. Rigg has been defining the field of later Anglo-Latin scholarship, a task culminating in his History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422. 'Anglo-Latin and its Heritage' is a collection of thirteen essays by his colleagues and students, past and present, which pays tribute to him both by exploring the field he has defined, and by making forays into its antecedents and descendants. The first section, Roots and Debts, includes essays on the migration of classical and late antique motifs and patterns of thought into early medieval Latin, and concludes with an essay which shows how a 12th-century writer reached back into that earlier period for stylistic models. The central section of the book, Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422, concentrates on Anglo-Latin writers of the period most studied by Rigg himself, and the seven essays in this section include analyses of poetic style and borrowing discussions of… Read More

Gestalten 2013. Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm, 240 pages, full color, English. ISBN 9783899554779. Brands are always hungry for new communication ideas. With unique spatial experiences?quirky events, experimental showrooms, radical pop-up shops, and stunning flagship stores?they are reaching out to their most sophisticated audiences.

Gestalten 2012. Hardcover, 24 x 30 cm, 288 pages, full color, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9783899554144. Learn for Life is a diverse collection of inspiring architecture and interiors that support progressive models of acquiring knowledge. New interpretations of kindergartens, schools, universities, and libraries are featured along with architecturally innovative offices and conference rooms. These examples are rounded out by more experimental projects that offer further perspectives on the rapidly evolving topic of how best to learn in the new millennium.

2020. Hardcover 456 pages., 295 b/w ill. + 32 colour ill., 216 x 280 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503579672. Few medieval images are as iconic, or as challenging, as the life-sized sculptural crucifixes that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire at the end of the tenth century. Striking at the fundamental mysteries of Christianity ? the idea of a God made flesh, who died on the Cross and was resurrected after three days ? these objects were made to attract attention and inspire veneration, and they exist in uneasy tension with medieval anxieties about idolatry and the cult of images. This volume presents new research on the Boston Crucifix, the earliest medieval crucifix in North America and one of the most significant examples of the genre, in dialogue with new directions in this field as a whole. Essays on the history, theology, style, condition, and provenance of early wood crucifixes are presented here together for the first time in a format that is intended as a major scholarly resource, but will… Read More