Books: 'Early Dynastic period'

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Divine headdresses of Mesopotamia in the Early Dynastic period. Oxford, England: B.A.R., 1987.

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Furlong, Iris. Divine headdresses of Mesopotamia in the early dynastic period. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1986.

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Killick, J. A. Regional variation in the pottery of Sumer during the Early Dynastic period. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 1992.

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It's a long way to a historiography of the Early Dynastic Period(s). Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, 2015.

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Early burial customs in northern Egypt: Evidence from the pre-, proto-, and early dynastic periods. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013.

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Wilcke, Claus. Early ancient Near Eastern law: A history of its beginnings : the early dynastic and Sargonic periods. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2007.

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Early ancient Near Eastern law: A history of its beginnings ; the early dynastic and Sargonic periods. München: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2003.

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The cobra goddess of ancient Egypt: Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom periods. London: Kegan Paul International, 1990.

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The history of Tibet: The early period: to c. AD 850: the Yarlung dynasty. London [etc.]: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

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Kukpo chŏnjŏk: Samguk, Koryŏ sidae = National treasures books and manuscripts : Three Kingdoms period and Goryeo Dynasty. Taejŏn Kwangyŏksi: Munhwajaech'ŏng Yuhyŏng Munhwajaekwa., 2009.

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Chosŏn chŏn'gi yŏkch'ŏrhaksa: Philosophical history of the I Ching during the early period of the Joseon dynasty. Sŏul-si: Hakchawŏn, 2013.

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The Davidic dynasty tradition in early Judaism: Its history and significance for Messianism. Atlanta, Ga: Scholars Press, 1995.

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Dikun, Aleksandr. The dynasty of Sibiryak merchants and its role in the development of Eastern Siberia in the XVIII-early XX century. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1225271.

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The monograph highlights the main stages of the formation and development of the dynasty of Irkutsk merchants Sibiryakovs, the participation of its representatives in the life of the region in the context of modernization processes that took place in the country as a whole and in Siberia in particular. The multifaceted entrepreneurial, social, research and charitable activities of all generations of the Sibiryakovs in the Siberian region in the period from the XVIII to the XX century are considered within the framework of local history. The author analyzes the structure of the dynasty, the order and rules of inheritance of property, the system of family ties, individual and group social and economic mobility, social functions of the sexes, socio-political and cultural representations, formal and informal means of influence within the family, the economic activity of the dynasty as a whole. It is addressed to teachers, methodologists, students of historical faculties, everyone who is interested in the history of Siberia. The materials and main provisions of this research can be used in the preparation of educational and methodological manuals, for the development of special courses on the history of the region and the creation of generalizing works on the economic development of Siberia, programs on historical and local history, economic and cultural education, patriotic education of the younger generation.

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Tang hou qi Wu dai Song chu Dunhuang seng si yan jiu: The study of Buddhist monasteries in Dunhuang in the late Tang, Five dynasties and the early Song period. Shanghai: Shanghai gu ji chu ban she, 2014.

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Akin, Alexander. East Asian Cartographic Print Culture. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726122.

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Alexander Akin examines how the expansion of publishing in the late Ming dynasty prompted changes in the nature and circulation of cartographic materials in East Asia. Focusing on mass-produced printed maps, East Asian Cartographic Print Culture: The Late Ming Publishing Boom and its Trans-Regional Connections investigates a series of pathbreaking late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century works in genres including geographical education, military affairs, and history, analysing how maps achieved unprecedented penetration among published materials, even in the absence of major theoretical or technological changes like those that transformed contemporary European cartography. By examining contemporaneous developments in neighboring Chos.n Korea and Japan, this book demonstrates the crucial importance of considering the East Asian sphere in this period as a network of communication and publication, rather than as discrete national units with separate cartographic histories. It also reexamines the Jesuit printing of maps on Ming soil within the broader context of the local cartographic publishing boom and its trans-regional repercussions.

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Mumford, Gregory Duncan. International relations between Egypt, Sinai, and Syria-Palestine during the Late Bronze Age to Early Persian period (dynasties 18-26: c.1550-525 B.C.): A spatial and temporal analysis of the distribution and proportions of Egyptian(izing) artefacts and pottery in Sinai and selected sites in Syria-Palestine. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998.

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Engineering and Construction in Egypt's Early Dynastic Period. Peeters Publishers & Booksellers, 2015.

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Hendrickx, Stan. Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan (Egyptian Prehistory Monographs). Coronet Books Inc, 1995.

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Goddio, Franck, and Damian Robinson. Constructing, Remaking and Dismantling Sacred Landscapes in Lower Egypt from the Late Dynastic to the Early Medieval Period. Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2021.

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Clark, Nicola. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784814.003.0009.

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The conclusion draws together the key themes of the book in order to raise the question of the existence of any form of ‘family strategy’ among dynasties like the Howards. The actions of these women suggest that there were sometimes coherent group strategies, most discernibly in efforts to evade life-threatening legal convictions, or, more usually but less obviously, in attempts to augment the family’s fortunes by promoting family and clients. Among the Howards, however, collective strategy was rare. The conclusion also reflects on the role of the women of the dynasty in perpetuating dynastic identity. Families and individuals were themselves responsible for writing and rewriting their own dynastic history, and, therefore, their dynastic identity. Women could be the source of its creation, its subject, and the means by which it was passed on. It also shows that throughout the early modern period, a Howard woman remained a Howard woman no matter how many marriages she experienced.

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History, Captivating. Ancient Egypt for Kids: A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period Through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra. Vicelane, 2021.

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Chronological Developments in the Old Kingdom Tombs in the Necropoleis of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir: Toward an Economic Decline During the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom. Archaeopress, 2016.

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Roeten, Leo. Chronological Developments in the Old Kingdom Tombs in the Necropoleis of Giza, Saqqara and Abusir: Toward an Economic Decline During the Early Dynastic Period and the Old Kingdom. Archaeopress, 2016.

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Bagge, Sverre. Scandinavian Historical Writing, 1100–1400. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0021.

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This chapter talks about how historical writing in Scandinavia began in the early twelfth century, clearly as the result of European influence through the conversion to Christianity. In the following period, a considerable number of works were produced in the three Scandinavian kingdoms plus Iceland, largely in connection with the formation of dynastic kingdoms. The conversion to Christianity was a stimulus to historical writing not only through the introduction of script but also because of the challenge the new religion represented to the traditional culture. Consequently, most of the new kingdoms that came into being as the result of the expansion of Western Christendom in the tenth and eleventh centuries developed their own national historiography in which the origin of the people or the dynasty was a crucial issue.

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Arnold, Felix. Early Modern Period (1500–1800 CE). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190624552.003.0006.

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This chapter surveys the limited evidence on Islamic palatial architecture in the Western Mediterranean during the Early Modern Period. Northern Africa was weakly incorporated into the Ottoman Empire as the Barbary States. In the capital cities– Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers – leaders took on the trappings of traditional Islamic rulers and preserved the earlier architectural styles and concepts of space in their palace designs. In Morocco a succession of Berber and Arab dynasties resisted the Ottomans and united the far-western Maghreb. These rulers underpinned their rule by religious ideology and built huge palatial cities featuring a diversity of architectural forms at the “royal cities” (Fes, Marrakesh, Rabat and Méknes) – though, for the most part, the chief typologies and spatial concepts were developed in previous centuries. Towards the end of the period, the growing influence of European colonialism brought an end to the tradition of Islamic architecture in both regions.

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Hone, Joseph. War. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198814078.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 investigates how the War of the Spanish Succession was reconfigured as a War of the British Succession. During the early modern period, warfare provided a stimulus to imaginative writing. At the start of the eighteenth century, Britain’s new status as a military superpower profoundly affected literary culture. By examining a range of official, popular, and diplomatic responses of military victories, including poems by Joseph Addison, Nahum Tate, and Daniel Defoe, this chapter illuminates local partisan meanings in texts reacting to the war and succession crisis. Moving through popular news, court propaganda, panegyrics, and satires, it establishes how the war became a lens through which to view dynastic crisis.

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Johnson, Sally B. The Cobra Goddess of Ancient Egypt: Predynastic, Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Periods (Japanese Studies (Kegan)). Kegan Paul, 1991.

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Owen, Stephen. The Song Reception of Earlier Literature. Edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356591.013.21.

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The literature of the Song dynasty was engaged with earlier literature, primarily that of the Tang, far more intensely than any earlier period had been engaged with the literary past. Scholarly editing and eventually widespread printing made past texts available on an unprecedented scale. They were relatively uninterested in pre-Tang literature, with the exception of the poetry of Tao Qian (Tao Yuanming, 365–427), but developed their own poetics through changing interpretations of the Tang literary legacy. The major change came in the early thirteenth century with Yan Yu’s Canglang shihua (Canglang’s Remarks on Poetry), which tied poetic composition to a literary historical curriculum of reading that did include pre-Tang poetry, with each period judged in relation to the whole. This set the model for the poetics of later dynasties.

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Loewe, Michael. Everyday Life in Early Imperial China During the Han Period 202 Bc-Ad 220. Dorset Press, 1988.

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James, Carolyn. A Renaissance Marriage. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199681211.001.0001.

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Drawing extensively on unpublished archival sources, this book analyses the marriage of Isabella d’Este, one of the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance, and her less well-known husband, Francesco Gonzaga, ruler of the small northern Italian principality of Mantua (r. 1484–1519). It offers fresh insights into the nature of political marriages during the early modern period by investigating the forces which shaped the lives of an aristocratic couple who, within several years of their wedding, had to deal with the political challenges posed by the first conflicts of the Italian Wars (1494–1559) and, later, the scourge of the Great Pox. The study humanizes a relationship that was organized for entirely strategic reasons, but had to be inhabited emotionally if it was to produce the political and dynastic advantages that had inspired the match. The letter exchanges of Isabella and Francesco over twenty-nine years, as well as their correspondence with relatives and courtiers, show how their personal rapport evolved and how they cooperated in the governance of a princely state. Hitherto examined mainly from literary and religious perspectives and on the basis of legal evidence and prescriptive literature, early modern marriage emerges here in vivid detail, offering the reader access to aspects of the lived experience of an elite Renaissance spousal relationship. The book also contributes to our understanding of the history of emotions, of politics and military conflict, of childbirth, childhood, and family life, and of the history of disease and medicine.

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Publishers, Museum. Notebook: Mirror with Dragon Arabesques, Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Warring States Period or Early Western Han Dynasty, 3rd/2nd Century B. C. , China, Bronze. Independently Published, 2020.

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Politics And Culture Of An Umayyad Tribe Conflict And Factionalism In The Early Islamic Period. I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2013.

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Matthee, Rudolph. Patterns of Food Consumption in Early Modern Iran. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935369.013.13.

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This article examines patterns of food consumption in early modern Iran from a historical perspective and in a global context. The discussion focuses on the period of the Safavid and the Qajar dynasties, or the early sixteenth to early twentieth centuries. The article first considers Iran’s cultural linkage to the world between the seventh-century Arab invasion and the advent of modern communications in relatively recent times. It then looks at the origins and movement of food in Iran before analyzing the diet of Iranians, especially fresh fruit and vegetables. It also explores regional variations in food consumption patterns in Iran and concludes with an overview of the changes that have occurred in food consumption patterns in the country since the 1960s.

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Literary Growth of the Song of Songs During the Hasmonean and Early-Herodian Periods. Peeters Publishers & Booksellers, 2018.

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George, Alain, and Andrew Marsham, eds. Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498931.001.0001.

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The Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, ruled over the largest empire that the world had seen, stretching from Spain in the west to the Indus Valley and Central Asia in the east. They played a crucial rule in the articulation of the new religion of Islam during the seventh and eighth centuries, shaping its public face, artistic expressions, and the state apparatus that sustained it. The present volume brings together a collection of essays that bring new light to this crucial period of world history, with a focus on the ways in which Umayyad elites fashioned and projected their image and how these articulations, in turn, mirrored their times. These themes are approached through a wide variety of sources, from texts through art and archaeology to architecture, with new considerations of old questions and fresh material evidence that make the intersections and resonances between different fields of historical study come alive.

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Flentye, Laurel. The Art and Archaeology of the Giza Plateau. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.013.29.

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The pyramid complexes of kings Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaura of the Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom period with their surrounding cemeteries at the Giza Necropolis contribute to our understanding of the development of a royal necropolis. Although there is evidence for pre-Fourth Dynasty settlement and burial, Khufu’s pyramid complex of the early Fourth Dynasty included a decorative program with reliefs and presumably statuary; while the decoration of the mastabas ranges from slab stelae and reserve heads to fully decorated chapels. Khafra’s and Menkaura’s pyramid complexes of the mid to late Fourth Dynasty probably focused more on statuary reflecting an evolving ideology of kingship. The quarrying of local limestone provided the necessary core blocks for the pyramids and mastabas, creating areas for the Sphinx and rock-cut tombs of the late Fourth Dynasty into the Fifth. The Heit el-Ghurab settlement (HeG), a center of production, and the tombs of the pyramid builders also contribute to our understanding of the necropolis’ functioning and its hierarchical structure. Giza continued to be used for burial through the Late Period.

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ter Haar, Barend J. Demon and Monastic Protector. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803645.003.0002.

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The worship of Guan Yu started where he had been executed in late 219 or early 220, in the Jing region just north of the Yangzi River in modern Hubei. Sometime during the Tang dynasty, the cult of Lord Guan was appropriated by the increasingly well-known Buddhist Jade Spring Monastery in the nearby hills. Throughout this period, Lord Guan continued to be seen as a violent demonic figure, awe- and fear-inspiring, but also potentially helpful. Most of the extant sources used in this chapter reflect collective memories as they have crystallized after long periods of oral transmission. This chapter also shows that the Buddhist origin of the cult was certainly significant in the early centuries, but actually does not explain many foundations of the cult outside of the Jing region.

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Roșu, Felicia. Elective Monarchy in Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania, 1569-1587. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789376.001.0001.

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This book examines the transformation of elective monarchy in Transylvania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 1570s. It does so by focusing on the foundational and experimental character of the first elections of 1571 (Transylvania) and 1573 and 1575–6 (Poland-Lithuania). In this period, the two polities adopted constitutions based on the same fundamental principles: elective thrones, state-sanctioned religious pluralism, and legal guarantees for the right of disobedience. Despite the important differences between them, Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania had one essential thing in common: they were the only two polities in early modern Europe that secured the succession of their rulers through large-scale elections in which the dynastic principle, although still important, was not binding. Apart from chapter 1, which has a chronological approach, the rest of the book thematically follows the development of an election: from voter inclinations and campaigning strategies, to voting procedures, to the contracts between voters and their chosen candidates, to the authority of the newly elected rulers. The conclusion examines the two elective systems from a more theoretical perspective. It argues that mixed government was accompanied by a mixed language that combined attachment to virtue, liberty, and self-government with a pragmatism that became particularly visible during interregna and elections. The constituents of Transylvania and Poland-Lithuania acted, talked, and saw themselves as both citizens and subjects of the rulers they elected. The phenomenon was not a contradiction but the logical consequence of a system in which those who were ruled were periodically called to rule themselves.

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Garthwaite, Gene R. “What’s in a Name?”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190250324.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on framing and contexts for the eighteenth century as a period of history. While eighteenth-century Iran has been neglected, partly due to its political fragmentation, it can be fitted into an early modern context of Eurasia, one that was part of Iran’s post-Mongol legacy—and one that continued through the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Qajar dynasty. Key changes here include new elites; the emergence of a vernacular language and populist religion; reshaping of political geographies, especially the role of pastoral nomadic tribal confederations; and the emergence of “simultaneous rulership,” in which the ruler’s persona embodied new ideas and constituencies.

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Wong, David. Confucian Political Philosophy. Edited by George Klosko. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199238804.003.0048.

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Confucianism is an ethics tied intimately with political philosophy. According to the text that is the most reliable guide to the teachings of Confucius, the Analects (Lunyu), he took the Mandate of Heaven (tianming) as a guide. The Mandate was formulated during the early period of the Zhou dynasty to justify the overthrow of the Shang dynasty and to legitimate the rule of the Zhou kings. The Confucian diagnosis of China's troubles suggests that the way out of the turmoil required a moral transformation led by the top ranks of Chinese society, a return to the virtue of the early Zhou kings. This article discusses Confucianism and its relation to political philosophy, the role of ritual in the cultivation of goodness, the concepts of ren and junzi, filial piety, the debate between Mozi and Mencius over filial loyalty versus impartial concern, family as the paradigm in a relational and communal conception of political society, the goodness or badness of human nature and its relation to morality, perfectionism and harmony, democracy, rights, and gender equality.

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Durrant, Stepphen. Tradition Formation. Edited by Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199356591.013.25.

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A strong sense of tradition emerges in China during a period that looks with nostalgia to the past as an antidote to ongoing political and social disruption. While several versions of that past compete in the writings of the late Zhou masters, the early Zhou period and the “sage” Confucius eventually become central parts of what we might label “the dominant past.” This tradition is then formalized and institutionalized during the Han dynasty with the promotion and enhancement of a classical canon, the appearance of a vast new unifying history of China, and an official bibliography that provides structure and meaning to a growing and diverse world of textual production. Voices of dissent are heard, to be sure, but these are safely incorporated into a tradition that legitimizes invention as an important supplement to transmission.

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Garipzanov, Ildar. Christograms as Signs of Authority in the Late Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198815013.003.0003.

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The first section tests the main interpretations of Lactantius’ passage on Constantine’s victorious sign in 312 against existing graphic evidence from the 310s and early 320s, and consequently supports the interpretation of Lactantius’ description as a rhetorical device invented or modified by the Christian narrator. The next two sections support the argument that the perception of the chi-rho as Constantine’s triumphant sign became entrenched in courtly culture and public mentalities from the mid-320s onwards, and trace the diachronic change of the chi-rho from its paramount importance as an imperial sign of authority under the Constantinian dynasty to its hierarchic usage alongside the tau-rho and cross in the Theodosian period. The final section presents a contextualized discussion of the encolpion of Empress Maria and mosaics from several early baptisteries, illustrating the paradigmatic importance the chi-rho and tau-rho for early Christian graphicacy around the turn of the fifth century.

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Carlson, Peter. The Art and Craft of Dying. Edited by Andrew Hiscock and Helen Wilcox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672806.013.38.

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Scholars have attempted to explain how (or whether) the theological changes of the sixteenth century affected English women and men of all classes and types. Scholars who have written on death during the Protestant reforms have identified shifts in and anxieties regarding rituals and beliefs about death and the dead in early modern England. This chapter suggests that those shifts were actually related to something deeper than a single doctrinal or political stand. Anxiety arose not merely from the uncertainty of salvation in Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, nor the waverings of Henrician laws, nor even the significant trauma of swinging back and forth from Rome to Canterbury to Rome to Canterbury throughout the Tudor dynasty. The uncertainty surrounding death in the early modern period was something much more basic than a particular soteriological doctrine or set of religious laws: it was the uncertainty of authority itself.

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Calvert, Ian. Virgil's English Translators. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474475648.001.0001.

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This book considers the writers who translated Virgil into English during the civil wars, Interregnum and early years of the Stuart Restoration (c. 1636–c. 1661). It argues that these writers translated and imitated Virgil in order to display and interrogate their political loyalties, articulate personal responses to past traumas, draw attention to the contingent nature of the systems of government which followed the death of Charles I in 1649 (particularly Oliver Cromwell’s Protectorate) and express their hopes for the country’s future. This future often, but not invariably, imagined a restored Stuart monarchy under Charles II, and all of the translators in this period spent time in royal service or were associated with the royalist cause. Their writings, however, demonstrate that royalism encompassed a wide variety of opinions, some of which emphasised a sense of duty to an individual or dynasty, but others were more committed to monarchy as an institution or to monarchical forms of government. This book also situates the translations within each author’s wider body of work in order to identify further political resonances in their individual receptions of Virgil and illuminate Virgil’s broader status and cultural function in the period.

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Cullen, Christopher. Restoration and re-creation in the Eastern Han. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198733119.003.0007.

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We look first at the situation in the early years of the restored Han dynasty. Liu Xin’s system continued in use for more than half a century. Then, in 85 CE, Liu Xin’s system was replaced. We have records of the practical and theoretical grounds on which the old system was rejected, and of the creation and implementation of a new system. Next we follow the story of how c. 92 CE Jia Kui advocated a fundamental innovation in both theory and practice: he insisted on the ecliptic as being central to astronomical observation and calculation. The richness of records from this period makes it easy to tell a detailed story of technical innovation in its fullest context, leading up to the work of Zhang Heng (78–139 CE), for whom astronomical calculation was just one of several fields in which he gained a reputation for exceptional originality.

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Noam, Vered. Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811381.001.0001.

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The shifting image of the Hasmoneans in the eyes of their contemporaries and later generations is a compelling issue in the history of the Maccabean revolt and the Hasmonean commonwealth. Based on a series of six Jewish folktales from the Second Temple-period that describe the Hasmonean dynasty and its history from its legendary founders through achievement of full sovereignty to downfall, the present volume examines the Hasmoneans through the lens of reception history. On the one hand, these brief, colorful legends are embedded in the narrative of the historian of the age, Flavius Josephus On the other hand, they are scattered throughout the extensive halakhic-exegetical compositions known as rabbinic literature, redacted and compiled centuries later. Each set of parallel stories is examined for the motivation underlying its creation, its original message, language, and historical context. This analysis is followed by exploration of the nature of the relationship between the Josephan and the rabbinic versions, in an attempt to reconstruct the adaptation of the putative original traditions in the two corpora, and to decipher the disparities, different emphases, reworking, and unique orientations typical of each. These adaptations reflect the reception of the pristine tales and thus disclose the shifting images of the Hasmoneans in later generations and within distinct contexts. The compilation and characterization of sources which were preserved by means of two such different conduits of transmission brings us closer to reconstruction of a lost literary continent, a hidden Jewish “Atlantis” of early pseudo-historical legends and facilitates examination of the relationship between the substantially different libraries and worlds of Josephus and rabbinic literature.

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Harris, Frances. The General in Winter. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802440.001.0001.

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The book tells the story of the ‘glories of the age of Anne’: the union of England and Scotland to form Great Britain and its establishment, through the victories of the War of the Spanish Succession, as a European and a global power. This was the achievement of two men above all: Queen Anne’s Captain-General, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, and her Lord Treasurer, Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin, of whom it was said that each ‘was the greatest of his kind that hardly any age has afforded’. Their partnership not only embodied the emerging military-fiscal state; it was also a close and lifelong friendship which fully encompassed Marlborough’s beautiful and tempestuous wife Sarah. Tracing the partnership as it proved itself in a succession of victorious summer campaigns in the field and bitterly contested ‘winter campaigns’ at home connects aspects of a complex period which are often studied in isolation. But was the partnership in the end too successful, too self-contained, too mutually supportive; a dangerous concentration of power in fact and a threat to the queen and the constitution? ‘Rebellion and blood’ were always undercurrents of the last Stuart reign. A troubled dynasty would end with Queen Anne’s death and a contested succession depended on the outcome of the European war that occupied almost the whole of her reign. This is a story of sovereignty and ambition, glory and defeat, but above all of love and friendship, which helped to shape the modern world.

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