Technology and Change in History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technology and Change in History write by G. R. H. Wright. This book was released on 1997. Technology and Change in History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance write by Cynthia Kosso. This book was released on 2009. The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity Through the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. These essays offer scholars, teachers, and students a new basis for discussing attitudes toward, and technological expertise concerning, water in antiquity through the early Modern period, and they examine historical water use and ideology both diachronically and cross regionally. Topics include gender roles and water usage; attitudes, practices, and innovations in baths and bathing; water and the formation of identity and policy; ancient and medieval water sources and resources; and religious and literary water imagery. The authors describe how ideas about the nature and function of water created and shaped social relationships, and how religion, politics, and science transformed, and were themselves transformed by, the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. Contributors are Rabun Taylor, Sandra Lucore, Robert F. Sutton, Jr., Cynthia K Kosso, Kevin Lawton, Evy Johanne HA land, HA(c)lA]ne Cazes, Alexandra Cuffel, Mark Munn, Brenda Longfellow, Gretchen Meyers, Sara Saba, Scott John McDonough, Etienne Dunant, E. J. Owens, Mehmet TaAlAalan, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, John Stephenson, Lin A. Ferrand, Paul Trio, Anne Scott, Misty Rae Urban, Ruth Stevenson, Charles Connell, Alyce Jordan, Ronald Cooley, and Irene Matthews.
Prophetic Divination
Prophetic Divination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prophetic Divination write by Martti Nissinen. This book was released on 2019-10-08. Prophetic Divination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prophecy was a wide-spread phenomenon in the ancient world - not only in ancient Israel but in the whole Eastern Mediterranean cultural sphere. This is demonstrated by documents from the ancient Near East, that have been the object of Martti Nissinen’s research for more than twenty years. Nissinen's studies have had a formative influence on the study of the prophetic phenomenon. The present volume presents a selection of thirty-one essays, bringing together essential aspects of prophetic divination in the ancient Near East. The first section of the volume discusses prophecy from theoretical perspectives. The second sections contains studies on prophecy in texts from Mari and Assyria and other cuneiform sources. The third section discusses biblical prophecy in its ancient Near Eastern context, while the fourth section focuses on prophets and prophecy in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Even prophecy in the Dead Sea Scrolls is discussed in the fifth section. The articles are essential reading for anyone studying ancient prophetic phenomenon.
Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period
Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period write by Ehud Ben Zvi. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Thinking of Water in the Early Second Temple Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Water is a vital resource and is widely acknowledged as such. Thus it often serves as an ideological and linguistic symbol that stands for and evokes concepts central within a community. This volume explores ‘thinking of water’ and concepts expressed through references to water within the symbolic system of the late Persian/early Hellenistic period and as it does so it sheds light on the social mindscape of the early Second Temple community.
Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2017-03-20. Bodily and Spiritual Hygiene in Medieval and Early Modern Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While most people today take hygiene and medicine for granted, they both have had their own history. We can gain deep insights into the pre-modern world by studying its health-care system, its approaches to medicine, and concept of hygiene. Already the early Middle Ages witnessed great interest in bathing (hot and cold), swimming, and good personal hygiene. Medical activities grew over time, but even early medieval monks were already great experts in treating the sick. The contributions examine literary, medical, historical texts and images and probe the information we can glean from them. The interdisciplinary approach of this volume makes it possible to view this large field in a complex and diversified manner, taking into account both early medieval and early modern treatises on medicine, water, bathing, and health. Such a cultural-historical perspective creates a most valuable bridge connecting literary and scientific documents under the umbrella of the history of mentality and history of everyday life. The volume does not aim at idealizing the past, but it definitely intends to deconstruct modern myths about the 'dirty' and 'unhealthy' Middle Ages and early modern age.
