Africa

Africa
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 724
Release: 1974
Genre: Africa
ISBN:

The Mediterranean Medina

The Mediterranean Medina
Author: AA. VV.
Publisher: Gangemi Editore spa
Total Pages: 567
Release: 2016-01-03T00:00:00+01:00
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 8849290136

This volume collects the proceedings of the International Seminar The Mediterranean Medina, that took place in the School of Architecture at Pescara from 17th to 19th of June 2004.

The Fortunes of the Courtier

The Fortunes of the Courtier
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0745665845

This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700)

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 9 Western and Southern Europe (1600-1700)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 1068
Release: 2017-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004356398

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 9 (CMR 9) covering Western and Southern Europe in the period 1600-1700 is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the seventh century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading scholars, CMR 9, along with the other volumes in this series is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Emma Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Radu Păun, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink, Davide Tacchini, Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.

Trading Conflicts

Trading Conflicts
Author: Georg Christ
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9004221999

Based on Mamluk and Venetian sources, this book offers a thorough analysis of the various conflicts arising around Levant trade. It demonstrates how these conflicts more often than not cut across cultural divides in Late Medieval Mamluk Alexandria.

Piri Reis Map of 1513

Piri Reis Map of 1513
Author: Gregory C. McIntosh
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820343595

One of the most beautiful maps to survive the Great Age of Discoveries, the 1513 world map drawn by Ottoman admiral Piri Reis is also one of the most mysterious. Gregory McIntosh has uncovered new evidence in the map that shows it to be among the most important ever made. This detailed study offers new commentary and explication of a major milestone in cartography. Correcting earlier work of Paul Kahle and pointing out the traps that have caught subsequent scholars, McIntosh disproves the dubious conclusion that the Reis map embodied Columbus's Third Voyage map of 1498, showing that it draws instead on the Second Voyage of 1493-1496. He also refutes the popular misinterpretation that Reis's depictions of Antarctica are evidence of either ancient civilizations or extraterrestrial visitation. McIntosh brings together all that has been previously known about the map and also assembles for the first time the translations of all inscriptions on the map and analyzes all place-names given for New World and Atlantic islands. His work clarifies long-standing mysteries and opens up new ways of looking at the history of exploration.