Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines

Dictionary of Bibliographic Abbreviations Found in the Scholarship of Classical Studies and Related Disciplines
Author: Jean S. Wellington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2003-08-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313072558

Trying to identify abbreviated titles of journals and standard bibliographic works is a major difficulty facing researchers and librarians in the field of Classical Studies. This revised edition has been greatly expanded, with nearly twice the abbreviations (17,000) and bibliographic entries (12,400) as the first edition. Also, the Greek and Cyrillic abbreviations have increased by seven and four fold respectively. Abbreviations for internet sites are now included, as are those for associations in the broad area of Classical Studies. There are also more entries for Eastern European and regional archaeological publications. This revised volume is divided into two parts. Part One consists of an alphabetical listing of bibliographic abbreviations found in the scholarship of classical studies and related disciplines. Meanwhile, Part Two is an alphabetically arranged bibliographic descriptions for the works published in classical studies and related disciplines. Special efforts were made to increase the coverage in peripheral areas, making this new edition a useful reference tool for scholars in all subjects of study in the ancient and medieval world.

History of Linguistics Volume I

History of Linguistics Volume I
Author: Giulio C. Lepschy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317895304

This comprehensive history of linguistics is part of a 5 volume set. Together, the volumes examine the social, cultural and religious functions of language, its place in education, the prestige attached to different varieties of language, and the presentation of lexical and grammatical descriptions. They explore the linguistic interests and assumptions of individual cultures in their own terms, without trying to transpose and reshape them into the context of contemporary ideas of what the scientific study of language ought to be. The authors of individual chapters are all specialists who have been able to analyse the primary sources, and so produce original syntheses which offer an authoritative view of the different traditions and periods. Volime One examines the developments of Chinese linguistics, Indian grammatical tradition, the linguistic interests of the Near East, the Hebrew tradition, and the Arabic grammatical system of the Middle Ages.

Catalogue: Authors

Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 576
Release: 1963
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

A Mathematician's Journeys

A Mathematician's Journeys
Author: Alexander Jones
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 3319258656

This book explores facets of Otto Neugebauer's career, his impact on the history and practice of mathematics, and the ways in which his legacy has been preserved or transformed in recent decades, looking ahead to the directions in which the study of the history of science will head in the twenty-first century. Neugebauer, more than any other scholar of recent times, shaped the way we perceive premodern science. Through his scholarship and influence on students and collaborators, he inculcated both an approach to historical research on ancient and medieval mathematics and astronomy through precise mathematical and philological study of texts, and a vision of these sciences as systems of knowledge and method that spread outward from the ancient Near Eastern civilizations, crossing cultural boundaries and circulating over a tremendous geographical expanse of the Old World from the Atlantic to India.

The Cambridge Ancient History

The Cambridge Ancient History
Author: I. E. S. Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 908
Release: 1973-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521082303

Volume II, Part I, deals with the history of the region from about 1800 to 1380 BC.

Egypt

Egypt
Author:
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 36
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece

Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece
Author: Annette Imhausen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3110229927

Medicine, astronomy, dealing with numbers - even the cultures of the "pre-modern" world offer a rich spectrum of scientific texts. But how are they best translated? Is it sufficient to translate the sources into modern scientific language, and thereby, above all, to identify their deficits? Or would it be better to adopt the perspective of the sources themselves, strange as they are, only for them not to be properly understood by modern readers? Renowned representatives of various disciplines and traditions present a controversial and constructive discussion of these problems.

The Heritage of Ancient Egypt

The Heritage of Ancient Egypt
Author: Erland Kolding Nielsen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788772891408

Two aspects of the Egyptian civilisation characterise the work of Erik Iversen: Its original art and literature, and its reception in Europe from classical antiquity to Renaissance, Baroque and Romanticism. He is known for his papyrus editions, philological and lexicographical studies, and the tracing of cultural traditions outside of Egypt.

Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World

Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Author: Patricia Crone
Publisher: CUP Archive
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1977-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521211338

A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.