II.S.0.0. Introduction GAP II.S.0.1. This is the book of the abbreviated version of The Guide for the Reader, known as The Book of Essential Requirements. II.S.0.2. Its author begins and says: You, may God support you, asked me to abbreviate for you The Book of Rules, which is generally known as The...

II. Int.0.1. Preliminary Remarks This volume presents an edition and English translation of the sections of the Masoretic treatise Hidāyat al-Qāriʾ ‘Guide for the Reader’ that coNcerN the coNsoNaNts aNd vowels. This medieval work constitutes an important primary source for the reconstruction of the...

At the end of the Middle Ages flowers are frequent in tapestries, manuscripts and paintings. The aim of this study is to prove they are not just decorative items but that they have their own function in images. These flowers, especially by means of their colours, make up a symbolical system aiming a...

The article is devoted to the problem of the genre of V. Bryusov’s novel “The Fiery Angel”. The purpose of the article is to assert that the author uses the tradition of the medieval German novel in a stylized capacity. Bryusov needs the method of literary mystification not so much to hide relations...

With the invention of eyeglasses around 1280 near Pisa, the mundane medium of glass transformed early modern optical technology and visuality. It also significantly influenced contemporaneous art, religion, and science. References to glass are found throughout the Bible and in medieval hagiography a...

Urbanization in early and medieval China : gazetteers for the city of Suzhou. Translated and introduced by Olivia Milburn. Seattle : university of Washington press, 2015. 400 p. ISBN : 978-0-2959-9460-4 The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteer...

Co-ordinated by Carine Duteil Apappears in the 13th s. A new type of French novel which intersects in his material poetry borrowed from the repertoire of medieval lyric. We wanted to demonstrate that reading these hybrid novels consisted of reducing heterogeneity in three movements. 1. Interpretatio...

The proposal in this book is to provide the reader with a phoneological description of the vocal qualities in force in the first phase (trovadoresco period) of Portuguese Arcaico from the analysis of the rims and the spelling of the curves of Santa Maria, Afonso X, the Sabu, the King of León and Cas...

Late medieval devotional literature was one of several interacting media (images, preaching, drama, sculpture etc.) through which the late medieval believer could engage with the figure of the suffering Christ. These texts may function as scripts: often written in the first person singular, they pro...

In this test I analyse the visionary poetry of the Argentinian poet Jacobo Fijman based on two approaches: the formal strategies it uses to appeal to the reader, and comparison with examples of other malware traditions such as medieval Christianity and sufism. It develops the concepts of synaesthesi...

In “Papá Noel en la pira”, Lévi-Strauss breaks the approach to the ancient noble in one historical and another ethnicity. The first leads to medieval legends in which festivities of the Roman Empire survive and dark celebrations in which children and dead are confused. The second immerses the reader...

<p>Vassiliki Georgiadou</p><p>The pinkernes Alexios Philanthropenos in Asia Minor and his revolt </p><p>Considering the two main historiographical sources of the thirteenth century, i.e. George Pachymeres and Nicephorus Gregoras, especially on the point where these sources narrate the movement of Al...

This study focuses on the change in the hero image of literature as a result of wars and changing social conditions in different historical times of societies. The object of our study is Spain's 16th and 20th century societal divergences and their impacts on novel writing. Similar consequences in so...

Poetical politics of Giambattista Vico The article presents a part of Vico’s New Sience that is not so well known, but probably was a solid foundation of Vico’s famous concept of ricorsi. The thinker’s interest in poetical foundation of first societies is in a clear opposition with Cartesian and c...

Descartes is famous for his various innovations in philosophy. He has been rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy. His writings are taught at philosophy departments in all universities all over the world and different aspects of his thought are the subject-matter for so many books, arti...

Power in Jeopardy: A Poststructuralist Reading of the Arthurian Legend from Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and Tennyson’s Idylls of the King to Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings Abstract The days of the classical heroes are over, as the days of Romance or Chivalric Romance and Epic that depict the hero...

The article under discussion is a survey of how a literary concept of a prominent Ukrainian German Studies expert Olexandr Dmytrovych Oguy has been developing on the pages of a scientific journal “Problems of Literary Criticism” from 1993 till 2013. The article traces up the stages of progress of sc...

Certainly, the concept of the musical work has not always existed. Yet deciphering precisely when the work emerged has proved an immensely difficult task for musicologists.1 In particular, the publication of Lydia Goehr’s The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works—in which she famously argued that the wo...

The paper first of all exposes aletheiological basis of artistic creation. This ground is based on Heidegger's viewpoint from the epilogue of his treatise on art The Origin of the Work of Art: 'To the transformation of the essence of truth corresponds the historical essence of the Western art.' (HW...

The article discusses the work of one of the brightest and most original representatives of “New Drama” — playwright Yuri Klavdiyev (b. 1974). At the late stage of his work, the author shows interest in canonical genres, in particular refers to the medieval genre “miracles”, the artistic principles...

<p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Abstract – </strong>The human communicative activity was always determined, over the centuries, by the use of conversational strategies that the interactants put in place in order to exchange information through illocutionary acts, characterized by various discurs...

This work looks at some aspects that are being discussed with regard to PhD graduates in Brazil and the world. It examines what aspects of such discussions have an impact on the doctoral training itself and/or can help to address the challenges and responsibilities inherent in the role of Professor...

Cultures in India, like cultures in other parts of the world, continue to surprise by their topsy-turvey existence in time, space and practices. The Nijamuddin Dargah in Delhi is one such example of composite cultures. To illustrate it further the Bhakti movements, a wave of the Nirgun/Sagun saint t...

What we analyse in the king Pap of Armenia episode is how Ammianus describesa complex political and religious background, by using a rhetorical approach and a very varied narrative and dramatic register: a fictional plot, full of adventures, theatrical and dramatic, diversein its staging and strikin...