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The Bayuda, although an arid desert located in modern-day Sudan, has nonetheless been inhabited, farmed, worshipped in, and fought over by humans from the Palaeolithic onwards. Yet despite the longevity of its human occupation, the region has only in recent years become the focus of more intensive scholarly research. This volume, the first in a series dedicated to exploring the archaeology and history of Northeast Africa, aims to build on this trend by drawing together the very latest archaeological research and data, and shedding light on how the Bayuda Desert and its environs were transformed into a cultural landscape. The contributions gathered here introduce, examine, and (re)assess a number of important issues, many of which are new in the archaeology of Nubia, as well as considering them against a broader comparative background. From climate change over the past millennia - and its far-reaching consequences in the present - through to an examination of the cultural influences of the Kingdom of Kerma, and from analysis of funeral rites through to interpretations of rock art, forgotten trade routes, and the commerce in cattle and slaves, this insightful volume offers a wealth of new information into the history of ancient Nubia.

This book is based on an international conference held in the capital of Hainault to celebrate the city of Mons as European Capital of Culture (2015). For the first time, through a range of interdisciplinary studies, the magnificent festivals created to honour Prince Philip of Spain as he journeyed across Europe to receive his sovereignty of the Low Countries are brought to life. The splendour of entries in the cities of Northern Italy (such as Genoa and Milan) was challenged by the civic allegories of triumph displayed throughout the Low Countries in Ghent, Antwerp, and Amsterdam. Outpacing all that magnificence were the entertainments prepared by Mary of Hungary at Binche: triumphal arches, martial feats of arms, balls, masquerades, and castle-stormings entertained Emperor Charles V and his son Prince Philip.The essays in this volume reconstitute the political and social context of these extraordinary celebrations and focus on the purpose and role of festival in the changing political strategies of Charles V. They are illustrated with a total of 36 b&w and 36 colour images.Contributors: Sydney Anglo, Francesca Bortoletti, Stijn Bussels, Tobias Capwell, José Eloy Hortal Muñoz, Félix Labrador Arroyo, Margaret M. McGowan, R. L. M. Morris, Jessie Park, Yves Pauwels, M. J. Rodríguez-Salgado, Margaret Shewring, Hugo Soly, Lisa Wiersma.

Dulces ante omnia Musae. Essays on Neo-Latin Poetry in Honour of Dirk Sacré is the very first collection of articles ever to be published about the fascinating phenomenon of Neo-Latin verse composition from its very beginning in Italian Renaissance humanism until its modest but important revival in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - and even beyond. The editors have attracted both young and promising scholars and internationally recognized authorities to write specific case studies which will shed light on the rich diversity of scholarly approaches currently prevailing in the field of Neo-Latin poetical studies, as well as highlight both continuities and discontinuities in the writing and publishing of Latin verses from the fifteenth until the twenty-first centuries.

This volume is dedicated to Dirk Sacré, professor emeritus of Neo-Latin at KU Leuven who, apart from writing numerous articles on Neo-Latin poets from Italy and the Low Countries in early modern times, has contributed more than anyone else in exploring the vast territory, until recently largely neglected and uncharted, of modern and late modern Latin verse compositions.

This volume brings together innovative contributions on the history and nature of families in the early modern Middle East, covering Central Asia, Iran, Ottoman Turkey and the Arab World from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century and beyond. It argues the importance of connecting the key concept of family in its widest possible meaning, whether descent group, lineage, household or dynasty, with the notion of transmission of knowledge, authority, status and power, and develops this idea through a pluridisciplinary and cross-regional approach. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish as well as art and material culture, the individual articles detail processes and dynamics of transmission, thus initiating a comparative dialogue.

Les prêtres et les lévites restent influents plusieurs siècles après la chute du Temple de Jérusalem en 70 de l’ère chrétienne. Ils tentent même une ou plusieurs reconfigurations de leurs fonctions dans la société. En même temps, les Sages ou rabbins essaient de capter leurs prérogatives ancestrales. Un double mouvement de sacerdotalisation et de rabbinisation est alors perceptible dans les textes rabbiniques. Qu’en est-il des premiers textes mystiques juifs dits Hekhalot ? Une telle dialectique de rejet et d’intégration est-elle perceptible ? Par comparaison, d’autres mouvements appelés plus tard chrétiens, dont certains gnostiques et d’autres groupes dans le monde perse, ont eu la même tendance.

Cet ouvrage enquête sur ce que nous proposons d’appeler une « mystérisation » des discours et des pratiques au IIe siècle de notre ère dans l’empire romain - c’est-à-dire une multiplication, diversification et intensification des références aux (cultes à) « mystères » dans des contextes variés mais cohérents, et dans les différents groupes religieux présents dans l’empire (païens, juifs et chrétiens). Ce « tournant » mystérique affecte non seulement des pratiques rituelles et les discours qui les entourent, mais, au-delà, de nombreux domaines du savoir qui, comme Platon en son temps, se mettent à mobiliser le vocabulaire et l’imagerie des mystères. L’enquête se déploie donc à la fois sur le terrain des rituels « mystériques » - dans des cultes qui se diffusent comme ceux d’Isis ou de Mater Magna, parallèlement à la continuation des mystères grecs (à Éleusis et Samothrace) -, et sur celui de la construction des savoirs de tous ordres qui s’élabore alors (médecine, philosophie, rhétorique, littérature), et où se banalise l’emploi d’un lexique mystérique. Elle réunit donc des collègues spécialistes de champs disciplinaires variés - historiens, historiens des religions, archéologues, philologues, et bien sûr philosophes -, et de systèmes religieux différents - polythéisme, judaïsme et christianisme.

Institutions under royal control included not only the king’s royal residences and the royal chapels attached to them, but also magnificent convent-palaces and individual monasteries belonging to specific religious orders with close affiliations to the Spanish Crown. These Spanish Royal Sites, a diverse global network that helped to shape the Spanish Monarchy politically and socially in the seventeenth century, extended across the different kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula and beyond to other territories in Europe, America and Asia under Spanish rule. The religious practices that occurred there were an essential aspect of studying the justification of power, the pre-eminence of (ecclesiastical and temporal) institutions and, in the case of the Spanish Monarchy, its relations with the Holy See.

This volume brings together scholars from various humanities disciplines, opening up novel avenues of research for studying the organization of royal institutions in the different kingdoms of the Habsburg Spanish Monarchy, especially in questions related to religion and royal piety. Particular attention is paid to the under-researched area of Royal Sites in Catalonia, Valencia, Portugal, Sardinia and the Viceroyalty of Peru.

This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-1600) and focuses not only on France itself, but also on Scotland during the reign of the French-born Mary Queen of Scots. Composed of eleven chapters written by an international team of experts, this volume concentrates on the political aspects of sedition rather than religious heresy, and covers writings and publications in a wide range of fields: politics, history, law, literature, and gender. A complementary feature of this collection is the spectrum of writings studied; they include edicts and treatises, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dialogues, and satirical prose and poetry. Several chapters also address visual representations of sedition.

An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters. This is a collection which will appeal to readers with interests in the history of political ideas and thought, the comparative study of monarchical government, and concepts of tyranny and resistance, discord, rebellion, and revolt.

In the year 1516, two crucial texts for the cultural history of the West saw the light: Desiderius Erasmus’ Nouum Instrumentum and Thomas More’s Utopia. Both of these works dealt freely with authoritative sources of Western civilization and opened new pathways of thought on the eve of far-reaching religious and political changes.

This book volume deals with aspects of the content, reception and influence of Nouum Instrumentum and Utopia in the (Early) Modern Era, while also focusing upon the sources they used and critically adopted. The overall approach is that both texts have contributed dramatically to the rise of (early) modern Western thought and have influenced the next generations in their literary, philosophical and theological works. This volume, multidisciplinary in scope, brings together contributions from the fields of bible exegesis, theology, philosophy, philology and history.

The Bronze Age in Northern Europe was a place of diversity and contrast, an era that saw movements and changes not just of peoples, but of cultures, beliefs, and socio-political systems, and that led to the forging of ontological ideas materialized in landscapes, bodies, and technologies. Drawing on a range of materials and places, the innovative contributions gathered here in this volume explore the disparate facets of Bronze Age society across the Nordic region through the key themes of time and trajectory, rituals and everyday life, and encounters and identities. The contributions explore how and why society evolved over time, from the changing nature of sea travel to new technologies in house building, and from advances in lithic production to evolving burial practices and beliefs in the afterlife. This edited collection honours the ground-breaking research of Professor Christopher Prescott, an outstanding figure in the study of the Bronze Age north, and it takes as its inspiration the diversity, interdisciplinarity, and vitality of his own research in order to make a major new contribution to the field, and to shed new light on a Bronze Age full of contrasts and connections.

Loin d’un désert musical, la France de l’époque moderne est riche de musique dans ses villes grandes et moyennes. Les institutions ecclésiastiques, cathédrales, collégiales voire petites églises, la Chapelle royale aussi, financent chanteurs et instrumentistes, mais aussi une maîtrise, école destinée à former de futurs artistes musiciens sous la direction d’un maître de musique. C’est à ce personnage, à ses différentes fonctions, qu’est dédié ce livre. À la fois pédagogue, compositeur, chanteur et/ou instrumentiste, théoricien, il est chargé de tout ce qui concerne la bonne exécution de la musique durant les offices, conduisant le chœur d’enfants, les chantres du bas chœur, les instrumentistes (ceux de l’église, de la ville ou ceux de passage). Il participe à la rédaction des livres de plain chant, compose, copie messes et motets polyphoniques, rend des comptes au chapitre dont il dépend. Certains maîtres sont sollicités hors l‘institution pour des concerts de musique sacrée ou profane, parfois même au théâtre, plus souvent dans les établissements religieux d’alentour. La diversité des carrières étonne, certains maîtres demeurant leur vie durant dans une même institution comme Poitevin, d’autres optant comme Gantez pour de véritables périples, rarement au-delà des frontières toutefois ; d’autres, comme Campra, préfèrent au lutrin les lumières de la scène de l’opéra ; quelques-uns enfin cherchent à laisser une trace de leur œuvre en publiant messes et motets. Toutefois, la spécificité française d’un tel métier ne se comprend que par comparaison avec les réalités des pays voisins, tels l’Italie ou les Pays-Bas espagnols.

Funerals were among the most extravagant princely ceremonies in Europe. At the end of the Middle Ages, they were grandiose affairs, carefully recorded, bringing together the emotions of both Court and People. The Renaissance heightened their effect, adding surprising elements borrowed from an Antiquity which was largely re-invented. The seventeenth century introduced ephemeral displays, elaborately constructed castrum doloris, dressed up with lavish facades and interior designs which transformed these sanctuaries into theatrical funeral pyres.

Historians, anthropologists, and political scientists have long been interested in this subject, as can be seen from Ralph Giesey's celebrated work Le Roi est mort. Art historians have been attracted to the surviving decorations of tombs and funerary chapels. Yet historians of spectacle and of its ephemera have, hitherto, somewhat neglected a topic which is - nonetheless - at the heart of their concerns: with their elaborate settings, their costumes and decors, princely funerals challenge theatre and opera.

It is within this context that experts from many disciplines attempt to trace the evolution of funeral ceremonies, which were much less static than is generally believed; to expose the gifts of the masters of these solemn occasions (and, indeed, of their predecessors, the heralds) who constantly devised subtle ways of capturing the attention of spectators and moving their emotions. These essays have tried to cover not only a wide time spectrum but also to reveal the variety and range of such ceremonies devised in diverse European Courts as well as unravelling the innovations which underlay fashions which had multiple international repercussions.

Featuring contributions by: Monique Chatenet, Murielle Gaude-Ferragu, Gérard Sabatier, Agostino Paracivini_Bagliani, Alain Marchandisse, Joël Burden, Mickaël Boytsov, Maria Nadia Covini, Eva Pibiri, Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, Giovanni Ricci, Gérard Sabatier, Maria Adelaida Allo Manero, Naïma Ghermani, Birgitte B. Johannsen.

S’alimenter est l’une des préoccupations essentielles des êtres vivants. Les êtres humains, cependant, ont très tôt donné au fait de se nourrir une signification qui dépasse l’exigence physiologique. La plupart des religions, ainsi, organisent le rapport au fait de manger, déterminent la valeur symbolique des différents aliments et définissent l’importance symbolique des différents moyens de préparer la nourriture. Elles définissent et régulent également la relation entre la nourriture et le divin.

Le présent ouvrage interroge, dans une perspective interdisciplinaire, la portée religieuse du rapport à la nourriture et décline la dimension sacrée des repas et de l’alimentation. Par des études de type diachronique et synchronique, il met en valeur des questions de fond à l'œuvre de l'Antiquité à nos jours et fait dialoguer les diverses méthodologies à l’œuvre dans l’étude du fait religieux (anthropologie, histoire, philosophie de la religion, sociologie, science des religions, théologie). Plusieurs contributions analysent les évolutions récentes en matière de rapport à l'alimentation et proposent des éclairages originaux sur le rapport au religieux hors des religions constituées.