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Magic and Divination in the Middle Ages: Texts and Techniques in the Islamic and Christian Worlds
ISBN: 9780860786153 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle Ages. The principal authorities are Hermes and Aristotle, and the search for the 'secret knowledge' of these ancient sages is shown to have been a catalyst for the translating activity from Arabic into Latin in 12th-century Spain. The second half of the volume is devoted to examples of the kinds of divination prevalent in Arabic and Latin-reading...
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the...
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674,31 zł |
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Ibn Baklarish's Book of Simples: Medical Remedies Between Three Faiths in Twelth-Century Spain
ISBN: 9780199543069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Arcadian Library manuscript, which is the subject of this book, provides a snapshot of the intercultural dialogue that was taking place in medieval Spain where Muslims, Jews, and Christians were all involved in studying and disseminating medical knowledge. The manuscript itself is of the master work of the early twelfth-century Jewish physician, Ibn Baklarish and was written in A.D. 1130. It provides unique information about the state of medicine in medieval Spain at the time. This edited volume is completed by a collection of eight essays by an international team of experts on Ibn...
The Arcadian Library manuscript, which is the subject of this book, provides a snapshot of the intercultural dialogue that was taking place in medieva...
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423,99 zł |
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Adelard of Bath, Conversations with His Nephew: On the Same and the Different, Questions on Natural Science, and on Birds
ISBN: 9780521397759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his Nephew: an exhortation to the study of the liberal arts that constitute "philosophy" (On the Same and the Different), a dialogue on the nature of things in which rational causes are sought (Questions on Natural Science), and a discussion concerning the upbringing and medication of hawks (On Birds). A preface introduces the works and places them in the context of the Court schools of Norman bishops and dukes.
This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his Nephew: an exhortation ...
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403,67 zł |
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Arabic Into Latin in the Middle Ages: The Translators and Their Intellectual and Social Context
ISBN: 9780754659433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators and the context in which they were working. The articles are arranged in roughly chronological order, beginning with the earliest known translations from Arabic at the end of the 10th century, progressing through 11th-century translations made in Southern Italy, translators working in Sicily and the Principality of Antioch at the beginning of the 12th century, the first of the 12th-century Iberian translators, the beginnings and development of...
This collection of Charles Burnett's articles on the transmission of Arabic learning to Europe concentrates on the identity of the Latin translators a...
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752,12 zł |
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Adelard of Bath, Conversations with His Nephew
ISBN: 9780521394710 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his Nephew: an exhortation to the study of the liberal arts that constitute "philosophy" (On the Same and the Different), a dialogue on the nature of things in which rational causes are sought (Questions on Natural Science), and a discussion concerning the upbringing and medication of hawks (On Birds). A preface introduces the works and places them in the context of the Court schools of Norman bishops and dukes.
This book consists of editions and translations of the three known texts in which Adelard of Bath (c. 1080-1150) addresses his Nephew: an exhortation ...
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438,68 zł |
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My Way Through
ISBN: 9781684988624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,83 zł |
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Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9781474294546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories and terminology for the science of matter were introduced into the West and became known as ‘alchemy’. Based in experiment and innovation – and bound up in networks of mining, manufacturing, trade and commerce – alchemical practice largely focused on the production of new substances through various processes. At the same time, alchemy was deeply theoretical, exploring the development of mineralogy, the perfection of corruptible matter,...
A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Middle Ages covers the period from 600 to 1500 in European and Islamic cultures. Arabic theories ...
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389,03 zł |
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Abū Ma‘šar on Historical Astrology: The Book of Religions and Dynasties (On the Great Conjunctions) (2 vols): Volume I: The Arabic original: Abū Ma‘šar, K. al-Milal wa d-duwal (The Book on Religions a
ISBN: 9789004117334 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 1260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These two volumes provide the Arabic, Latin and English text of the major work on historical astrology of the Middle Ages. The text is attributed either to Abū Ma'sar (787-886) or to his pupil Ibn al-Bāzyār, and was translated into Latin in the mid-twelfth century. In eight books (parts) it provides the scientific basis for predictions concerning kings, prophets, dynasties, religions, wars, epidemics etc., by means of conjunctions of planets, comets and other astronomical factors. It is cited frequently by both Arabic and Latin authors. These editions will provide, for the...
These two volumes provide the Arabic, Latin and English text of the major work on historical astrology of the Middle Ages. The text is attributed eith...
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2238,06 zł |
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A Textbook on Diseases of the Ear, Nose and Throat
ISBN: 9781432507855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 732 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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257,18 zł |
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18th HUSSARS IN SOUTH AFRICA The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During the Boer War
ISBN: 9781845749071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book is an extreme rarity - an account of cavalry service in the Boer War by one of their officers. The 18th Hussars were deployed to South Africa in 1899 and served throughout the conflict until 1902. The Regiment took part in the Battle of Talana Hill, the Siege of Ladysmith; and subsequent patrols against the elusive enemy. This history includes an itinerary of the regiment's movement, and a Roll of Honour of those members who were killed, wounded or died of disease.
This book is an extreme rarity - an account of cavalry service in the Boer War by one of their officers. The 18th Hussars were deployed to South Afric...
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242,84 zł |
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Islam and Tibet - Interactions Along the Musk Routes
ISBN: 9781138247048 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Military and political contacts went along with an increasing interest in the other side. Cultural exchanges and the transmission of knowledge were facilitated by a trading network, with musk constituting one of the main trading goods from the Himalayas, largely through India. From the thirteenth century onwards the spread of the Mongol Empire from the Western borders of Europe through Central Asia to China facilitated further exchanges. The...
The first encounters between the Islamic world and Tibet took place in the course of the expansion of the Abbasid Empire in the eighth century. Milita...
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280,05 zł |
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A collectable edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic, with enchanting illustrations by Charles Robinson.
A collectable edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's classic, with enchanting illustrations by Charles Robinson.
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121,58 zł |
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The Secret Garden - Illustrated by Charles Robinson
ISBN: 9781473327863 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This vintage book contains Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel, 'The Secret Garden'. First published as a serial beginning in 1910, it numbers amongst Burnett's most famous works and is widely considered to be a classic of English children's literature. 'The Secret Garden' is the timeless story of Mary Lennox, a sickly girl who is left orphaned and alone when an outbreak of cholera kills her parents and the staff of their home in India. She eventually ends up in Yorkshire with her uncle Archibald Craven, and becomes inspired by the curious story of a nearby 'secret garden' she hears from a...
This vintage book contains Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel, 'The Secret Garden'. First published as a serial beginning in 1910, it numbers amongs...
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218,52 zł |
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The Secret Garden
ISBN: 9780785840015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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40,50 zł |
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The Secret Garden: Illustrated
ISBN: 9781977833693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,94 zł |
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The Secret Garden - Illustrated by Charles Robinson
ISBN: 9781473335226 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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257,37 zł |
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Hebrew Medical Astrology: David Ben Yom Tov, Kelal Qatan, Original Hebrew Text, Medieval Latin Translation, Modern English Translation
ISBN: 9780871699558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The “Kelal Qatan (Concise Summary)” was composed by David Ben Yom Tov, a Hebrew scholar who lived in the first half of the 14th century. He is known in Latin simply as David Iudaeus. This is a text on medical astrology, dealing primarily with the astrological indications pertaining especially to fevers. It is the most detailed and extensive original Hebrew treatise on astrological medicine surviving in Hebrew Literature. Contents of this edition: Introduction; Original Hebrew Text; The Latin Text; Modern English Translation; Glossary; and Bibliography. Color and black and white...
The “Kelal Qatan (Concise Summary)” was composed by David Ben Yom Tov, a Hebrew scholar who lived in the first half of the 14th century. He is kno...
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181,55 zł |
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Maimonides On Coitus: A New Parallel Arabic-English Edition and Translation
ISBN: 9789004380066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency. The present edition by Gerrit Bos contains the original Arabic text, three medieval Hebrew translations, two Latin versions from the same translation (edited by Charles Burnett), and a Slavonic translation (edited by Will Ryan and Moshe Taube).
Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, a...
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462,16 zł |
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Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition
ISBN: 9789004259652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. Jewish interest in astronomy was fostered by the Jewish calendar, which was based on the courses of the sun and the moon, whilst astronomy, in turn, led to a better understanding of how time should be reckoned. Time, Astronomy, and Calendars in the Jewish Tradition, edited by Sacha Stern and Charles Burnett, presents a wide selection of original research in this multi-disciplinary field, ranging from Antiquity to the later Middle Ages....
The study of time, astronomy, and calendars, has been closely intertwined in the history of Western culture and, more particularly, Jewish tradition. ...
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881,53 zł |
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Zauberhafte Weihnachten. Die schönsten Klassiker für Erstleser
ISBN: 9783401511610 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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45,05 zł |
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