Badlands, Borderlands
Author: Tom Winnifrith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13:
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Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
Author: Christopher C. King
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-05-29
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 039324900X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2018 In the tradition of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Geoff Dyer, a Grammy-winning producer discovers a powerful and ancient folk music tradition. In a gramophone shop in Istanbul, renowned record collector Christopher C. King uncovered some of the strangest—and most hypnotic—sounds he had ever heard. The 78s were immensely moving, seeming to tap into a primal well of emotion inaccessible through contemporary music. The songs, King learned, were from Epirus, an area straddling southern Albania and northwestern Greece and boasting a folk tradition extending back to the pre-Homeric era. To hear this music is to hear the past. Lament from Epirus is an unforgettable journey into a musical obsession, which traces a unique genre back to the roots of song itself. As King hunts for two long-lost virtuosos—one of whom may have committed a murder—he also tells the story of the Roma people who pioneered Epirotic folk music and their descendants who continue the tradition today. King discovers clues to his most profound questions about the function of music in the history of humanity: What is the relationship between music and language? Why do we organize sound as music? Is music superfluous, a mere form of entertainment, or could it be a tool for survival? King’s journey becomes an investigation into song and dance’s role as a means of spiritual healing—and what that may reveal about music’s evolutionary origins.
The Question of Northern Epirus at the Peace Conference
Author: Nicholas J. Cassavetes
Publisher:
Published: 1919
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical and Historical Encyclopedia of Women
Author: Christine Fauré
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-02
Total Pages: 1362
ISBN-13: 1135456909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe original French edition of this encyclopedia, the Encyclopédie politique et historique des femmes, Second Edition has been lauded by French reviewers, and now Routledge is pleased to publish this acclaimed resource in an English language edition. From the Salic Law in medieval France to the American Revolution to today's women's representation in American and European politics, this valuable resource discusses women's participation in Western political and historical transformation. The 40 authoritative in-depth articles, written by an international team of scholars, examine women's activism in areas such as voting, emancipation, equality, and democracy, providing students and general readers with an indispensable resource.
Butrint 4
Author: Inge Lyse Hansen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2013-01-08
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1842174622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis richly illustrated volume discusses the histories of the port city of Butrint, and its intimate connection to the wider conditions of the Adriatic. In so doing it is a reading, and re-reading, of the site that adds significantly to the study of Mediterranean urban history over the longue durée . Firstly, the book proposes a new paradigm for the development-history of Butrint - based on discussions of the latest archaeological, historical and landscape studies from approximately 20 new excavations and surveys, together covering a temporal arch from prehistory to the early modern period. Secondly, it examines how the perception of the city influenced the archaeological methodology of 20th-century studies of the site, where iteration and reversal were often being applied in equal measure. In this it asks important questions on the management of heritage sites and the contemporary role of archaeological practise. Inge Lyse Hansen is Adjunct Professor of Art History at John Cabot University and specialises in the visual and material culture of the Roman world. She has published on portraiture, funerary art and the use of role models and patronage and has edited several archaeological volumes. Richard Hodges is Scientific Director of the Butrint Foundation, a leading medieval archaeologist and the author of more than 20 books. Sarah Leppard has led or participated in more than 15 excavations in eight countries and has managed major excavations at Butrint.
Abridgement of Roman History
Author: Eutropius
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2021-04-10
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise history of the Roman Empire published in the fourth century, from the creation of Rome through Valens' accession. The book, translated by John Selby Watson, tells the story of Rome's early monarchy and republic till the time of Constantine and his successors to the death of Jovian (364 AD). Flavius Eutropius was a Roman historian who lived during the second part of the fourth century. He served as the city's secretary (magister memoriae), traveled with Emperor Julian (361-363) on his operations against Persia, and continued to live until the reign of Valens (364–378), to whom he dedicated the Breviarium historiae Romanae (the Breviarium of Roman History), which is also the point at which the history of that work comes to an end.
The Army of Pyrrhus of Epirus
Author: Nicholas Sekunda
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-09-19
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1472833635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPyrrhus was one of the most tireless and famous warriors of the Hellenistic Age that followed the dispersal of Alexander the Great's brief empire. After inheriting the throne as a boy, and a period of exile, he began a career of alliances and expansion, in particular against the region's rising power: Rome. Gathering both Greek and Italian allies into a very large army (which included war-elephants), he crossed to Italy in 280 BC, but lost most of his force in a series of costly victories at Heraclea and Asculum, as well as a storm at sea. After a campaign in Sicily against the Carthaginians, he was defeated by the Romans at Beneventum and was forced to withdraw. Undeterred, he fought wars in Macedonia and Greece, the last of which cost him his life. Fully illustrated with detailed colour plates, this is the story of one of the most renowned warrior-kings of the post-Alexandrian age, whose costly encounters with Republican Rome have become a byword for victory won at unsustainable cost.
Epirus Revisited. New Perceptions of Its History and Material Culture
Author: Chrēstos Staurakos
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-15
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9782503592619
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA presentation of the new results in the research about Epirus.00The opening of the borders of Albania in the 1990s stimulated an increased interest in its cultural heritage and led to extensive research, as well as archaeological investigations. These, however, have mainly concentrated within Albania's present-day borders and have lacked broader contextualization. Very recent excavations in Greece, which resulted from the construction of the new Ionia Odos highway, have, however brought to light unexpected and interesting material that changes our image of the monumental topography and the settlements in Epirus. New studies concerning Epirus and its broader connections during the early and later Ottoman periods provide a broader impression of the region and its relationships with the large economic centres of the West, as well as with the spiritual-religious and political centres of the Balkans.
Epirus Vetus
Author: William Bowden
Publisher: Bristol Classical Press
Published: 2003-08-22
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe land that formed the late-antique province of Epirus Vetus now straddles the border between Albania and Greece. This book reassesses the archaeological evidence from the 4th to the 7th century AD, when the area changed from a Roman province to a distant region beyond the limits of the empire.
Epirus
Author: Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond
Publisher: Ayer Company Pub
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 847
ISBN-13: 9780405140587
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