Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516
Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516

Author: Chet Van Duzer

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-09

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 3030227030

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This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprecedented way. In addition, the book provides revealing insights into how Waldseemüller went about making the map -- information that can’t be found in any other source. The Carta marina is the result of Waldseemüller’s radical re-evaluation of what a world map should be; he essentially started from scratch when he created it, rejecting the Ptolemaic model and other sources he had used in creating his 1507 map, and added more descriptive texts and a wealth of illustrations. Given its content, the book offers an essential reference work not only on this map, but also for anyone working in sixteenth-century European cartography.

Manuscripts and Medieval Song
Manuscripts and Medieval Song

Author: Helen Deeming

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-05-28

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1107062632

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This in-depth exploration of key manuscript sources reveals new information about medieval songs and sets them in their original contexts.

The Anthropology of Slavery
The Anthropology of Slavery

Author: Claude Meillassoux

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0226519120

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This controversial examination of precolonial African slavery looks at the various social systems that made slavery on such a scale possible and argues that the institutions of slavery were far more complex and pervasive than previously suspected.

Annual Report, 1985
Annual Report, 1985

Author: United States. Presidential Advisory Committee on Small and Minority Business Ownership

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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Recherche Littéraire / Literary Research
Recherche Littéraire / Literary Research

Author: Marc Maufort

Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales

Published: 2019-12-23

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782807612792

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As the annual peer-reviewed publication of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is an Open Access journal published by Peter Lang. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To that end, it publishes scholarly essays, review essays discussing recent research developments in particular sub-fields of the discipline, as well as reviews of books on comparative topics. Scholarly essays are submitted to a double-blind peer review. Submissions by early-career comparative literature scholars are strongly encouraged. En tant que publication annuelle de l'Association internationale de littérature comparée (AILC), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research est une revue expertisée par des pair·e·s et publiée par Peter Lang en libre accès voie dorée. Elle vise à faire connaître aux comparatistes du monde entier les développements récents de la discipline. Dans ce but, la revue publie des articles de recherche scientifique, des essais critiques dressant l'état des lieux d'un domaine particulier de la littérature comparée, ainsi que des comptes rendus de livres sur des sujets comparatistes. Les articles de recherche sont soumis à une évaluation par des pair·e·s en double anonyme. Des soumissions par de jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs en littérature comparée sont fortement encouragées.

The Book of Emma
The Book of Emma

Author: Marie-Celie Agnant

Publisher: Insomniac Press

Published: 2009-11-08

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1897414064

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One of the biggest stumbling blocks we hit when setting out to make our dreams come true is appreciating what is going well. Most of us have an unfortunate tendency to dwell on the problems rather than on the good things in our lives ... and then we wonder why things just seem to keep getting worse instead of better. In The Power of Appreciation in Everyday Life, psychologist Noelle Nelson explains how you can achieve success in every area of your life through transforming your beliefs with appreciation.

The Underpainter
The Underpainter

Author: Jane Urquhart

Publisher: Emblem Editions

Published: 2010-08-27

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1551994291

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The Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply touched his own, including a young Canadian soldier and china painter and the beautiful model who becomes Austin’s mistress. Spanning decades, the setting moves from upstate New York to the northern shores of two Great Lakes; from France in World War One to New York City in the ’20s and ’30s. Brilliantly depicting landscape and the geography of the imagination, The Underpainter is Jane Urquhart’s most accomplished novel to date.