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Author: Beshara Doumani
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-08
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0521766605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeshara B. Doumani uses a variety of local sources to examine everyday family life throughout the Ottoman Empire.
Author: S. D. Goitein
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Published: 1967
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: S. D. Goitein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1994-03-09
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780520924161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis six-volume "portrait of a Mediterranean personality" is a composite portrait of the individuals who wrote the personal letters, contracts, and all other manuscript fragments that found their way into the Cairo Geniza. Most of the fragments from the Geniza, a storeroom for discarded writings that could not be thrown away because they might contain the name of God, had been removed to Cambridge University Library and other libraries around the world. Professor Goitein devoted the last thirty years of his long and productive life to their study, deciphering the language of the documents and organizing what he called a "marvelous treasure trove of manuscripts" into a coherent, fascinating picture of the society that created them. It is a rich, panoramic view of how people lived, traveled, worshiped, and conducted their economic and social affairs. The first and second volumes describe the economic foundations of the society and the institutions and social and political structures that characterized the community. The remaining material, intended for a single volume describing the particulars of the way people lived, blossomed into three volumes, devoted respectively to the family, daily life, and the individual. The divisions are arbitrary but helpful because of the wealth of information. The author refers throughout to other passages in his monumental work that amplify what is discussed in any particular section. The result is an incomparably clear and immediate impression of how it was in the Mediterranean world of the tenth through the thirteenth century. Volume VI, prepared by Paula Sanders, is a volume of cumulative, analytical indices.
Author: Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780520032651
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."--Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
Author: S. D. Goitein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 0520240596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKS.D. Goitein's five-volume work on Jewish communities in the medieval Mediterranean world has been abridged and reworked into this volume that captures the essential narratives and contexts.
Author: Raffaella Sarti
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2018-09-21
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1785339125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery society throughout history has defined what counts as work and what doesn’t. And more often than not, those lines of demarcation are inextricable from considerations of gender. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies. Drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics, these essays explore the changing and often contested boundaries between what was and is considered work in different Euro-American contexts over several centuries, with an eye to the ambiguities and biases that have shaped mainstream conceptions of work across all social sectors.
Author: Peregrine Horden
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 633
ISBN-13: 1118519337
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Companion to Mediterranean History presents a wide-ranging overview of this vibrant field of historical research, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to discuss the development of the region from Neolithic times to the present. Provides a valuable introduction to current debates on Mediterranean history and helps define the field for a new generation Covers developments in the Mediterranean world from Neolithic times to the modern era Enables fruitful dialogue among a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, art, literature, and anthropology
Author: S. D. Goitein
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9780520221581
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the best comprehensive histories of a culture in this century."—Amos Funkenstein, Stanford University
Author: Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 949
ISBN-13: 9004154728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe annotated and translated letters of 11th-12th century traders of the Jewish Indian Ocean, found in the Cairo Geniza, provide fascinating information on commerce between the Far East, Yemen and the Mediterranean, medieval material, social, and spiritual civilization among Jews and Arabs, and Judeo-Arabic.
Author: Zeba A. Crook
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2020-05-07
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1467458287
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat was the ancient world like? Ancient sources tell us a great deal about the cultural patterns and values that prevailed in the Mediterranean of the biblical periods: how they constructed identity how they exercised control over groups, space, gender, and dress how they thought of friendship how they participated in social and economic exchange how ritual functioned and how kinship was constructed what healing practices, evil eye, and altered states of consciousness tell us about their sciences how they talked about each other behind their backs, and why The Ancient Mediterranean Social World makes the rich social context of the ancient Mediterranean available to readers through succinct introduction of key ideas, thoughtful selection of translated primary sources, and extensive cataloging of relevant primary sources. Zeba Crook brings together leading scholars to write on twenty different topics, from patronage to gender to loyalty to evil eye. Each chapter opens with an introduction to the topic, offers a short list of secondary sources, and an extensive list of primary sources. The passages in each chapter reflect the vast array of sources roughly from Homer to Augustine, including epigraphical, papyrological, literary, historical, philosophical, biblical, and dramatic texts. This authoritative volume serves as a ready reference for the novice and experienced scholar alike. Contributors: Alicia J. Batten, Giovanni B. Bazzana, Agnes Choi, Zeba A. Crook, John W. Daniels Jr., Dennis C. Duling, John H. Elliott, Amy Marie Fisher, Mischa Hooker, Emil A. Kramer, Jason T. Lamoreaux, Dietmar Neufeld, Jerome H. Neyrey, SJ, Douglas E. Oakman, Ronald D. Roberts, Richard L. Rohrbaugh, Colleen Shantz, Gary Stansell, Eric C. Stewart, Erin K. Vearncombe, and Ritva H. Williams.
