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Book Volume II  Books 18 20  Paulinus Pellaeus  Eucharisticus

Download or read book Volume II Books 18 20 Paulinus Pellaeus Eucharisticus written by Ausonius and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Spartan Scytale and Developments in Ancient and Modern Cryptography

Download or read book The Spartan Scytale and Developments in Ancient and Modern Cryptography written by Martine Diepenbroek and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive review and reassessment of the classical sources describing the cryptographic Spartan device known as the scytale. Challenging the view promoted by modern historians of cryptography which look at the scytale as a simple and impractical 'stick', Diepenbroek argues for the scytale's deserved status as a vehicle for secret communication in the ancient world. By way of comparison, Diepenbroek demonstrates that the cryptographic principles employed in the Spartan scytale show an encryption and coding system that is no less complex than some 20th-century transposition ciphers. The result is that, contrary to the accepted point of view, scytale encryption is as complex and secure as other known ancient ciphers. Drawing on salient comparisons with a selection of modern transposition ciphers (and their historical predecessors), the reader is provided with a detailed overview and analysis of the surviving classical sources that similarly reveal the potential of the scytale as an actual cryptographic and steganographic tool in ancient Sparta in order to illustrate the relative sophistication of the Spartan scytale as a practical device for secret communication. This helps to establish the conceptual basis that the scytale would, in theory, have offered its ancient users a secure method for secret communication over long distances.

Book Urban Interactions

Download or read book Urban Interactions written by Michael J. Kelly and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to eliciting the interactions between localities across late antique and early medieval Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Significant research has been done in recent years to explore how late "Roman" and post-"Roman" cities, towns and other localities communicated vis-à-vis larger structural phenomena, such as provinces, empires, kingdoms, institutions and so on. This research has contributed considerably to our understanding of the place of the city in its context, but tends to portray the city as a necessarily subordinate conduit within larger structures, rather than an entity in itself, or as a hermeneutical object of enquiry. Consequently, not enough research has been committed to examining how local people and communities thought about, engaged with, and struggled against nearby or distant urban neighbors.Urban Interactions addresses this lacuna in urban history by presenting articles that apply a diverse spectrum of approaches, from archaeological investigation to critical analyses of historiographical and historical biases and developmental consideration of antagonisms between ecclesiastical centers. Through these avenues of investigation, this volume elucidates the relationship between the urban centers and their immediate hinterlands and neighboring cities with which they might vie or collaborate. This entanglement and competition, whether subterraneous or explicit across overarching political, religious or other macro categories, is evaluated through a broad geographical range of late "Roman" provinces and post-"Roman" states to maintain an expansive perspective of developmental trends within and about the city.

Book Opuscula

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ausone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book Opuscula written by Ausone and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Converting Verse

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Ungvary
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 0197600743
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Converting Verse written by David Ungvary and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Converting Verse provides a fresh account of the ways Christian poets in the late Roman world-especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul-reinvented Latin poetry's purpose and power during the turbulent fifth century, a period that witnessed barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself.

Book The Melancholy Void

Download or read book The Melancholy Void written by Felipe Valencia (1983- author) and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the seventeenth century, Spanish lyric underwent a notable development. Several Spanish poets reinvented lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sang of and perpetrated symbolic violence against the female beloved. This shift emerged in response to the rising prestige and commercial success of the epic and was enabled by the rich discourse on the link between melancholy and creativity in men. In The Melancholy Void Felipe Valencia examines this reconstruction of the lyric in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620. Through a study of canonical and influential texts, such as the major poems by Luis de Góngora and the epic of Alonso de Ercilla, but also lesser-known texts, such as the lyrics by Miguel de Cervantes, The Melancholy Void addresses four understudied problems in the scholarship of early modern Spanish poetry: the use of gender violence in love poetry as a way to construct the masculinity of the poetic speaker; the exploration in Spanish poetry of the link between melancholy and male creativity; the impact of epic on Spanish lyric; and the Spanish contribution to the fledgling theory of the lyric. The Melancholy Void brings poetry and lyric theory to the conversation in full force and develops a distinct argument about the integral role of gender violence in a prominent strand of early modern Spanish lyric that ran from Garcilaso to Góngora and beyond.

Book Ausonius  in Two Volumes  Books XVIII XX   Appendix to Ausonius  The Eucharisticus of Paulinus Pellaeus

Download or read book Ausonius in Two Volumes Books XVIII XX Appendix to Ausonius The Eucharisticus of Paulinus Pellaeus written by Decimus Magnus Ausonius and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How Not to Make a Human

Download or read book How Not to Make a Human written by Karl Steel and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From pet keeping to sky burials, a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of and challenge to human particularity in medieval texts Mainstream medieval thought, like much of mainstream modern thought, habitually argued that because humans alone had language, reason, and immortal souls, all other life was simply theirs for the taking. But outside this scholarly consensus teemed a host of other ways to imagine the shared worlds of humans and nonhumans. How Not to Make a Human engages with these nonsystematic practices and thought to challenge both human particularity and the notion that agency, free will, and rationality are the defining characteristics of being human. Recuperating the Middle Ages as a lost opportunity for decentering humanity, Karl Steel provides a posthuman and ecocritical interrogation of a wide range of medieval texts. Exploring such diverse topics as medieval pet keeping, stories of feral and isolated children, the ecological implications of funeral practices, and the “bare life” of oysters from a variety of disanthropic perspectives, Steel furnishes contemporary posthumanists with overlooked cultural models to challenge human and other supremacies at their roots. By collecting beliefs and practices outside the mainstream of medieval thought, How Not to Make a Human connects contemporary concerns with ecology, animal life, and rethinkings of what it means to be human to uncanny materials that emphasize matters of death, violence, edibility, and vulnerability.

Book Catalogue of Accessions

Download or read book Catalogue of Accessions written by Dr. Williams's Library and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Reader s Index   Guide

Download or read book The Reader s Index Guide written by Croyden Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Works

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ausone
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Works written by Ausone and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature

Download or read book Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature written by Marguerite Johnson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations. This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of ancient sexuality. The sources range from the era of Homer and Hesiod through to the Graeco-Roman world of the Fourth Century CE and explore the diversitiy of approaches to sexuality and sexual expression, as well as how these issues relate to the rest of ancient society and culture. Sexuality in Greek And Roman Society and Literature is an invaluable resource to students and academics alike, providing a detailed series of chapters on all major facets of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. It will particularly appeal to those interested in sexuality and gender in antiquity, as well as ancient literature and social studies.

Book Catalogue of Accessions 1900 1050

Download or read book Catalogue of Accessions 1900 1050 written by Dr. Williams's Library and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative  1950 1977  Non Dewey decimal classified titles

Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative 1950 1977 Non Dewey decimal classified titles written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ausonius  Books I XVII

Download or read book Ausonius Books I XVII written by Decimus Magnus Ausonius and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: