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Uber Jahre hat der Autor in Archiven und Privatsammlungen in Deutschland und Athiopien nach Bildern und fruhen Fotos aus der Geschichte der deutsch-athiopischen Beziehungen gesucht, wobei viel Unbekan
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The monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financia
The monastery is in the southeastern corner of Turkey, close to Syria and Iraq, was founded in AD 397, and is unique in teaching young people Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke and the liturgical langu
According to one of the most fundamental tenets in Indian Buddhist epistemology, there are only two means of knowledge - perception and inference - because there are only two objects of knowledge: the
Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Saiva theology and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle an
Sie haben soeben das literarische Meisterwerk entdeckt, das Ihre Fragen uber Gott, das Leben im bewohnten Universum, uber die Geschichte und Zukunft dieser Welt und zum Leben von Jesus beantwortet. Da
During the Middle Ages, the relationship between the Buddha's omniscience and his religious authority was a major issue in Buddhist thought. One of the most extensive and sophisticated discussions on
In an age of various kinds of surgical and imaginary penis augmentations, the Icelandic Phallological Museum has appeared on the world stage as a tour-de-force of global castration and local creativit
The book offers a comparative perspective regarding the communist transformation of the countryside within "Soviet Bloc" countries, mainly focusing on organization and political practices within the r
The environmental history of early modern times is a seminal and lively field of historical research. This volume offers ten concise essays that provide an overview of current research debates on a br
