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The Christian epigraphy of Egypt and Nubia
The present book collects 31 articles that Jacques van der Vliet, a leading scholar in the field of Coptic Studies (Leiden University / Radboud University, Nijmegen), has published since 1999 on Christian inscriptions from Egypt and Nubia. These inscriptions are dated between the third/fourth and the fourteenth centuries, and are often written in Coptic and/or Greek, once in Latin, and sometimes (partly) in Arabic, Syriac or Old Nubian. They include inscriptions on tomb stones, walls of religious buildings, tools, vessels, furniture, amulets and even texts on luxury garments. Whereas earlier scholars in the field of Coptic Studies often focused on either Coptic or Greek, Van der Vliet argues that inscriptions in different languages that appear in the same space or on the same kind of objects should be examined together. In addition, he aims to combine the information from documentary texts, archaeological remains and inscriptions, in order to reconstruct the economic, social and religious life of monastic or civil communities. He practiced this methodology in his studies on the Fayum, Wadi al-Natrun, Sohag, Western Thebes and the region of Aswan and Northern Nubia, which are all included in this book.
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The Stag House. Early Modern Murals in Sighișoara / Shӓbburg / Segesvár
The current essay has as starting point the author’s art historical study elaborated within the multidisciplinary research undertaken for the restoration of the house in 1992, published in an abridged form in 2013 and 2018 with the information updated, which is completed and corrected here. The Stag House is one of the most significant examples of the urban patrician residence in Renaissance Transylvania. Its most important phase of construction is dated by the inscription incised in the main beam of the wooden ceiling of the Hochparter corner room 3 IVN. / HR / 1602. The murals, preserved mainly in the upper vaulted Saal facing the square, have a compositional structure dictated by the architectural elements, while the colour-range, dominated by grey tones, with accents of vermillion, green and ochre, gives a general impression of a grisaille painting. The icono- graphical programme comprises portraits of uomini illustri in round medallions, including members of the House of Habsburg, emblems, themes from the Classical literature and the Old Testament, all inspired by early modern engravings from the last part of the sixteenth century. After the fire of 1676, which destroyed three quarters of the buildings in Sighișoara, the Stag House was rehabilitated in 1693 by the mayor Michael Deli, its “owner, sustainer and founder”, as the inscription on the façade towards the square shows. In the following centuries, the residence arrived through matrimonial alliances in the possession of the members of two important families in the town: Kelp von Sternburg and Schech von Sternheim.
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Registrat ion is now open for CHLA/ABSC 2023 in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Dr. Gaynor Watson-Creed, Associate Dean, Serving and Engaging Society, Faculty of Medierne, Dalhousie University, and Dr. Barbara Hamilton-Hinch, Professor in the Faculty of Health, and Assistant Vice-Provost Equity and Inclusion, Dalhousie University. In addition to our keynotes and contributed content, we have a great mix of in-person and virtual continuing education sessions, so even if you can't join us in Halifax, you can still engage in some of the thoughtprovoking topics we're focusing on for this year's conference. Alison Manley and Robin Parker 2023 Conference Planning Committee Co-Chairs Nous sommes réjoui(-e)s de vous accueillir de nouveau sur la côte Est pom le congres de cette année !
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Warning to Thieves
This short inscription from Choeung Ek Monastery in Kandal province, slightly more than a mile north of the contemporary Choeung Ek “Killing Fields” memorial, records the seventh- or eighth-century founding of a Shaivite temple along with a stern warning to any vandals who might steal or disturb what has been donated to it.
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