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Memory and the City in Ancient Israel
Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by \"material\" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples, inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated various mnemonic worlds as they integrated multiple images, remembered events, and provided a variety of meanings in diverse ancient communities.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian and early Hellenistic periods by exploring \"the city,\" both urban spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and parks, natural and \"domesticated\" water in urban settings, cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah, Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work of Stéphanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KÃ¥re Berge, Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy, Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and Carey Walsh.
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Medieval Practices of Space
The contributors to this volume cross disciplinary and theoretical boundaries to read the words, metaphors, images, signs, poetic illusions, and identities with which medieval men and women used space and place to add meaning to the world. Contributors: Kathleen Biddick, Charles Burroughs, Michael Camille, Tom Conley, Donnalee Dox, Jody Enders, Valerie K. J. Flint, Andrzej Piotrowski, and Daniel Lord Smail.
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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500
Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia.
This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish).
Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.
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Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in which prisoners recounted their own sexual histories. These remarkable documents, curated and translated into English by Jeffrey Merrick, allow us to hear the voices of men who desired men and to explore complex questions about sources, patterns, and meanings in the history of sexuality. This volume centers on two cartons of paperwork from commissaire Charles Convers Desormeaux. Dated from 1785, the cartons contain 221 dossiers of men arrested for sodomy or similar acts in Paris. Merrick translates and annotates the police interviews from these dossiers, revealing how the police and those they arrested understood sex between men at the time. Merrick discusses the implications of what the men said (and what they did not say), how they said it, and in what contexts it was said. The best-known works of clergy and jurists, of enemies and advocates of Enlightenment, and of novelists and satirists from the eighteenth century tell us nothing at all about the lived experience of men who desired men. In these police dossiers, Merrick allows them to speak in their own words. This primary text brings together a wealth of important information that will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers interested in the history of sexuality, sodomy, and sexual policing.
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Memory and the City in Ancient Israel
Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated
by \"material\" sites of memory. Some of these sites were personal
and others were directly and intentionally involved in the shaping
of a collective social memory, such as palaces, temples,
inscriptions, walls, and gates. Many cities were also sites of
social memory in a very different way. Like Babylon, Nineveh, or
Jerusalem, they served as ciphers that activated and communicated
various mnemonic worlds as they integrated multiple images,
remembered events, and provided a variety of meanings in diverse
ancient communities.
Memory and the City in Ancient Israel contributes to
the study of social memory in ancient Israel in the late Persian
and early Hellenistic periods by exploring \"the city,\" both urban
spaces and urban centers. It opens with a study that compares basic
conceptualizing tendencies of cities in Mesopotamia with their
counterparts in ancient Israel. Its essays then explore memories of
gates, domestic spaces, threshing floors, palaces, city gardens and
parks, natural and \"domesticated\" water in urban settings,
cisterns, and wells. Finally, the studies turn to particular cities
of memory in ancient Israel: Jerusalem, Samaria, Shechem, Mizpah,
Tyre, Nineveh, and Babylon. The volume, which emerged from meetings
of the European Association of Biblical Studies, includes the work
of Stéphanie Anthonioz, Yairah Amit, Ehud Ben Zvi, KÃ¥re Berge,
Diana Edelman, Hadi Ghantous, Anne Katrine Gudme, Philippe
Guillaume, Russell Hobson, Steven W. Holloway, Francis Landy,
Daniel Pioske, Ulrike Sals, Carla Sulzbach, Karolien Vermeulen, and
Carey Walsh.
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The Black Horse of the Apocalypse and its Pale Rider
On 25 July 1665 five-year-old John Morley of Holy Trinity parish in Cambridge died. On his chest were found black spots, tokens of the plague. His little brother, who had sat on a stool round-eyed and fearful watching him, also had spots on his face: he was swept from his mother’s arms by men dressed in white robes and taken away. He died in the pest house on 5 August 1665, and the distraught parents were shut up in their house with a red cross painted on the door and the words ‘Lord Have Mercy on Us’ written below it.
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Collapse or adaptation? The problem of the urban decline in late antique Greece
According to the Synekdemos of Hierokles, by 500 there were about eighty cities in the province of Achaia, apparently one of the most highly urbanised regions of the eastern Mediterranean (Honigman 1939: 7 and 16–19; see also Bon 1951: 21 and 23–4). Most of them had no appropriate defence. Prokopios mentions fortifications being renewed for all cities south of the Thermopylae Pass, and specifically mentions Corinth, the walls of which had been ruined by ‘terrible earthquakes which had visited the city’, Athens, Plataea, and ‘the towns of Boeotia’ (Buildings 4.2). But he also claims that the fortifications of cities in central Greece and Peloponnesos had fallen into ruin long before Justinian's reign. The Emperor's intention was apparently to rebuild the walls of all the cities south of the Thermopylae Pass, but realising that the operation would take too long, he decided ‘to wall the whole Isthmus securely’. The implication is that most, if not all cities south of the Hexamilion remained unfortified. North of the Thermopylae Pass, Prokopios mentions the rebuilding of fortifications at Echinos, Thebes, Pharsalos, Demetrias, Metropolis, Gomphi, and Trika (Trikala), with only Kassandria (Potidaea) mentioned in Macedonia (Buildings 4.2). Conspicuously absent from this list is the great Macedonian metropolis of Thessalonica, the largest city in the Balkans and the second city of the Empire after Constantinople. Indeed, the evidence available so far suggests that although Emperor Justinian certainly contributed to the decoration or endowment of the basilica of St Demetrios in Thessalonica, the repair or extension of the city fortifications is a much earlier work, some of which at least was paid for by private citizens.
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Cairo
While Syria had suffered from the onslaughts of the Mongols and the wars of the Crusades, Cairo had escaped almost unmolested. Peace had enabled her to become the fabled cultural city of the Arab world. Foreign visitors were uniformly astonished by the opulence that unfolded before them. Ibn Battuta (b. Tangiers 1304) surpassed himself with his mellifluous prose when he dictated his memoirs on his return to Fez to Muhammad Ibn Juzayy, the current secretary of the sultan:
I arrived at length at Cairo, mother of cities and seat of Pharaoh the tyrant, mistress of broad regions and fruitful lands,
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Faneuil Hall
Then, as now, a walk through Boston’s streets could provide the historically minded citizen with memories not only of a successful revolution but of founding fathers—James Otis, John Hancock, Samuel Adams—whose names instilled a sense of reverence for the nation’s founding principles. If that citizen was Henry Adams, his patriotism would be indistinguishable from his filiopiety, which he admitted was alive and well in the 1840s. Seeking to account for the “atmosphere” of Boston, Adams described his childhood as a “nest of associations so colonial—so troglodytic—as the first Church, the Boston State House, Beacon Hill, John
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