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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Sigla -- Introduction -- 1 A background to the Hibernensis -- 1.1 Authorship -- 1.2 Date of composition -- 1.3 Structure -- 1.4 Sources: general discussion -- 1.5 Sources: the Bible -- 1.6 Sources: Irish synods -- 1.7 The late antique and early medieval canonical background -- 1.8 The Hibernensis and Irish vernacular law -- 1.9 Remarks on Latinity -- 2 Recensions and textual varieties -- 2.1 Distinguishing between the recensions: a formal approach -- 2.2 Different recensions, different sources -- 2.3 The recensions and their Irish sources -- 2.4 Vestiges of a pre-recensional text -- 2.5 An early secondary witness to the undivided text -- 2.6 Postulating an undivided text -- 3 Editing the Hibernensis -- 3.1 The present edition -- 3.2 The main copy -- 3.3 Principles of the present edition -- The main text -- Book, chapter, and other numbers -- Cited sources -- Grammar, orthography, and translation -- Variant readings and emendations -- 4 Manuscripts studied for the present edition -- A Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, 221 (193) -- B Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 3182 -- D Monte Cassino, Archivio e Biblioteca dell'Abbazia, 297 -- H Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 42 -- O London, British Library, Cotton Otho E. XIII -- P Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, lat. 12021 -- S St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 243 -- V Rome, Biblioteca Vallicelliana, T. XVIII -- Q Würzburg, Universitätsbibliothek, Mp. th. q. 31 -- Tables -- 1: Texts attributed to Sinodus Hibernensis and Hibernenses -- 2: Sinodus Romana and Romani in Hib.A and Hib.B -- 3: Texts attributed to Patrick -- 4: Irish sources not mentioned in previous tables -- 5: Q and the present edition - a synoptic table -- Editorial conventions -- Text of the Hibernensis.

Bryson's Management of the estate : English translation -- Background. Introduction ; Text and transmission -- Economy. Property ; Slaves -- Family. The wife ; The boy -- Text and translations of Bryson

"The author focuses on one of the most fascinating texts of the 17th and 18th century China mission - the Tianxue benyi (The Original Meaning of the Heavenly Teachings) and the more elaborate Gujin jingtian jian (Mirror on the Worship of Heaven in Ancient Times and Nowadays), both written and compiled by the Jesuit Joachim Bouvet (1656-1730) with the assistance of Chinese converts. The two works were even translated into Latin in order to support the Jesuit position in the Chinese Rites Controversy in the Roman Curia. Through them, Bouvet presented the Jesuit missionary strategy of accommodation in a nutshell: He aimed at introducing Christianity in the terms of Chinese traditional culture. Thus, Bouvet's approach can be characterised as an early attempt at a contextualized theology which is meaningful even for contemporary discussions. The present study offers an introduction to Bouvet's thoughts and works and their respective historical and theological context, a transcription of the Latin texts - the Cœlestis Disciplinæ vera notitia and the De cultu cœlesti Sinarum veterum & modernorum - with an annotated German translation"--

Literacy continues to be a central issue in anthropology, but methods of perceiving and examining it have changed in recent years. In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. He shows how a small and isolated Polynesian community, with no access to print technology, can become deeply steeped in literacy in little more than a century, and how literacy can take on radically divergent forms depending on the social and cultural needs and characteristics of the society in which it develops. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual

"For almost sixty years Professor David Jacoby devoted his research to the economic, social and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean and this new collection reflects his impact on the study of the interactions between the Italian city-states, Byzantium, the Latin East and the realm of Islam. Contributors to this volume are prominent scholars from across Medieval Studies and leading historians of the younger generation"--

The 14th century was the high-point of German mercenary activity in the service of Italian princes and cities. For the first time in 60 years, this study addresses the multifarious implications of this intriguing subject. On the basis of newly discovered sources, it analyzes the general parameters defining international mercenary service in 14th century Italy and describes the life-situations of German mercenaries in war and peacetime. Inquiry into the motives of the mercenaries extends the purview to their geographical origins north of the Alps.