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Mediterranean Cooking 101 A Simple Introduction to Mediterranean Cooking with Classical Healthy Recipes (2nd Edition)


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English | February 4, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BTRGJ2KX | 96 pages | PDF | 4.04 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

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Mediterranean Crossings Sexual Transgressions in Islam and Christianity (10th-18th Centuries)


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2020 | 170 Pages | ISBN: 8833134628 | PDF | 3 MB
This book investigates the interactions between Muslims and Christians in the late medieval and early modern period from the perspective of sexual and gender transgressions. The first part analyses normative discourses and literary texts in the Arabic, Turkish Ottoman and Spanish worlds, highlighting continuities and fractures. The second part explores concrete interactions between Muslim and Christians, reconstructed through the study of criminal sources from the archives of the Spanish and Portuguese inquisitions.The essays collected here reveal to what extent reflecting on sexual and gender non-conformity constitutes a vantage point for reconstructing the cross-cultural interactions between Christianity and Islam in the Mediterranean world. On the one hand, proscribed sexual behaviours and gendered performances opened the possibility for connections in semi-clandestine networks of sociability that would have been inconceivable in other settings. On the other, cross-religious sexual and emotional exchanges sometimes favoured processes of religious hybridisation or the development of skeptic attitudes towards institutionalised faiths.

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Mediterranean Meals Discover Easy Mediterranean Dishes for Dinner and Lunch (2nd Edition)


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English | February 24, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BW1YLVS4 | 96 pages | PDF | 2.58 Mb
Come take a journey with us into the delights of easy cooking. The point of this cookbook and all our cookbooks is to exemplify the effortless nature of cooking simply.

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Mediterranean Timescapes Chronological Age and Cultural Practice in the Roman Empire


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 1138288756 | 270 Pages | PDF (True) | 7 MB
This book, built around the study of the representation of age and identity in 23,000 Latin funerary epitaphs from the Western Mediterranean in the Roman era, sets out how the use of age in inscriptions, and in turn, time, varied across this region.

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Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production, Use, and Social Significance (UCL Insti


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English | ISBN: 1629580902 | 2015 | 257 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B.C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet, their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists, the result of high-volume production, and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use.

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From Byzantine to Norman Italy Mediterranean Art and Architecture in Medieval Bari


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2023 | ISBN: 1788315065 | English | 288 pages | EPUB, PDF (True) | 25 + 57 MB
This is the first major study to comprehensively analyze the art and architecture of the archdiocese of Bari and Canosa during the Byzantine period and the upheaval of the Norman conquest. The book places Bari and Canosa in a Mediterranean context, arguing that international connections with the eastern Mediterranean were a continuous thread that shaped art and architecture throughout the Byzantine and Norman eras. Clare Vernon has examined a wide variety of media, including architecture, sculpture, metalwork, manuscripts, epigraphy and luxury portable objects, as well as patronage, to illustrate how cross-cultural encounters, the first crusade, slavery and continuities and disruptions in the relationship with Constantinople, shaped the visual culture of the archdiocese. From Byzantine to Norman Italy will appeal to students and scholars of Byzantine art, the medieval Mediterranean and the Italo-Norman world.

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