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July 12, 2023

Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination

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Free Download Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa, "Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion: Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination "
English | ISBN: 1641892064 | 2023 | 136 pages | PDF | 1440 KB
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by the fact that all of these sources are indirect, since the Slavs did not acquire literacy until they became Christians. Thus the writers of these texts mostly professed a monotheistic religion, being Christians and in some cases Muslims. The picture that they offer is biased and determined by their own faith. The present analysis innovatively combines testimonies from every Slavic area (Eastern, Western, and Southern), showing their mutual correspondences and emphasizing the relationship between the Slavic pre-Christian religion and its Indo-European roots.

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July 12, 2023

Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies

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Free Download Alexandra Petrulevich, "Digital Spatial Infrastructures and Worldviews in Pre-Modern Societies "
English | ISBN: 1641894695 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 7 MB
The study of medieval and early modern geographic space, literary cartography, and spatial thinking at a time of rapid digitization in the Humanities offers new ways to investigate spatial knowledge and world perceptions in pre-modern societies. Digitization of cultural heritage collections, open source databases, and interactive resources utilizing a rich variety of source materials―place names, early modern cadastral maps, medieval literature and art, Viking Age and medieval runic inscriptions―provides opportunities to re-think traditional lines of research on spatiality and worldviews, encourage innovation in methodology, and engage critically with digital outcomes.

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July 10, 2023

Hitler’s Pre-Emptive War The Battle for Norway, 1940

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Free Download Hitler’s Pre-Emptive War: The Battle for Norway, 1940 by Henrik O. Lunde
English | May 15, 2009 | ISBN: 1932033920 | 400 pages | EPUB | 4.23 Mb
A thorough examination of one of history’s revolutionary campaigns . . . After Hitler conquered Poland, and while still fine-tuning his plans against France, the British began to exert control of the coastline of neutral Norway, an action that threatened to cut off Germany’s iron-ore conduit to Sweden and outflank from the start its hegemony on the Continent. The air, airborne, sea, amphibious, infantry, armor and commando aspects of this brief but violent campaign are here covered in meticulous detail. Henrik Lunde, a native Norwegian and former U.S. Special Operations colonel, has written perhaps the most objective account to date of a campaign in which 20th century military innovation found its first fertile playing field.

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June 26, 2023

Ascent to the Beautiful Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium

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Free Download Ascent to the Beautiful: Plato the Teacher and the Pre-Republic Dialogues from Protagoras to Symposium By William H. F. Altman
2021 | 618 Pages | ISBN: 1793615950 | PDF | 6 MB
With Ascent to the Beautiful, William H. F. Altman completes his five-volume reconstruction of the Reading Order of the Platonic dialogues. This book covers Plato’s elementary dialogues, grappling from the start with F. D. E. Schleiermacher, who created an enduring prejudice against the works Plato wrote for beginners. Recognized in antiquity as the place to begin, Alcibiades Major was banished from the canon but it was not alone: with the exception of Protagoras and Symposium, Schleiermacher rejected as inauthentic all seven of the dialogues this book places between them. In order to prove their authenticity, Altman illuminates their interconnections and shows how each prepares the student to move beyond self-interest to gallantry, and thus from the doctrinal intellectualism Aristotle found in Protagoras to the emergence of philosophy as intermediate between wisdom and ignorance in Symposium, en route to Diotima’s ascent to the transcendent Beautiful. Based on the hypothesis that it was his own eminently teachable dialogues that Plato taught-and bequeathed to posterity as his Academy’s eternal curriculum-Ascent to the Beautiful helps the reader to imagine the Academy as a school and to find in Plato the brilliant teacher who built on Homer, Thucydides, and Xenophon.

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