Tag: Tradition

Free Download David Fearn, "Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition"
English | 2007 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 0199215502 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Bacchylides: Politics, Performance, Poetic Tradition combines close literary analysis of Bacchylides’ poetry with detailed discussion of the central role poetry played in a variety of differing political contexts throughout Greece in the early fifth century BC. In Bacchylides’ praise poetry, David Fearn argues, the poet manipulates a wide range of earlier Greek literature not only to elevate the status of his wealthy patrons, but also to provoke thought about the nature of political power and aristocratic society. New light is also shed on Bacchylides’ Dithyrambs, through detailed discussion of the evidence for the kuklios khoros (‘circular chorus’) and its relation to a variety of different religious festivals, especially within democratic Athens. The links created between literary concerns and cultural contexts reinvigorate these underappreciated poems and reveal their central importance for the self-definition of political communities.

Free Download Italian Knife Fencing: The Art, The Tradition, The Technique by Giovanni Ricco
English | July 6, 2023 | ISBN: 0006612776 | eISBN: 1230006612771 | 57 Pages | EPUB | 16.5 MB
From the cobbled streets of Southern Italy to the trenches of World War I, the book offers an in-depth exploration of the rich and sometimes brutal history of Italian knife fencing. It provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of this lethal but graceful martial art, steeped in history, social context, and tradition.

Free Download George S. Tavlas, "The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927-1960"
English | ISBN: 0226823180 | 2023 | 656 pages | PDF | 2 MB
An essential origin story of modern society’s most influential economic doctrine.

Free Download Kristian S. Heal, "Genesis 37 and 39 in the Early Syriac Tradition "
English | ISBN: 9004526951 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Syriac reception of the story of Joseph offers an unprecedented glimpse into late antique Syriac literary culture. The story inspired a diverse body of texts, written in prose, narrative poetry, dialogue poetry, and metrical homilies, including the greatest narrative poem written in Syriac. These texts explore and retell the story of Joseph with a combination of exegetical imagination, playful creativity, and a relentless focus on the exemplary virtues of the patriarch. Read through a typological lens, this study shows how the story also became an important locus of Christian-Jewish polemic.

Free Download Chod Practice in the Bon Tradition: Tracing the Origins of Chod (gcod) in the Bon Tradition, a Dialogic Approach Cutting Through Sectarian Boundaries By Alejandro Chaoul; Yongdzin Lopon Tenzi Namdak; Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
2009 | 114 Pages | ISBN: 1559392924 | EPUB | 1 MB
This book is the first to trace the history of Chod practice in Tibet’s indigenous Bon tradition. Chod (cutting through) is a meditative practice in which the practitioner imagines offering his or her body in sacrifice through elaborate contemplative visualization. Although a meditative practice, Chod is not done sitting comfortably on a cushion in a shrine room, but instead is often practiced in terrifying places like cemeteries or charnal grounds. The feelings of fear that result are used by the Chod practitioner to cut through his or her own ego. Chod contains elements of early shamanism, of sutric and tantric teachings also found in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, and of the Tibetan highest school of Dzogchen.

Free Download Michael C. Legaspi, "Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0190885122 | 2018 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Wisdom in Classical and Biblical Tradition begins with the recognition that modern culture emerged from a synthesis of the legacies of ancient Greek civilization and the theological perspectives of the Jewish and Christian scriptures. Part of what made this synthesis possible was a shared outlook: a common aspiration toward wholeness of understanding that refused to separate knowledge from goodness, virtue from happiness,

Free Download The Jewish Intellectual Tradition: A History of Learning and Achievement By Alan Kadish, Michael A. Shmidman, Simcha Fishbane
2021 | 450 Pages | ISBN: 1644695340 | PDF | 8 MB
The Jewish intellectual tradition has a long and complex history that has resulted in significant and influential works of scholarship. In this book, the authors suggest that there is a series of common principles that can be extracted from the Jewish intellectual tradition that have broad, even life-changing, implications for individual and societal achievement. These principles include respect for tradition while encouraging independent, often disruptive thinking; a precise system of logical reasoning in pursuit of the truth; universal education continuing through adulthood; and living a purposeful life. The main objective of this book is to understand the historical development of these principles and to demonstrate how applying them judiciously can lead to greater intellectual productivity, a more fulfilling existence, and a more advanced society.

Free Download An English Tradition?: The History and Significance of Fair Play by Jonathan Duke-Evans
English | April 26, 2023 | ISBN: 0192859994 | 452 pages | PDF | 5.01 Mb
For hundreds of years English people have claimed that fair play is at the core of their national identity. Jonathan Duke-Evans looks at the history of fair play in Britain from earliest times to the present, asking whether it is in fact a British, or alternatively an English, characteristic at all – and if so, whether fair play still matters today?

Free Download Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts) by Péter Berta, Asha L. Abeyasekera, Marian Aguiar
English | March 17, 2023 | ISBN: 1978822839 | 254 pages | PDF | 4.92 Mb
Arranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women.

Free Download Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches By Marc Van Der Poel (editor)
2014 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 9058679896 | PDF | 3 MB
Material Philology and the study of Renaissance Latin literatureNeo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Two contributions in this volume focus on theoretical issues, the first presenting a critical assessment of the debate on New Philology in the 1990s, the second providing some guidelines for researchers of the materiality of sources. The remaining seven contributions discuss various ways in which the material presentation in either manuscript or print played a part in the interpretation of a variety of texts, including Basinio of Parma’s Hesperis, Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae, some poems by Janus Secundus, a commentary on Horace’s Ars poetica, Otto Venius’ Emblemata Horatiana, Johann Lauremberg’s play Pompejus Magnus, and the Alithinologia by John Lynch.ContributorsHaijo Westra (University of Calgary), H. Wayne Storey (Indiana University, Bloomington), Christoph Pieper (Leiden University), Marianne Pade (Academy of Denmark, Rome), David Rijser (University of Amsterdam), Werner J.C.M. Gelderblom (Radboud University Nijmegen), Marc van der Poel (Radboud University Nijmegen), Tom Deneire (Antwerp University Library), Nienke Tjoelker (Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck)