Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China [Hardcover ed.] 0674983823, 9780674983823

In a formative period of Chinese culture, early medieval writers made extensive use of a diverse set of resources, in wh

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Reading Philosophy, Writing Poetry: Intertextual Modes of Making Meaning in Early Medieval China [Hardcover ed.]
0674983823, 9780674983823

Analyzes the doctrines of five philosophers of the early Middle Ages: John Scotus Erigena, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter A

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This important study provides the only comprehensive survey of Chinese women during the early medieval period of disunio

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This is the first book-length study of panegyric poetry—yingzhao shi or poetry presented to imperial rulers—in the Chine

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How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

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Honorable Mention, Joseph Levenson Prize (pre-1900 category), Association for Asian Studies By the middle of the third

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This classic text—continually in print for more than half a century—analyzes the architecture of societies in western Eu

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The Hausmans wed an intentional theory of ideas with a modern information theoretic approach in a critical tour of some

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Much of the content of Judges can be understood only when read together with other parts of the Hebrew Bible. Narratives

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To take the measure of literary writing, The Deed of Reading convenes diverse philosophic commentary on the linguistics

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