Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries 9780791470732, 3893103104, 0791470733, 9780791480151, 0791480151, 9781435616691, 1435616693

Writing of Weddings in Middle-Period China, The Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth through Fourteenth Centuries 9780791470732, 0791470733, 9780791480151, 0791480151, 9781435616691, 1435616693

Approaching writing as a form of cultural practice and understanding text as an historical object, this book not only re

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The Writing of Weddings in Middle Period China: Text and Ritual Practice in the Eighth Through Fourteenth Centuries 0791470733, 9780791470732, 9781435616691

A groundbreaking work that treats writing as a ritual practice and texts as ritual objects.

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Memory in Medieval China: Text, Ritual, and Community 9004368639, 9789004368637

Memory in Medieval China explores memory as performed in various genres of writing, from poetry to anecdotes, from histo

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The Tsar's Happy Occasion: Ritual and Dynasty in the Weddings of Russia's Rulers, 1495–1745 9781501754869

The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the ritua

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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayal 9781503621510

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Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy [Vol. 1 Text] 0252000838, 9780252000836

2 volume set. Volume I is text - 294 pages. Volume II contains 265 plates.

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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries 9780300147544

The slaughter of animals for religious feasts, the tinkling of bells to ward off evil during holy rites, the custom of d

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The Empire of the Text: Writing and Authority in Early Imperial China 0847687384, 9780847687381

This unique study argues that in the Qin-Han period, there arose in China a regime of textual authority_one that overlap

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Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain

Professor Turyn has published books on Greek manuscripts in the Vatican Library, and here he examines book scripts and s

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Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England 9780812202120

Ways of Writing is about the making of texts in seventeenth-century New England, whether they were fashioned into printe

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