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| A DUE : Musical Essays in Honour of John D Bergsagel & Heinrich W Schwab [Ole Kongsted, Niels Krabbe, Michael Kube & Morten Michelsen (eds)] Text in English, Danish & German. On 19 April 2008, professor John D Bergsagel celebrated his 80th birthday, and three weeks later -- on 8 May -- Professor Heinrich W Schwab attained the age of 70. The Department of Musicology at the University of Copenhagen and The Royal Library have decided to acknowledge the excellence of these two scholars by a double Festschrift, "A due". Both have been working at the Music Department of the University of Copenhagen and have collaborated with The Royal Library on various projects. This publication contains contributions from 44 colleagues, who thus -- in topics covering the period from the Middle Ages to the present day -- give their voice in the honouring of the two scholars for their musical scholarship. As it may be seen from the table of contents, the publication covers a broad range both in time and in topics, which are all included in the scholarly sphere of Bergsagel and Schwab. { 740pp, 180x260mm, June 2008; HB, £48.00, 8763509253:9788763509251 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ACTION : Anthropology in the Company of Shakespeare [Kirsten Hastrup] An anthropological study of play-acting. Acting on the stage is seen as an example of social action in general. The focus is on the playing of Shakespeare, and on the players' use of and reflections upon time, space, plot, and acting. Kirsten Hastrup aims at a renewed understanding of action and motivation within any social setting. By listening to such experts of action as the players of Shakespeare, we achieve a comprehensive reappraisal of current notions of human agency. In the process, we are offered a set of methodological tools and analytical concepts that may enrich future anthropological analysis of individual actions in their social context. The work is an unprecedented approach to action and acting. For anthropologists and other social or cultural scientists Hastrup offers a fresh perspective on performance, and on the construction of the analytical object. For theatre historians and dramatists, the combination of detailed (ethnographic) analysis of the players' work and self-understanding and anthropological argument offers new insight into the profession of acting. The recurrent references to Shakespeare's plays add a lively feel of art and poetry and sustain one of the main threads of investigation, namely the relationship between language and action. In addition to the substantial references to players, directors, and theatre scholars, the conversational partners are mainly anthropologists and philosophers, but also art historians and literary critics. { 350pp, 150x230mm, March 2003; PB, £30.00, 8772897937:9788772897936 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ACTS OF THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF DEMOTIC STUDIES : Copenhagen, 23-27 August 1999 [Kim Ryholt (ed)] The Seventh International Conference of Demotic Studies took place 23-27 August, 1999. Contributors to this volume include: S Allam, C A R Andrews, L Bares, F de Cenival, M Chauveau, P Collombert, S Davies, M Depauw, L Depuydt, D Devauchelle, T Dousa, A Farid, J Gee, F Hoffman, U Kaplony-Heckel, C A La'da, B Muhs, and others. { 420pp, 215x300mm, September 2002; HB, £70.00, 8772896485:9788772896489 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ANGLES ON THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD, VOLUME 5 : Charting Shakespearean Waters -- Text & Theatre [Niels B Hansen & Sos Haugaard] This volume contains 11 new papers on Shakespeare written by members of the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen and other Danish universities plus a few international Shakespeare scholars. They fit into an overall theme and are included because they are about Shakespeare -- as text, as theatre, in his age, and through the ages. Beside showing many different ways of thinking and writing about Shakespeare, the eleven articles fall into a pattern if read together in the order they are printed. The papers are varied and wide-ranging: contemporary contexts, tradition, language and style, performance, translation and modern appropriation. { 164pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £14.00, 8763502615:9788763502610 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ANGLES ON THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, VOLUME 6 : Literary Translation -- World Literature or 'Worlding' Literature [Ida Klitgård (ed)] This volume of 'Angles on the English-Speaking World' discusses the intriguing inter-relatedness between the concepts and phenomena of world literature and translation. The term 'worlding', presented by Ástráður Eysteinsson in this collection, is coined by Sarah Lawell in her book Reading World Literature (1994) where it denotes the reader's pleasurable 'reading' of the meeting of 'worlds' in a literary translation -- i.e. the meeting of the different cultural environments embodied in a translation from one language into another. Through such reading, the reader in fact participates in creating true 'world literature'. This is a somewhat unorthodox conception of world literature, conventionally defined as 'great literature' shelved in a majestic, canonical library. In the opening article sparking off the theme of this collection, Eysteinsson asks: "Which text does the concept of world literature refer to? It can hardly allude exclusively to the original, which the majority of the work’s readers may never get to know. On the other hand, it hardly refers to the various translations as seen apart from the original. It seems to have a crucial bearing on the border between the two, and on the very idea that the work merits the move across this linguistic and cultural border, to reside in more than two languages". Picking up on this question at issue, all the essays in this collection throw light on the problematic mechanics of cultural encounters when 'reading the world' in literary translation, i.e. in the texts themselves as well as in the ways in which they have become institutionalised as 'world literature'. { 152pp, 155x230mm, July 2006; PB, £14.00, 8763504936:9788763504935 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ANGLES ON THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD, VOLUME 7 : The State of the Union, Scotland 1707-2007 [Jørgen Sevaldsen & Jens Rahbek Rasmussen (eds)] This special issue of ANGLES marks the three hundredth anniversary of the Union of the two kingdoms of Scotland and England under the name of the Kingdom of Great Britain. { 155pp, 155x230mm, October 2007; PB, £14.00, 8763507021:9788763507028 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ANTIPHON : A Study in Argumentation [Bodil Due] CONTENTS: Preface; Index of Greek Words; List of Works Referred to; The Problem; Notes to Chapter One; Antiphon's First Speech; Notes to Chapter Two; Antiphon's Fifth Speech; Notes to Chapter Three; Antiphon's Sixth Speech; Notes to Chapter Four; Conclusion; Notes to Chapter Five. { 76pp, 155x230mm, December 1980; PB, £5.00, 8788073165:9788788073164 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ARISTOTELES OM HUKOMMELSE : En oversættelse af Om hukommelse og genkaldelse med indledning og kommentar [David Bloch] Text in Danish. { 104pp, 140x215mm, April 2007; PB, £12.00, 8763506092:9788763506090 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ART & ALCHEMY [Jacob Wamberg (ed)] This collection of articles covering the time span from the Late Middle Ages to the twentieth century intends to challenge the current neglect of the interplay between esoteric knowledge and the visual arts. 'Art and Alchemy' indicates that alchemy indeed has several connections with art by examining some of the pictorial and literary books that disseminated alchemical symbols and ideas, delving into images, which in one way or another can be shown to appropriate and interpret alchemical ideas or environments, and expanding the scope of alchemical imagery by indicating structural affinities between alchemical processes and artistic creation. { 297pp, 150x230mm, March 2006; PB, £30.00, 8763502674:9788763502672 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ART OF ACTING IN ANTIQUITY : Iconographic Studies in Classical, Hellenistic & Byzantine Theatre [Meiiendam] Provides greater insight into the dramatic art of antiquity by analysing three major groups of iconographical material in context with the written sources. As a theatre historian, the author's object was to discuss some fundamental scenic questions, from the viewpoint of theatre history, in an attempt to shed fresh light on performance tradition in ancient drama. { 150pp, 150x235mm, January 1992; PB, £31.00, 8772892196:9788772892191 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ARTICULATING EUROPE : Local Perspectives [Jonas Frykman & Peter NiederMuller (ed)] A collection of articles that addresses the challenges that European ethnology is facing. Representing a variety of localities, they give new insights and perspectives to the importance of doing empirical fieldwork and of seeing the emergence of new patterns as well as the remaking of old ones. { 158pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £15.00, 8772898488:9788772898483 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ARTS & THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF MARTIN LUTHER [Eyolf Ostrem, Jens Flescher & Nils Holger Petersen] Lutheran theology and religious practice re-shaped traditions from the ritual heritage of the Medieval Latin Church. Throughout the cultural history of European Lutheran areas, what came to be seen as 'the arts' may be discussed in the light of (changing) Lutheran traditions: the cultural heritage of Martin Luther. This volume presents a collection of nine essays on Lutheran traditions and the arts within the 500 years since the Reformation, as a special issue of the journal 'Transfiguration' in connection with the Tenth International Congress for Luther Research hosted at the Department of Church History, University of Copenhagen. { 208pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; PB, £13.00, 8772897880:9788772897882 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| AUS DER BUCHHALTUNG DES WEINMAGAZINS IM EDFU-TEMPEL -- 2-VOLUME SET : Der Demotische P Carlsberg 409 [Maren Schentuleit] Text in German. This volume is the first edition of an 8.80m long demotic account papyrus -- one of the longest extant papyri. P Carlsberg 409 provides detailed information on the delivery and distribution of wine at Edfu in the year 132/131 BC, i.e. the 39th regnal year of Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II. The edition contains a palaeographical and philological commentary as well as a study of the administration and economy of the Horus temple at Edfu in Upper Egypt. { 560pp, 215x280mm, February 2006; HB, £95.00, 8763503441:9788763503440 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| BABYLONIAN LIVER OMENS : The Chapters Manzazu, Padanu & Pan Takalti of the Babylonian Extispicy Series Mainly From Assurbanipal's Library [Ulla Koch-Westenholz PhD] The canonical version of the Babylonian omen series concerned with barûtu: extispicy (divination from entrails of sheep), consisted of ten chapters or sub-series, and are among the first intellectual adventures of Ancient Man into the field of science. Three of these chapters, all concerned with the front of the liver, are edited here for the first time. Also, the book contains a complete analysis of the Akkadian terms used in divination, a complete index of texts and words, copies of the new-found texts, and photographic plates assisting the reader. By a thorough analysis terminology involved in Assyrian and Babylonian scientific thought, the author for the first time opens up the vast and relatively virgin field of pre-Greek science for the general scholar. The presentation is an indispensable source for all who work with the history and languages of the Ancient Near East, biblical studies, studies in ancient religion, and the history of science and philosophy. The author is associate professor at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University of Copenhagen. { 580pp, 210x265mm, September 2000; HB, £70.00, 8772896205:9788772896205 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| BERTEL THORVALDSEN : A Daguerrotype Portrait from 1840 [Marie Louise Berner] One of the earliest portrait photographs -- a daguerreotype -- represents the Danish artist Bertel Thorvaldsen. In spite of the fact that the photograph is signed and dated there has been doubts about the dating and the location of the taking of the picture. Starting from the photography itself as well as the historical facts the author sets the photography in its proper context. Written sources material and other pictures are presented to throw light on the photographer, the French businessman A C T Neubourg’s work in Scandinavia. Furthermore, the reader gains an insight into the exposure as it is being reflected in the picture where an older conception of art meets the new age of photography. The book also contains an appendix by Jens Frederiksen (The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen) on A C T Neubourg’s camera, lens and daguerreotypes. { 136pp, 250x230mm, August 2005; HB, £18.00, 8772899115:9788772899114 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| BIBLIOTEKER TIL SALG : Om danske bogauktioner og kataloger 1661-1811 [Harald Ilsøe] Text in Danish. { 280pp, 180x260mm, March 2007; HB, £30.00, 8763504472:9788763504478 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| BRITAIN & DENMARK : Political, Economic & Cultural Relations in 19th & 20th Centuries [Jørgen Sevaldsen, Bjørn Claus & Bjørke Bo (eds)] 'Britain and Denmark', written by Danish and British historians, constitutes the first attempt to provide a comprehensive picture of the roles that these two neighbouring countries have played in the lives of each other during the last two centuries. They are different in size and have had very different global and regional orientations. So, naturally, Britain has always loomed larger in Danish life and politics than the other way round. In many areas, however, relations have been close. The book covers contacts relating to trade, security policies and social and political theory, but also touch on mutual influences within the areas of literature, music, design etc. Most treatments of Danish political and cultural relations with the outside world in this period concentrate on Germany for the period up to 1945, and on the Soviet Union and the USA in the post-war world. In the same way, works on British contemporary history rarely devote much space to relations with the Nordic countries. The aim, therefore, of this book is to provide a supplement, and perhaps corrective, to the existing literature on the international positions of Britain and Denmark in the modern world. { 656pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; HB, £43.00, 8772897503:9788772897509 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CAHIERS DE L'INSTITUT DU MOYEN-ÂGE GREC ET LATIN, VOLUME 73 [Sten Ebbesen (ed)] CIMAGL publishes work done in the Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Copenhagen, or in collaboration with the Department. The research presented mainly has to do with the Latin trivium and quadrivium, and with Byzantine music. { 263pp, 170x235mm, January 2002; PB, £20.00, 8772898577:9788772898575 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CAHIERS DE L'INSTITUT DU MOYEN-ÂGE GREC ET LATIN, VOLUME 74 [Sten Ebbesen (ed)] CIMAGL was founded in 1969. It publishes work done at the Institute for Greek and Latin, Copenhagen, or in collaboration with the Institute. The research presented mainly has to do with the Latin trivium and quadrivium, and with Byzantine music. { 208pp, 155x230mm, March 2004; PB, £20.00, 8772899239:9788772899237 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CAHIERS DE L'INSTITUT DU MOYEN-ÂGE GREC ET LATIN, VOLUME 75 [Sten Ebbesen (ed)] Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin publishes work done in the Department of Greek and Latin at the University of Copenhagen, or in collaboration with the Department. The research presented mainly has to do with the Latin trivium and quadrivium, and with Byzantine music. CIMAGL publishes no book reviews. { 220pp, 155x230mm, March 2005; PB, £20.00, 8763502275:9788763502276 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CAHIERS DE L'INSTITUT DU MOYEN-ÂGE GREC ET LATIN, VOLUME 76 { 282pp, 155x230mm, March 2006; PB, £20.00, 8763504766:9788763504768 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CARE & CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS 10 : Proceedings of the Tenth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen, 19-20 October 2006 [Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (eds)] Text in English & German. This volume contains articles of relevance for books, manuscripts and libraries, for example new acquisitions in the National and University Library of Iceland, Icelandic manuscripts in the British Library, types of medieval bindings in the University Library of Uppsala and marks of previous ownership on books in the Royal Library in Copenhagen, a digital exhibition resulting from the great theft of books from the library that has been described in Care and conservation 9, on the binding structures of medieval Armenian manuscripts, and on a method employed for the examination of the tools used in the cover decoration of Byzantine manuscripts. There are also articles on plaited silk strings found on medieval documents, on vegetable dyes in English medieval manuscripts, on paper manufacture in Denmark in the 17th century, and on traditional methods of paper production in Nepal. In connection with storage conditions there are presentations of an investigation of the air quality in the new archive at the Arnamagnæan Collection in Copenhagen with passive climate control, of considerations in connection with the planning of new book stores in the Royal Library there, and a report of a Russian-Dutch project on methods for assessing damage in large collections. On conservation in general there are accounts of developments in the conservation of parchment in Hungary, of the treatment of damage to paper manuscripts caused by iron-gall ink corrosion and of the use of synthetic polymers and various types of glue in paper conservation. On the conservation of individual manuscripts there are accounts of the conservation of the section of the 4th-century bible manuscript Codex Sinaiticus that is kept in the British Library, of the 16th-century paper manuscript known as the Fish Book which is kept in the Royal Library in the Hague, and of a group of Turkish Quran-manuscripts kept in the Mevlana Musum in Konya. Finally there are descriptions of the procedures involved in the digital registration of the manuscript collection in St Catherine’s monastery in Mount Sinai, and of a considerate method for photographing medieval manuscripts prior to digitisation. { 284pp, 155x230mm, June 2008; PB, £25.00, 8763507943:9788763507943 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CARE & CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS, VOLUME 8 : Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen 16th-17th October 2003 [Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (eds)] Much work is required to ensure the well-being of the manuscripts in the care of our libraries, archives and other collections and the regular seminars in Copenhagen provide a good opportunity for conservators, archivists, librarians and those who work with manuscripts to meet and discuss their problems. The eighth seminar deals among other things with wooden bindings, the manufacture of parchment, the conservation of embroidered bindings, the study of paint layers, the restoration of heat-damage parchment, binding decoration and hand tools for Ottoman period manuscripts, biomonitering of rare books and documents, German stamped bindings, new recipes for the conservation of leather and parchment, as well as codicology and palæography. The book is well illustrated and contains references and a list of manuscripts. { 300pp, 165x235mm, April 2005; PB, £25.00, 8763502577:9788763502573 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CARE & CONSERVATION OF MANUSCRIPTS, VOLUME 9 : Proceedings of the Eighth International Seminar Held at the University of Copenhagen, 14th to 15th April 2005 [Gillian Fellows-Jensen & Peter Springborg (eds)] { 250pp, 165x235mm, October 2006; PB, £25.00, 8763505541:9788763505543 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CARL NIELSEN COLLECTION, VOLUME 4 [Birgit Bjornum & Klaus Mollerhoj (eds)] Carl Nielsen is generally considered to be Denmark's greatest composer. His works cover the full range of musical genres: symphonies and operas, chamber music, pieces for piano, and songs. Whereas in Denmark Carl Nielsen is especially loved for his Danish songs and the opera Maskarade, internationally he is primarily known for his instrumental music. Collecting, cataloguing and organising the musical manuscripts of this composer has been carried out for the benefit of the Danish and international music community. { 301pp, 175x245mm, January 1992; HB, £45.00, 8772891793:9788772891798 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CASSIODORUS JORDANES & THE HISTORY OF THE GOTHS : Studies in a Migration Myth [Arne Soby Christensen] A study in the myth of the origins and early history of the Goths as told in the Getica written by Jordanes in AD 551. Jordanes claimed they emigrated from the island of Scandza (Sweden) in 1490 BC, thus giving them a history of more than two thousand years. He found this narrative in Cassiodorus's Gothic history, which is now lost. The present study demonstrates that Cassiodorus and Jordanes did not base their accounts on a living Gothic tradition of the past, as the Getica would have us believe. On the contrary, they got their information only from the Graeco-Roman literature. The Greeks and Romans, however, did not know of the Goths till the middle of the third century AD. Consequently, Cassiodorus and Jordanes created a Gothic history partly through an erudite exploitation of the names of foreign peoples partly by using the narratives about other peoples' history as if they belonged to the Goths. The history of the Migrations therefore must be reconsidered. { 391pp, 170x250mm, February 2002; HB, £30.00, 8772897104:9788772897103 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHACHAPOYA TEXTILES : The Laguna de los Cóndores Textiles in the Museo Leymebamba, Chachapoyas, Peru [Lena Bjerregaard] This book analyses 45 selected textiles -- burial offerings and mummy bundle wrappings -- discovered in 1997 at a cliffside burial site overlooking Laguna de los Cóndores in the cloud forest of the northern Peruvian Andes. The find includes the best preserved and largest cache of Chachapoya textiles known to date, providing researchers with a unique opportunity to learn about little-known Chachapoya weaving techniques and style. Most of the textiles date to the Chachapoya-Inka period, ca1470-1532, although some may have been produced earlier or may date to Spanish Colonial times. The styles include local Chachapoya, Chachapoya-Inka, provincial Inka, Inka and imports from the coast or the tropical lowlands. In 2001 Lena Bjerregaard spent some months at the museum in Leymebamba analysing the textiles from Laguna de los Condores, and the book is the result of this research. { 119pp, 210x260mm, August 2007; HB, £30.00, 8763504995:9788763504997 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHANGING PHILOLOGIES : Contributions to the Redefinition of Foreign Language Studies in the Age of Globalisation [Hans Lauge Hansen (ed)] This book contains the proceedings from the conference 'Changing Philologies' together with other contributions on the same topic. The conference was organised by the Danish Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and was held on 8-9 February 2002 in Copenhagen. The contributors to this book question whether the traditional paradigm of national philology, which dominated foreign language studies for more than a century, is appropriate for meeting the challenge posed by the economic and political globalisation of today. They argue that the relation between languages and cultures will become an important field of investigation in the future, and that foreign language studies must provide linguistically skilled candidates trained in cultural translation and intercultural communication. In order to do so, the departments of foreign language studies must strengthen their interdisciplinary activities and engage in theoretical reflections upon the relation between such entities as language, culture, identity, and history, and the self-knowledge and imaginary world pictures represented in art and literature. { 160pp, 155x230mm, September 2002; PB, £16.00, 8772897902:9788772897905 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHAOS & LOVE : The Philosophy of the Icelandic Family Sagas [Thomas Bredsdorff] The Icelandic Family Sagas -- major medieval prose epics such as Egil's Saga, Laxdaela Saga, Njal's Saga, Hrafnkel's Saga -- present detailed sophisticated images of a society in which man acts and suffers the consequences of his actions -- or have them visited upon others. Feuds rage and disaster triumphs. The book introduces the reader to a number of such narratives, studies the notions of guilt and causes embedded in them, and, as a result of the study, suggests that reckless erotic desire, is often at the root of the evil. When love is practised within the boundaries set by family and tradition, peace prevails. When love is pursued as a means of individual satisfaction, regardless of the views of others, disaster prevails. The rules of society, notably the rules of feud, designed to balance competing forces, tend rather to aggravate the disasters, sometimes, as in Laxdaela and Njala, to the extent that only Christian divine grace can restore the peace. { 156pp, 165x245mm, November 2001; HB, £20.00, 8772895705:9788772895703 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHAUCER'S NARRATIVE VOICE IN THE KNIGHT'S TALE The first specialised study of narrative voice in The Knights' Tale. { 111pp, 160x240mm, November 1995; PB, £16.00, 8772893419:9788772893419 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHRISTIAN CONCEPTIONS OF JEWISH BOOKS : The Pfefferkorn Affair [Avner Shamir, Ph.D.] This book explores how Christians understood the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The book tells the story of the so-called Pfefferkorn affair, the attempt to confiscate and burn all Jewish post-biblical literature in the Holy Roman Empire in the years 1509-10. The author follows the fate of the confiscated books and their examination by a commission of experts and explores how Christians -- a convert, an Emperor, the members of city councils, an inquisitor, many theologians, and a hebraist -- perceived Jewish scholarship and knowledge. { 128pp, 150x210mm, December 2008; PB, 8763507722:9788763507721 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CHRISTINA PSALTER : A Study of the Images & Texts in a French Early Thirteenth-Century Illuminated Manuscript [Marina Vidas] This book is the first detailed analysis of an exquisitely illuminated thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) which was owned by Christina of Norway (1234-1262), daughter of Håkon IV and wife of Philip of Castile and León. New information is provided about the Psalter’s medieval and later components, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and texts, as well as its provenance and date. Furthermore, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and some of the most important manuscripts illuminated in Paris in the Period, like the three-volume Moralised Bibles, are discussed. Suggestions also are made about the meanings the texts and images might have had for their intended audience. { 154pp, 180x260mm, February 2006; HB, £25.00, 8763501279:9788763501279 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA : Danish Journal of Philosophy & History: Volume 58 [Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen & Marianne Pade (eds)] "Classica et Mediaevalia" is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French & German. { 334pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £40.00, 8763507552:9788763507554 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 44 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Signe Isager et al] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 318pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £49.99, 8772892447:9788772892443 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 45 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Signe Isager et al] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 288pp, 155x230mm, December 2001; PB, £49.99, 8772893273:9788772893273 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 52 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Ole Thomsen (ed)] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 346pp, 155x230mm, July 2002; PB, £40.00, 8772897724:9788772897721 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 53 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen et al] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 352pp, 155x230mm, April 2003; PB, £36.00, 8772898534:9788772898537 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 54 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire 'Classica et Mediaevalia' is an international periodical with articles written by Danish and foreign scholars. They are mainly published in English but also French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with the Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greek-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 380pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £40.00, 8772899220:9788772899220 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 55 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Ole Thomsen et al (eds)] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 398pp, 155x230mm, September 2005; HB, £40.00, 8763503395:9788763503396 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 56 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Jesper Carlsen, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Vincent Gabrielsen, Marianne Pade, Minna Skafte Jensen, Birger Munk Olsen & Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (eds)] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 328pp, June 2006; PB, £40.00, 8763504928:9788763504928 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA, VOLUME 57 : Revue Danoise de Philologie et d'Histoire [Jesper Carlsen, Karsten Friis-Jensen, Vincent Gabrielsen, Marianne Pade, Minna Skafte Jensen, Birger Munk Olsen & Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (eds)] Classica et Mediaevalia is an international periodical, published annually, with articles written by Danish and International scholars. The articles are mainly written in English, but also in French and German. The periodical deals from a philological point of view with Classical Antiquity in general and topics such as history of law and philosophy and the medieval ecclesiastic history. It covers the period from the Greco-Roman Antiquity until the Late Middle Ages. { 281pp, 155x230mm, November 2006; PB, £40.00, 8763505126:9788763505123 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN HISTORY OF RELIGIONS : Their Aim, Scope, & Validity [Sørensen, Jørgen Podemann, & Sand, Erik Reenberg (eds)] This Symposium volume discusses comparative perspectives as constituents of History of Religion as an academic discipline and the validity of comparative studies in the field of religion. The papers deal with the origin of comparative studies in European scholarship, with the methods and the role of the phenomenology of religion, with comparative Indo-European mythology, and, on the whole, address a wide range of comparative issues. { 156pp, 160x240mm, April 1999; PB, £20.00, 8772895330:9788772895338 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| COPENHAGEN WORKING PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS, VOLUME 4 [Department of General & Applied Linguistics, University of Copenhagen] Since its foundation in May 1988, the Department of General and Applied Linguistics has issued -- at irregular intervals -- a number of volumes in the series Copenhagen Working Papers in Linguistics, in which staff members, graduate students and guest researchers have reported on their research activities. So far two volumes of papers on current research and three monographs have appeared in the series. The present volume contains contributions within the fields of general linguistics and historical linguistics and abstracts of papers and lectures by IAAS staff members and others affiliated to the department. { 216pp, 170x245mm, December 1996; PB, £30.50, 8772893850:9788772893853 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| CRIME & FANTASY IN SCANDINAVIA : Fiction, Film & Social Change ((New Directions in Scandinavian Studes Series)) [Andrew Nestingen] Scandinavian popular novels and films have seen an efflorescence in the last thirty years. In "Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia", Andrew Nestingen argues that the growth and visibility of popular culture have been at the heart of the development of heterogeneous "publics" in Scandinavia, in opposition to the homogenising influence of the post-World War II welfare state. The book provides significant insight into the changing nature of civil society under the Scandinavian welfare state through the lens of popular culture. Nestingen develops his argument through the examination of genres where the central theme is individual transgression of societal norms. Among the internationally known artists discussed are Henning Mankell, Aki Kaurismäki, Lukas Moodysson, and Lars von Trier. { 326pp, 150x230mm, June 2008; PB, £16.00, 8763507935:9788763507936 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH CONTRIBUTIONS TO CLASSICAL SCHOLARSHIP 1971-1991 : A Bibliography [Flemming Gorm Andersen] For generations, the Royal Library of Denmark has contributed to or published biographies of the major subjects, especially within the fields of humanities and social sciences. One of these is the present bibliography of Classical studies which is a continuation of P A Hansen's 'Bibliography of Danish Contributions to Classical Scholarship from the Sixteenth Century to 1970 (Copehagen 1977), continuing the registration up to 1991. The present bibliography restricts itself to Classical Antiquity. { 160pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; HB, £19.00, 8772898224:9788772898223 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH COOKBOOKS : Domesticity & National Identity, 1616-1901 [Carol Gold] Cookbooks tell stories. They open up the worlds in which the people who wrote and read them once lived. In the hands of a good historian, cookbooks can be shown to contain the markings of political, social, and ideological changes that we conventionally locate outside the kitchen. Cookbooks allow us to trace the course of empires, of social roles, and of new nations over time. DANISH COOKBOOKS draws from three hundred years of Danish cookbooks to trace the growth of a bourgeois consciousness, the development of domesticity and gendered spheres, and the evolution of nationalism and a specific Danish identity from the early seventeenth to the beginning of the twentieth century. Like all prescriptive literature, cookbooks do not merely reflect the changes of the day but also constitute them. Historian Carol Gold reads recipes and cooking instructions for what they can tell us about literacy levels, division of labour in the kitchen and in society, and changes in the gendered aspects of publishing and using cookbooks. Gold explores the authors' instructions for economic and hygienic housekeeping and their sentiments about Danish identity as spelled out in dishes and spices. Just as the Danish nation would manage the body politic, so women were exhorted to manage the house and ensure the family's physical and moral health. Through the pages of cookbooks -- in recipes, menus, and table settings -- we can chart the growth of a nationalist Denmark and track the development of what it means to be a Dane. Written with the ease of a veteran historian and in an accessible and engaging style, DANISH COOKBOOKS will appeal to scholars in Scandinavian studies as well as in gender and women's studies. It will also appeal to non-academic readers interested in historical aspects of Danish nationalism and identity, women's social history, and cookbooks and cooking. { 220pp, 140x235mm, August 2007; PB, £20.00, 8763506084:9788763506083 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH ROYAL TOMBS: 3-VOLUME SET [Karin Kryger, MA (ed)] "Danish Royal Tombs" deals with all known Danish royal tombs from King Gorm the Old and Queen Thyra to King Frederik 9 and Queen Ingrid and is thus a complete presentation. In this sense it is quite unique as it is, as far as can be asserted, the first work to treat all the royal tombs of a single nation. "Danish Royal Tombs" tells the history of Denmark through the royal tombs. It offers perspectives on the royal dynasties, royal burial rituals, and Danish royal tombs in a European perspective. As a whole the work presents a continuous reading of Danish art history and its situation within the European tradition. Most of the graves are found in Denmark, but some Danish kings and queens have been buried abroad. Hence the reader is presented with Canute II the Great's tomb in Winchester, the graves of Magnus the Good in Nidaros, Harald III in Dalby, Eric I on Cyprus, Queen Bodil in Palestine, Queen Mechtilde in Vadstena, and the unhappy deported Queen Caroline Mathilde's coffin in Celle. "Danish Royal Tombs" contains articles on all known graves of Danish kings and queens as well as the graves of those wives of kings where the marriage was legitimate. The articles present archaeological, historical and art historical aspects. A great part of the work has been written on the basis of newly conducted research. Published by Selskabet til Udgivelse of danske Mindesmaerker in co-operation with Museum Tusculanum Press. 27 authors are connected to the project. { 1632pp, 175x240mm, December 2008; HB, 8763507811:9788763507813 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH UNITY : A Political Party Between Fascism & Resistance, 1936-1947 [Henrik Lundbak] Danish Unity was founded in 1936 and can be seen in the context of general European Fascism. It was impressed by German National Socialism, but also held important reservations against it due to Danish Unity's own Christian and national standpoint. During the German occupation of 1940-1945, Danish Unity contributed substantially to the resistance movement, and after the liberation it tried to re-define its ideology under aspiration from the Christian democratic parties in France, Italy and Germany. { 312pp, 155x230mm, October 2002; HB, £23.00, 8772897244:9788772897240 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 26 (1991) { 114pp, 155x230mm, December 1991; PB, £16.00, 8772891246:9788772891248 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 27 (1992) { 118pp, 155x230mm, October 1992; PB, £16.00, 8772891939:9788772891934 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 30 { 118pp, 155x235mm, January 1995; PB, £23.99, 8772893605:9788772893600 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 36 (2001) [Finn Collin et al (eds)] { 116pp, 155x235mm, July 2002; PB, £23.00, 8772897716:9788772897714 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 37 (2002) [Fenn Collin et al (eds)] { 112pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £20.00, 8772898631:9788772898636 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 38 [Finn Colin (ed)] The Theses of Identity in Z(6) and H(6) of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Morten Hansen); Der Begriff der sittlichen Vernunft bei dem jungen Hegel (Peter Wolsing); Priviliged Access and Two Kinds of Semantic Externalism (Jesper Kallestrup); Quasirealism or Minimalism? (Lars Binderup); The Ethics of Understanding (Niels Thomassen); The Metaethical Foundations of Human Rights (Erich Klawonn); Egalitarianism and Repugnant Conclusions (Thomas Petersen). { 125pp, 155x230mm, August 2003; PB, £23.00, 8772899891:9788772899893 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 39 (2004) [Finn Collin et al (eds)] { 91pp, 155x230mm, December 2005; PB, £22.00, 8763502895:9788763502894 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 40 [Collin Finn (ed)] { 144pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £22.00, 8763504944:9788763504942 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DANISH YEARBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY, VOLUME 41 (2006) Text in Danish and German. { 100pp, 155x230mm, January 2007; PB, £22.00, 8763506998:9788763506991 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DECORATING THE LORD'S TABLE : On the Dynamics Between Image & Altar in the Middle Ages [Søren Kaspersen & Erik Thunø (eds)] As the centre of Christian worship within churches, the altar has always remained a key subject to pictorial decorations. This book is concerned with the Early and High Middle Ages which saw a profusion of sumptuous altar decorations all over Medieval Europe focusing on the rich Scandinavian material of 'golden altars'. Dealing with the investigation of the interrelationships between image and altar in the light of recent years' methodological developments the chapters are also treating themes like the human body, materiality, pictorial narrative, and liturgy. In this context, it focuses on the attempt to activate the image before the ritual, its audience and the visual and spatial context. { 170pp, 160x240mm, August 2006; HB, £25.00, 8763501333:9788763501330 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DENMARK'S SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT & THE MARSHALL PLAN 1947--50 [Vibeke Sørensen] The implementation of the Marshall Plan in Denmark gave rise to serious conflicts between the Social Democratic government and the opposition -- and between the government and the business community. Vibeke Sørensen portrays the deep disagreement that existed regarding Danish economic policy in the post-war period, analysing also how this political disagreement characterised the Danish implementation of the plan. On the basis of thorough source studies, Sørensen questions the up until now appreciatory evaluation of the importance of the Marshall Plan for the Danish society. On one hand, the implementation played a role in initiating structural changes in the Danish economy, with the plan itself complementing the social democratic reconstruction policy during the first few post-war years. On the other hand, the social democratic government failed in its effort to create consensus regarding more stringent control of economic policy and recognition of the necessity of an industrialisation policy. As a result, the Marshall Plan had only limited success in Denmark. { 360pp, 170x240mm, April 1999; PB, £30.00, 8772896612:9788772896618 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DENSITA INFORMATIVA : Tre Parametri linguistico-testuali -- Uno studio contrastivo inter- ed intralinguistico [Hanne Jansen] TEXT IN ITALIAN. In a combined functional, cognitive and textual perspective and with focus on the contrastive aspect, the present study defines textual information density by the following three parameters; 1) the relation between explicit and implicit information; 2) the concrete elaboration of explicit and implicit density; 3) the relation between 'proper' information and the quantity of linguist material which codes textual and interpersonal information. This study also presents an analytical model in order to compare the information density of different texts. As empiric material the interlinguistic Mr Bean-corpus is used. { 254pp, 155x230mm, December 2003; PB, £20.00, 8772896973:9788772896977 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DEONTOLOGY, RESPONSIBILITY & EQUALITY [Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen] Three questions that loom large in moral and political philosophy are these: Can deontological moral constraints be justified? When, if ever, are we morally responsible for what we do? How is the ideal of equality best configured? 'Deontology, Responsibility and Equality' deals with selected aspects of these three broad questions. It discusses critically certain attempts by Frances Kamm and Thomas Nagel (among others) to account for the impermissibility of minimising violations in terms of moral status. Also, it challenges the view that there is a morally relevant difference between doing and allowing harm and, especially, between killing and letting die. In relation to the second question, it concentrates on recent developments within compatibilist accounts of moral responsibility prompted by the work of Harry Frankfurt. It challenges his purported refutation of the principle of alternative possibilities as well as certain positive compatibilist, identification-based accounts of responsibility. Finally, with respect to the last question, the book focuses on how we should understand the ideal of equality of opportunity and the moral significance of the distinction between social and natural inequalities. It defends equality of outcome over equality of opportunity and the view that natural inequalities are, if bad, no less bad than social inequalities. This book has been accepted at the University of Copenhagen for a public defence as a Dr Phil dissertation. { 503pp, 180x260mm, February 2005; PB, £47.00, 8763502259:9788763502252 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DET PERSISKE FELTTOG : Anabasis [Xenophon] Text in Danish. "Det persiske felttog -- Anabasis" (Anabasis -- March up Country) is the best known work of the Old Greek philosopher, historian and essayist, Xenophon (c. 430-354 BC). Anabasis literally means 'the march up country'. The book renders the fate suffered by the army of 10,000 Greek mercenaries, when it was hired to support an internal attempted coup within the royal family in the mighty Persian reign 400 BC. The mercenaries stranded deep into Persia without guides or supplies. The seven books of the writing tell of the incredible hardships and sufferings the army had to go through during the retreat back through Armenia and Turkey in order to reach the Black Sea and the Greek world. Xenophon's gripping work belongs among the Great Classics of European historiography, and is here translated in its entirety into idiomatic, modern Danish for the first time. The book is provided with an illuminating introduction, covering central issues such as the literary purpose of the work, Greek military affairs and religion. Furthermore, there is an entire register of the persons and localities in the text, plus a number of explanatory notes. Finally, the work is provided with several maps, plates and illustrations, explaining complicated passages together with a series of colour photographs of relevant landscapes. { 288pp, 155x230mm, December 2002; HB, £23.00, 8772897694:9788772897691 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DICTIONAIRRE A-L : Touareg-Francais [Karl G Prasse] A Tuareg-French dictionary containing about 40,000 entries and covering the two main Tuareg dialects of Niger, namely those of the Azawagh and Ayr regions, supplemented by a number of notes from the dialects of the Kél-Geres and Mali. Latin transcription. { 515pp, 180x255mm, November 2003; HB, £43.00, 8772898445:9788772898445 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DISCIPLINE & INTERDISCIPLINARITY : in Foreign Language Studies [Hans Lauge Hansen (ed)] In the last part of the twentieth century, the human sciences witnessed three paradigmatic ‘turns' that made it possible to comprehend each individual discipline in the light of a unitary object of study, the text: the pragmatic turn within linguistics, the linguistic turn within historical and cultural studies, and the cultural turn within literary studies. Combined with the more comprehensive nature of the texts studied (the mass media, postcolonial studies, etc.), reflection on the theoretical approach is more important today than ever as a means of interdisciplinary practice across both disciplines and languages. Most of the contributions in this book were originally presented at a conference on Disciplines and Interdisciplinarity in Foreign Language Studies. The conference took place at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, 19-20 September 2003 and was organised by The Language and Culture Network. Founded in 2002, the network promotes interdisciplinary collaboration between the traditional branches of Foreign Language Studies. { 246pp, 155x230mm, August 2004; PB, £31.50, 8772899409:9788772899404 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| DOMAIN OF LANGUAGE [Michael Fortescue] This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today. { 391pp, 165x245mm, February 2002; HB, £27.00, 8772897066:9788772897066 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EDUCATING MIDDLE CLASS DAUGHTERS There were over 150 private day schools in early nineteenth century Copenhagen. They were run by literate women who taught everything from the basic 3R's to history, science and literature. This is the story of these schools, their teacher-owners, and the girls who attended them. It is also the story of the socialisation of middle class girls at the turn of the eighteenth to nineteenth century in Denmark. { 245pp, 155x235mm, January 1994; HB, £27.00, 8772893737:9788772893730 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ELIZABETH BOWEN : The Later Fiction [Lis Christensen] The Anglo-Irish author Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) entered the literary arena in the 1920s, at a time when the English novel was flourishing and the short story beginning to be recognised as a serious art form. Between 1927 and 1938 she published six full-length novels; it was largely the pressures of the Second World War that then caused eleven years to elapse before she brought out her much acclaimed novel of wartime London, 'The Heat of the Day' (1949). This novel, a medley of romance, spy-story and psychological thriller, anticipated the three novels Bowen went on to write in the 1950s and 1960s, which are all concerned with problems of identity and communication; all deal with the passing of time and the influence of the dead on the living, and all demonstrate the dangers of looking into the past for a present-day sense of security and identity. Christensen examines some aspects of theme and strategy in the last four novels, glancing also at Bowen's post-war stories. Brief presentations and plot summaries are placed in the context of her life and dealt with in a separate section. { 224pp, 160x245mm, December 2001; HB, £22.00, 8772896248:9788772896243 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ENGLISH GENTLEMAN MERCHANT AT WORK : Madras & the City of London 1660 to 1740 [Soren Mentz] This book examines the private trade servants in the English East India Company conducted between Madras on the Coromandel Coast and the City of London in the period from 1660 to 1740. Hitherto, historians have placed English private trade within an Indian context, explaining the success of the private merchants as a consequence of an economic partnership between the English merchants and Indian commercial groups. The aim of this study is to revalue this indocentric interpretation and rather consider this trade as an element of the first British Empire. Thus, the events in Asia are connected with economic, social and cultural developments in the mother country and use the private correspondences and business accounts of Company servants as primary source material. The creation of close commercial ties between Madras and London was also influenced by social and cultural aspects. The private merchants formed a diaspora and Madras was influenced by the prevailing social norms in the English metropolis, particularly by gentlemanly capitalism, which the historians P J Cain and A. G. Hopkins have claimed was central in Britain's overseas expansion. Cultural unity between centre and periphery was maintained through a continuous circulation of persons. The private sector of Madras could develop and expand even though the group of merchants residing in the town was in constant change, since ideological aspects such as mutual trust and the credibility of a gentleman were more important than individual contacts. The British diaspora represented an independent trading structure compared with Indian commercial networks and compared with the EIC. The organisation of private trade resembled the structure of the transatlantic trade and can be compared with the trading networks that connected England with the North American colonies and the Sugar Islands in the Caribbean. REVIEW: "Mentz has opened another avenue of conversation on the nature of English private trade in India." -- Ann M. Carlos (University of Colorado), Enterprise and Society, 2007. { 304pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £26.00, 8772899093:9788772899091 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ESRUM KLOSTERS BREVBOG, TWO-VOLUME SET [Bent Christensen et al] The manuscript contains the 259 documents in Latin and medieval Danish which made up the economical foundations for the monastery's 400 year-old history. This first collected translation of the papal and royal privileges, the court roll and the many deeds of gifts gives an extraordinary insight into a Danish monastery's national and international relations. { 586pp, 155x230mm, May 2005; HB, £38.00, 8772897546:9788772897547 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ESTUDIO DIACRONICO Y SINCRONICO DEL OBJETO INDIRECTO EN EL ESPANOL PENINSULA Y DE AMERICA [Silvia Becerra Bascunan] TEXT IN SPANISH. This study contributes to the understanding of synchronic and diachronic aspects of the grammatical relation of the indirect object in Spanish as it appears on the Iberian Peninsula as well as in Latin America. The following aspects have not been investigated until now: Firstly, the grammaticalisation of the cross-reference (from the 21th century to the 21st century) -- the double representation of the indirect object in the light of Henning Andersen's theory of 'drift'. Secondly, an adaptation of the idea of grammatical relations in functional linguistics as it is presented by Simon Dik and Michael Heslund. All kinds of genres are being studied. { March 2006; PB, £25.00, 8772899794:9788772899794 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ET OPMÆRKSOMT BLIK : Litteratur, sprog og historie hen over grænserne [Per Øhrgaard] Text in Danish. Per Øhrgaard's ability to look attentively upon the borders of the domestic area -- the borders of our own language, our own culture, our profession and institution, all in all, our own world -- has in the course of the years been a source of inspiration to many people. In this festschrift, German and Danish humanists turn their attention to some of these borders to celebrate Per Øhrgaard on the occasion of his 60th birthday the 6th February 2004. The articles cover a wide field: from translation to music, from Goethe to Grass, from Danish fiction to German history and from language to education. The festschrift thus reflects the comprehensiveness and the many facets in Per Øhrgaard's own work. { 365pp, 155x230mm, March 2004; HB, £4.30, 8772899247:9788772899244 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA : Journal of European Ethnology: Volume 38:1 2008 [Orvar Löfgren & Regina Bendix (eds)] What is Europe? Where is Europe? And what is Europe in the discipline of European ethnology? This issue of Ethnologic Europaea celebrates the journal's 40th birthday by looking at future paths for research on Europe. For a long time the disciplines grouped under the label of European ethnology were mainly national ethnologies. The need for European com-parisons lived more in the Sunday rhetoric of the discipline than in actual research, but with a new interest in transnational processes the perspectives have widened. The processes of economic unification also gave rise to research on facets of a Euro-pean culture, conditioned, for instance, by the administrative implementation of European economic and, increasingly, cultural policies. Local, regional and national cultural dimen-sions do not vanish in this development, of course, and neither do borders and boundaries, physical and mental. Processes of EU integration as well as globalisation may both weaken and strengthen national and regional borders, as we have seen during the last decades, but such developments call for a rethinking of Europe as a research field and also a questioning of ideas about Europe or European cultural homogeneity. The EU rhetoric about unity hides a more complex picture, where European integration and disintegration emerges in often surprising settings and forms. { 78pp, 180x260mm, June 2008; PB, £15.00, 8763509261:9788763509268 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA : Journal of European Ethnology: Volume 37:1-2 2007 [Orvar Löfgren & Regina Bendix] A rapidly growing number of double homes connect different parts of Europe in new ways. The second home can be a cottage in the woods, an apartment in the Costa del Sol or a restored farm house in Tuscany. However, other forms of double homes must be added to these landscapes of leisure. There are long distance commuters who spend most of their week in an overnight flat, in a caravan on a dreary parking lot or at a construction site. Economic migrants dream of a house 'back home' for vacations or retirement. Dual homes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the caravans of touring circus artists to people turning sailboats into a different kind of domestic space. This special issue of "Ethnologic Europaea" captures some dimensions of lives that are anchored in two different homes. How are such lives organised in time and space in terms of identification, belonging and emotion? How do they, in very concrete terms, render material transnational lives? The next issue of the journal (2008:1) will take such a comparative perspective into another direction as the authors will consider different kinds of research strategies to achieve European comparisons and to gain new cultural perspectives on European societies and everyday life. { 148pp, 180x260mm, December 2007; PB, £22.00, 8763508850:9788763508858 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA 2006 - PART 1 : Journal of European Ethnology [Orvar Lofgren & Regina Bendix (eds)] This volume starts out with two contrasting studies of monuments. How does the seemingly stability of stone and bronze hide a constantly changing cultural use? Anne Eriksen looks at the history of ruins in Norway. The murmur of ruins turns out to be a speech of modernity, a way of emotionalising place and history. Viktoriya Hryaban discusses the fate of socialist monuments in Ukraine and shows how the attempts to create alternative post-socialist memorials reproduce a traditional Soviet cultural grammar. Lace is a dominating decorative element in many Turkish Dutch homes. It has become a sign of "Turkishness" but as Hilje van der Horst points out, people’s relations to this mundane domestic element mirror some important conflicts and ideas about modernity and ethnicity. From the cultural media of monuments and lace, the discussion moves on to two more classic mass media and their role in identity politics. Stijn Reijnders explores a popular Dutch game show that has managed to survive for decades, becoming something of a national institution for some, an example of an outmoded genre for others. How does the involvement mirror ideas of an imagined national community? Finally, Silke Meyer looks at an 18th century national stereotype of “The German quack” in English popular debate and mass media. How did this caricature of Germanness become an alter ego of the English? { 69pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £15.00, 8763506912:9788763506915 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA 2006 - PART 2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Orvar Lofgren & Regina Bendix (eds)] Articles included: Emotional Geography. Authenticity, Embodiment and Cultural Heritage; Anniversaries and Jubilees. Changing Celebratory Customs in Modern Times; The Meaning of Weaving. Textiles in a Museum Magazine; Contested Modernities. Politics, Culture and Urbanisation in Portugal: A Case Study from the Greater Lisbon Area; The Outsider’s Gaze as Part of the Methodological Toolkit?; Reflections on the Research Project the "Musikantenstadl"; The Camino de Santiago. The Interplay of European Heritage and New Traditions. { 86pp, 155x230mm, December 2007; PB, £15.00, 8763507560:9788763507561 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 24/1 : Journal of European Ethnology [Professor Bjarne Stoklund (ed)] { 84pp, 155x230mm, December 1994; PB, £7.00, 8772893052:9788772893051 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 24/2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Professor Bjarne Stoklund (ed)] { 180pp, 155x230mm, May 1995; PB, £7.00, 8772893478:9788772893471 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 26/1 : Journal of European Ethnology [Margareta Tellenbach (ed)] { 80pp, 155x230mm, September 1996; PB, £7.00, 8772893427:9788772893426 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 28/2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Professor Bjarne Stoklund (ed)] { 182pp, 155x230mm, April 1999; PB, £7.00, 8772895373:9788772895376 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 29/2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Bjarne Stoklund (ed)] { 138pp, 170x250mm, November 2001; PB, £14.00, 8772896183:9788772896182 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 32/2 : Journal of European Ethnology A collection of articles that addresses the challenges that European ethnology is facing. Representing a variety of localities, they give new insights and perspectives to the importance of doing empirical fieldwork and of seeing the emergence of new patterns as well as the remaking of old ones. { 158pp, 170x250mm, February 2003; PB, £14.00, 8772898453:9788772898452 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 33/1 : Journal of European Ethnology [Bjarne Stoklund & Peter Niedermuller (eds)] Since its start in 1967 Ethnologia Europaea has acquired a central position in the international cooperation between ethnologists in the different European countries. It is, however, a journal of topical interest not only for ethnologists but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies. This journal appears twice a year, sometimes as a thematic issue. { 93pp, 155x230mm, June 2003; PB, £11.00, 8772898992:9788772898995 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 33/2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Regina Bendix & John Bendix (eds)] The symposium 'Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom' held in Reinhausen, 2002, formed the basis of this issue of Ethnologia Europaea. Occasioned by the social, political and mass media discourses after the bombings of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, an interdisciplinary group of scholars came together to explore the connotations and implications of the term 'sleeper'. The biographies of terrorist perpetrators are but one of many permutations of sleeper-like phenomena in late modern polities. Clandestine operatives of the state are sleepers, and both willing and unwilling victims of terrorism are discursively transformed from sleepers into martyrs. Starting with analyses of the discourses about sleepers in Part I-their historical antecedents, narrative emplotment, and semantic differentiation-Part II turns to the hidden or unspoken of aspects of the state, the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism to the modern political project and the tensions between neighbourly discourse, public display and the state. Part III juxtaposes changing depictions of Shiite martyrdom with the violence done to the term 'martyr' within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Part IV, cultural secrets encoded in memorials and public silences in academic discourse are addressed. The different cases assembled offer comparative materials and perspectives from the USA, France, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Iran, Israel, Istria and Sweden. { 131pp, 170x245mm, October 2003; PB, £20.00, 8772899859:9788772899855 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 34/1 : Journal of European Ethnology [Bjarne Stoklund & Peter Niedermuller (eds)] Since its start in 1967 Ethnologia Europaea has acquired a central position in the international cooperation between ethnologists in the different European countries. It is, however, a journal of topical interest not only for ethnologists but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies. This journal appears twice a year, sometimes as a thematic issue. { 96pp, 155x230mm, November 2004; PB, £15.00, 8763501929:9788763501927 , museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUME 34/2 : Multicultures & Cities [Gosta Arvaston & Tim Butler (eds)] 'Ethnologia Europaea' has set itself the task of breaking down not only the barriers which divide research into Europe from general ethnology, but also the barriers between the various national schools within the continent. With this manifesto 'Ethnologia Europaea' was started in 1969. Since then, it has acquired a central position in the international co-operation between ethnologists in the various European countries, in the East as well as in the West. It is, however, a journal of topical interest, not only for ethnologists, but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies. { 160pp, 155x230mm, January 2005; PB, £15.00, 8763503719:9788763503716 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| ETHNOLOGIA EUROPAEA, VOLUMES 35/1 & 35/2 : Journal of European Ethnology [Orvar Löfgren & Richard Wilk (eds)] Ethnologia Europaea has set itself the task of breaking down not only the barriers which divided research into Europe from general ethnology, but also the barriers between the various national schools within the continent. With this manifesto Ethnologia Europaea was started in 1969. Since then, it has acquired a central position in the international co-operation between ethnologists in the various European countries, in the East as well as the West. It is, however, a journal of topical interest, not only for ethnologists, but also for anthropologists, social historians and others studying the social and cultural forms of everyday life in recent and historical European societies. { 164pp, 180x260mm, November 2006; PB, £22.00, 8763505118:9788763505116 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EUCLID'S DATA : The Importance of Being Given [Christian Marinus Taisbak] This is a scholarly contribution to an area -- the history of Greek geometrical analysis -- that is still insufficiently understood. At the time of Zeuthen, and even up to the middle of the last century, it was fashionable to treat the Data algebraically. Taisbak has abandoned this approach completely, arguing that it does nothing to help us to understand either the development of the work or the reasons for its having been copied, studied, and quoted for more than two millennia. We must bear a queer sort of frustration that affects us everywhere in the Data: we get very little information, hardly any 'knowledge' of the givens. And why not? Probably because 'knowing' geometrical objects was problematic in those days when the concept of 'given' came into being, and the consequences of incommensurability was just being understood. Next to nothing is known of these items, and very little that is worth knowing: length, size, distance -- any of the attributes that can be spoken of by means of numbers. Although there have been two recent translations of the Data, this one is unique in providing, as well, an extensive commentary, which provides the insights gained from three decades of studying the work. The book is meant as a coherent and understandable account of what could have been going on in Euclid's mind, and some reasons for believing that that is what actually was going on in his mind. { 271pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; HB, £30.00, 8772898151:9788772898155 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EUROPE : Cultural Construction & Reality [Peter Niedermüller & Bjarne Stoklund] At the beginning of a new millennium a new Europe is emerging, but behind this imagination we have to face old problems and unsolved conflicts of our historical past. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe led to decline and fall of the conceptual geography which was based on East vs. West and has shown political, social and cultural implications for both parts of the continent. Political borders and blocks have disappeared, but national ethnic, cultural and social differences are all still at work. In this book a number of leading European ethnologist investigates the complex process of the social, cultural and symbolic constructions of Europe's new geography, and shows how old lines of demarcation are revitalised, how different cultural imaginations of Europe are politically instrumentalised, and how political conflicts are being culturalised. { 140pp, 170x250mm, July 2001; PB, £18.00, 8772896868:9788772896861 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EUROPEAN FILM & MEDIA CULTURE [Lennard Hojbjerg & Henrik Sondergaard (eds)] Brings into focus central aspects of recent developments in European film and media culture. Through studies of both film and television the question of national identity, European integration and globalisation is analysed in a both Eastern and Western European context. This volume offers case studies of the more historical and institutional context of European film television, studies of European TV drama, children’s television, TV entertainment formats, and comparative studies of European art cinema and art television and American (Hollywood) films and TV-serials. { 296pp, 160x240mm, August 2006; PB, £22.00, 8763504278:9788763504270 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| EUROPEAN PRODUCTIVITY AGENCY & TRANSATLANTIC RELATIONS 1953-1961 [Bent Boel PhD] The EPA was created in 1953 as a semi-autonomous organisation within the framework of the Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation and wound up eight years later, in 1961, when the US and Canada joined the OEEC countries and founded the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development. The EPA was the product of American ideas, actions and money. It embodied the merger of two main US foreign policy goals after World War II, increasing productivity and furthering integration among the countries of Western Europe. The agency was conceived as a major instrument for the 'politics of productivity' which would enable Western European societies to overcome their social and political problems resulting from scarcity, particularly in countries such as France. During its short-lived existence the EPA acted as an operational arm of the OEEC, accounting on average for over 40 percent of the overall OEEC expenditures. It implemented a vast array of activities aimed at improving productivity in industry, commerce, agriculture and distribution. Many of its projects met with contrasted reactions and thus highlighted conflicts between trade unions and employers, differences amongst the OEEC countries as well as transatlantic squabbles. The EPA was designed as a means to 'Americanise' Western Europe through the transfer of American techniques, know-how and ideas to the Old Continent. It increasingly became a framework within which the member countries sought 'European' solutions to their problems. This study sheds new light on the nature of European co-operation and transatlantic relations in the I950s as well as on the changes these relations underwent. Bent Boel, is Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Aalborg. { 328pp, August 2001; HB, £27.00, 8772896736:9788772896731 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FELIPE GUAMAN POMA DE AYALA CD-ROM [Rolena Adorno (ed)] Offline version of the complete digital facsimile of the Nueva coronica y buen gobierno, as published on the Internet in 2001. Features clickable English/Spanish tables of Contents and a List of Drawings. { November 2003; CR, £26.00, 8763500000:9788763500005 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FILM STYLE & STORY : A Tribute to Torben Grodal [Lennard Hojbjerg & Peter Schepelern (eds)] Style and story are two of the most debated concepts in film studies today. Taking a cognitive perspectives, this anthology focuses explicitly on the stylistic portrayal of human behaviour in film, ranging from studies of specific visual patterns to sound montages. Contributions to this volume all share two characteristics: they explore the ways in which styles and stories interact, and they are inspired by the work of Torben Grodal, professor of Film and Media Studies, University of Copenhagen. { 252pp, 155x230mm, April 2003; PB, £23.00, 8772898518:9788772898513 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FILOSOFI OG POLITISK TÆNKNING HOS ARISTOTELES [Amnon Lev] Text in Danish. { 178pp, 140x215mm, September 2008; PB, £15.00, 8763509288:9788763509282 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FIVE EGYPTIAN-ARABIC ONE ACT PLAYS [Karl G Prasse] This book is meant to be a first reader in Egyptian-Arabic drama for European students. The preface contains a short introduction to the genre with bibliographical hints for further study. The existence of a rich collection of such plays is well known and so are the numerous difficulties of interpretation which they present to the European student because of the dialect in which they are written and the many stamps typical of the place and period of creation which they bear. For the purpose, the authors chose five short one act plays, each with its own peculiarities, which they have transcribed in Roman characters and provided with footnotes explaining the passages which cannot be readily looked up in the existing dictionaries. { 296pp, 155x230mm, May 2001; HB, £25.00, 8772896124:9788772896120 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FOUR ENDS OF THE GREEK HYPERINFLATION OF 1941-1946 [Michael Palairet] Places emphasis on policy decision-making in Greece in the 1940s which resulted in an extraordinary long fifty months hyperinflation. Throughout the entire period, the government of Greece was financed mainly from seigniorage, and barely at all from fiscal taxation. The author asks how this was contrived over so long a period without destroying the tax-base afforded by the transactions demanded for flat money. The book is, however, far more than an extended analysis of monetary economics. Rather it explores the history and structural basis for the policies pursued by the occupation and liberation governments of Greece, and their interactions with the policies of the Axis and later, British authorities. For sources, the work draws heavily not only on the existing literature, but also on the Bank of England and British Treasury papers of the period. Dr Michael Palairet is a lecturer at Department of Economic and Social History, University of Edinburgh. { 172pp, September 2000; PB, £20.00, 8772895829:9788772895826 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FRIENDSHIP & POETRY : Studies in Danish Neo-Latin Literature [Minna Skafte Jensen et al (eds)] During the last decades the vast corpus of Danish Neo-Latin literature has been the object of growing scholarly attention. In this collection of articles Professor Minna Skafte Jensen analyses a number of poems by some of the most important Danish writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Central themes are investigated -- among them love, friendship and Lutheranism -- and Danish Neo-Latin poetry is placed in its European context. { 273pp, 155x230mm, December 2004; PB, £27.00, 8772899611:9788772899619 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FROM ARTEMIS TO DIANA : The Goddess of Man & Beast ((Acta Hyperborea Series: 12)) [Tobias Fischer-Hansen & Birte Paulsen (eds)] Text in English & German. This book contains 19 articles dealing with various aspects of the Greek goddess Artemis and the Roman goddess Diana. The themes presented in the volume deal with the Near Eastern equivalents of Artemis, the Bronze Age Linear B testimonies, and Artemis in Homer and in the Greek tragedies. Sanctuaries and cult, and regional aspects are also dealt with -- encompassing Cyprus, the Black Sea region, Greece and Italy. Pedimental sculpture, mosaics and sculpture form the basis of investigations of the iconography of the Roman Diana; the role of the cult of Diana in a dynastic setting is also examined. A single section deals with the reception of the iconography of the Ephesian Artemis during the Renaissance and later periods. { 496pp, 165x245mm, January 2009; PB, 8763507889:9788763507882 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FROM VIKING STRONGHOLD TO CHRISTIAN KINGDOM [Dr Sverre Bagge] Taking the formation of the Norwegian state in the Middle Ages as his starting point Sverre Bagge widens his perspective to include a discussion of the emergence of the medieval state and state formation in the Middle Ages in general. The book examines the emergence of religion, written culture, bureaucracy, etc., in medieval Europe and the spread of these to the eastern and northern fringes that were integrated into sphere of the western Christianity from around the year 900 and onwards. { 512pp, 170x240mm, December 2008; HB, 8763507919:9788763507912 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GENRE & RITUAL : The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals [Nils Holger Petersen, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Jens Fleischer & Eyolf Østrem (eds)] The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Christianity in Western Culture. The present volume was planned on the basis of the first annual international conferences at the Centre for the Study of the Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals, University of Copenhagen: a collection of 15 essays with a wide range of topics both in terms of chronology and subject matter written. The book is a special issue of the journal TRANSfiguration. { 336pp, 155x230mm, September 2005; PB, £30.00, 8763502410:9788763502412 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GEORG BRANDES OG EUROPA [Redigneret af Olav Harslof] Text in Dutch. { 432pp, 155x230mm, October 2004; PB, £37.99, 8772899263:9788772899268 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS : Images & Reflections [Jostein Børtnes & Tomas Hägg (eds)] Gregory of Nazianzus (ca330-390) is one of the three Greek church fathers from Cappadocia. This book explores both his theology -- which earned him the honorary title 'the Theologian' -- and his general importance as an independent thinker, prolific writer, orator, and poet. Gregory has often been in the shadow of the other Cappadocians, Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa. This book demonstrates his central position in the formation of a hellenised Christian culture as well as his topicality today. More than any other ancient personality, save perhaps for Cicero and Augustine, Gregory recreates his inner life in his writings, and allows us to participate directly in the exciting intellectual and emotional climate of late antiquity. The reader is offered illuminating discussions of Gregory’s exposition of the Trinity, his doctrine of deification, his theory of mental images, and his view of the ideal human self. Other contributions take his funeral orations, letters, and autobiographical poetry as points of departure for the study of family relations, gender attitudes, educational ideals, and literary accomplishments. In addition, light is shed on Gregory’s seldom-studied poetical œuvre and his impact on Byzantine theology and literature. The contributors are international specialists in patristics, church history, philosophy, Classical and Byzantine studies, and literary rhetoric. { 350pp, 165x245mm, January 2006; HB, £40.00, 8763503867:9788763503860 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GROUNDWORKS OF DANISH INTONATION The purpose of this introduction is to give an outline of the results of acoustic analyses of Danish intonation, as reported in twelve papers, published between 1982 and 1989. The introduction and the papers together constitute a thesis, presented to the Faculty of Arts, University of Copenhagen, for defence for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. The first four papers deal with the tonal aspects of stress. The next five treat sentence intonation in long utterances and in short texts. The subject of the following three is intonation in various regional Danish standard languages. Note that the sections are not necessarily mere summaries: Interspersed in the reviews of some of the papers are comments and discussions provoked by the retrospective view the author has acquired on some of the results, especially in the earlier publications. { 110pp, 165x220mm, January 1992; PB, £13.00, 8772891696:9788772891699 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GRUNDRISS DES LAUFES DER STERNE -- 2-VOLUME SET [Alexandra von Lieven] Text in German. This volume contains a complete re-edition and study of the 'Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars'. This handbook on Religious Astronomy was hitherto known under the modern designation 'Book of Nut'. Since the standard edition in Egyptian Astronomical Texts I (eds. Neugebauer/Parker), five new sources could be identified, some of them containing considerably more text than those previously available. Four of them are papyri from the temple library of Tebtunis, which are published here for the first time. It becomes clear that the Dramatic Text in the Osireion of Abydos as a whole forms part of the 'Fundamentals'. The new sources also contain interesting textual variants of passages already known. Apart from the edition and translation, the study contains an exhaustive commentary focussing especially on the hitherto neglected religious aspects of the composition. Separate chapters deal with the relation between monumental and papyrus copies, dating and redactional history, inner-Egyptian practice of translating and commenting texts, the genre of Dramatic Texts and the books cited in the ancient commentary. A method of historical-linguistic text dating is developed. In an appendix, another mythological papyrus is edited which enriches the small corpus of so-called Dramatic Texts. { 456pp, 215x300mm, December 2007; HB, £85.00, 8763504065:9788763504065 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GUAMAN POMA & HIS ILLUSTRATED CHRONICLE FROM COLONIAL PERU : From a Century of Scholarship to a New Era of Reading [Rolena Adorno] Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Libary, Copenhagen, this new book by one of the world's most prominent Guaman Poma-scholars contains a survey (in English and in Spanish) of recent research. Guaman Poma dedicated his Chronicle to Philip III, King of Spain, but it has been preserved since the 18th century in the Royal Library, Copenhagen. 'Rediscovered' by modern scholarship in 1908, it was included in UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' list in 1999. Written and illustrated by a Christianised native Andean of Southern Peru, several decades after the Spanish conquest, the Nueva corónica is a complex and unique mixture of historiography and utopianism. On one hand, it contains an entirely original framework for Andean historical self-understanding, as an alternative to the colonial viewpoint. On the other hand, based upon vivid written and graphic descriptions of Andean daily life and sufferings under colonial rule, Guaman Poma formulates far-reaching proposals for reform aimed at turning the chaotic viceroyalty into a dynamic self-governed kingdom within the Spanish empire. Guaman Poma envisioned this new order as Christian, but organised in accordance with Andean economic, social, and cultural tradition. { 104pp, 150x230mm, July 2001; PB, £13.00, 8772897007:9788772897004 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| GYMNASTICS & POLITICS : Niels Bukh & Male Aesthetics [Hans Bonde; Translated by Simon Frost] The first international biography of Niels Bukh (1880-1950), the charismatic founder of the special Danish school of modern gymnastics. His team of young elite gymnasts travelled around the world demonstrating his gymnastics, and in Japan his school is still attracting thousands of pupils. Bukh's private life and his fascination with the German Nazi party makes him a very controversial figure even fifty years after his death. Includes a DVD with 131 film clips in Danish, English and Japanese. REVIEW: "As well as a fine story about a complex person who has played such an important role both politically and in relation to the development of gymnastics, Bonde’s book includes numerous photographs of great interest plus a bonus DVD, making it an invaluable resource for historians and all who recognise the links between sport and politics as worthy of exploration." -- Dr. Wendy Varney, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication, University of Wollongong, Australia. { 376pp, 155x230mm, September 2006; HB, £40.00, 8772898275:9788772898278 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| HIERATIC TEXTS FROM THE COLLECTION [Kim Ryholt (ed)] Mainly dedicated to hieratic manuscripts from the Tebtunis temple library and contains contributions by Alexandra von Lieven, J F Quack, and Kim Ryholt. The Tebtunis temple library is the only ancient Egyptian temple library of which substantial remains are preserved, and the immense material -- estimated at several hundred manuscripts -- makes it by far the richest, single source of Egyptian literary texts. The present volume is introduced by a survey of the hieratic and hieroglyphic manuscripts from the temple library. The main genres are discussed and conclusions are drawn concerning the sort of compositions transmitted in hieratic as well as the cultural values which lie behind the choices. The survey is followed by full editions of a series of religious texts: an Osiris liturgy, the Ritual of Bringing Sokar out of the Shetit (previously known only from monumental hieroglyphic versions from temples and manuscripts for funerary use), the Votive Cubit (otherwise known essentially from fragments of the original stone cubits), the Nine-Headed Bes (a parallel to the famous illustrated Brooklyn papyrus but with a fuller description of how the practitioner should proceed), and the Ritual of Opening the Mouth (one version written for Sobek, lord of Tebtunis, the others for Sokar-Osiris). The volume further includes a slip of papyrus with four book-titles, a papyrus with a coloured drawing of an offering scene, and a decorated band for tying up a papyrus roll. { 160pp, May 2006; HB, £34.00, 8763504057:9788763504058 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| HISTORIA NORWEGIE [Inger Ekrem & Lars Boje Mortensen (eds)] The fragmentary medieval chronicle, Historia Norwegie, is the oldest piece of historical writing from Norway, and probably our first specimen of Norwegian literature. It was composed in Latin in the second half of the twelfth century, perhaps in the Oslo area. We only possess the beginning of the work, but it offers, among other things, a detailed report of a shamanic séance among the Sami as well as a unique early geographical description of Norway and the North Sea realm. Furthermore we are presented with an early version of the Norwegian kings' genealogy, beginning with the mythical Yngling kings and ending, abruptly, with Olav Haraldsson's claim to the throne in 1015. This is the first critical edition of the Latin text since 1880, accompanied by a new English translation by Peter Fisher. The introduction and full commentary in English takes stock of previous scholarship and makes new contributions to the interpretation of the text. { 245pp, 155x230mm, February 2003; HB, £23.00, 8772898135:9788772898131 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| HISTORICAL STUDIES ON FOLK & TRADITIONAL MUSIC : ICTM Study Group on Historical Sources of Folk Music Conference Report, Copenhagen 24-28 April 1995 [Doris Stockmann & Jens Henrik Koudal] Since the 1960s hi |