Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat
Title | Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat PDF eBook |
Author | Annette Schmiedchen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 566 |
Release | 2014-04-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004284451 |
In Herrschergenealogie und religiöses Patronat, Annette Schmiedchen analyses some 250 inscriptions from the time of the early medieval royal dynasties of the Rāṣṭrakūṭas, Śilāhāras, and Yādavas, who reigned in central India from the 8th to the 13th centuries. The information derived from copper-plate charters and stone inscriptions primarily consists of genealogies of the ruling kings as well as of data regarding their religious foundations and endowments and the donations of other members of society. Annette Schmiedchen shows how genealogical accounts were modified to legitimize individual claims to power, and she convincingly proves that the 10th and 11th centuries were a period of religious change, which witnessed a shift in patronage patterns and a closer link between Vedic Brahmanism and Hindu temple worship.
World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE
Title | World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Borgolte |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 783 |
Release | 2019-10-29 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9004415084 |
In World History as the History of Foundations, 3000 BCE to 1500 CE, Michael Borgolte investigates the origins and development of foundations from Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. In his survey foundations emerge not as mere legal institutions, but rather as “total social phenomena” which touch upon manifold aspects, including politics, the economy, art and religion of the cultures in which they emerged. Cross-cultural in its approach and the result of decades of research, this work represents by far the most comprehensive account of the history of foundations that has hitherto been published.
Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions
Title | Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions PDF eBook |
Author | Catalin-Stefan Popa |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2022-08-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3643914261 |
The volume is the result of a Lecture Series on The Levant, Cradle of Abrahamic Religions, which engaged scholars on topics related to the cultural and religious diversity of the historical Levant. Like a jigsaw, the studies contained within showcase interlock fragments of the historical encounters between faiths, religions and societies in a rich Levantine and Oriental space, in an attempt to render them more accessible to readers today by focusing both on broader religious phenomena as well as on the practical, liturgical and social interaction between traditions and mentalities, features representative of both faith and society at large.
Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
Title | Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth A. Cecil |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2020-03-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004424423 |
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas. This book brings the narrative cartography of the Skandapurāṇa into conversation with physical landscapes, inscriptions, monuments, and icons in order to examine the ways in which Pāśupatas were emplaced in regional landscapes and to emphasize the use of material culture as media through which notions of belonging and identity were expressed. By exploring the ties between the formation of early Pāśupata communities and the locales in which they were embedded, this study reflects critically upon the ways in which community building was coincident with place-making in Early Medieval India.
Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia
Title | Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Premodern Central and South Asia PDF eBook |
Author | Blain Auer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2019-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110629860 |
This volume brings together a variety of historians, epigraphists, philologists, art historians and archaeologists to address the understanding of the encounter between Buddhist and Muslim communities in South and Central Asia during the medieval period. The articles collected here provoke a fresh look at the relevant sources. The main areas touched by this new research can be divided into five broad categories: deconstructing scholarship on Buddhist/Muslim interactions, cultural and religious exchanges, perceptions of the other, transmission of knowledge, and trade and economics. The subjects covered are wide ranging and demonstrate the vast challenges involved in dealing with historical, social, cultural and economic frameworks that span Central and South Asia of the premodern world. We hope that the results show promise for future research produced on Buddhist and Muslim encounters. The intended audience is specialists in Asian Studies, Buddhist Studies and Islamic Studies.
Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan
Title | Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2017-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004352961 |
In Historicizing Emotions: Practices and Objects in India, China, and Japan, nine Asian Studies scholars offer intriguing case studies of moments of change in community or group-based emotion practices, including emotionally coded objects. Posing the questions by whom, when, where, what-by, and how the changes occurred, these studies offer not only new geographical scope to the history of emotions, but also new voices from cultures and subcultures as yet unexplored in that field. This volume spans from the pre-common era to modern times, with an emphasis on the pre-modern period, and includes analyses of picturebooks, monks’ writings, letters, ethnographies, theoretic treatises, poems, hagiographies, stone inscriptions, and copperplates. Covering both religious and non-religious spheres, the essays will attract readers from historical, religious, and area studies, and anthropology. Contributors are: Heather Blair, Gérard Colas, Katrin Einicke, Irina Glushkova, Padma D. Maitland, Beverley McGuire, Anne E. Monius, Kiyokazu Okita, Barbara Schuler.
Language of the Snakes
Title | Language of the Snakes PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Ollett |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2017-10-03 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0520296222 |
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring “language order” in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions—between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular—and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.