Inscription and Rebellion
Title | Inscription and Rebellion PDF eBook |
Author | Sonja E. Klocke |
Publisher | Boydell & Brewer |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1571139338 |
Employs research on the GDR's healthcare system along with feminist and queer theory to get at socialism's legacy, revealing a specifically East German literary convention: employment of symptomatic female bodies to either enforce or rebel against political and social norms.
Representations of Rebellion in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions
Title | Representations of Rebellion in the Assyrian Royal Inscriptions PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin Neil Dewar |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
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This dissertation is a study of the literary motifs and topoi relating to rebellion in the Assyrian royal inscriptions. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the Assyrian kings and their scribes emplotted rebellion into the narratives of the royal inscriptions in order to present these events in a favourable light. Details such as the identities of those responsible for a rebellion; the location of the king at the time at which the rebellion began; or the involvement of the gods (or lack thereof) all contributed towards a message that rebellions against Assyria were unjustified and lacked divine backing. In cases where it was felt that events could not be made to present the king in a favourable light, reference to rebellion was omitted from the inscription. I argue that the approach to these events changed during the reign of Ashurbanipal. This king presented events which might otherwise have been seen as negatively connoted as having been decreed by the gods in order to allow him the opportunity to gain further military successes against his enemies.
The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular
Title | The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated; with a Memoir on Persian Cuneiform Inscriptions in General, and on that of Behistun in Particular PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Creswicke Rawlinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1846 |
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The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun
Title | The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun PDF eBook |
Author | Darius I (King of Persia) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1846 |
Genre | Achaemenian inscriptions |
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The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated, with a Memoir
Title | The Persian Cuneiform Inscription at Behistun, Decyphered and Translated, with a Memoir PDF eBook |
Author | H. C. Rawlinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 1846 |
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Babel
Title | Babel PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel L. Boyd |
Publisher | Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2023-06-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 1506480675 |
In Babel: Political Rhetoric of a Confused Legacy, Boyd shows how one of the most familiar stories from the Bible, the Tower of Babel, has been misinterpreted for millennia. He offers a new interpretation, and also examines how the story has shaped politics and intellectual culture to the current day.
Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World
Title | Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World PDF eBook |
Author | Alva Robinson |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2023-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110720221 |
This volume builds on the work of Ilse Laude-Cirtautas (1926-2019), a pioneering Turkologist who introduced the field of comparative Turkic studies to the US in the 1960s. It presents an ongoing dialogue whereby scholars from central and inner Asia and the West engage on issues of Turkic heritage, identity, language and literature. The discussions enrich scholarship in Central and Inner Asian Studies and explore the question "Who are the Turks?"