Author: Karl G. Prasse
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: carsten, niebuhr, institute, publications, tafransist, tamazeq, touareg, francais, asaggalalaf, lexique
Number of Pages: 467
Published: 2001-05
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 8772894709
ISBN-13: 9788772894706

About 17,000 entries of words and expressions are covered in this Tuareg-French dictionary. It covers the two main dialects of Niger: the Azawagh and Ayr languages, and the book features a short section on phonetics and a chapter of 60 pages with morphological tables constituting a small grammar and a small calendar. The entire dictionary is built up according to the Tuareg system of alphabetisation and is meant to serve as a manual in the educational system of Niger as well as a valuable sourcebook for scholars working with the Tuareg culture.

Author: Marina Vidas
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: thirteenth, century, illuminated, manuscript, french, texts, psalter, study, images, christina
Number of Pages: 154
Published: 2006-01
List price: $43.00
ISBN-10: 8763501279
ISBN-13: 9788763501279

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 Hakon IV and wife of Philip of Castile and Leon. 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,

Authors:Orvar Lofgren, Richard Wilk,
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: analysis, cultural, experiments, edge
Number of Pages: 164
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $39.00
ISBN-10: 8763505096
ISBN-13: 9788763505093

Have you ever heard of the cream effect or witnessed the power of cultural backdraft? Have you watched the slow process of fossilisation or used the tactics of cultural stealth? You might be waiting for just the right word to describe what you have seen and done. This collection revitalises the study of the cultural processes of stability and change. The 25 essays invent new processes for a rapidly changing world. They illustrate how different perspectives enrich cultural analysis and add a bit of playfulness and experimentation to a longstanding academic issue. The authors - from anthropology

Author: Ole Thomsen
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: philologie, histoire, danoise, revue, mediaevalia, classica
Number of Pages: 315
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $72.90
ISBN-10: 8772892366
ISBN-13: 9788772892368

"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.

Author: Rene Seindal
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: sicily, politics, money, mafia
Number of Pages: 183
Published: 1998-01
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 8772894555
ISBN-13: 9788772894553

Salvo was a Mafioso, but he did not traffic in narcotics, he did not run weapons, he did not kill anyone and he did not take part in the ’ordinary’ Mafia activities. Antonio Salvo was a businessman, one of the wealthiest business men in Sicily. He took an interest in all important lines of business and had close political connections at the highest levels in Rome. Antonio Salvo represented another, but not less important side of the Mafia. He was a central part of the far-reaching network of economic and political interests that dominated Sicily through decades. All the threads of

Authors:Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Peter Springborg,
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: royal, library, copenhagen, october, seminal, international, conservation, manuscripts, proceedings, sixth, care
Number of Pages: 291
Published: 2002-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 8772897791
ISBN-13: 9788772897790

Author: Signe Isager
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Keywords: philologie, histoire, classica, danoise, revue, mediaevalia, french
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1994-12
List price: $72.00
ISBN-10: 8772892447
ISBN-13: 9788772892443

"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.