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Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam / Margaret S. Graves

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the deep intellectual dimensions of ...

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Consciousness

Consciousness: From Perception to Reflection in the History of Philosophy shows that the concept of consciousness was explicated ...

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Formal Ontology and Conceptual Realism

Theories about the ontological structure of the world have generally been described in informal, intuitive terms, and the ...

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Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories

This book presents novel formalizations of three of the most important medieval logical theories: supposition, consequence ...

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Forming the Mind

The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It ...

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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe

This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of ...

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Missions of Universities

provides an analysis of university missions over time and space. It starts out by presenting a governance framework focusing ...

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Reading Breath in Literature

This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...

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Reframing the Alhambra: Architecture, Poetry, Textiles and Court Ceremonial / Olga Bush

Resolves that impasse by investigating the neglected, interdisciplinary contexts of medieval poetics and optics and through ...

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The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament / Yasser Tabbaa

Discusses monuments in Syria and Iraq, many of which have vanished without being properly studied Explores innovations in ...

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Unity, Truth and the Liar : The Modern Relevance of Medieval Solutions to the Liar Paradox

This volume includes a target paper, taking up the challenge to revive, within a modern (formal) framework, a medieval solution ...

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Vegetative Powers

The volume analyzes the natural philosophical accounts and debates concerning the vegetative powers, namely nutrition, growth, ...

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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800

This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...

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"Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution

This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, ...

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