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The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom (eds) Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward & Melanie Heyworth, 2013
Examines the influence and interpretation of Aristotle's three short treatises on dreams through ... more Examines the influence and interpretation of Aristotle's three short treatises on dreams through the evidence of commentaries and manuscript survival.
Jounal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2022
Business History Review, 2015
The Epic in History (eds) Lola Sharon Davidson, S.N.Mukherjee & Z. Zlatar, Oct 9, 1994
Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 1992
Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Jun 6, 2012
Journal of Religious History, Dec 1, 2011
The Liber Thesauri Occulti is a treatise on dreams written at Constantinople in the late twelfth ... more The Liber Thesauri Occulti is a treatise on dreams written at Constantinople in the late twelfth century by the Latin cleric Pascalis Romanus. This chapter discusses the context of the work’s composition and the use Pascalis makes of the sources for his dream key. It argues that Pascalis selected and modified the interpretations to present a model of kingship more compatible with the feudal West than with the theocratic monarchies of his main source, the Oneirocriticon of Achmet, compiled in Byzantium from Arabic dream books.
Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Jun 6, 2012
PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Following Partition, newly independent India adopted a constitution based on secularism and right... more Following Partition, newly independent India adopted a constitution based on secularism and rights for minorities. In recent years, under the Bharatiya Janata Paty government, this model of society has been steadily eroded and supplanted by one favouring Hindu nationalism. This shift has changed the ways in which various religious communities relate to each other as well as their relationship with the state. In this special issue, we examine how these social and political shifts have impacted on the willingness of individuals to engage across religious boundaries and highlight instances of continuing religious cosmopolitanism.
Business History Review, 2005
The Epic in History (eds) Lola Sharon Davidson, S.N.Mukherjee & Z. Zlatar, 1995
The predictive dreams and divine revelations in which epics and histories abound contrast with th... more The predictive dreams and divine revelations in which epics and histories abound contrast with the dreams of personal desire to be found in the romances. For the twelfth century epic poetry was a form of history. Like history it was permeated with a religious world-view. Whereas the romance dream tends to express the fundamental theme of the romance, namely the alienation of the individual from the social group, epic and historical dreams function to situate the individual in a social and religious context. The chansons were written in vernacular poetry and the histories in Latin prose and verse but they shared a common subject matter in the exploits of famous kings and warriors, and they were subject to the same influences and examples. Following the classical view of history as rhetoric, medieval historians sought to glorify nations and their rulers, while hopefully entertaining their readers5. Dreams served to demonstrate the exceptional nature of the protagonists, their providen...
in T.R. La Porte (ed.) Social Responses to Large Technical Systems (London, 1991), 61-98, 1991
with Stephen Salsbury
PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served ... more Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served as circuits of material communication, transmitting cultural values embodied in cloth, defining and redefining identities and relationships. This paper explores some of the cultural ramifications of this venerable trade. From ancient times, India was a major exporter of textiles, sitting at the centre of a complex regional network of exchanges which inserted Indian cottons and silks as prestige items into the textile regimes of societies all around the Indian Ocean. The balance between indigenous production marking local identity and Indian imports marking elite status and trans-local identity was disrupted by the spread of the competing globalisations of Islam and Christianity. Colonialism expanded networks and forged new connections, redirecting a significant portion of production through metropolitan centres towards a global market and facilitating a dynamic process of cultural exchan...
The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom (eds) Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward & Melanie Heyworth, 2013
Examines the influence and interpretation of Aristotle's three short treatises on dreams through ... more Examines the influence and interpretation of Aristotle's three short treatises on dreams through the evidence of commentaries and manuscript survival.
Jounal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2022
Business History Review, 2015
The Epic in History (eds) Lola Sharon Davidson, S.N.Mukherjee & Z. Zlatar, Oct 9, 1994
Sydney Studies in Society and Culture, 1992
Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Jun 6, 2012
Journal of Religious History, Dec 1, 2011
The Liber Thesauri Occulti is a treatise on dreams written at Constantinople in the late twelfth ... more The Liber Thesauri Occulti is a treatise on dreams written at Constantinople in the late twelfth century by the Latin cleric Pascalis Romanus. This chapter discusses the context of the work’s composition and the use Pascalis makes of the sources for his dream key. It argues that Pascalis selected and modified the interpretations to present a model of kingship more compatible with the feudal West than with the theocratic monarchies of his main source, the Oneirocriticon of Achmet, compiled in Byzantium from Arabic dream books.
Portal: journal of multidisciplinary international studies, Jun 6, 2012
PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Following Partition, newly independent India adopted a constitution based on secularism and right... more Following Partition, newly independent India adopted a constitution based on secularism and rights for minorities. In recent years, under the Bharatiya Janata Paty government, this model of society has been steadily eroded and supplanted by one favouring Hindu nationalism. This shift has changed the ways in which various religious communities relate to each other as well as their relationship with the state. In this special issue, we examine how these social and political shifts have impacted on the willingness of individuals to engage across religious boundaries and highlight instances of continuing religious cosmopolitanism.
Business History Review, 2005
The Epic in History (eds) Lola Sharon Davidson, S.N.Mukherjee & Z. Zlatar, 1995
The predictive dreams and divine revelations in which epics and histories abound contrast with th... more The predictive dreams and divine revelations in which epics and histories abound contrast with the dreams of personal desire to be found in the romances. For the twelfth century epic poetry was a form of history. Like history it was permeated with a religious world-view. Whereas the romance dream tends to express the fundamental theme of the romance, namely the alienation of the individual from the social group, epic and historical dreams function to situate the individual in a social and religious context. The chansons were written in vernacular poetry and the histories in Latin prose and verse but they shared a common subject matter in the exploits of famous kings and warriors, and they were subject to the same influences and examples. Following the classical view of history as rhetoric, medieval historians sought to glorify nations and their rulers, while hopefully entertaining their readers5. Dreams served to demonstrate the exceptional nature of the protagonists, their providen...
in T.R. La Porte (ed.) Social Responses to Large Technical Systems (London, 1991), 61-98, 1991
with Stephen Salsbury
PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served ... more Throughout its long history, the changing networks of the Indian Ocean textile trade have served as circuits of material communication, transmitting cultural values embodied in cloth, defining and redefining identities and relationships. This paper explores some of the cultural ramifications of this venerable trade. From ancient times, India was a major exporter of textiles, sitting at the centre of a complex regional network of exchanges which inserted Indian cottons and silks as prestige items into the textile regimes of societies all around the Indian Ocean. The balance between indigenous production marking local identity and Indian imports marking elite status and trans-local identity was disrupted by the spread of the competing globalisations of Islam and Christianity. Colonialism expanded networks and forged new connections, redirecting a significant portion of production through metropolitan centres towards a global market and facilitating a dynamic process of cultural exchan...
Journal if the Australian Early Medieval Society, 2017
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Assoication , 2017
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2022
Book Reviews and Short Notices 223 and convert. Further, as Cunningham points out, the tone of th... more Book Reviews and Short Notices 223 and convert. Further, as Cunningham points out, the tone of the hymns matched the visual depictions of Mary in churches. The accepted phraseology matched the conventional visual typology in how Mary was perceived and presented. This volume, coming as it does after the earlier work of Cunningham and fellow scholars, further whets the appetite of both researcher and layperson to delve deeper into Marian theology. Cunningham's work is easy to read while providing an objective and academic response to the questions raised. This lack of bias, not the way of many other authors on the subject of Mary, is refreshing and commendable. Cunningham's latest volume is thoroughly researched and is an accessible read to anyone interested in the literary expressions emerging from the Marian tradition in Byzantium.
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association , 2021
Journal of the Austalian Early Medieval Association, 2021
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2023
Transforming Cultures eJournal
Journal of Religious History, 2011
Journal of Religious History, 2011
Australia's First Bank: Fifty Years from the Wales to Westpac, 2005
Lola Sharon Davidson & Stephen Salsbury Shortlisted for the 2005 Blake Dawson Waldron Prize fo... more Lola Sharon Davidson & Stephen Salsbury
Shortlisted for the 2005 Blake Dawson Waldron Prize for Business Literature
UNSW Press
ISBN 0 86840 791 7
SMRG A History of the Sydney Medieval and Renaissance Group, 2019
The Teachings on Hatha & Raja Yoga of Acharya Upendra Roy, 2012
The Teachings on Hatha & Raja Yoga of Acharya Upendra Roy, 2012
(with Emily Curtis) The Teachings on Hatha and Raja Yoga of Acharya Upendra Roy (Acharya’s Yoga C... more (with Emily Curtis) The Teachings on Hatha and Raja Yoga of Acharya Upendra Roy (Acharya’s Yoga Community, Sydney)
(with J.O. Ward) (eds) The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Stu... more (with J.O. Ward) (eds) The Sorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Binghamton, New York, 1993, Pegasus Press, 2004)
Parergon , 1999
An annotated bibliography of Otherworld visions in Middle English.
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Associationiation , 2023
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association , 2016
contemporary stories of Jews as murderers. Eva Haverkamp looks at Jewish images on Christian coin... more contemporary stories of Jews as murderers. Eva Haverkamp looks at Jewish images on Christian coins minted by Jews in Germany. Eight coins are considered in this lengthy essay. The interesting point to make is that it would only have been Jews who realised the significance of some of the images, and that they represent a variety of relationships between Jews and Christians. Katrin Kogman-Appel explores the mappamundi of the fourteenthcentury Spanish Jewish cartographer, Cresques Abraham and a pro-Jewish apocalyptic image on the map, but seems to reach little by way of conclusion. The final section of five essays looks at places and encounters. Gérard Nahon looks at Jews in medieval Paris, particularly in the twelfth century, while Ram Ben Shalom looks at Jews in Provence in the fifteenth century, particularly Isaac Nathan of Arles. Javier Castaño looks at Jews in fifteenth-century Spain as living in borderless space, Judith Olszowy-Schlanger looks at contracts in Hebrew as revealing legal aspects of the Jewish-Christian encounter, and finally Claude Denjean and Juliette Sibon also look at Jews in France in the light of Blumenkranz's research. All in all we get some taste of particular interactions between Jews and Christians across the spectrum of medieval Europe. To summarise, one would say that we cannot generalise about how Jews were perceived and treated. Disappointingly, I found a number of essays lacked clearly articulated theses or claimed to be offering new insights into old topics. Perhaps abstracts (and bilingual ones at that) would have been of benefit. Some essays have obviously been translated into English by people who do not speak English as a first language. In one, the captions for the illustrations remain in German while the rest of the essay is in English. This aside, those interested in the history of Jewish-Christian relations will find this a volume full of interesting and insightful evidence.
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association , 2016
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, 2017
