Jerusalem : city of the book /

In this enchanting book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a dis...

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Hlavní autoři: Mack, Merav (Autor), Balint, Benjamin, 1976- (Autor)
Další autoři: Brenner, Frédéric (Fotograf)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New Haven : Yale University Press [2019]
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvgc6232
Obsah:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; INTRODUCTION: The Hidden; CHAPTER ONE: Creating a Canon: Antiquity; CHAPTER TWO: The Arabic Era: 637 to 1099; CHAPTER THREE: Medieval Mingling: 1099 to 1244; CHAPTER FOUR: From Mamluk Patronage to Ottoman Occupation: The Thirteenth to the Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER FIVE: Dragomans and Thieves: The Nineteenth Century; CHAPTER SIX: Dreamers and Visionaries: Between Two Centuries; CHAPTER SEVEN: Rescue and Return: The Twentieth Century; EPILOGUE: The Closed Gate; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O
  • PQ; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Color Plates