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Chinese Ancient Books Resources Database
„Chinese Ancient Books Resources Database" is an important achievement of "Chinese Ancient Books Preservation Plan".
The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world sold for a record 38.1 million dollars
The “Sassoon Codex” dates from the late 9th or early 10th century The price was reached in just 4 minutes of contested…
Alicia Simpson, Stephanos Efthymiadis (ed), Niketas Choniates: A Historian and a Writer. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2011.
Contents: Introduction, Alicia Simpson, Niketas Choniates: the Historian and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Niketas Choniates: the Writer Paul Magdalino: Prophecy and Divination in the…
Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi (ed). The Occult Sciences in Byzantium. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2006.
Contents: Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi: Introduction. Maria Mavroudi: Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research. Katerina Ierodiakonou: The Byzantine…
Tonia Kiousopoulou, Emperor or Manager: Power and Political Ideology in Byzantium before 1453. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.
https://www.pommedor.ch/emperor.html Byzantium in the 15th century is too easily dismissed as the anachronistic tail end of an ancient ecumenical empire, whose only…
Emma Maayan Fanar, Revelation through the Alphabet. Aniconism and Illustrated Initial Letters in Byzantine Artistic Imagination. La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2011.
https://www.pommedor.ch/revelation.html The book explores aniconic tendencies in the post-iconoclastic lectionaries, with special emphasis on illuminated initial letters, unravelling their sources and models…
A unique Ptolemy manuscript has been discovered in a medieval palimpsest
In a parchment on which the work of an early medieval author was written, scientists found a description of a meteoroscope –…
Prince Harry’s ‘Spare’ breaks records: the fastest-selling non-fiction book ever published
LONDON — Whatever the reviews, the numbers are in, and they are unprecedented. “Spare”, Prince Harry’s memoir of royal life, grief and…
“Don’t close your eyes”
The latest book of the author Martin Ralchevski “Don’t close your eyes” is already on the book market (© publisher “Edelweiss”, 2022;…