Egyptian Oedipus - Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Stolzenberg is assistant professor of history at the University of California! Davis. Klappentext Situating Athanasius Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome! with its scholars! artists! patrons! and censors! teh author shows how Kircher's study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts! artifacts! and people between Christian and Islamic civilizations. Zusammenfassung Situating Athanasius Kircher in the social world of baroque Rome! with its scholars! artists! patrons! and censors! teh author shows how Kircher's study of ancient paganism depended on the circulation of texts! artifacts! and people between Christian and Islamic civilizations.

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• Authors: Daniel Stolzenberg, Daniel Stolzenberg, Stolzenberg Daniel
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2013
• EAN: 9780226924144
• ISBN: 978-0-226-92414-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Egyptian, Palaeography (History Of Writing), Palaeography, Egyptian language (Ancient Egyptian)