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UNINA9910781887703321 |
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Autore |
Bisaha Nancy |
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Creating East and West : Renaissance humanists and the Ottoman Turks / / Nancy Bisaha |
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Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] |
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1-283-21146-7 |
9786613211460 |
0-8122-0129-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 pages) : map |
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Disciplina |
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East and West |
Humanists |
Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-299) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Time Line of Key Events in the Ottoman Advance -- Introduction -- 1. Crusade and Charlemagne: Medieval Influences -- 2. The New Barbarian: Redefining the 'lurks in Classical Terms -- 3. Straddling East and West: Byzantium and Greek Refugees -- 4. Religious Influences and Interpretations -- Epilogue: The Renaissance Legacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies of the Turks; epic poetry; and even tracts on converting the Turks to Christianity. Most scholars have seen this vast literature as atypical of Renaissance humanism. Nancy Bisaha now offers an in-depth look at the body of Renaissance humanist works that focus not on classical or contemporary Italian subjects but on the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and the Crusades. Throughout, Bisaha probes these texts to reveal the significant role Renaissance writers |
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played in shaping Western views of self and other.Medieval concepts of Islam were generally informed and constrained by religious attitudes and rhetoric in which Muslims were depicted as enemies of the faith. While humanist thinkers of the Renaissance did not move entirely beyond this stance, Creating East and West argues that their understanding was considerably more complex, in that it addressed secular and cultural issues, marking a watershed between the medieval and modern. Taking a close look at a number of texts, Bisaha expands current notions of Renaissance humanism and of the history of cross-cultural perceptions. Engaging both traditional methods of intellectual history and more recent methods of cross-cultural studies, she demonstrates that modern attitudes of Western societies toward other cultures emerged not during the later period of expansion and domination but rather as a defensive intellectual reaction to a sophisticated and threatening power to the East. |
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UNISA996208492203316 |
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Culture and brain |
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[Berlin] : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
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Neurosciences - Social aspects |
Neuropsychology |
Cognition and culture |
Social evolution |
Culture |
Brain - physiology |
Cognition - physiology |
Periodicals. |
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UNINA9910258746303321 |
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Autore |
Marnewick Carl |
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The symbiosis between information system project complexity and information system project success / Carl Marnewick, Wikus Erasmus, Joseph Nazeer |
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Durbanville : , : AOSIS, , 2017 |
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Information technology: general issues |
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Project success is widely covered, and the discourse on project complexity is proliferating. The purpose of this book is to merge and investigate the two concepts within the context of information system (IS) projects and understand the symbiosis between success and complexity in these projects. In this original and innovative research, exploratory modelling is employed to identify the aspects that constitute the success and complexity of projects based on the perceptions of IS project participants. This scholarly book aims at deepening the academic discourse on the relationship between the success and complexity of projects and to guide IS project managers towards improved project performance through the complexity lens. The research methodology stems from the realisation that the complexity of IS projects and its relationship to project success are under-documented. A post positivistic approach is applied in order to accommodate the subjective interpretation of IS-project participants through a quantitative design. The researchers developed an online survey strategy regarding literature concerning the success and complexity of projects. The views of 617 participants are documented. In the book, descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis pave the way for identifying the key success and complexity constructs of IS projects. These constructs are used in structural-equation modelling to build various validated and predictive models. Knowledge concerning |
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the success and complexity of projects is mostly generic with little exposure to the field of IS project management. The contribution to current knowledge includes how the success of IS projects should be considered as well as what the complexity constructs of IS projects are. The success of IS projects encompasses strategic success, deliverable success, process success and the 'unknowns' of project success. The complexity of IS projects embodies organisational complexity, environmental complexity, technical complexity, dynamics and uncertainty. These constructs of success and complexity are mapped according to their underlying latent relationships to each other. The intended audience of this book is fellow researchers and project and IS specialists, including information technology managers, executives, project managers, project team members, the project management office (PMO), general managers and executives that initiate and conduct project-related work. The work presented in this first edition of the book is original and has not been plagiarised or presented before. It is not a revised version of a thesis or research previously published. Comments resulted from the blind peer review process were carefully considered and incorporated accordingly. |
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