Byzantium and the Avars, 6th-9th century ad : : political, diplomatic and cultural relations / / by Georgios Kardaras

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910512000903321
• Autore: Kardaras Geōrgios Th.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018
• ISBN: 90-04-38226-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 pages)
• Collana: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; ; Volume 51
• Disciplina: 949.5/013
• Soggetti: Avars; Electronic books.; Byzantine Empire History 527-1081
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "This book was originally published in Greek, under the title: To Vyzantio kai hoi Avaroi, 6.-9. ai.: politikes, diplomatikes kai politismikes scheseis, by the National Hellenic Research Foundation - Institute for Byzantine Research (Athens, 2010)."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Figures and Maps -- Abbreviations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Byzantium and the Avars from 558 to 582 -- Byzantium and the Avars from 582 until 626 -- The Byzantine-Avar Relations after 626 -- The Archaeological Finds on the Byzantine-Avar Relations -- The Byzantine Finds and the Possible Channels of Communication between Byzantium and the Avars after 626 -- Byzantine-Avar Relations and Warfare -- Conclusion -- Figures -- Maps -- Back Matter -- Bibliography.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book, Georgios Kardaras offers a global view of the contacts between the Byzantine Empire and the Avar Khaganate, emphasizing the reconstruction of these contacts after 626 (when, in contrast to archaeological evidence, written sources are very few) and the definition of the possible channels of communication between the two powers. The author scrutinizes the political and diplomatic framework, and critically examines issues such as mutual influence on material culture and on warfare, reaching the conclusion that significant contact between Byzantium and the Avars can be proved up until 775.

Writing from the margins : power and pedagogy for teachers of composition / / Carolyn Ericksen Hill

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783378103321
• Autore: Hill Carolyn Ericksen
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1990
• ISBN: 0-19-772697-6; 0-19-802274-3; 1-280-52533-9; 1-4237-3705-9; 1-60129-791-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 pages)
• Disciplina: 418.0071; 808.04207
• Soggetti: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching; English language - Grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 1. Introduction; 2. Students: At the Edges Looking In; 3. Teachers: Author(iz)ing Hard and Soft Stories about Academia; 4. Four Midwives; 5. Peripheral Visions from Rhetoric's Past; 6. Writers' Minds: Which System?; 7. Time Passed from Reading to Writing to Reading; 8. Grammar, Style, and Politics; 9. Conclusion; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Too often both composition teachers and their students experience knowledge and authority as unchanging entities that cannot be challenged in classroom exchanges. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and poststructuralist theory, as well as work in the rhetorical tradition and composition studies, Hill offers less debilitating methods of thinking that teachers can model for their students. Richly illustrated with examples of classroom interactions and student work, the book also shows teachers how to enrich their own intellectual and political lives within the academy.