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Otherworld Journeys [[electronic resource] ] : Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
| Otherworld Journeys [[electronic resource] ] : Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times |
| Autore | Zaleski Carol |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.9013 |
| Soggetto topico |
Near-death experiences
Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity Near-death experiences - Christianity - Religious aspects - Middle Ages, 600-1500 Near-death experiences - History of doctrines - Christianity - Religious aspects Voyages to the otherworld Voyages to the otherworld in literature |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-52362-X
0-19-802098-8 0-19-536352-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; Fire
The Test-Bridge Encounter with Deeds; CHAPTER 5 Reentry; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary as Messenger; The Narrator as Messenger; Vision and Revision; Interpretation of Visions; PART III: THE MODERN NEAR-DEATH NARRATIVE: A THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE TREATMENT; CHAPTER 6 From Deathbed Visions to Life After Life; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Precursors; Life After Life: A New Phase; The Researchers; CHAPTER 7 The Other World: Modern Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment ""Falling into Heaven"": Mystical States and Visions of the Whole Otherworld Topography; Otherworld Demography; CHAPTER 8 Back to Life; Approaching the Point of No Return; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary and the Interviewer; PART IV: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEAR-DEATH VISIONS; CHAPTER 9 Ecstatics and Statistics; Credentials; Verification; CHAPTER 10 Explanations and Counter explanations; Were They Dead?; Models of Death; ""Natural"" Causes; Counterarguments; CHAPTER 11 Evaluating Near-Death Testimony; Experiential Claims; Double Vision; Corporeal Imagery; The Question of Interpretation Another World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450882403321 |
Zaleski Carol
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Otherworld Journeys [[electronic resource] ] : Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times
| Otherworld Journeys [[electronic resource] ] : Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times |
| Autore | Zaleski Carol |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.9013 |
| Soggetto topico |
Near-death experiences
Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity Near-death experiences - Christianity - Religious aspects - Middle Ages, 600-1500 Near-death experiences - History of doctrines - Christianity - Religious aspects Voyages to the otherworld Voyages to the otherworld in literature |
| ISBN |
1-280-52362-X
0-19-802098-8 0-19-536352-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; Fire
The Test-Bridge Encounter with Deeds; CHAPTER 5 Reentry; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary as Messenger; The Narrator as Messenger; Vision and Revision; Interpretation of Visions; PART III: THE MODERN NEAR-DEATH NARRATIVE: A THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE TREATMENT; CHAPTER 6 From Deathbed Visions to Life After Life; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Precursors; Life After Life: A New Phase; The Researchers; CHAPTER 7 The Other World: Modern Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment ""Falling into Heaven"": Mystical States and Visions of the Whole Otherworld Topography; Otherworld Demography; CHAPTER 8 Back to Life; Approaching the Point of No Return; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary and the Interviewer; PART IV: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEAR-DEATH VISIONS; CHAPTER 9 Ecstatics and Statistics; Credentials; Verification; CHAPTER 10 Explanations and Counter explanations; Were They Dead?; Models of Death; ""Natural"" Causes; Counterarguments; CHAPTER 11 Evaluating Near-Death Testimony; Experiential Claims; Double Vision; Corporeal Imagery; The Question of Interpretation Another World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784813603321 |
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Zaleski Carol
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| New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Otherworld journeys : accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times / / Carol Zaleski
| Otherworld journeys : accounts of near-death experience in medieval and modern times / / Carol Zaleski |
| Autore | Zaleski Carol |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1987 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (286 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.9013 |
| Soggetto topico |
Near-death experiences - Religious aspects - Christianity
Voyages to the otherworld |
| ISBN |
0-19-028158-8
1-280-52362-X 0-19-802098-8 0-19-536352-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: ORIENTATION; CHAPTER 1 A Wide-Angle View; CHAPTER 2 Four Models of Christian Otherworld Journey Narration; The Otherworld Journey as Apocalypse: The Vision of St. Paul; The Otherworld Journey as Miracle Story: The Dialogues of Gregory the Great; The Otherworld Journey as Conversion: The Vision of Drythelm; The Otherworld Journey as Pilgrimage: St. Patrick's Purgatory; PART II: MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN RETURN-FROM-DEATH STORIES: A THEMATIC TREATMENT; CHAPTER 3 The Other World: Medieval Itineraries; Exit from the Body; The Guide; The Journey; CHAPTER 4 Obstacles; Fire
The Test-Bridge Encounter with Deeds; CHAPTER 5 Reentry; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary as Messenger; The Narrator as Messenger; Vision and Revision; Interpretation of Visions; PART III: THE MODERN NEAR-DEATH NARRATIVE: A THEMATIC AND COMPARATIVE TREATMENT; CHAPTER 6 From Deathbed Visions to Life After Life; Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Precursors; Life After Life: A New Phase; The Researchers; CHAPTER 7 The Other World: Modern Itineraries; Attitudes toward Death and Dying; Images of the Soul; Liminality; The Journey; The Light; Judgment ""Falling into Heaven"": Mystical States and Visions of the Whole Otherworld Topography; Otherworld Demography; CHAPTER 8 Back to Life; Approaching the Point of No Return; The Visionary Transformed; The Visionary and the Interviewer; PART IV: THE INTERPRETATION OF NEAR-DEATH VISIONS; CHAPTER 9 Ecstatics and Statistics; Credentials; Verification; CHAPTER 10 Explanations and Counter explanations; Were They Dead?; Models of Death; ""Natural"" Causes; Counterarguments; CHAPTER 11 Evaluating Near-Death Testimony; Experiential Claims; Double Vision; Corporeal Imagery; The Question of Interpretation Another World to Live In Orientation; APPENDIX: Chronology of Medieval Visions; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823784303321 |
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Zaleski Carol
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| New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1988, c1987 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium / / edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson
| Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium / / edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson |
| Autore | Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.9093 |
| Collana | Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean |
| Soggetto topico |
Voyages to the otherworld
Voyages to the otherworld in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-37596-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Round Trip to Hades: An Introductory Tour / Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson -- Travels to the Beyond: A Guide / Fritz Graf -- Hades, Homer and the Hittites: The Cultic- Cultural Context of Odysseus' "Round Trip" to the Underworld / Gunnel Ekroth -- Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony / Ivana Petrovic and Andrei Petrovic -- Introducing Oneself in Hades: Two "Orphic" Formulas Reconsidered / Scott Scullion -- Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to Hades / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- From Alkestis to Archidike: Thessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife / Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou -- Round Trip to Hades: Herakles' Advice and Directions / Annie Verbanck-Piérard -- Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (the Early Academy and Stoicism) / Adrian Mihai -- Following the Dead to the Underworld: An Archaeological Approach to Graeco-Roman Death Oracles / Wiebke Friese -- The Sounds of Katabasis: Bellowing, Roaring, and Hissing at the Crossing of Impervious Boundaries / Pierre Bonnechere -- Down There and Back Again: Variations on the Katabasis Theme in Lucian / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- From Hades to Hell: Christian Visions of the Underworld (2nd-5th centuries CE) / Zissis. D. Ainalis -- The Virgin in Hades / Thomas Arentzen -- Why Did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art? / Henry Maguire -- Hades Meets Lazarus: The Literary Katabasis in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson - "Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company": Byzantine Satirical Katabaseis / Przemyslaw Marciniak -- Many (Un)Happy Returns: Ancient Greek Concepts of a Return from Death and Their Later Counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Epilogue: Below the Tree of Life / Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793010903321 |
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Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors)
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| Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium / / edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson
| Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium / / edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson |
| Autore | Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors) |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) |
| Disciplina | 133.9093 |
| Collana | Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean |
| Soggetto topico |
Voyages to the otherworld
Voyages to the otherworld in literature |
| ISBN | 90-04-37596-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Round Trip to Hades: An Introductory Tour / Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson -- Travels to the Beyond: A Guide / Fritz Graf -- Hades, Homer and the Hittites: The Cultic- Cultural Context of Odysseus' "Round Trip" to the Underworld / Gunnel Ekroth -- Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony / Ivana Petrovic and Andrei Petrovic -- Introducing Oneself in Hades: Two "Orphic" Formulas Reconsidered / Scott Scullion -- Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to Hades / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui -- From Alkestis to Archidike: Thessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife / Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou -- Round Trip to Hades: Herakles' Advice and Directions / Annie Verbanck-Piérard -- Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (the Early Academy and Stoicism) / Adrian Mihai -- Following the Dead to the Underworld: An Archaeological Approach to Graeco-Roman Death Oracles / Wiebke Friese -- The Sounds of Katabasis: Bellowing, Roaring, and Hissing at the Crossing of Impervious Boundaries / Pierre Bonnechere -- Down There and Back Again: Variations on the Katabasis Theme in Lucian / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath -- From Hades to Hell: Christian Visions of the Underworld (2nd-5th centuries CE) / Zissis. D. Ainalis -- The Virgin in Hades / Thomas Arentzen -- Why Did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art? / Henry Maguire -- Hades Meets Lazarus: The Literary Katabasis in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson - "Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company": Byzantine Satirical Katabaseis / Przemyslaw Marciniak -- Many (Un)Happy Returns: Ancient Greek Concepts of a Return from Death and Their Later Counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston -- Epilogue: Below the Tree of Life / Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910826901703321 |
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Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors)
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| Leiden, ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sungod's journey through the netherworld [[electronic resource] ] : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung
| The sungod's journey through the netherworld [[electronic resource] ] : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung |
| Autore | Schweizer Andreas <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.31 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LortonDavid <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Eschatology, Egyptian
Voyages to the otherworld |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8014-5804-8
0-8014-5928-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword To The German Edition / Hornung, Erik -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Immersion Into Darkness -- The Amduat-The Book Of The Hidden Chamber -- The Title Of The Amduat -- First Hour: The Jubilation Of The Baboons -- Second Hour: The Fertile Region Of Wernes -- Third Hour: Rowing On The Water Of Osiris -- Fourth Hour: The Snake-Land Of Sokar -- Fifth Hour: The Mystery Of The Cavern Of Sokar -- Sixth Hour: The Corpse Of The Sungod And The Rebirth Of Light -- Seventh Hour: Apopis, Enemy Of The Sun -- Eighth Hour: Provision With Clothes -- Ninth Hour: The Sungod's Crew -- Tenth Hour: The Bodyguard Of The Sungod -- Eleventh Hour: The Renewal Of Time -- Twelfth Hour: The End Of The Primeval Darkness -- Closure: The Five Stages Of Renewal -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460215703321 |
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Schweizer Andreas <1946->
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| Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The sungod's journey through the netherworld [[electronic resource] ] : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung
| The sungod's journey through the netherworld [[electronic resource] ] : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung |
| Autore | Schweizer Andreas <1946-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.31 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LortonDavid <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Eschatology, Egyptian
Voyages to the otherworld |
| ISBN |
0-8014-5804-8
0-8014-5928-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword To The German Edition / Hornung, Erik -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Immersion Into Darkness -- The Amduat-The Book Of The Hidden Chamber -- The Title Of The Amduat -- First Hour: The Jubilation Of The Baboons -- Second Hour: The Fertile Region Of Wernes -- Third Hour: Rowing On The Water Of Osiris -- Fourth Hour: The Snake-Land Of Sokar -- Fifth Hour: The Mystery Of The Cavern Of Sokar -- Sixth Hour: The Corpse Of The Sungod And The Rebirth Of Light -- Seventh Hour: Apopis, Enemy Of The Sun -- Eighth Hour: Provision With Clothes -- Ninth Hour: The Sungod's Crew -- Tenth Hour: The Bodyguard Of The Sungod -- Eleventh Hour: The Renewal Of Time -- Twelfth Hour: The End Of The Primeval Darkness -- Closure: The Five Stages Of Renewal -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789616003321 |
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Schweizer Andreas <1946->
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| Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
The sungod's journey through the netherworld : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung
| The sungod's journey through the netherworld : reading the ancient Egyptian Amduat / / Andreas Schweizer ; edited by David Lorton ; foreword by Erik Hornung |
| Autore | Schweizer Andreas <1946-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina | 299/.31 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LortonDavid <1945-> |
| Soggetto topico |
Eschatology, Egyptian
Voyages to the otherworld |
| ISBN |
0-8014-5804-8
0-8014-5928-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword To The German Edition / Hornung, Erik -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Note -- Immersion Into Darkness -- The Amduat-The Book Of The Hidden Chamber -- The Title Of The Amduat -- First Hour: The Jubilation Of The Baboons -- Second Hour: The Fertile Region Of Wernes -- Third Hour: Rowing On The Water Of Osiris -- Fourth Hour: The Snake-Land Of Sokar -- Fifth Hour: The Mystery Of The Cavern Of Sokar -- Sixth Hour: The Corpse Of The Sungod And The Rebirth Of Light -- Seventh Hour: Apopis, Enemy Of The Sun -- Eighth Hour: Provision With Clothes -- Ninth Hour: The Sungod's Crew -- Tenth Hour: The Bodyguard Of The Sungod -- Eleventh Hour: The Renewal Of Time -- Twelfth Hour: The End Of The Primeval Darkness -- Closure: The Five Stages Of Renewal -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817207403321 |
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Schweizer Andreas <1946->
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| Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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