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The saints’ Lives written by Kyrillos (Cyril) of Skythopolis form a centrepiece in Greek hagiography, not least through the two central Lives of Euthymios and Sabas, respectively. The occurrence of lions in the Kyrillos’ narrative has been noted before, but not with respect to their eschatological and symbolic function, especially in attaching the performance of the saints to landscape and wildern

Abstract in DanishDenne temabog giver en ny og nuanceret vinkel på arabisk kultur gennem et indblik i dens tidlige filosofiske tradition.Fra det ottende århundrede og frem skrev store tænkere – muslimer, kristne og jøder – banebrydende værker om filosofi og teologi på arabisk, som skulle få stor betydning også i vesten, og som stadig er fascinerende læsning i dag.Arabisk filosofi indeholder 14 udd

This New Testament manuscript is written in Greek and Arabic, with colophons, annotations and other paratexts in Arabic. It bears witness to the fluid relationships between disparate cultures, languages and identities that characterised Norman-ruled Sicily and Southern Italy in the eleventh century.

Questions of authority are perennial. Authority has been and still is a key topic in many studies of history, society, literature, and religion, just as it is a key issue in contemporary societies. In spite of the scholarly attention, authority continues to have an elusive quality.Reframing Authority provides new perspectives by focusing on the role of materiality and media for questions of author

Precision medicine has the potential to transform healthcare by moving from one-size-fits-all to personalised treatment and care. This transition has been greatly facilitated through new high-throughput sequencing technologies that can provide the unique molecular profile of each individual patient, along with the rapid development of targeted therapies directed to the Achilles heels of each disea

Tre hidtil upublicerede indskrifter fra omegnen af Vezirköprü, oldtidens NeoklaudiopolisDuring the spring campaign 2010 of the Nerik project of the Free University of Berlin, 2 severalunpublished inscriptions were recorded in the region around Vezirköprü (Samsun province),ancient Neoklaudiopolis. Among these were three funerary inscriptions preserved in their entirety.

To achieve global change in order to battle climate change, it is important that consumers all over the world actively engage in more sustainable consumption. This is particularly important in Asia where 90 percent of the global consumption growth will occur during the next decade. This chapter looks at two countries in Asia, Taiwan, and China, which share a similar culture and language, but diffe