Author: Albert of Aachen File Type: pdf The Historia Ierosolimitana, attributed to Albert of Aachen, is the most complete, the most detailed and the most colourful of the contemporary narratives of the First Crusade and the careers of the first generation of Latin settlers in Outremer from 1095-1119. It comprises twelve books, the first six telling the story of the First Crusade through to the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 and its aftermath, and the final six describing the internal and external politics of the crusader states during the first two decades of settlement. Largely neglected by crusades scholarship, this modern edition and translation allows it to be studied alongside better known accounts. This volume has been prepared from a critical study of all the extant manuscripts, and features the definitive Latin account, with English translation. Edgington supports the translation and text with an authoritative introduction, extensive historical notes and critical study of the work. This volume will alter the focus of crusades studies, generating interest in previously disregarded aspects of crusade and settlement in the first decades of the twelfth century.ReviewEdgingtons edition cannot be praised highly enough, and its value to future historians is almost beyond estimation.--Catholic Historical ReviewAbout the AuthorSusan B. Edgington is an Honorary Research Fellow, Queen Mary, University of London.

Author: J. F. Pagel File Type: pdf The Limits of Dream focuses on what we currently know of the human central nervous system (CNS), examining the basic sciences of neurochemisty, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to examine the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes of memory, the perceptual interface, and visual imagery. Building on what is known of intrapersonal CNS processing, the book steps outside the physical body to explore artificially created dreams and their use in filmmaking, art and story, as well as the role of dreaming in creative process and creative madness. The limits of our scientific knowledge of dream frame this window that can be used to explore the border between body and mind. What is known scientifically of the cognitive process of dreaming will lead the neuroscientist, the student of cognitive science, and the general reader down different paths than expected into an exploration of the fuzzy and complex horizon between mind and brain. ullThe clearest presentation of research and philosophy currently available relating to the mindbrain interfacellDiscusses the cognitive processes of dreaming utilized in film and artificial intelligencellDescribes the functioning of dream in creative processlulReviewJim Pagels The Limits of Dream delves into the scientific, philosophical, creative and psychological aspects of this very human phenomenon and manages to be both coherent and consistently interesting. The only other book Ive read about dreams told you how to play the horses.--John Sayles, Director, Writer, and ActorThis wonderfully creative book, based on the authors many original studies of sleep and dreams, as well as his masterful knowledge the relevant fields in neuroscience, provides us with a new theory of dreaming as well as a devastating critique of the highly visible but simplistic neurophysiological theories of dreams that have been on the stage for all too long.-G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Psychology, University of California, Santa CruzThis marvelous book starts from research neuropsychology and blazes on into the intricate beauty and creativities of dream phenomenology and cognition, and all that bridging into film as dream and dream as film. Its breadth and philosophical sophistication are unique in dream studies. It is a major achievement.Harry T. Hunt, Psychology, Brock UniversityDr. Pagel is an extremely well regarded researcher in both the worlds of sleep and of dreams. What he is proposing is quite unique and could be an important bridging book between these two domains who have unfortunately had a previous relationship somewhat analogous to one of being water and oil.-Bob van de Castle, University of Virginia Medical Center and former president of the Association for the Study of Dreams From the Back CoverClay codas unearthed from ancient Mesopotamia and inscribed with the dream of a King mark the historic limits of dream study. Some 4000 years later, in the plaza of Athens, Aristotle pushed the limits of critical thinking by arguing for a definition of dream in his attempt to understand human thought in abstract form. Fifteen centuries later, Descartes attempt to differentiate between wake and dream led to the beginning of the scientific era, and a weakening of religious constraints.Today, a system of hard-wired neurotransmission controlled by on-off switches in the brain is postulated to explain much of the functioning of the human central nervous system (CNS), one of the most complex systems that we have ever tried to understand. The Limits of Dream focuses on what we currently know of the human CNS, examining the basic sciences of neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, and CNS electrophysiology as these sciences apply to dream, then reaching beyond basic science to examine the cognitive science of dreaming including the processes of memory, the perceptual interface, and visual imagery.Building on what is known of intrapersonal CNS processing, we step outside the physical body to explore artifically created dreams and their use in filmmaking, art and story, as well as the role of dreaming in creative process and creative madness. The limits of our scientific knowledge of dream frame this window that can be used to explore the border between body and mind.What we know scientifically of the cognitive process of dreaming will lead the neuroscientist, the student of cognitive science, the cinematographer, and the general reader down different paths than expected into an exploration of the fuzzy, complex, eclipse horizon between mind and brain.

Author: Kurt Schock File Type: pdf In the past quarter century the world has witnessed dramatic social and political transformations, due in part to an upsurge in civil resistance. There have been significant uprisings around the globe, including the toppling of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, the Color Revolutions, the Arab Spring, protests against war and economic inequality, countless struggles against corruption, and demands for more equitable distribution of land. These actions have attracted substantial scholarly attention, reflected in the growth of literature on social movements and revolution as well as literature on nonviolent resistance. Until now, however, the two bodies of literature have largely developed in parallelwith relatively little acknowledgment of the existence of the other.In this useful collection, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars takes stock of the current state of the theoretical and empirical literature on civil resistance. Contributors analyze key processes of nonviolent struggle and identify both frictions and points of synthesis between the narrower literature on civil resistance and the broader literature on social movements and revolution. By doing so, Civil Resistance Comparative Perspectives on Nonviolent Struggle pushes the boundaries of the study of civil resistance and generates social scientific knowledge that will be helpful for all scholars and activists concerned with democracy, human rights, and social justice.**

Author: Michael Greaney File Type: pdf Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable -- but seemingly nondescript -- region of human experience. Covering the narrativization of sleep in Austen, the politicization of sleep in Dickens, the queering of sleep in Goncharov, the aestheticization of sleep in Proust, and the medicalization of sleep in contemporary fiction, it examines the ways in which novelists envision the figure of the sleeper, the meanings they discover in human sleep, and the values they attach to it. It argues that literary fiction harbours, on its margins, a sleeping partner, one that we can nickname the Schlafroman or sleep-novel, whose quiet absorption in the wordlessness and passivity of human slumber subtly complicates the imperatives of self-awareness and purposive action that traditionally govern the novel. **