Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Claudius

In full  Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , original name (until AD 41)  Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus   Roman emperor (AD 41–54), who extended Roman rule in North Africa and made Britain a province.

Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Yeshiva

Also spelled  yeshivah , or  yeshibah (Hebrew “sitting”) , plural  yeshivas,  yeshivot,  yeshivoth , or  yeshibot  any of numerous Jewish academies of Talmudic learning, whose biblical and legal exegesis and application of Scripture have defined and regulated Jewish religious life for centuries. The early history of the yeshiva as an institution is known only through indirect evidence, and the word itself did not come into current use until the 1st century AD. Rabbinic literature

Pahlavi Language

Also spelled  Pehlevi  major form of the Middle Persian language (see Persian language), which existed from the 3rd to the 10th century and was the official language of the Sasanian empire (AD 226–652). It is attested by Zoroastrian books, coins, and inscriptions. Pahlavi books were written in a confusing writing system of Aramaic origin called the Pahlavi alphabet. The major part of Pahlavi literature is

Monday, March 28, 2005

North Germanic Languages

About 125 inscriptions dated from AD 200 to 600, carved in the older runic alphabet (futhark), are chronologically and linguistically the oldest evidence of any Germanic language. Most are from Scandinavia, but enough have been found in southeastern Europe to suggest that the use of runes was also familiar to other Germanic tribes. Most inscriptions are brief, marking ownership

Hui Tsung

Hui Tsung sought escape from affairs of state in the pleasures of arts and letters. He urged painters in his academy of painting to depict objects that were “true to colour and form,” inviting an extreme literalness of representation;

Sunday, March 27, 2005

Lira

The word lira, a misapplication

Saturday, March 26, 2005

Olaf Iv Haakonsson

After Valdemar's death in 1375, Olaf was elected (1376) king of Denmark and succeeded his father as king of Norway in 1380. The government of Norway was conducted by a state council, but power was largely in the hands of Olaf's mother, who planned to unite

Friday, March 25, 2005

Biblical Literature, Pseudepigrapha connected with the Dead Sea Scrolls

There are three Pseudepigrapha that are closely connected with the writings of the Dead Sea sect: the Book of Jubilees, the Ethiopic Book of Enoch, and the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. It is not accidental that fragments of the two first books and of two sources of the third were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Henrietta Maria

Henrietta

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Acropolites, George

Acropolites was reared at the imperial court, then at Nicaea in Asia