Learn IT - Books tags medieval

Digital Identity

O'Reilly, 2005

The rise of network-based, automated services in the past decade has definitely changed the way businesses operate, but not always for the better. Offering services, conducting transactions and moving data on the Web opens new opportunities, but many CTOs and CIOs are more concerned with the risks. Like the rulers of medieval...

Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Cambridge University Press, 2009

With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a major role in worsening relations between Christians, Muslims and...

Metro Area Networking (McGraw-Hill Networking Professional)

McGraw-Hill, 2003

It is fascinating to me how much my interest in history helps me understand the evolution of modern networks and the inner workings of the technologies that power them. Metro networks are no exception. As I studied the evolution of the network from a relatively monolithic transport construct to a more differentiated and specialized set of...

Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cornell University Library, 2019

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects?artifacts, structures, and archaeological...

Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics: Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition)

Bloomsbury Reference, 2018

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that a moral principle 'does not immediately appear to the man who has been corrupted by pleasure or pain'. Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics investigates his claim and its reception in ancient and medieval Aristotelian traditions, including Arabic, Greek, Hebrew...

The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science

Cambridge University Press, 2013

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in...

The Middle Ages: 500-1450 (The History of Medicine)

Facts on File, 2009

During the Middle Ages (ca. 529-1100), the rise of Christianity had a definite effect on the practice of medicine. Pope Gregory (ca. 540-604) stressed the importance of prayer over medicine, and over time that sentiment became pervasive. Each time a person was healed, it was considered a miracle. The church taught that since God sometimes sent...

Castles and Fortified Cities of Medieval Europe: An Illustrated History

MacFreda Publishing, 2002

During the Middle Ages, castles and other fortified buildings were a common feature of the European landscape. As central powers rose and fell, the insecurity of the time inspired a revival of fortification techniques first introduced in the Roman Empire. Despite limitations in construction techniques and manpower, medieval fortifications...

The Riddle of the Image: The Secret Science of Medieval Art

Reaktion Books, 2014

From monumental church mosaics to fresco wall-paintings, the medieval period produced some of the most impressive art in history. But how, in a world without the array of technology and access to materials that we now have, did artists produce such incredible works, often on an unbelievably large scale? In The Riddle of the...

Careers for Class Clowns & Other Engaging Types, Second edition (Careers for You Series)

McGraw-Hill, 2005

Careers for Class Clowns & Other Engaging Types

People have been getting paid to clown around for centuries. What’s stopping you? The medieval court jester has been replaced by the stand-up comedian, but there are many other career avenues for those with a unique sense of humor. You can turn your talent for making...

The Art of Cooking: The First Modern Cookery Book (California Studies in Food and Culture)

University of California Press, 2005

"Surely one of the most significant writings ever concerning the origins and methods of Western cookery. As a pure cookbook, it is a collection of Maestro Martino of Como's precise, workable recipes, each preaching the value and preservation of basic flavors--a revolutionary concept for his time. As an historical resource, The Art of...

Emergence in Games (Charles River Media Game Development)

Charles River, 2007

The future direction of game development is towards more flexible, realistic, and interactive game worlds. However, current methods of game design do not allow for anything other than pre-scripted player exchanges and static objects and environments. An emergent approach to game development involves the creation of a globally designed game system...

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