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Finally, alarm wristwatches are recognized for their mechanical
ingenuity and the beauty of their design. This new book traces the
development of mechanical wristwatches with an acoustic alarm
function, one of the first wristwatch complications, and gives
detailed information for collectors. Hundreds of watches are
examined in 535 color images. In addition to the external design of
the watch, special attention is paid to the movements and how their
creators solved the multitude of challenges that confronted them.
Michael Philip Horlbeck, a scholar and collector of alarm
wristwatches, has written the standard work, a complete history of
the alarm wristwatch. Nearly every model ever produced is
chronicled, in words and pictures. The international array of
companies include Eterna, Omega, Bruguet, Bulova, Citizen, Corum,
Cyma, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Lemania, Pierce, Poljot, Ronda, Seiko,
Venus, Vulcain, and Wittnauer, and many more. The technical data
for each watch is recorded. This is required reading for all
wristwatch fans and all who may become such. Whether you are
interested in the design or the mechanics of these watches, you
will not be disappointed.
The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers
from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from
Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic
dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century
onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive descriptions
extant of early Islam. Seldom translated and often omitted from
modern historical reconstructions, this vast body of texts reveals
a complicated and evolving range of religious and cultural
exchanges that took place from the seventh to the ninth century.
The first book-length analysis of these earliest encounters,
Envisioning Islam highlights the ways these neglected texts
challenge the modern scholarly narrative of early Muslim conquests,
rulers, and religious practice. Examining Syriac sources including
letters, theological tracts, scientific treatises, and histories,
Michael Philip Penn reveals a culture of substantial interreligious
interaction in which the categorical boundaries between
Christianity and Islam were more ambiguous than distinct. The
diversity of ancient Syriac images of Islam, he demonstrates,
revolutionizes our understanding of the early Islamic world and
challenges widespread cultural assumptions about the history of
exclusively hostile Christian-Muslim relations.
The first Christians to meet Muslims were not Latin-speaking
Christians from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speaking
Christians from Constantinople but rather Christians from northern
Mesopotamia who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Living under
Muslim rule from the seventh century to the present, Syriac
Christians wrote the first and most extensive accounts of Islam,
describing a complicated set of religious and cultural exchanges
not reducible to the solely antagonistic. Through its critical
introductions and new translations of this invaluable historical
material, When Christians First Met Muslims allows scholars,
students, and the general public to explore the earliest
interactions between what eventually became the world's two largest
religions, shedding new light on Islamic history and
Christian-Muslim relations.
The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers
from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from
Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic
dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century
onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive descriptions
extant of early Islam. Seldom translated and often omitted from
modern historical reconstructions, this vast body of texts reveals
a complicated and evolving range of religious and cultural
exchanges that took place from the seventh to the ninth century.
The first book-length analysis of these earliest encounters,
Envisioning Islam highlights the ways these neglected texts
challenge the modern scholarly narrative of early Muslim conquests,
rulers, and religious practice. Examining Syriac sources including
letters, theological tracts, scientific treatises, and histories,
Michael Philip Penn reveals a culture of substantial interreligious
interaction in which the categorical boundaries between
Christianity and Islam were more ambiguous than distinct. The
diversity of ancient Syriac images of Islam, he demonstrates,
revolutionizes our understanding of the early Islamic world and
challenges widespread cultural assumptions about the history of
exclusively hostile Christian-Muslim relations.
Kissing Christians Ritual and Community in the Late Ancient Church
Michael Philip Penn "Penn has succeeded admirably. . . . "Kissing
Christians" has broken new ground, greatly enriching our
understanding of this important Christian liturgical ritual and
community-forming practice."--"The Medieval Review" "This
fascinating study should serve as an invitation to scholars of
ancient Christian discourse, symbol, and liturgy to take the kiss
seriously, but not only that: "Kissing Christians" invites a
reconsideration of the intersection of discourse and practice
throughout the early Christian period."--"Church History" In the
first five centuries of the common era, the kiss was a distinctive
and near-ubiquitous marker of Christianity. Although Christians did
not invent the kiss--Jewish and pagan literature is filled with
references to kisses between lovers, family members, and
individuals in relationships of power and subordination--Christians
kissed one another in highly specific settings and in ways that set
them off from the non-Christian population. Christians kissed each
other during prayer, Eucharist, baptism, and ordination and in
connection with greeting, funerals, monastic vows, and martyrdom.
As Michael Philip Penn shows in "Kissing Christians," this ritual
kiss played a key role in defining group membership and
strengthening the social bond between the communal body and its
individual members. "Kissing Christians" presents the first
comprehensive study of the ritual kiss and how controversies
surrounding it became part of larger debates regarding the internal
structure of Christian communities and their relations with
outsiders. Penn traces how Christian writers exalted those who
kissed only fellow Christians, proclaimed that Jews did not have a
kiss, prohibited exchanging the kiss with potential heretics,
privileged the confessor's kiss, prohibited Christian men and women
from kissing each other, and forbade laity from kissing clergy.
"Kissing Christians" also investigates connections between kissing
and group cohesion, kissing practices and purity concerns, and how
Christian leaders used the motif of the kiss of Judas to examine
theological notions of loyalty, unity, forgiveness, hierarchy, and
subversion. Exploring connections between bodies, power, and
performance, "Kissing Christians" bridges the gap between cultural
and liturgical approaches to antiquity. It breaks significant new
ground in its application of literary and sociological theory to
liturgical history and will have a profound impact on these fields.
Michael Philip Penn teaches religion at Mount Holyoke College.
Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion 2005 200 pages 5 1/2 x
8 1/2 ISBN 978-0-8122-3880-8 Cloth $59.95s 39.00 ISBN
978-0-8122-0332-5 Ebook $59.95s 39.00 World Rights History,
Religion Short copy: Kissing was one of the most widely practiced
early Christian rituals. "Kissing Christians" presents the first
comprehensive study of how ancient controversies concerning this
rite became part of larger debates regarding the internal structure
of ancient Christian communities and their relations with
outsiders.
Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the
East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern
accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac
Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China,
developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that
connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of
Syriac, the lingua franca of the late ancient Middle East, and a
dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Collecting key
foundational Syriac texts from the second to the fourteenth
centuries, this anthology provides unique access to one of the most
intriguing, but least known, branches of the Christian tradition.
Despite their centrality to the history of Christianity in the
East, Syriac Christians have generally been excluded from modern
accounts of the faith. Originating from Mesopotamia, Syriac
Christians quickly spread across Eurasia, from Turkey to China,
developing a distinctive and influential form of Christianity that
connected empires. These early Christians wrote in the language of
Syriac, the lingua franca of the late ancient Middle East, and a
dialect of Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Collecting key
foundational Syriac texts from the second to the fourteenth
centuries, this anthology provides unique access to one of the most
intriguing, but least known, branches of the Christian tradition.
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