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  2. A Summer of Learning | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/a-summer-of-learning
    Thumbnail for A Summer of Learning | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: written. We talked mainly about Arabic, written for example in Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek alphabets. ... in a language typically written in another alphabet – there is a great conflation of alphabet and actual language.
  3. Dragon Knot | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/dragon-knot
    Thumbnail for Dragon Knot | The Woolf Institute 1 Jun 2024: In the main section of the fragment, the decorative element – interlace – is looped with knotted animal and geometric forms applied in complex patterns to fill the space. ... You can see the artistic style of these cultures with the curving,
  4. Society for the Medieval Mediterranean: Contact | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/videos/contact-communication-collaboration
    Thumbnail for Society for the Medieval Mediterranean: Contact | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: Some of the themes explored include: How did people negotiate different languages and alphabets? ... This webinar was recorded on 18/6/20. Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge.
  5. Exhibitions | The Woolf Institute

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    Thumbnail for Exhibitions | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: of animals and flowers that adorn more modest 'user-produced' books, to the crude scorpions and djinns of esoteric texts. ... Details from a 19th-century marriage contract (CUL Or. 1080.9.21). Reprinted with kind permission by the Syndics of Cambridge
  6. Art history from below: the imagery of the Cairo | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah
    Thumbnail for Art history from below: the imagery of the Cairo | The Woolf Institute 1 Jun 2024: of animals and flowers that adorn more modest ‘user-produced' books, to the crude scorpions and djinns of esoteric texts. ... ENTER THE EXHIBITION ->. Download the Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  7. Zoonosis: how new diseases appear | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/zoonosis-how-new-diseases-appear
    Thumbnail for Zoonosis: how new diseases appear | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: When a pathogen jumps from an animal to a human, bad things can happen. ... Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  8. Language and Identity | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/language-and-identity
    Thumbnail for Language and Identity | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: Executive Director. Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner is the Executive Director of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. ... Miriam completed her doctorate at the University of Cambridge on Judaeo-Arabic in the Cairo Genizah and has
  9. Children’s Book | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/childrens-book
    Thumbnail for Children’s Book | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: Usually, children would learn the alphabet and practice writing. According to the eminent Genizah scholar S. ... Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  10. Improving relations between religion & society… | The Woolf…

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/podcasts/series/naked-reflections
    Thumbnail for Improving relations between religion & society… | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: When a pathogen jumps from an animal to a human, bad things can happen. ... Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  11. Steel and Horseflesh: Trade in the Late Medieval | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/videos/steel-and-horseflesh-trade-in-the-late-medieval-mediterranean
    Thumbnail for Steel and Horseflesh: Trade in the Late Medieval | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: animals, their contribution to the establishment of diplomatic relations and patronage networks, and their significance to the politics of prestige pursued by both minor and major Renaissance rulers. ... Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  12. Shifting Cultures | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/shifting-cultures
    Thumbnail for Shifting Cultures | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: By looking at letters from the Cairo Geniza written in Arabic using the Hebrew alphabet but with occasional appearances of Arabic script, Dr Wagner demonstrated how particular languages and alphabets in ... Jessica Tearney-Pearce is the incoming Woolf
  13. Zoomorphic Letters | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/zoomorphic-letters
    Thumbnail for Zoomorphic Letters | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: The decorative inscription is both zoomorphic and anthropomorphic, where entire words were built out of grotesque animals and people. ... These whimsical animals kept readers interested; they also showed the artist’s talent.
  14. #WoolfWatch Week Fourteen | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/woolfwatch-week-fourteen
    Thumbnail for #WoolfWatch Week Fourteen | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: Video:. How did people negotiate different languages and alphabets? How was knowledge disseminated between communities? ... Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  15. Lion and Mother | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/lion-and-mother
    Thumbnail for Lion and Mother | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: The Arabic literature takes its name from Kalīla and Dimna, two jackal protagonist brothers of the first story at the court of the Lion, the King of the animals. ... Moral advice is dispensed by animals talking to princes. In this illustrated fragment,
  16. History in Fragments | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/history-in-fragments
    Thumbnail for History in Fragments | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: me to read in various alphabets, and this has been the potential key to otherwise inaccessible areas of human history. ... Dr Esther-Miriam Wagner is the Executive Director of the Woolf Institute and Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge.
  17. The Ark and Evil Eye | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/the-ark-and-evil-eye
    Thumbnail for The Ark and Evil Eye | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: On the top, there is a pairing of Hebrew letters in Atbaš אתבש style, meaning that the first and last letter of the alphabet is paired up, the second and the ... Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  18. An Interfaith Friendship | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/an-interfaith-friendship
    Thumbnail for An Interfaith Friendship | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: According to this, the Manx cat was the last of the animals to enter the ark because she was busy hunting. ... Guest Contributor. Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  19. Ketubbah | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/art-history-cairo-genizah/ketubbah-part-1
    Thumbnail for Ketubbah | The Woolf Institute 2 Jun 2024: Traditionally, a marriage contract document is decoratively framed with geometric and floral patterns, animals (especially birds) and human and angel-like figures. ... Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  20. The Symbolism of Trees | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/the-symbolism-of-trees
    Thumbnail for The Symbolism of Trees | The Woolf Institute 1 Jun 2024: which human and animal health ultimately depends. ... Guest Contributor. Woolf Institute. Madingley Road. Cambridge. CB3 0UB - Find us on Google Maps.
  21. Initial Introductions: Pinja Vesen | The Woolf Institute

    https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/blog/initial-introductions-pinja-vesen
    Thumbnail for Initial Introductions: Pinja Vesen | The Woolf Institute 1 Jun 2024: Published May 05, 2024. What brought you to Cambridge and how long have you lived here? ... Is there one thing that has made the biggest impression on you in Cambridge?

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