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Birdman of Assisi

Author : Jaime Lara
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 : 9780866985291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Birdman of Assisi written by Jaime Lara and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines images and beliefs related to birdmen among Incas and other peoples of South America, and the transformation of that phenomena in the colonial era by Christian missionaries. The author brings to light previously-unknown images of Saint Francis of Assisi with wings, flying through the air as a militant angel of the Apocalypse. Although commissioned by the Franciscan friars, these works of painting and sculpture were executed by native artists with native sensibilities. They reveal a social critique of colonial society, an expectation of an approaching end of the world, and a controversial role for Francis of Assisi at a final cosmic battle. Natural catastrophes, such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, combined with mythology, prophecy, piety and public performance, assert a "Franciscan exceptionalism" at a crucial time in Latin American history. A side trip to colonial Mexico reveals that similar dynamics were occurring there, but with different artistic solutions. Birdman of Assisi documents how a beloved medieval saint gained new life among Incas and other native civilizations of the Americas, and continues to fascinate their descendants today.

Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds

Author : David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110787075
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Worlds Ending. Ending Worlds written by David Eisler, Jenny Stümer, Michael Dunn and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-12-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Numinous

Author : Anthony Wolfe
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412042038
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Numinous written by Anthony Wolfe and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journalist's first book of collected poems written over four decades.

American/Medieval

Author : Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847006258
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book American/Medieval written by Gillian R. Overing and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art

Author : C.A. Tsakiridou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351187252
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art written by C.A. Tsakiridou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tradition and Transformation in Christian Art approaches tradition and transculturality in religious art from an Orthodox perspective that defines tradition as a dynamic field of exchanges and synergies between iconographic types and their variants. Relying on a new ontology of iconographic types, it explores one of the most significant ascetical and eschatological Christian images, the King of Glory (Man of Sorrows). This icon of the dead-living Christ originated in Byzantium, migrated west, and was promoted in the New World by Franciscan and Dominican missions. Themes include tensions between Byzantine and Latin spiritualities of penance and salvation, the participation of the body and gender in deification, and the theological plasticity of the Christian imaginary. Primitivist tendencies in Christian eschatology and modernism place avant-garde interest in New Mexican santos and Greek icons in tradition.

History and Its Limits

Author : Dominick LaCapra
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457688
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book History and Its Limits written by Dominick LaCapra and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominick LaCapra's History and Its Limits articulates the relations among intellectual history, cultural history, and critical theory, examining the recent rise of "Practice Theory" and probing the limitations of prevalent forms of humanism. LaCapra focuses on the problem of understanding extreme cases, specifically events and experiences involving violence and victimization. He asks how historians treat and are simultaneously implicated in the traumatic processes they attempt to represent. In addressing these questions, he also investigates violence's impact on various types of writing and establishes a distinctive role for critical theory in the face of an insufficiently discriminating aesthetic of the sublime (often unreflectively amalgamated with the uncanny). In History and Its Limits, LaCapra inquires into the related phenomenon of a turn to the "postsecular," even the messianic or the miraculous, in recent theoretical discussions of extreme events by such prominent figures as Giorgio Agamben, Eric L. Santner, and Slavoj Zizek. In a related vein, he discusses Martin Heidegger's evocative, if not enchanting, understanding of "The Origin of the Work of Art." LaCapra subjects to critical scrutiny the sometimes internally divided way in which violence has been valorized in sacrificial, regenerative, or redemptive terms by a series of important modern intellectuals on both the far right and the far left, including Georges Sorel, the early Walter Benjamin, Georges Bataille, Frantz Fanon, and Ernst Jünger. Violence and victimization are prominent in the relation between the human and the animal. LaCapra questions prevalent anthropocentrism (evident even in theorists of the "posthuman") and the long-standing quest for a decisive criterion separating or dividing the human from the animal. LaCapra regards this attempt to fix the difference as misguided and potentially dangerous because it renders insufficiently problematic the manner in which humans treat other animals and interact with the environment. In raising the issue of desirable transformations in modernity, History and Its Limits examines the legitimacy of normative limits necessary for life in common and explores the disconcerting role of transgressive initiatives beyond limits (including limits blocking the recognition that humans are themselves animals).

Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

Author : Cheryl Claassen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1316518388
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Religion in Sixteenth-Century Mexico written by Cheryl Claassen and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed comparison of Aztec and Spanish religious devotion, examining the melding of practices during the first century of contact 1519-1600.

Gore Vidal

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072090
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Gore Vidal written by Jay Parini and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he's one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Gore Vidal has been steadfastly ignored by many critics. His radical polemics and undisguised contempt have hardly endeared him to the critical establishment. Now comes the first collection of critical essays on this important American writer. Includes an interview with Vidal.

Strange Piece of Paradise

Author : Terri Jentz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312426699
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Strange Piece of Paradise written by Terri Jentz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, eloquent, and paced like a thriller, Strange Piece of Paradise is the electrifying account of the author's investigation into her near murder.

The Joyful Beggar

Author : Louis De Wohl
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495074
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book The Joyful Beggar written by Louis De Wohl and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnificent and stirring novel, Louis de Wohl turns his famed narrative skill to the story of the soldier and merchant's son who might have been right-hand man to a king ... and who became instead the most beloved of all saints. Set against the tempestuous background of 13th Century Italy and Egypt, here is the magnificent and inspiring story of Francis Bernardone, the brash, pleasure-loving young officer who was to become immortalized as St. Francis of Assisi. The story teems with action, pageantry and intrigue with finely conceived characters-the beautiful, saintly Clare, Frederick, the hawk-faced King of Sicily and Holy Roman Emperor, the Sultan Al Kamil, Pope Innocent III. The scene shifts from Assisi, Rome and Sicily to the deadly sands of Egypt. This book was made into a feature film by 20th Century Fox entitled Francis of Assisi, now available on video from Ignatius Press.

Rubens in Repeat

Author : Aaron M. Hyman
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066862
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Rubens in Repeat written by Aaron M. Hyman and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic creativity. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) never crossed the Atlantic himself, but his impact in colonial Latin America was profound. Prints made after the Flemish artist’s designs were routinely sent from Europe to the Spanish Americas, where artists used them to make all manner of objects. Rubens in Repeat is the first comprehensive study of this transatlantic phenomenon, despite broad recognition that it was one of the most important forces to shape the artistic landscapes of the region. Copying, particularly in colonial contexts, has traditionally held negative implications that have discouraged its serious exploration. Yet analyzing the interpretation of printed sources and recontextualizing the resulting works within period discourse and their original spaces of display allow a new critical reassessment of this broad category of art produced in colonial Latin America—art that has all too easily been dismissed as derivative and thus unworthy of sustained interest and investigation. This book takes a new approach to the paradigms of artistic authorship that emerged alongside these complex creative responses, focusing on the viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that the use of European prints was an essential component of the very framework in which colonial artists forged ideas about what it meant to be a creator.

Skinny Legs and All

Author : Tom Robbins
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553897934
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Skinny Legs and All written by Tom Robbins and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2003-06-17 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which spins this gutsy, fun-loving, and alarmingly provocative novel, in which a bean can philosophizes, a dessert spoon mystifies, a young waitress takes on the New York art world, and a rowdy redneck welder discovers the lost god of Palestine--while the illusions that obscure humanity's view of the true universe fall away, one by one, like Salome's veils. Skinny Legs and All deals with today's most sensitive issues: race, politics, marriage, art, religion, money, and lust. It weaves lyrically through what some call the "end days" of our planet. Refusing to avert its gaze from the horrors of the apocalypse, it also refuses to let the alleged end of the world spoil its mood. And its mood is defiantly upbeat. In the gloriously inventive Tom Robbins style, here are characters, phrases, stories, and ideas that dance together on the page, wild and sexy, like Salome herself. Or was it Jezebel?

Memoirs of a Birdman

Author : Ludwig Koch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Birdman written by Ludwig Koch and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pat Crowe, Aviator

Author : James Richard Crowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Pat Crowe, Aviator written by James Richard Crowe and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pat Crowe, as his theatrial, musical and journalistic comrades know James Richard Crowe, Jr. of Alabama, enlisted in the United States AIr Service early in 1917, when his country entered the war. He spent that Summer at the ground school in Cambridge, Mass., and sailed from New York for France on Nov. 23 as a Cadet in the 15th Foreign Detachment, Aviation Section, Signal Corps. He was Commisioned a Second Lieutenant at Tours in July, 1918. He met his death on Sept. 29 by falling with his aeroplane from a height of 7,000 feet unpon the field of Issoudun."--Page 9

Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi

Author : Tomie DePaola
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823408122
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi written by Tomie DePaola and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of the wealthy young Italian who gave away all his possessions to become a wandering preacher and protector of animals.

Newsweek

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Newsweek written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

St. Francis of Assisi.

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781073157266
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book St. Francis of Assisi. written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chesterton was an orthodox religious person, eventually converting to Roman Catholicism. In 1923, he wrote this short biography of St. Francis of Assisi, after whom Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio chose his papal name, Pope Francis, when he was elected as the 266th and current Pope of the Catholic Church, on 13 March 2013. The biography of St. Francis may help one understand why the Pope chose St. Francis as his namesake. Chesterton begins: "A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways. Between these the writer must make his selection; ... First, he may deal with this great and most amazing man as a figure in secular history and a model of social virtues. ... Second, he may go to the opposite extreme, and decide, as it were, to be defiantly devotional. ... Third, he may try to do what I have tried to do here; ... I am here addressing the ordinary common man, sympathetic but sceptical, and I can only rather hazily hope that, by approaching the great saint's story through what is evidently picturesque and popular about it, I may at least leave the reader understanding a little more than he did before of the consistency of a complete character; ....""Here is an historical character which is admittedly attractive to many of us already, by its gaiety, its romantic imagination, its spiritual courtesy and cameraderie, but which also contains elements (evidently equally sincere and emphatic) which seem to you quite remote and repulsive. But after all, this man was a man and not half a dozen men. What seems inconsistency to you did not seem inconsistency to him. Let us see whether we can understand, with the help of the existing understanding, these other things that now seem to be doubly dark, by their intrinsic gloom and their ironic contrast."