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Book Synopsis Local antiquities, local identities by : Kathleen Christian
Download or read book Local antiquities, local identities written by Kathleen Christian and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates the wide array of local antiquarian practices that developed across Europe in the early modern era. Breaking new ground, it explores local concepts of antiquity in a period that has been defined as a uniform 'Renaissance'. Contributors take a novel approach to the revival of the antique in different parts of Italy, as well as examining other, less widely studied antiquarian traditions in France, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Britain and Poland. They consider how real or fictive ruins, inscriptions and literary works were used to demonstrate a particular idea of local origins, to rewrite history or to vaunt civic pride. In doing so, they tackle such varied subjects as municipal antiquities collections in Southern Italy and France, the antiquarian response to the pagan, Christian and Islamic past on the Iberian Peninsula, and Netherlandish interest in megalithic ruins thought to be traces of a prehistoric race of Giants.
Book Synopsis Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance by : James Hankins
Download or read book Humanism and Platonism in the Italian Renaissance written by James Hankins and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 2003 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century by : Robert L. Benson
Download or read book Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century written by Robert L. Benson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven authors approach the diverse areas of the cultural, religious, and social life of the twelfth century. These essays form a basic resource for all interested in this pivotal century. A reprint of the first edition first published in 1982.
Book Synopsis The Eternal City by : Ferdinand Addis
Download or read book The Eternal City written by Ferdinand Addis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent and definitive history of the Eternal City, narrated by a master historian. Why does Rome continue to exert a hold on our imagination? How did the "Caput mundi" come to play such a critical role in the development of Western civilization? Ferdinand Addis addresses these questions by tracing the history of the "Eternal City" told through the dramatic key moments in its history: from the mythic founding of Rome in 753 BC, via such landmarks as the murder of Caesar in 44 BC, the coronation of Charlemagne in AD 800 and the reinvention of the imperial ideal, the painting of the Sistine chapel, the trial of Galileo, Mussolini's March on Rome of 1922, the release of Fellini's La Dolce Vita in 1960, and the Occupy riots of 2011. City of the Seven Hills, spiritual home of Catholic Christianity, city of the artistic imagination, enduring symbol of our common European heritage—Rome has inspired, charmed, and tempted empire-builders, dreamers, writers, and travelers across the twenty-seven centuries of its existence. Ferdinand Addis tells this rich story in a grand narrative style for a new generation of readers.
Book Synopsis The Artist and the Eternal City by : Loyd Grossman
Download or read book The Artist and the Eternal City written by Loyd Grossman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant vignette of seventeenth-century Rome, its Baroque architecture, and its relationship to the Catholic Church brings to life the friendship between a genius and his patron with an ease of writing that is rare in art history. By 1650, the spiritual and political power of the Catholic Church was shattered. Thanks to the twin blows of the Protestant Reformation and the Thirty Years War, Rome—celebrated both as the Eternal City and Caput Mundi (the head of the world)—had lost its preeminent place in Europe. Then a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile, and a mania for creating new architecture, determined to restore the prestige of his church by making Rome the key destination for Europe's intellectual, political, and cultural elite. To help him do so, he enlisted the talents of Gianlorenzo Bernini, already celebrated as the most important living artist—no mean feat in the age of Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velazquez.
Book Synopsis The Roman Monster by : Lawrence Buck
Download or read book The Roman Monster written by Lawrence Buck and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-02-22 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1495 the Tiber River flooded the city of Rome causing extensive drowning and destruction. When the water finally receded, a rumor began to circulate that a grotesque monstrosity had been discovered in the muddy detritus—the Roman monster. The creature itself is inherently fascinating, consisting of an eclectic combination of human and animal body parts. The symbolism of these elements, the interpretations that religious controversialists read into them, and the history of the image itself, help to document antipapal polemics from fifteenth-century Rome to the Elizabethan religious settlement. This study examines the iconography of the image of the Roman monster and offers ideological reasons for associating the image with the pre-Reformation Waldensians and Bohemian Brethren. It accounts for the reproduction and survival of the monster's image in fifteenth-century Bohemia and provides historical background on the topos of the papal Antichrist, a concept that Philip Melanchthon associated with the monster. It contextualizes Melanchthon’s tract, “The Pope-Ass Explained,” within the first five years of the Lutheran movement, and it documents the popularity of the Roman monster within the polemical and apocalyptic writings of the Reformation. This is a careful examination and interpretation of all relevant primary documents and secondary historical literature in telling the story of the origins and impact of the most famous monstrous portent of the Reformation era.
Book Synopsis A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. Wherein is Contain'd by : Charles Daubuz
Download or read book A Perpetual Commentary on the Revelation of St. John. Wherein is Contain'd written by Charles Daubuz and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fabula written by Dronke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Publisher :Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN 13 :3111229599 Total Pages :286 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (112 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ecclesiologist written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle of Crécy by : Michael Livingston
Download or read book The Battle of Crécy written by Michael Livingston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This casebook is the most extensive collection of documents ever assembled for the study of one of the famous battles in history — the Battle of Crécy (1346).
Book Synopsis Egypt - Temple of the Whole World by : Sibylle Meyer
Download or read book Egypt - Temple of the Whole World written by Sibylle Meyer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt" – once wrote Jan Assmann – "can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding." This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and continues unto this day, more often than not as a scholarly search for the oldest roots of our cultural memory. Jan Assmann's superb academic achievement undoubtedly represents the single most significant contribution to the modern understanding of Ancient Egypt, reaching far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology proper. The essays in this volume, all written by his friends and disciples, reflect the tremendous impact of his oeuvre on the scholarly world, encompassing not only Egyptological and related themes, but also central aspects of Judaeo-Christian identity such as monotheism and the historical events surrounding the recently discovered Diaspora temple of Yahu on the island of Elephantine.
Book Synopsis Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa by : Jelena Erdeljan
Download or read book Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa written by Jelena Erdeljan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chosen Places. Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa, Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. The idea of Jerusalem corresponds with the idea of a mystical center, the center of the historical Christian world, which travels and follows the path of eschatologial realisation.
Book Synopsis Remembering the Renaissance by : Kenneth Gouwens
Download or read book Remembering the Renaissance written by Kenneth Gouwens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, drawing extensively upon manuscript sources, provides the first comprehensive account of how Rome's humanist community coped with the 1527 sack of the city, an event traditionally viewed as signaling the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.
Download or read book Migrants written by Sam Miller and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective may be just what we need' Daily Telegraph 'Enjoyable, provocative and timely' Spectator 'Timely and empathetic: a rare combination on this most controversial issue' Remi Adekoya, author of Biracial Britain 'Tremendous: blends the personal and the panoramic to great effect' Robert Winder, author of Bloody Foreigners Humans are, in fundamental ways, a migratory species, more so than any other land mammal. For most of our existence , we were all nomads, and some of us still are. Houses and permanent settlements are a relatively late development - dating back little more than twelve thousand years. Borders and passports are much more recent. From the Neanderthals, Alexander the Great, Christopher Columbus and Pocahontas to the African slave trade, Fu Manchu, and Barack Obama, Migrants shows us that it is only by understanding how migration and migrants have been viewed in the past, that we can re-set the terms of the modern-day debate about migration. Migrants presents us with an alternative history of the world, in which migration is restored to the heart of the human story. And in which humans migrate for a wide range of reasons: not just because of civil war, or poverty or climate change but also out of curiosity and a sense of adventure. On arrival, migrants are expected both to assimilate and encouraged to remain distinctive; to defend their heritage and adopt a new one. They are sub-human and super-human; romanticised and castigated, admired and abhorred. Migrants tells us that this is not a new narrative; this is the history of us all, part of everybody's backstory - for those who consider themselves migrants and those who do not.
Author :Library of Congress. Copyright Office Publisher :Copyright Office, Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1760 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1975 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cassell's Book of Quotations Proverbs and Household Words by : William Gurney Benham
Download or read book Cassell's Book of Quotations Proverbs and Household Words written by William Gurney Benham and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
