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Author : Roger Hugh Bowdler
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Monuments of Decay and Resurrection written by Roger Hugh Bowdler and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Aberth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113472487X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book From the Brink of the Apocalypse written by John Aberth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "Aberth wears his very considerable and up-to-date scholarship lightly and his study of a series of complex and somber calamites is made remarkably vivid." -- Barrie Dobson, Honorary Professor of History, University of York The later Middle Ages was a period of unparalleled chaos and misery -in the form of war, famine, plague, and death. At times it must have seemed like the end of the world was truly at hand. And yet, as John Aberth reveals in this lively work, late medieval Europeans' cultural assumptions uniquely equipped them to face up postively to the huge problems that they faced. Relying on rich literary, historical and material sources, the book brings this period and its beliefs and attitudes vividly to life. Taking his themes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, John Aberth describes how the lives of ordinary people were transformed by a series of crises, including the Great Famine, the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Yet he also shows how prayers, chronicles, poetry, and especially commemorative art reveal an optimistic people, whose belief in the apocalypse somehow gave them the ability to transcend the woes they faced on this earth. This second edition is brought fully up to date with recent scholarship, and the scope of the book is broadened to include many more examples from mainland Europe. The new edition features fully revised sections on famine, war, and plague, as well as a new epitaph. The book draws some bold new conclusions and raises important questions, which will be fascinating reading for all students and general readers with an interest in medieval history.
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521294805
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (948 download)
Download or read book The Past is a Foreign Country written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-11-14 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Author : William Adolph
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Simplicity of the Creation; Or, The Astronomical Monument of the Blessed Virgin: a New Theory of the Solar System, Thunderstorms, Waterspouts, Aurora Borealis, Etc., and the Tides written by William Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. G. Higgins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908655011
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Place of Their Resurrection written by J. G. Higgins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Author : Peter Sherlock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351916815
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England written by Peter Sherlock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Author : David Lowenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521851424
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Past is a Foreign Country - Revisited written by David Lowenthal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely updated new edition of David Lowenthal's classic account of how we reshape the past to serve present needs.
Author : C. B. Newham
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0141995548
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Country Church Monuments written by C. B. Newham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals, thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches. These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments, he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats, small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children - who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless human striving for eternity.
Author : Caroline Walker Bynum
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231546084
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 written by Caroline Walker Bynum and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of medieval studies, The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200–1336 traces ideas of death and resurrection in early and medieval Christianity. Caroline Walker Bynum explores problems of the body and identity in devotional and theological literature, suggesting that medieval attitudes toward the body still shape modern notions of the individual. This expanded edition includes her 1995 article “Why All the Fuss About the Body? A Medievalist’s Perspective,” which takes a broader perspective on the book’s themes. It also includes a new introduction that explores the context in which the book and article were written, as well as why the Middle Ages matter for how we think about the body and life after death today.
Author : Horatius Bonar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Prophetical landmarks; containing data for helping to determine the question of Christ's pre-millennial advent written by Horatius Bonar and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesse Bryant Wilder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111986867X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Art History For Dummies written by Jesse Bryant Wilder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ready to discover the fascinating world of art history? Let’s (Van) Gogh! Fine art might seem intimidating at first. But with the right guide, anyone can learn to appreciate and understand the stimulating and beautiful work of history’s greatest painters, sculptors, and architects. In Art History For Dummies, we’ll take you on a journey through fine art from all eras, from Cave Art to the Colosseum, and from Michelangelo to Picasso and the modern masters. Along the way, you’ll learn about how history has influenced art, and vice versa. This updated edition includes: Brand new material on a wider array of renowned female artists Explorations of the Harlem Renaissance, American Impressionism, and the Precisionists Discussions of art in the 20th and 21st centuries, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, and today’s eclectic art scene Is there an exhibition in your town you want to see? Prep before going with Art History For Dummies and show your friends what an Art Smartie you are. An unbeatable reference for anyone looking to build a foundational understanding of art in a historical context, Art History For Dummies is your personal companion that makes fine art even finer!
Author : Rudy Koshar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520922525
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (225 download)
Download or read book From Monuments to Traces written by Rudy Koshar and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than half a century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Beginning with national unification in 1870-71 it follows through to reunification in 1990.
Author : Robert V. Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521633192
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (331 download)
Download or read book Facing the 'King of Terrors' written by Robert V. Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the roles and perceptions of death in Schenectady, New York from 1750 to 1990.
Author : John Sears
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708323464
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Stephen King's Gothic written by John Sears and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen King is the world's best-selling horror writer. His work is ubiquitous on bookstore, supermarket, and personal library shelves and has been faithfully adapted into some of the most iconic horror films of the twentieth century. This study explores his writing through the lenses of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Through analyses of some of his best-known work, including "Carrie" and "Misery," the authors argue that King offers ways of encountering and understanding some of our deepest fears about life and death, the past and the future, technological change, other people, monsters, ghosts, and the supernatural.This is the first extended critical-theoretical engagement with King's writing, and will be of interest to students, academics, and fans of horror fiction.
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Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Church Monuments written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth C. Tingle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317147499
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Reformation Europe written by Elizabeth C. Tingle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the social and cultural impact of the Reformation. The associated processes of dying, death and burial inevitably generated heightened emotion and a strong concern for religious propriety: the ways in which funerary customs were accepted, rejected, modified and contested can therefore grant us a powerful insight into the religious and social mindset of individuals, communities, Churches and even nation states in the post-reformation period. This collection provides an historiographical overview of recent work on dying, death and burial in Reformation and Counter-Reformation Europe and draws together ten essays from historians, literary scholars, musicologists and others working at the cutting edge of research in this area. As well as an interdisciplinary perspective, it also offers a broad geographical and confessional context, ranging across Catholic and Protestant Europe, from Scotland, England and the Holy Roman Empire to France, Spain and Ireland. The essays update and augment the body of literature on dying, death and disposal with recent case studies, pointing to future directions in the field. The volume is organised so that its contents move dynamically across the rites of passage, from dying to death, burial and the afterlife. The importance of spiritual care and preparation of the dying is one theme that emerges from this work, extending our knowledge of Catholic ars moriendi into Protestant Britain. Mourning and commemoration; the fate of the soul and its post-mortem management; the political uses of the dead and their resting places, emerge as further prominent themes in this new research. Providing contrasts and comparisons across different European regions and across Catholic and Protestant regions, the collection contributes to and extends the existing literature on this important historiographical theme.
