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The Dendrites In Pre Christian And Christian Historical Literary Tradition And Iconography
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Author :Constantine P. Charalampidis Publisher :L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER ISBN 13 :9788870628678 Total Pages :128 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (286 download)
Book Synopsis The Dendrites in Pre-Christian and Christian Historical-literary Tradition and Iconography by : Constantine P. Charalampidis
Download or read book The Dendrites in Pre-Christian and Christian Historical-literary Tradition and Iconography written by Constantine P. Charalampidis and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation of a work originally published in Greek in 1986.
Book Synopsis The Sign of the Cross by : Daniel Rancour-Laferriere
Download or read book The Sign of the Cross written by Daniel Rancour-Laferriere and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a unique effort to create a new understanding of the Christian sign of the cross. At its core, it traces the conscious and unconscious influence of this visual symbol through time. What began as the crucifixion of a Jewish troublemaker in Roman-occupied Judea in the first century eventually gave rise to a broad spectrum of readings of the instrument used to accomplish such a punishment, a cross. The author argues that Jesus was a provocative, grandiose masochist whose suffering and death initially signified redemption for believers. This idea gradually morphed into a Christian sense of freedom to persecute and wage war against non-believers, however, as can be seen in the Crusades ("wars of the cross"). Many believers even construed the murder of their savior as a crime perpetrated by "the Jews," and this paranoid notion culminated in the mass murder of European Jews under the sign of the Nazi hooked cross (Hakenkreuz). Rancour-Laferriere's book is expertly written and argued; it will be readable to a large audience because it touches on many areas of controversy, interest, and scholarship. The work is critical, but not unfair; it employs psychoanalysis, art history (the study of the symbol of the cross in works of art), religion and religious texts, and world history generally. The interweaving of these various themes is what gives this work its ability to draw in readers-and will ultimately be what keeps the reader interested through the conclusion.
Book Synopsis Illuminating the Vitae patrum by : Denva Gallant
Download or read book Illuminating the Vitae patrum written by Denva Gallant and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings from the Vitae patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) and sermons but also through the images that brought their stories to life. In this volume, Denva Gallant examines the Morgan Library’s richly illustrated manuscript of the Vitae patrum (MS M.626), whose extraordinary artworks witness the rise of the eremitic ideal and its impact on the visual culture of late medieval Italy. Drawing upon scholarship on the history of psychology, eastern monasticism, gender, and hagiography, Gallant deepens our understanding of the centrality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers to late medieval piety. She provides important insights into the role of images in making the practices of the desert saints both compelling and accessible to fourteenth-century city dwellers, who were just beginning to cultivate the habit of private devotion on a wide scale. By focusing on the most extensively illuminated manuscript of the Vitae patrum to emerge during the trecento, this book sheds new light on the ways in which images communicated and reinforced modes of piety. It will be of interest to art historians, religious historians, and students focusing on this period in Italian history.
Book Synopsis The Naked Hermit by : Nick Mayhew-Smith
Download or read book The Naked Hermit written by Nick Mayhew-Smith and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places. Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a journey into the heart of the Celtic wilderness, exploring the deep-seated impulse to mark natural places as holy. It ends with a vision of how we can recover our harmony with the rest of creation: with the landscape, the weather and the wildlife, and ultimately with the body itself. Follow the footsteps of holy men and women such as Columba, Patrick, Cuthbert, Gildas, Aidan, Bede, Ninian, Etheldreda, Samson and others into enchanting Celtic landscapes, and learn the unvarnished truth behind the stories that shape our spiritual and natural heritage.
Download or read book Ante Pacem written by Graydon F. Snyder and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christianity emerged from obscurity to dominate the Roman world: that story, told and retold, continues to fascinate historians and believers. But the religion of ordinary Christians is not so well or easily known; they have left us no literary record of their faith and their hope, their marrying and their dying, their worship and their common life. Before the publication of "Ante Pacem there was no introduction or source-book for early Christian archaeology available in English. With his book Professor Snyder has performed an incalculable service for students of early Christianity and the world of late antiquity. He analyzes in one lavishly illustrated volume every piece of evidence that can, with some degree of assurance, be dated before the triumph of the emperor Constantine at the Milvian Bridge in 312CE thrust the nascent Christian culture "into a universal role as the formal religious expression of the Roman Empire."
Book Synopsis Byzantine Tree Life by : Thomas Arentzen
Download or read book Byzantine Tree Life written by Thomas Arentzen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the many ways Byzantines lived with their trees. It takes seriously theological and hagiographic tree engagement as expressions of that culture’s deep involvement—and even fascination—with the arboreal. These pages tap into the current attention paid to plants in a wide range of scholarship, an attention that involves the philosophy of plant life as well as scientific discoveries of how communicative trees may be, and how they defend themselves. Considering writings on and images of trees from Late Antiquity and medieval Byzantium sympathetically, the book argues for an arboreal imagination at the root of human aspirations to know and draw close to the divine.
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Download or read book Religious Diversity in Late Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-05-17 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume in the well-established Late Antique Archaeology series draws together recent research by archaeologists and historians to shed new light on the religious world of Late Antiquity. A detailed bibliographic essay provides an overview of relevant literature, while individual articles explore the diversity of late antique religion. Rabbinic and non-rabbinic Judaism is traced in Beth Shearim, Dura Europus and Sepphoris, and the Samaritan community in Israel, while Christian concepts of orthodoxy and heresy are examined with a particular focus on the 'Arian' Controversy. Popular piety receives close attention, through the archaeology of pilgrimage and the stylite 'pillar saints', and so too does the complex relationship between religion and magic and between sacred and secular in Late Antiquity. Contributors are David M. Gwynn, Susanne Bangert, Jodi Magness, Zeev Weiss, Shimon Dar, Michel-Yves Perrin, Bryan Ward-Perkins, Lukas Amadeus Schachner, Arja Karivieri, Carla Sfameni, Claude Lepelley, Mark Humphries, Elizabeth Jeffreys, and Isabella Sandwell.
Book Synopsis Religious Conversion and Identity by : Massimo Leone
Download or read book Religious Conversion and Identity written by Massimo Leone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the religious message, the discomfort of spiritual uncertainty, the loss of personal and social identity, the anxiety of destabilization, the reconstitution of the self and the discovery of a new language of the soul.
Book Synopsis The Christ Child in Medieval Culture by : Theresa M. Kenney
Download or read book The Christ Child in Medieval Culture written by Theresa M. Kenney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.
Book Synopsis The Christ Child in Medieval Culture by : Mary Dzon
Download or read book The Christ Child in Medieval Culture written by Mary Dzon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.
Book Synopsis Spiritual Vegetation by : Guita Lamsechi
Download or read book Spiritual Vegetation written by Guita Lamsechi and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.
Book Synopsis The Mysteries of Mithras by : Attilio Mastrocinque
Download or read book The Mysteries of Mithras written by Attilio Mastrocinque and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attilio Mastrocinque explains the mysteries of Mithras in a new way, as a transformation of Mazdean elements into an ideological and religious reading of Augustus' story. The author shows that the character of Mithras played the role of Apollo in favoring Augustus' victory and the birth of the Roman Empire.
Book Synopsis Ancient White Marbles by : Donato Attanasio
Download or read book Ancient White Marbles written by Donato Attanasio and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis People, Water, and Grain by : Barbara E. Barich
Download or read book People, Water, and Grain written by Barbara E. Barich and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trebenishte written by C. M. Stibbe and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2003 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Four Seasons of Cyrene by : Dorothy M. Thorn
Download or read book The Four Seasons of Cyrene written by Dorothy M. Thorn and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2007 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acknowledgements; Preface; I. The Scientific Expedition - The Curtain Rises; II. First news: The Youthful Bacchus; III. Five men and a Crowbar; IV. A regular nest of statues; V. The right hand holds a snake; VI. Arrival of H.M.S. Assurance; VII. Near the centre of the City; VIII. The head wreathed with grapes; IX. Without a sign of a ship; X. Departure on H.M.S. Melpomene; XI. The Curtain Falls; XII. The Photographic Apparatus; XIII. Porchers Watercolours; XIV. Epilogue; Plates.
Book Synopsis Around the Hearth by : Lisa Pieraccini
Download or read book Around the Hearth written by Lisa Pieraccini and published by L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
