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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.

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.

Gore Vidal

Author : Jay Parini
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231072083
Total Pages : 350 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 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gore Vidal, known for such best-sellers as The City and the Pillar, Burr, Lincoln, and Myra Breckinridge, is a household name. The controversial Vidal ran for Congress in 1960, and set sparks flying with his public debates challenging William F. Buckley and Norman Mailer. Although one of America's most admired and prolific writers, Vidal has been steadfastly ignored or impugned by many critics. This is partly owing to the vast scope of his writings, which include more than twenty novels, half a dozen plays, dozens of screenplays, countless essays and book reviews, political commentary, and short stories; how do the critics approach such a writer? There has also been backlash against Vidal, whose radical polemics and undisguised contempt for those whom he has called "the hacks and hicks of academe" have hardly endeared him to the critical establishment.Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain is the first collection of critical essays to approach this important American writer in an attempt to rectify the unwarranted underestimation of his work. Jay Parini has drawn from the best of previously published criticism and commissioned fresh articles by leading contemporary critics to construct a comprehensive portrait of Vidal's multifaceted and memorable career. Writers as diverse as Harold Bloom, Stephen Spender, Catharine R. Stimpson, Richard Poirier, and Italo Calvino examine Vidal's work in their own highly individual ways, and each finds a different Vidal to celebrate, chide, recollect, or view close up. Also included is a recent interview with Parini in which Vidal discusses his career and his troubled relationship with the reviewers.The Vidal that finally emerges from these essays is a writer of undeniable weight and importance. As readers will agree, Gore Vidal: Writer Against the Grain establishes his rightful role as one of the premier novelists and leading critical observers of this century.

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).

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?

Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

Author : Amara Solari
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477329684
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán written by Amara Solari and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This multidisciplinary project studies religious murals that were painted by Christianized Maya artists in the first centuries after the conquest of Mexico. Solari and Williams study the paintings, all of which are based in the Yucatán Peninsula, from an art history perspective, along with the printed sources referencing the murals. At the same time, they examine the chemical signatures left by the murals' pigments and the techniques used in their production through state-of-the-art imaging technologies. By using these methodologies, the authors seek to explain the many ways in which cultural and material exchange took place between the Spanish and Maya peoples. At first glance, murals depicting Spanish ideals of Western Christianity would appear to be an obvious and frequent tool of oppression in the Yucatán, as they were elsewhere in the Americas, but they were also a form of agency for Indigenous people as a means to shape these narratives with their own subtle imagery and ideas drawn from Mayan cosmologies and cultural traditions. These painters used European pictorial techniques, such as perspective, while also using local materials to create vivid pigments and colors never before seen in murals in Europe. The authors seek to trace how the initial and continued use of these material sources to create these images led to a much more localized form of Catholicism that continues to be practiced by Mayan speakers today"--

St. Francis of Assisi

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1479453285
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book St. Francis of Assisi written by G. K. Chesterton and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Francis of Assisi , patron saint of animals, is chronicled in a spiritual biography by Christian and mystery author G.K. Chesterton—himself a convert to Catholicism. It covers the saint’s calling, his exceptional life, and his influence in the Catholic Church. A volume sure to appeal to all lovers of animals and nature, as well as those interested in the history of Christianity.

Francis of Assisi

Author : William R. Cook
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725221152
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by William R. Cook and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "My task . . . is to rely as much as possible on both written and visual sources, although I obviously must consider the discoveries and insights of modern scholarship, in order to present Francis of Assisi as a major figure in the mystical tradition. This means I will not be much concerned with Francis as the founder of a religious order. I will not present a detailed biography, although the first chapter provides a general overview in order to make the more detailed discussions of his spirituality more intelligible. Rather than attempt to discuss all texts by and about Francis of a mystical nature, I shall instead focus on six elements of his life and spirituality--his conversion; his relationship to the created world; the creation of the Christmas crib at Greccio; the role of learning; the relationship between the active and contemplative life; and his stigmatization at LaVerna in 1224, two years before his death. I believe that a detailed discussion and analysis of these aspects of Francis's life will best introduce the reader to Francis of Assisi." --from the Introduction

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.

Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated

Author : Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated written by Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.

Inka Bird Idiom

Author : Claudia Brosseder
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822989654
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Inka Bird Idiom written by Claudia Brosseder and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2025-07-15 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From majestic Amazonian macaws and highland Andean hawks to tiny colorful tanagers and tall flamingos, birds and their feathers played an important role in the Inka empire. Claudia Brosseder uncovers the many meanings that Inkas attached to the diverse fowl of the Amazon, the eastern Andean foothills, and the highlands. She shows how birds and feathers shaped Inka politics, launched wars, and initiated peace. Feathers provided protection against unpredictable enemies, made possible communication with deities, and brought an imagined Inka past into a political present. Richly textured contexts of feathered objects recovered from Late Horizon archaeological records and from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century accounts written by Spanish interlocutors enable new insights into Inka visions of interspecies relationships, an Inka ontology, and Inka views of the place of the human in their ecology. Inka Bird Idiom invites reconsideration of the deep intellectual ties that connected the Amazon and the mountain forests with the Andean highlands and the Pacific coast.

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.

Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated

Author : G K Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi Illustrated written by G K Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of human history. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter.For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry and romance than we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche."

Saint Francis of Assisi (Illustrated)

Author : Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Saint Francis of Assisi (Illustrated) written by Gilbert Keith Chesterton and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis of Assisi is, after Mary of Nazareth, the greatest saint in the Christian calendar, and one of the most influential men in the whole of humanHistory. By universal acclaim, this biography by G. K. Chesterton is considered the best appreciation of Francis's life--the one that gets to the heart of the matter. For Chesterton, Francis is a great paradoxical figure, a man who loved women but vowed himself to chastity; an artist who loved the pleasures of the natural world as few have loved them, but vowed himself to the most austere poverty, stripping himself naked in the public square so all could see that he had renounced his worldly goods; a clown who stood on his head in order to see the world aright. Chesterton gives us Francis in his world-the riotously colorful world of the High Middle Ages, a world with more pageantry andRomance-General-General-Generalthan we have seen before or since. Here is the Francis who tried to end the Crusades by talking to the Saracens, and who interceded with the emperor on behalf of the birds. Here is the Francis who inspired a revolution in art that began with Giotto and a revolution in poetry that began with Dante. Here is the Francis who prayed and danced with pagan abandon, who talked to animals, who invented the creche.

The Life of St. Francis of Assisi

Author : G. K. Chesterton
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book The Life of St. Francis of Assisi written by G. K. Chesterton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Francis of Assisi founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women's Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history. In Chesterton's portrayal St. Francis is a mysterious figure and a man of paradox. Putting him and his life into historical perspective, Chesterton describes why his asceticism was necessary for his cause and what drove him to his life.