Wooden Eyes

Wooden Eyes
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231119603

Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.

Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation

Petrarch and the Textual Origins of Interpretation
Author: Teodolinda Barolini
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047422880

This volume addresses one of the most far-reaching aspects of Petrarch research and interpretation: the essential interplay between Petrarch’s texts and their material preparation and reception. The essays look at various facets of the interaction between Petrarchan philology and hermeneutics, working from the premise that in Petrarch’s work philological issues are so authorially driven that we cannot in fact read or interpret him without understanding the relevant philological issues and reapplying them in our critical approach to his works. To read and interpret Petrarch we must come to grips with the fundamentals of Petrarchan philology. This volume aims to show how a Petrarchan hermeneutics must be based on an understanding of Petrarchan philology.

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise

Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
Author: Amy R. Bloch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 874
Release: 2016-02-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 131640465X

This book examines the heretofore unsuspected complexity of Lorenzo Ghiberti's sculpted representations of Old Testament narratives in his Gates of Paradise (1425–52), the second set of doors he made for the Florence Baptistery and a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture. One of the most intellectually engaged and well-read artists of his age, Ghiberti found inspiration in ancient and medieval texts, many of which he and his contacts in Florence's humanist community shared, read, and discussed. He was fascinated by the science of vision, by the functioning of nature, and, above all, by the origins and history of art. These unusually well-defined intellectual interests, reflected in his famous Commentaries, shaped his approach in the Gates. Through the selection, imaginative interpretation, and arrangement of biblical episodes, Ghiberti fashioned multi-textured narratives that explore the human condition and express his ideas on a range of social, political, artistic, and philosophical issues.

Libraries Serving Dialogue

Libraries Serving Dialogue
Author: Odile Dupont
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2014-08-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110317028

The IFLA Religious Libraries in Dialogue Special Interest Group is dedicated to libraries serving as places of dialogue between cultures through a better knowledge of religions. This book based on experiences of libraries serving interreligious dialogue, presents themes like library tools serving dialogue between cultures, collections dialoguing, children and young adults dialoguing beyond borders, story telling as dialog, librarians serving interreligious dialogue.

The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages

The Practice of the Bible in the Middle Ages
Author: Susan Boynton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 0231148275

In this volume, specialists in literature, theology, liturgy, manuscript studies, and history introduce the medieval culture of the Bible in Western Christianity. Emphasizing the living quality of the text and the unique literary traditions that arose from it, they show the many ways in which the Bible was read, performed, recorded, and interpreted by various groups in medieval Europe. An initial orientation introduces the origins, components, and organization of medieval Bibles. Subsequent chapters address the use of the Bible in teaching and preaching, the production and purpose of Biblical manuscripts in religious life, early vernacular versions of the Bible, its influence on medieval historical accounts, the relationship between the Bible and monasticism, and instances of privileged and practical use, as well as the various forms the text took in different parts of Europe. The dedicated merging of disciplines, both within each chapter and overall in the book, enable readers to encounter the Bible in much the same way as it was once experienced: on multiple levels and registers, through different lenses and screens, and always personally and intimately.

The End of Ancient Christianity

The End of Ancient Christianity
Author: R. A. Markus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521339490

Examines the nature of the changes that transformed the Christian world from the fourth to the end of the sixth century.

Brodsky

Brodsky
Author: Людмила Штерн
Publisher: Baskerville Publishers, Inc.
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781880909706

Brodsky was a friend of the author's family and confided his thoughts and feelings to her, as well as poetry in progress, over more than thirty years both before and after their emigration. Includes never before published poems and numerous photographs.

An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism

An Introduction to New Testament Textual Criticism
Author: Léon Vaganay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1991-11-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521424936

This book comprises a general survey of the study of New Testament manuscripts, and outlines for students of the New Testament the basic tools and skills involved in studying those manuscripts. The present edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of Leon Vaganay's Initiation á la critique du Nouveau Testament, published in 1933, and each section of that original work has been brought up to date in light of the latest research in the field. In its aim to provide a solid foundation to study of New Testament textual criticism, this comprehensive survey will be of great value to those who are looking for basic information about the subject; while the documentary information it contains about the extant manuscripts, and its original theoretical sections, will ensure that the book has much of value to offer the more advanced student of the New Testament.

The Gates of Paradise

The Gates of Paradise
Author: Gary M. Radke
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007-08-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300126158

A rich account of the giant bronze doors created by Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti--so exquisite that Michelangelo proclaimed them suitable to serve as the Gates of Paradise.