Eleusis, the Inscriptions on Stone
Author | : Kevin Clinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Eleusis (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Kevin Clinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Eleusis (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob Mehrling Holdcraft |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Cemeteries |
ISBN | : 0806311150 |
Author | : Robert E. Harrist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
This is the first study in a Western language devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China--moya or moya shike, texts carved into granite boulders and cliffs that are part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest. These inscriptions, carved in large, bold characters, served as a vast repository of texts produced continuously for over two thousand years and constitue an important form of public art. Focusing on the period prior to the eighth century C.E., Harrist demonstrates that the significance of the inscriptions depends on the interaction of words with topography, so that the medium of the written work has transformed geological formations into landscapes of ideological and religious significance.
Author | : B. F. Cook |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520061132 |
Introduces a wide variety of Greek inscriptions on stone slabs, pottery, bronzes, and other small objects, from simple names to more complicated texts, some in local dialects with distinctive alphabets.
Author | : Kevin Clinton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Eleusis (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ricarda Wagner |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110645718 |
What can stories of magical engraved rings or prophetic inscriptions on walls tell us about how writing was perceived before print transformed the world? Writing beyond Pen and Parchment introduces readers to a Middle Ages where writing is not confined to manuscripts but is inscribed in the broader material world, in textiles and tombs, on weapons or human skin. Drawing on the work done at the Collaborative Research Centre “Material Text Cultures,” (SFB 933) this volume presents a comparative overview of how and where text-bearing artefacts appear in medieval German, Old Norse, British, French, Italian and Iberian literary traditions, and also traces the paths inscribed objects chart across multiple linguistic and cultural traditions. The volume’s focus on the raw materials and practices that shaped artefacts both mundane or fantastical in medieval narratives offers a fresh perspective on the medieval world that takes seriously the vibrancy of matter as a vital aspect of textual culture often overlooked.
Author | : Charles Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Stone inscriptions are the most important written source for 5th-7th century western-British history. Against a background for Old World prehistory and the classical civilizations, this book focuses on the inscribed memorial stones of Demetia (south-west Wales, modern-day Dyfed) and Dumnonia (Devon, Cornwall and part of Somerset). The author looks at cultural change after AD 400 by analyzing the evidence or "messages" left on memorial stones. The invention of the ogam script in Ireland and its use, with implications for both paganism and Christianity, on such stones is examined. A group of chapters is devoted to a praticular reconstruction of events in south-west Wales between AD 400 and 600 - the establishment of an Irish-decended kingdom of Dementia. The author demonstrates that the Dementians adopted first Latinity (use of Roman names, ets) and only then Christinity, influenced by sub-Roman native kingdoms to the east. The author then traces a remarkable "venture to the interior" - the foundation of a small Dementian kingdom in the upper Usk valley, and examines documentary evidence for the first settler-king - Brychan - and, as monk and saint, his connection with Lundy Island (in the Bristol Channel) and north Devon. Evidence for a post-Roman native kingdom in Cornwall, Devon and part of Somerset is next considered, as is minor Irish settlement in west Cornwall around the year 400, and an isolated introduction of Christianity from 5th-century Gaul. Inscribed stones show that the conversion of Dumnonia to Christianity - though field-work has revealed that, far from being a Land of Saints, the deep south-west did not become Christian until well into the 6th century.
Author | : Karl Lehmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Samothrace Island (Greece) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Redknap |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 596 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Inscribed stones and stone sculpture form the most prolific body of material evidence from early medieval Wales, c. AD 400 1100. Crucial to our understanding of the region s degree of continuity with the preceding Roman culture, Irish settlement, and the development of the early Welsh kingdoms, these Latin or Old Irish inscribed memorial stones instruct us on the language, literacy, and development of the church, among other areas. These two volumes allow us to identify a range of early medieval ecclesiastical sites within a wider landscape and the trace the church s patronage by the secular elite. Accompanied by more than 170 line drawings and elaborate illustrations, this corpus provides fresh new studies of these aspects, revised interpretations of the stones, and many previously unpublished and newly discovered examples."