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Author | : Jason König |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 501 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107244587 |
The circulation of books was the motor of classical civilization. However, books were both expensive and rare, and so libraries - private and public, royal and civic - played key roles in articulating intellectual life. This collection, written by an international team of scholars, presents a fundamental reassessment of how ancient libraries came into being, how they were organized and how they were used. Drawing on papyrology and archaeology, and on accounts written by those who read and wrote in them, it presents new research on reading cultures, on book collecting and on the origins of monumental library buildings. Many of the traditional stories told about ancient libraries are challenged. Few were really enormous, none were designed as research centres, and occasional conflagrations do not explain the loss of most ancient texts. But the central place of libraries in Greco-Roman culture emerges more clearly than ever.
Author | : Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292779267 |
One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up to around 1615 when the manuscript was finished. Now housed in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark, and viewable online at www.kb.dk/permalink/2006/poma/info/en/frontpage.htm, the original manuscript has 1,189 pages accompanied by 398 full-page drawings that constitute the most accurate graphic depiction of Inca and colonial Peruvian material culture ever done. Working from the original manuscript and consulting with fellow Quechua- and Spanish-language experts, Roland Hamilton here provides the most complete and authoritative English translation of approximately the first third of The First New Chronicle and Good Government. The sections included in this volume (pages 1–369 of the manuscript) cover the history of Peru from the earliest times and the lives of each of the Inca rulers and their wives, as well as a wealth of information about ordinances, age grades, the calendar, idols, sorcerers, burials, punishments, jails, songs, palaces, roads, storage houses, and government officials. One hundred forty-six of Guaman Poma's detailed illustrations amplify the text.
Author | : Windsor Castle. Royal Library |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Inger Christensen |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Danish poetry |
ISBN | : 9781901233827 |
Butterfly Valley is a tour de force, exploring the major themes of life, love, death and art. The form is simple yet complex, a sonnet sequence building to a final sonnet of extraordinary power. Life, love, art, all are transient--like the butterfly, yet beautiful, even in their ephemerality. --The Dedalus Press.
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Release | : 1905 |
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Author | : Pat DiGeorge |
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Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780998257013 |
LIBERTY LADY is the true story of a WWII bomber and its crew forced to land in neutral Sweden during the Eighth Air Force's first large-scale daylight bombing raid on Berlin. 1st Lt. Herman Allen was interned and began working for his country's espionage agency, the OSS, with instructions to befriend a businessman suspected of selling secrets to the Germans. Soon Herman fell in love with a beautiful Swedish-American secretary working for the OSS, their courtship unfolding amid the glamour and intrigue of wartime Stockholm. As Swedish newspapers trumpeted one of the biggest spy scandals of the war, two of the main protagonists walked down the aisle in a storybook wedding presided over by the nephew of the King of Sweden.
Author | : Saint Bede (the Venerable) |
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Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : LIBRARY. |
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Release | : 1903 |
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Author | : Angela Delaforce |
Publisher | : Paul Holberton publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Lisbon (Portugal) |
ISBN | : 9781912168156 |
The destruction on the morning of All Saints Day 1755 of the heart of the city of Lisbon by an earthquake, tidal wave and the urban fires that followed was a tragedy that divides the 18th century in Portugal. One casualty on that fatal morning was the Royal Library, one of the most magnificent libraries in Europe at the time. The Lost Library of the King of Portugal tells the story of the lost library - its creation, collection and significance. This documented study describes the creation of the library, its cultural significance in 18th-century Portugal, the acquisition of single volumes as well as entire libraries from across Europe and the role in this of Portugal's most talented diplomats. It include the collection of manuscripts from the celebrated library of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and the unpublished correspondence that was exchanged during the negotiations between London and Lisbon. Throughout his reign, the devout Dom Joäao V set out to conjure up his own vision of Rome and the papal court he never saw. Two chapters are devoted to Italy - one to the talented archaeologist Francesco Bianchini at the papal court, including the unpublished correspondence between him and his royal patron Dom Joäao V, as well as the guides to Rome and art and architecture at the ducal courts of northern Italy, both commissioned by the king.
Author | : Joe Bongiorno |
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Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 2018-09 |
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ISBN | : 9780991199198 |
Explore the ancient history of Oz with this companion booklet to The Lost Tales of Oz! The Royal Librarian has opened her library to fans of the world first explored by L. Frank Baum over a century ago. Contained within are three tales from the distant past of Oz! ""Lurline and the First Fairy Queen"" looks at the coming of Nonestica, the conflict of the Immortals, the first Fairy Queen of Oz, and the dark forces that conspired against her! ""Lulea and the Fairy Kingdoms of Oz"" looks at the rogue wood nymph who traded in the life of a fairy for marriage and children, the establishment of the first great kingdoms of Oz, and the consequences that befell her. ""A Brief History of Oz in the 12th and 13th Centuries"" is an overview of the wild adventures of Munch Kenny and Gil Cain, the brave heroes for whom the Munchkin and Gillikin Countries were named, and the Coming of the Marauders, who established Seebania!