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Sacred Fortress
Author | : Otto G. von Simson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1987-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780608037547 |
Sacred Fortress
Author | : Otto Georg von Simson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Architecture, Byzantine |
ISBN | : 9780691002767 |
The Description for this book, Sacred Fortress: Byzantine Art and Statecraft in Ravenna. With a new preface, will be forthcoming.
Fortress of the Soul
Author | : Neil Kamil |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 1085 |
Release | : 2020-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1421429357 |
French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details. More than just decorative flourishes, however, the visual language employed by Huguenot artisans reflected a distinct belief system shaped during the religious wars of sixteenth-century France. In Fortress of the Soul, historian Neil Kamil traces the Huguenots' journey to New York from the Aunis-Saintonge region of southwestern France. There, in the sixteenth century, artisans had created a subterranean culture of clandestine workshops and meeting places inspired by the teachings of Bernard Palissy, a potter, alchemist, and philosopher who rejected the communal, militaristic ideology of the Huguenot majority which was centered in the walled city of La Rochelle. Palissy and his followers instead embraced a more fluid, portable, and discrete religious identity that encouraged members to practice their beliefs in secret while living safely—even prospering—as artisans in hostile communities. And when these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of artisanal security. Drawing on significant archival research and fresh interpretations of Huguenot material culture, Kamil offers an exhaustive and sophisticated study of the complex worldview of the Huguenot community. From the function of sacred violence and alchemy in the visual language of Huguenot artisans, to the impact among Protestants everywhere of the destruction of La Rochelle in 1628, to the ways in which New York's Huguenots interacted with each other and with other communities of religious dissenters and refugees, Fortress of the Soul brilliantly places American colonial history and material life firmly within the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world.
Red Fortress
Author | : Catherine Merridale |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2013-11-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0805086803 |
Drawn on never-before-seen archives and rare collections, this richly woven historical tapestry of the Kremlin, and of the centuries of Russian elites who have shaped it, takes readers behind the blood-red walls of this majestic and enduring fortress.
Sacred Fortress
Author | : Otto von Simson (Kunsthistoriker) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Making Sense of the Sacred
Author | : James L. Rowell |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 150646808X |
This work argues that there is a universal message that can be found in the study of religions. It offers a comprehensive examination of religions and their meaning, bound by the hope and affirmation that in some way they are universally connected. It affirms a universalism by wisdom, which contends that a moral and spiritual wisdom can be found in many of the world's religions.
Fortress Attica
Author | : J. Ober |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 900432819X |
This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual chapters treat Athens' postwar economic situations, the development of Greek military science, the rise of a defensive mentality among the Athenian citizens, theorectical literature on defense, and Athens' military establishment. A major section is devoted to detailed descriptions of the land routes into Attica and of all ancient fortresses, towers, and military highways in the frontier zones. Concluding chapters demonstrate how the defense system worked in practic.
Fortress America
Author | : J.E. Kaufmann |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2004-12-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780306812941 |
"A comprehensive account of North American fortifications and defense structures from colonial times to the twentieth century, supplemented by scores of remarkable photographs, technical drawings, maps, and diagrams." -- book jacket.