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Author | : Jon Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134792719 |
In Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity, Jon Davies charts the significance of death to the emerging religious cults in the pre-Christian and early Christian world. He analyses the varied burial rituals and examines the different notions of the afterlife. Among the areas covered are: * Osiris and Isis: the life theology of Ancient Egypt * burying the Jewish dead * Roman religion and Roman funerals * Early Christian burial * the nature of martyrdom. Jon Davies also draws on the sociological theory of Max Weber to present a comprehensive introduction to and overview of death, burial and the afterlife in the first Christian centuries which offers insights into the relationship between social change and attitudes to death and dying.
Author | : Alan M. Stahl |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2009 |
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Author | : Gretchen Oberfranc |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
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Contents: Preface, Anthony Grafton Numismatics in the Renaissance, Alan M. Stahl Of Mauss and (Renaissance) Men: Numismatics, Prestation, and the Genesis of Visual Literacy, John Cunnally Antonio Agustín and the Numismatists, William Stenhouse The Local Antiquary in Eighteenth-Century Rome, Tamara Griggs Peiresc and the Study of Islamic Coins in the Early Seventeenth Century, Peter N. Miller Appendix I: Identification of the Islamic Coins in ms. c.10.31, pages 276-83, John Cunnally Appendix II: Identification of the Other Islamic Coins in ms. c.10.31, Stefan Heidemann Literature Note on Title Page, Alan M. Stahl Index.
Author | : John D Wright |
Publisher | : Amber Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2023-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1782749985 |
Fully illustrated throughout, The Renaissance is a highly accessible and colourful journey along the cultural contours of Europe from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period.
Author | : Aby Warburg |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art, Renaissance |
ISBN | : 9780892365371 |
A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.
Author | : Marisa Bass |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2016-03-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0691169993 |
This is the first in-depth historical study of Jan Gossart (ca. 1478–1532), one of the most important painters of the Renaissance in northern Europe. Providing a richly illustrated narrative of the Netherlandish artist's life and art, Marisa Anne Bass shows how Gossart’s paintings were part of a larger cultural effort in the Netherlands to assert the region’s ancient heritage as distinct from the antiquity and presumed cultural hegemony of Rome. Focusing on Gossart’s vibrant, monumental mythological nudes, the book challenges previous interpretations by arguing that Gossart and his patrons did not slavishly imitate Italian Renaissance models but instead sought to contest the idea that the Roman past gave the Italians a monopoly on antiquity. Drawing on many previously unused primary sources in Latin, Dutch, and French, Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity offers a fascinating new understanding of both the painter and the history of northern European art at large.
Author | : John Ray |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2012-04-02 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0674024931 |
Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series(Part I and Part II) The Rosetta Stone is one of the world's great wonders, attracting awed pilgrims by the tens of thousands each year. This book tells the Stone's story, from its discovery by Napoleon's expedition to Egypt to its current--and controversial-- status as the single most visited object on display in the British Museum. A pharaoh's forgotten decree, cut in granite in three scripts--Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian demotic, and ancient Greek--the Rosetta Stone promised to unlock the door to the language of ancient Egypt and its 3,000 years of civilization, if only it could be deciphered. Capturing the drama of the race to decode this key to the ancient past, John Ray traces the paths pursued by the British polymath Thomas Young and Jean-Francois Champollion, the "father of Egyptology" ultimately credited with deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. He shows how Champollion "broke the code" and explains more generally how such deciphering is done, as well as its critical role in the history of Egyptology. Concluding with a chapter on the political and cultural controversy surrounding the Stone, the book also includes an appendix with a full translation of the Stone's text. Rich in anecdote and curious lore, The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt is a brilliant and frequently amusing guide to one of history's great mysteries and marvels.
Author | : Caroline Vout |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1400890276 |
How did the statues of ancient Greece wind up dictating art history in the West? How did the material culture of the Greeks and Romans come to be seen as "classical" and as "art"? What does "classical art" mean across time and place? In this ambitious, richly illustrated book, art historian and classicist Caroline Vout provides an original history of how classical art has been continuously redefined over the millennia as it has found itself in new contexts and cultures. All of this raises the question of classical art's future. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. A unique exploration of how each period of Western culture has transformed Greek and Roman antiquities and in turn been transformed by them, this book revolutionizes our understanding of what classical art has meant and continues to mean.
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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2019-01-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004370714 |
Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global effort to examine the receptions of the Western Classical tradition in a cross-cultural context. The inclusion of modern East Asia in Classical reception studies not only allows scholars in the field to expand the scope of their scholarly inquiries but will also become a vital step toward transcending the meaning of Greco-Roman tradition into a common legacy for all of human society.
Author | : Claire Holleran |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 804 |
Release | : 2018-09-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405198192 |
A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome’s urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events