Author: James Nelson Carder
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Art Historical Problems of a Roman Land Surveying Manuscript, the Codex Arcerianus A, Wolfenbüttel
Author: James Nelson Carder
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Garland Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Space, Geography, and Politics in the Early Roman Empire
Author: Claude Nicolet
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472100965
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472100965
Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Studies the effect of Rome's geographic worldview on its politics
Pausanias
Author: Pausanias
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195346831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel writing to have survived. This collection uses Pausanias as a multifaceted lens yielding indispensable information about the cultural world of Roman Greece.
The Frame in Classical Art
Author: Verity Platt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110716236X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110716236X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 737
Book Description
This book reveals how 'marginal' aspects of Graeco-Roman art play a fundamental role in shaping and interrogating ancient and modern visual culture.
The Quedlinburg Itala
Author: Inabelle Levin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462273X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900462273X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The Roman City and Its Periphery
Author: Penelope J. Goodman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134303351
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The only monograph available on the subject, this book presents archaeological and literary evidence to provide students with a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism - the phenomenon of suburban development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134303351
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The only monograph available on the subject, this book presents archaeological and literary evidence to provide students with a full and detailed treatment of the little-investigated aspect of Roman urbanism - the phenomenon of suburban development.
The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness
Author: Emanuele Lugli
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for granted. Yet, this has not always been the case. This book reaches back to medieval Italy to speak of a time when measurements were displayed in the open, showing how such a deceptively simple innovation triggered a chain of cultural transformations whose consequences are visible today on a global scale. Drawing from literary works and frescoes, architectural surveys, and legal compilations, Emanuele Lugli offers a history of material practices widely overlooked by historians. He argues that the public display of measurements in Italy’s newly formed city republics not only laid the foundation for now centuries-old practices of making, but also helped to legitimize local governments and shore up church power, buttressing fantasies of exactitude and certainty that linger to this day. This ambitious, truly interdisciplinary book explains how measurements, rather than being mere descriptors of the real, themselves work as powerful molds of ideas, affecting our notions of what we consider similar, accurate, and truthful.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226820009
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
An interdisciplinary history of standardized measurements. Measurement is all around us—from the circumference of a pizza to the square footage of an apartment, from the length of a newborn baby to the number of miles between neighboring towns. Whether inches or miles, centimeters or kilometers, measures of distance stand at the very foundation of everything we do, so much so that we take them for granted. Yet, this has not always been the case. This book reaches back to medieval Italy to speak of a time when measurements were displayed in the open, showing how such a deceptively simple innovation triggered a chain of cultural transformations whose consequences are visible today on a global scale. Drawing from literary works and frescoes, architectural surveys, and legal compilations, Emanuele Lugli offers a history of material practices widely overlooked by historians. He argues that the public display of measurements in Italy’s newly formed city republics not only laid the foundation for now centuries-old practices of making, but also helped to legitimize local governments and shore up church power, buttressing fantasies of exactitude and certainty that linger to this day. This ambitious, truly interdisciplinary book explains how measurements, rather than being mere descriptors of the real, themselves work as powerful molds of ideas, affecting our notions of what we consider similar, accurate, and truthful.
Illuminating the Word in the Early Middle Ages
Author: Lawrence Nees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009193864
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
This richly illustrated study shows how modern systems of textual presentation grew from techniques developed in the medieval period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009193864
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 589
Book Description
This richly illustrated study shows how modern systems of textual presentation grew from techniques developed in the medieval period.
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature
Author: Roy Gibson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108369189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108369189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1132
Book Description
The Cambridge Critical Guide to Latin Literature offers a critical overview of work on Latin literature. Where are we? How did we get here? Where to next? Fifteen commissioned chapters, along with an extensive introduction and Mary Beard's postscript, approach these questions from a range of angles. They aim not to codify the field, but to give snapshots of the discipline from different perspectives, and to offer provocations for future development. The Critical Guide aims to stimulate reflection on how we engage with Latin literature. Texts, tools and territories are the three areas of focus. The Guide situates the study of classical Latin literature within its global context from late antiquity to Neo-Latin, moving away from an exclusive focus on the pre-200 CE corpus. It recalibrates links with adjoining disciplines (history, philosophy, material culture, linguistics, political thought, Greek), and takes a fresh look at key tools (editing, reception, intertextuality, theory).
After the Carolingians
Author: Beatrice Kitzinger
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110578395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110578395
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.