Author: Ferreiro
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004621644
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
The Visigoths in Gaul and Spain A.D. 418-711
Author: Ferreiro
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004621644
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004621644
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
BEOWULF (Collector's Edition)
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027231507
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. The numerous different translations and interpretations of Beowulf turn this monumental work into a challenge for the reader.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8027231507
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Beowulf is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. The poem's existence for its first seven centuries or so made no impression on writers and scholars, and besides a brief mention in a 1705 catalogue by Humfrey Wanley it was not studied until the end of the eighteenth century, and not published in its entirety until the 1815 edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia, comes to the help of Hroðgar, the king of the Danes, whose mead hall (in Heorot) has been under attack by a monster known as Grendel. After Beowulf slays him, Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then also defeated. Victorious, Beowulf goes home to Geatland in Sweden and later becomes king of the Geats. After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. After his death, his attendants bury him in a tumulus, a burial mound, in Geatland. The numerous different translations and interpretations of Beowulf turn this monumental work into a challenge for the reader.
Catalogue ...
Author: Francis Edwards
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Languages : en
Pages : 1046
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Catalogue
Author: Hispanic Society of America. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Brazilian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
Les arts industriels des peuples barbares de la Gaule du Vme au VIIIme siècle ...
Author: Casimir Barrière-Flavy
Publisher:
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Category : Alemanni (Germanic people)
Languages : fr
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alemanni (Germanic people)
Languages : fr
Pages : 528
Book Description
Les arts industriels des peuples barbares de la Gaule du Vme au VIIIme siècle
Author: Casimir Barrière-Flavy
Publisher:
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Category : Alemanni (Germanic people)
Languages : fr
Pages : 91
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alemanni (Germanic people)
Languages : fr
Pages : 91
Book Description
Les arts industriels des peuples barbares de la Gaule du Vme. au VIIIme. siècle
Author: Casimir Barrière-Flavy
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages :
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Languages : fr
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1288
Book Description
Les art industriels des peuples barbares de la Gaule du 5. au 8. siècle
Author: Casimir Barrière-Flavy
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages :
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Archaeologies of Remembrance
Author: Howard Williams
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441992227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441992227
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
How did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.