Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II

Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II PDF Author: Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II

Letters of Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq to the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II PDF Author: Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies

The Journal of Hellenic Studies PDF Author:
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Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Vols. 1-8, 1880-87, plates published separately and numbered I-LXXXIII.

The Periodical

The Periodical PDF Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Germanic and its Dialects

Germanic and its Dialects PDF Author:
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027274142
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two further volumes project to complete this series: I. Texts, and II. Maps and Commentaries. NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER: The publication of the two further volumes (I. Texts; II. Maps and Commentaries) has been canceled.

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Bulletin of the New York Public Library PDF Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland PDF Author:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1100

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An Intrepid Scot

An Intrepid Scot PDF Author: C. Edmund Bosworth
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135195881X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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'An Intrepid Scot' makes an important new contribution to the growing literature on the perceptions of the Islamic world and the 'Orient' in early modern Europe, at the same time as illuminating the attitudes of a Protestant from Northern Europe towards the Catholic South. In this book Edmund Bosworth looks at the life and career of William Lithgow, a tough and opinionated Scots Protestant, who had a seemingly insatiable Wanderlust and who managed to survive various misadventures and near-death experiences in the course of his travels. These took him through a dangerously Catholic Southern Europe to a dangerously Muslim Greece and Istanbul en route for his pilgrimage destination of the Holy Land; on another occasion he went through North Africa and returned circuitously via Central and Eastern Europe; but he was stopped in his tracks whilst endeavouring to reach the court of Prester John in Ethiopia, when he fell into the hands of the Spanish Inquisition and narrowly escaped a horrible death. Lithgow was one of several men of his time who journeyed eastwards, some as far as Persia and India, but unlike many others, he has not been the subject of a special study. Bosworth now places him within the context of the present interest in perceptions of the Islamic world and of the 'Orient' and 'Orientals' in early modern Europe. In addition to the entertainment of the travel narrative, the book shows how one Westerner of the time interpreted the alien East for his readers, and how the Ottoman Empire and its apparently unstoppable might both fascinated and struck fear into the hearts of those outside it.

Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society

Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society PDF Author:
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Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 950

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Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas

Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas PDF Author: Natsumi Nonaka
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351858173
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and painted forms, which rests on the intersecting frameworks of the classical tradition, natural history, and the cultural identity of the aristocracy. In the mediating space of the Renaissance portico, the illusionism pergola created an art gallery, a natural history museum, and a virtual garden where one could engage in leisurely strolls, learned conversations, appreciation of art, and scientific investigation, as well as extensive travel across time and space. The book proposes the interpretation that the illusionistic pergola was an artistic formula for the early modern perception of nature.

Asiatica

Asiatica PDF Author:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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