Author: Russell James Colman
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Trifles from a Tourist in Letters from Abroad
Author: Russell James Colman
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Cairo Genizah and the Age of Discovery in Egypt
Author: Rebecca J. W. Jefferson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788319656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as “The Cairo Genizah,” is far more convoluted and compelling than previously told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars, librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails, each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks, and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges. Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788319656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Cairo Genizah is considered one of the world's greatest Hebrew manuscript treasures. Yet the story of how over a quarter of a million fragments hidden in Egypt were discovered and distributed around the world, before becoming collectively known as “The Cairo Genizah,” is far more convoluted and compelling than previously told. The full story involves an international cast of scholars, librarians, archaeologists, excavators, collectors, dealers and agents, operating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, and all acting with varying motivations and intentions in a race for the spoils. Basing her research on a wealth of archival materials, Jefferson reconstructs how these protagonists used their various networks to create key alliances, or to blaze lone trails, each one on a quest to recover ancient manuscripts. Following in their footsteps, she takes the reader on a journey down into ancient caves and tombs, under medieval rubbish mounds, into hidden attic rooms, vaults, basements and wells, along labyrinthine souks, and behind the doors of private clubs and cloistered colleges. Along the way, the reader will also learn about the importance of establishing manuscript provenance and authenticity, and the impact to our understanding of the past when either factor is in doubt.
Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic
Author: Andrew Hemingway
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004269010
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004269010
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume.
Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney
Author: New South Wales. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Bibliotheca Norfolciensis
Author: Jeremiah James Colman
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Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Category : Norfolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Leslie De Saram Collection
Author: University of Peradeniya. Library. Leslie De Saram Collection
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Category : Sri Lanka
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 982
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The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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