Author: Timothy Schroder
Publisher: British Museum Research Public
ISBN: 9780861592272
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance and one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled owners and viewers for centuries.
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and Its Afterlives
Author: Timothy Schroder
Publisher: British Museum Research Public
ISBN: 9780861592272
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance and one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled owners and viewers for centuries.
Publisher: British Museum Research Public
ISBN: 9780861592272
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
At center stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, a national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance and one of only a handful of treasures surviving from the Jewel House of Henry VIII. The volume sheds new light on an exquisite object that has beguiled owners and viewers for centuries.
Doing Memory: Medieval Saints and Heroes and Their Afterlives in the Baltic Sea Region (19th-20th Centuries)
Author: Cordelia Heß
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311135119X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311135119X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This anthology is about the representations and uses of medieval saints, heroes, and heroic events as elements of popular, local, and national culture during the 19th and 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea region: Scandinavia, Finland, Baltic countries, Northern Germany and North-Western Russia. Authors examine the processes of how medieval saints and heroes have been remembered, commemorated, interpreted, used, and reflected during modernity, and by whom. The focus of the anthology is on "doing" memory as a practice that commemorated the past and shaped spaces and identities in the present. It approaches the memory of saints and heroes, for example, Swedish Saints Birgitta and Eric, Danish Saint Knud, Kyivan Princess Olga, Swedish military leader in Finland Tyrgils Knutsson, Liv/Latvian warrior Imanta and Holsatian count Gerhard III as a shared heritage and as part of national, local and popular culture. The anthology contributes to the understanding of the Baltic Sea region through the study of saints, cults and heroic representations in the longue durée between the Middle Ages and modernity. It also adds nuance to the use of popular concepts of memory studies, particularly an update of Pierre Nora's lieux de mémoire.
Memory and the English Reformation
Author: Alexandra Walsham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108829996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108829996
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Recasts the Reformation as a battleground over memory, in which new identities were formed through acts of commemoration, invention and repression.
Édith Piaf
Author: David Looseley
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781388598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The world-famous French singer Édith Piaf (1915-63) was never just a singer. This book suggests new ways of understanding her, her myth and her meanings over time at home and abroad, by proposing the notion of an ‘imagined’ Piaf.
Ben Jonson and Posterity
Author: Martin Butler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890663X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110890663X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Bringing together leading Jonson scholars, Ben Jonson and Posterity provides new insights into this remarkable writer's reception and legacy over four centuries. Jonson was recognised as the outstanding English writer of his day and has had a powerful influence on later generations, yet his reputation is one of the most multifaceted and conflicted for any writer of the early modern period. The volume brings together multiple critical perspectives, addressing book history, the practice of reading, theatrical influence and adaptation, the history of performance, cultural representation in portraiture, film, fiction, and anecdotes to interrogate Jonson's 'myth'. The collection will be of great interest to all Jonson scholars, as well as having a wider appeal among early modern literary scholars, theatre historians, and scholars interested in intertextuality and reception from the Renaissance to the present day.
Emotion in the Tudor Court
Author: Bradley J. Irish
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810136392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Emotion in the Tudor Court is a transdisciplinary work that uses Renaissance and modern scientific models of emotion to analyze the literary cultures of Tudor-era English court society, providing a robust new analysis of the emotional dynamics of sixteenth-century England.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810136392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Emotion in the Tudor Court is a transdisciplinary work that uses Renaissance and modern scientific models of emotion to analyze the literary cultures of Tudor-era English court society, providing a robust new analysis of the emotional dynamics of sixteenth-century England.
Poetaster, Or, The Arraignment
Author: Ben Jonson
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198132295
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The plays featured have been edited from the earliest printed texts.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198132295
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The plays featured have been edited from the earliest printed texts.
This is Civilisation
Author: Matthew Collings
Publisher: 21 Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781901785111
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
'This is Civilisation' is a greatly elaborated version of the Channel 4 television series of the same name, written and presented by Matthew Collings. Many of the images in the book are stills from the programme.
Publisher: 21 Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781901785111
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
'This is Civilisation' is a greatly elaborated version of the Channel 4 television series of the same name, written and presented by Matthew Collings. Many of the images in the book are stills from the programme.
Nothing Happened
Author: Susan A. Crane
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some—possibly considerable—mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital "n." But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating. When Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens—for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 1503614050
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
The past is what happened. History is what we remember and write about that past, the narratives we craft to make sense out of our memories and their sources. But what does it mean to look at the past and to remember that "nothing happened"? Why might we feel as if "nothing is the way it was"? This book transforms these utterly ordinary observations and redefines "Nothing" as something we have known and can remember. "Nothing" has been a catch-all term for everything that is supposedly uninteresting or is just not there. It will take some—possibly considerable—mental adjustment before we can see Nothing as Susan A. Crane does here, with a capital "n." But Nothing has actually been happening all along. As Crane shows in her witty and provocative discussion, Nothing is nothing less than fascinating. When Nothing has changed but we think that it should have, we might call that injustice; when Nothing has happened over a long, slow period of time, we might call that boring. Justice and boredom have histories. So too does being relieved or disappointed when Nothing happens—for instance, when a forecasted end of the world does not occur, and millennial movements have to regroup. By paying attention to how we understand Nothing to be happening in the present, what it means to "know Nothing" or to "do Nothing," we can begin to ask how those experiences will be remembered. Susan A. Crane moves effortlessly between different modes of seeing Nothing, drawing on visual analysis and cultural studies to suggest a new way of thinking about history. By remembering how Nothing happened, or how Nothing is the way it was, or how Nothing has changed, we can recover histories that were there all along.
Afterlives of the Roman Poets
Author: Nora Goldschmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').