Author: Collectif
Publisher:
ISBN: 9782329523736
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 26

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Author: Paul Chevallier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cameos
Languages : fr
Pages : 20

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Author: Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author: Ben van den Bercken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789088905063
Category : Gems
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book discuss different types of engraved gems in the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden Leiden, their makers, users and re-users, combining archaeological, culture historical and geological perspectives.

Author: J. Lewine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : fr
Pages : 722

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Author: Leonard Forrer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medalists
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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Author: Dietrich Boschung
Publisher: Brill Fink
ISBN: 9783770557257
Category : Amulets
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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In the last two decades we have had many books and proceedings of conferences on the history, formulas and incantations of magic in antiquity, both in East and West, but this is the first book of its kind that focuses on the material aspects of magic, such as gems, rings, drawings, grimoires, amulets and figurines. In recent years scholars have focused not only on the discourse and practices of magic in antiquity, but also on its practitioners, literary stereotypes and historical shifts. Much less attention, however, has been paid to the material that was used by the magicians for their curses and incantations. Yet there is no magic without materiality. The practice of magic required a specialist expertise that knew how to handle material such as lead, gold, stones, papyrus, figurines or voodoo dolls. That is why we present new insights on the materiality of magic by studying both the materials used for magic as well as the books in which the expertise was preserved.--Publisher.

Author: František Šmahel
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
ISBN: 9788024625225
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. The author describes with intelectual brilliance and narrative talent the journey from Prague to Paris as a step by step journey reportage using contemporary French chronicles and vast medievistic literature as well as many beautiful illustrations. The result is an appealing account on medieval life, everyday and intelectual, mentality, grand European politics of the time or even medieval cuisine. The first part of the book presents the well-known facts of Charles IV life (brought up in Paris, his father’s John Luxemberg’s political and representational activities, his international goals, etc.). The middle part of the book brings a transcription of richly illustrated French chronicles. The third part analyses the importance of the meeting of the two most powerful European rulers of the time. Final and most original part consists of individual studies concerning practical organisation of medieval festivities, its logistic, transport, or culinary details, the court manners, relationships and symbolics. Šmahel draws from latest knowledge and methods from archeology and microhistory to cultural anthropology or iconography. This as a highly readable account of medieval time inspiring in its originality for expert historians as well as appealing to the general public.

Author: Usd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780894682711
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Contains 17 papers on the history of engraved gems (including both intaglios and cameos) from ancient Greece through the nineteenth century. They address the influence of Greek and Roman gems on postclassical painters, sculptors and gem engravers as well as the collecting of gems in the Middle Ages, Renaissance and later periods.

Author: Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des médailles et antiques
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art objects
Languages : fr
Pages : 660

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