Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Catalogue... Unknown Block-books ; Specimens of Carly Typography and Art... Manuscripts Et Books with Autograph Notes... Guillaume Libri
Author: The Culture of Print
Author: Roger ChartierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400860334
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The leading historians who are the authors of this work offer a highly original account of one of the most important transformations in Western culture: the change brought about by the discovery and development of printing in Europe. Focusing primarily on printed matter other than books, The Culture of Print emphasizes the specific and local contexts in which printed materials, such as broadsheets, flysheets, and posters, were used in modern Europe. The authors show that festive, ritual, cultic, civic, and pedagogic uses of print were social activities that involved deciphering texts in a collective way, with those who knew how to read leading those who did not. Only gradually did these collective forms of appropriation give way to a practice of reading--privately, silently, using the eyes alone--that has become common today. This wide-ranging work opens up new historical and methodological perspectives and will become a focal point of debate for historians and sociologists interested in the cultural transformations that accompanied the rise of modern societies. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Catalogue of the Monuments of the Early Printers in All Countries ...
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Authentic Happiness
Author: Martin SeligmanPublisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857884132
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
In this important, entertaining book, one of the world's most celebrated psychologists, Martin Seligman, asserts that happiness can be learned and cultivated, and that everyone has the power to inject real joy into their lives. In Authentic Happiness, he describes the 24 strengths and virtues unique to the human psyche. Each of us, it seems, has at least five of these attributes, and can build on them to identify and develop to our maximum potential. By incorporating these strengths - which include kindness, originality, humour, optimism, curiosity, enthusiasm and generosity -- into our everyday lives, he tells us, we can reach new levels of optimism, happiness and productivity. Authentic Happiness provides a variety of tests and unique assessment tools to enable readers to discover and deploy those strengths at work, in love and in raising children. By accessing the very best in ourselves, we can improve the world around us and achieve new and lasting levels of authentic contentment and joy.
The Guitar from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Author: Harvey TurnbullPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Burning Bright
Author: Dethloff DianaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues. With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman's knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and European artistic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. The essays cast light on questions of technique and stylistic change, patronage, collecting and iconography, and engage with issues such as the representation of race, gender, sexuality, political violence and propaganda, exile, and notions of the canon. The artists discussed here include Hogarth, Blake, Roubiliac, Thorvaldsen and Canova, all subjects of books by David Bindman, as well as Morland, Rowlandson, Gillray, Millais, Munch, Nevinson, and Heartfield.
Report of the Librarian of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Devotional Cross-Roads
Author: Hedwig RöckeleinPublisher: Göttingen University Press
ISBN: 386395372X
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The collection of essays presented in “Devotional Cross-Roads: Practicing Love of God in Medieval Gaul, Jerusalem, and Saxony” investigates test case witnesses of Christian devotion and patronage from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, set in and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean, as well as Gaul and the regions north of the Alps. Devotional practice and love of God refer to people – mostly from the lay and religious elite –, ideas, copies of texts, images, and material objects, such as relics and reliquaries. The wide geographic borders and time span are used here to illustrate a broad picture composed around questions of worship, identity, religious affiliation and gender. Among the diversity of cases, the studies presented in this volume exemplify recurring themes, which occupied the Christian believer, such as the veneration of the Cross, translation of architecture, pilgrimage and patronage, emergence of iconography and devotional patterns. These essays are representing the research results of the project “Practicing Love of God: Comparing Women’s and Men’s Practice in Medieval Saxony” guided by the art historian Galit Noga-Banai, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the historian Hedwig Röckelein, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. This project was running from 2013 to 2018 within the Niedersachsen-Israeli Program and financed by the State of Lower Saxony.
The Fortress of Faith
Author: Ana EchevarriaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004624260
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
This study provides new fascinating testimonies about the development of a new image of Islam in Southern Europe in the fifteenth century and an approach to ways of acculturation in a mixed society.
Cilician Armenia in the Perceptions of Adjacent Political Entities
Author: A. A. BozoyanPublisher:
ISBN: 9785808013940
Category : Armenia
Languages : hy
Pages : 282
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