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Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation
This volume explores the movement of tantric Buddhist traditions through time and space, from the early history of tantric Buddhism to the present day. These studies investigate the development of tantric Buddhist traditions in India, their dissemination into Central and East Asia, and exchanges between tantric Buddhist and rival religious traditions. From the hyper-masculine Buddha to the ritualized bodies of the siddhas, the first chapter traces shifts in Indian Buddhist ideal masculinities. The second chapter explores the intersection of Buddhism and Śaivism in early medieval India through the evolving figure of the yoginī. Another chapter explores how tenth- and eleventh-century schola...
Alla maniera di...
In questo volume confluiscono i contributi scientifici presentati da diversi colleghi, allievi ed esperti di varie discipline nel Convegno, tenutosi dal 28 al 30 maggio 2007 nella Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia e presso il Dipartimento di Studi Orientali, in onore della studiosa che fu docente di Storia dell’arte dell’Estremo Oriente dal 1970 al 2002. Nella sua attività didattica e di ricerca scientifica Maria Teresa Lucidi (1930-2005) si occupò, con scrupolo e serietà, principalmente delle problematiche inerenti l’archeologia, l’arte e la sfera filosofica cinese, indagò l’arte e le concezioni estetiche del Giappone e s’interessò anche dei contatti e dei rapporti culturali ...
The Oasis of Bukhara, Volume 1
In The Oasis of Bukhara: Population, Depopulation and Settlement Evolution, Rocco Rante, archaeologist at the Louvre Museum, presents the results of a large-scale and ambitious regional archaeological investigation of the oasis of Bukhara, corresponding to the delta of the Zerafshan River, from the end of the 1st millennium BCE to the Timurid period. Rante reports the conclusions of several studies of the oasis, realised with the collaboration of distinguished specialists, and covers topics such as human migration, water and the city, urban development and changes in human behaviour. He also revisits the history of this part of Central Asia, providing new historical and cultural insights arising out of the intense archaeological activities undertaken in the field. The volume is co-published by Brill, Leiden, and the Louvre Museum, Paris.
Uncertain Histories
The compulsion to dwell on historyÑon how it is recorded, stored, saved, forgotten, narrated, lost, remembered, and made publicÑhas been at the heart of artistsÕ engagement with the photographic medium since the late 1960s. Uncertain Histories considers some of that work, ranging from installations that incorporate vast numbers of personal and vernacular photographs by Christian Boltanski, Dinh Q. L�, and Gerhard Richter to confrontations with absence in the work of Joel Sternfeld and Ken Gonzales-Day. Projects such as these revolve around a photographic paradox that hinges equally on knowing and not knowing, on definitive proof coupled with uncertainty, on abundance of imagery being me...
Handbook of Medieval Studies
This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes
This fascinating book examines the artistic exchange between the nomadic peoples of what is now Inner Mongolia and their settled Chinese neighbors during the first millennium B.C.
Digital and Traditional Epigraphy in Context
This volume collects the proceedings of the final conference of the European project EAGLE (Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy), held at the Sapienza University of Rome on January 28-30th 2016.
Digital Humanities
Questo volume raccoglie gli atti del primo convegno annuale del l’Associazione per l’Informatica Umanistica e la Cultura Digitale (Firenze 13 e 14 dicembre 2012). L’incontro ha avuto al centro alcuni temi di particolare rilevanza nell’attuale fase di sviluppo delle Digital Humanities: come favorire la convergenza di competenze diverse per sostenere il processo di transizione al digitale dell’intero patrimonio culturale? Come ripensare e riaffermare il ruolo essenziale che l’informatica umanistica è chiamata a svolgere in questo processo di trasformazione culturale? Come valorizzare il contributo culturale e scientifico della ricerca e dei progetti condotti in ambito italiano?
Per un corpus dei pavimenti di Roma e del Lazio
Il volume raccoglie i contributi scientifici presentati nell’ambito della Giornata di Studi “Per un corpus dei pavimenti di Roma e del Lazio”, svoltasi il 24 novembre 2014 nell’Odeion del Museo di Arte Classica della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia della Sapienza Università di Roma, allo scopo di rendere noti a studiosi e studenti i risultati dell’attività di catalogazione e studio di due unità, l’una dell’Università degli Studi di Padova, l’altra della Sapienza, operanti in stretta collaborazione con il MiBACT, l’AISCOM e diverse Istituzioni locali. L’obiettivo è la creazione di un corpus dei rivestimenti pavimentali di Roma e del Lazio: il workshop costituisce un primo bilancio della ricerca, nel corso del quale sono state messe a confronto esperienze diverse e riconsiderate complessivamente le prospettive di tale indagine.
