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Wonderful Things
The discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cultural history. The history of Egyptology is the story of the people, famous and obscure, who constructed the picture of ancient Egypt that we have today, recovered the Egyptian past while inventing it anew, and made a lost civilization comprehensible to generations of enchanted readers and viewers thousands of years later.
Becoming Historical
This book examines the ways in which selfhood and cultural solidarity came to be understood and lived as historical identities during the first half of the nineteenth century. It's focus is on the Prussian capital- Berlin- and on the remarkable groups of artists and thinkers- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Felix Mendelssohn, Jacob Grimm, Friedrich Karl von Savigny and Leopold von Ranke-who became associated in 1840 with the cultural agenda of a regime that hoped to forge solidarity among its subjects by encouraging identification with a constructed public memory. The book emphasizes both the developmental phases and the inner tensions of the program for "becoming historical" that was publicly articulated in 1840.
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty
Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrödinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna’s women’s movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into the rise of the Third Reich, Deborah R. Coen demonstrates the interdependence of the family’s scientific and domestic lives, exploring the ways in which public notions of rationality, objectivity, and autonomy were formed in the private sphere. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty presents the story of the Exners as a microcosm of the larger achievements and tragedies of Austrian political and scientific life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A World Beneath the Sands
'It is a story full of drama, with the Nile, the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings as backdrop. That A World Beneath the Sands is also a subtle and stimulating study of the paradoxes of 19th-century colonialism is a bonus indeed.' – Tom Holland, Guardian What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This golden age of scholarship and adventure is neatly book-ended by two epoch-making events: Champollion's deciph...
Antiquity & Photography
Biographical essays explore the careers of two major early photographers, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey and William James Stillman. in addition, portfolios with works by Maxime Du Camp, John Beasley Greene, Francis Frith, Robert Macpherson, Adolphe Braun and others testify to the strength and consistency of other early photographers who captured the antique worlds around the Mediterranean."--BOOK JACKET.
Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East
This volume gathers articles by archeologists, art historians, and philologists concerned with the afterlives of ancient rock-cut monuments throughout the Near East. Contributions analyze how such monuments were actively reinterpreted and manipulated long after they were first carved.
Egypt and Austria I
This collection of papers, four of which are in German, is devoted to the sociocultural relations of the Hapsburg monarchy and Egypt, in its historical context. It covers travel interests from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, political negotiations around the Eastern question, and cultural interests of artisits and collectors.
Beyond Egyptomania
The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion and art from Antiquity to the present. This volume aims to provide a long term and interdisciplinary perspective on Egypt and its mnemohistory, taking theories on objects and their agency as its main point of departure. The central questions the book addresses are why, from the first millennium BC onwards, things and concepts Egyptian are to be found in such a great variety of places throughout European history and how we can account for their enduring impact over time. By taking a radically object-oriented perspective on this question, this book is also a major contribution to current debates on the agency of artefacts across archaeology, anthropology and art history.
Stefan George und sein Kreis
Das Handbuch stellt Leben und Werk Stefan Georges umfassend dar und behandelt die internen Vernetzungen seines Kreises sowie seine externe Rezeption. Erstmals liegt damit ein verlässliches Kompendium für die wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Stefan George und seinem Kreis vor. Die Forschung wird kritisch gesichtet, und Desiderate werden markiert; die bio-bibliographischen Grundlagen werden neu gesichert und zahlreiche Rezeptionszeugnisse erstmals ausgewertet. Dem Wirken Georges und seines Kreises, das in vielfältige Bereiche des geistig-kulturellen, wissenschaftlichen und politischen Lebens ausstrahlte, entspricht das interdisziplinäre und diskursgeschichtlich orientierte Konzept ...
Der ägyptische König im Alten Reich
Ausgangspunkt fur diese semantische Studie ist die Uberprufung von Goedickes Arbeit uber die Stellung des Konigs im Alten Reich. Das zur Untersuchung herangezogene Material berucksichtigt samtliche inschriftlichen Quellen, chronologisch vom ersten Auftreten bis zum Ende des Alten Reiches. Die Bezeichnungen sind in drei Hauptkategorien unterteilt: 1. Worter und Wortverbindungen, die unmittelbar und fast ausschliesslich auf den Konig verweisen und als Titel fungieren (njswt, bjt, njswt-bjt, Konigsname in der Kartusche sowie Horustitel und Horusname), 2. Worter und Wortverbindungen, die unmittelbar den Konig nennen konnen, aber auch zur Bezeichnung von Gottern und/oder Privatpersonen verwendet ...
