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Shaping Roman Landscape
A groundbreaking ecocritical study that examines how ideas about the natural and built environment informed architectural and decorative trends of the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Landscape emerged as a significant theme in the Roman Late Republican and Early Imperial periods. Writers described landscape in texts and treatises, its qualities were praised and sought out in everyday life, and contemporary perceptions of the natural and built environment, as well as ideas about nature and art, were intertwined with architectural and decorative trends. This illustrated volume examines how representations of real and depicted landscapes, and the merging of both in visual spac...
Germany and the Second World War
The Second World War affected the lives and shaped the experience of millions of individuals in Germany - soldiers at the front, women, children and the elderly sheltering in cellars, slave labourers toiling in factories, and concentration-camp prisoners and POWs clearing rubble in the Reich's devastated cities. Taking a 'history from below' approach, the volume examines how the minds and behaviour of individuals were moulded by the Party as the Reich took the road to Total War. The ever-increasing numbers of German workers conscripted into the Wehrmacht were replaced with forced foreign workers and slave labourers and concentration camp prisoners. The interaction in everyday life between Ge...
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World
Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new. Today there are national museums for antiquities in most Arab countries. While in some cases the political and social climate has hindered the foundation of museums, with existing collections even destroyed at times, the recent museum boom in the Gulf States is again changing the outlook. This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab world, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological basis for ...
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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World (2 vols.)
Following the tradition and style of the acclaimed Index Islamicus, the editors have created this new Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World. The editors have surveyed and annotated a wide range of books and articles from collected volumes and journals published in all European languages (except Turkish) between 1906 and 2011. This comprehensive bibliography is an indispensable tool for everyone involved in the study of material culture in Muslim societies.
Art and Archaeology of Afghanistan
This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach with contributions from archaeologists, linguists, an architect and lawyers to the many challenges This comprehensive volume on Afghanistan's cultural heritage with contributions from archaeologists, linguist and lawyers, dealing with the many issues involved in its protection, provides an insiders' reassessment of the situation and well-considered lessons for the future.
Antiquity
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Collectanea 50-51 (2017-2018)
Studia Orientalia Christiana-Collectanea è la rivista annuale (in più lingue) del Centro Francescano di Studi Orientali Cristiani del Cairo e raccoglie il frutto della ricerca degli studiosi residenti al Cairo e di altri colleghi. Indice del n. 50-51 (studi anni 2017-2018): Alberto Elli, Mons. Ṭobiyā Gabra Egzi’abeḤēr primo vescovo etiope cattolico Wadi Awad, Vita di san Pietro Martire alla luce delle fonti greche, copte e arabe Gianmaria Gianazza, Élie II († 1131) Kitāb Uṣūl al-Dīn Giuseppe Ligato, Malik al-Kamil di fronte a Francesco d’Assisi: aspetti cavallereschi e cortesi di un incontro tra le fedi Vincenzo Mistrih, Annali Genovesi di Caffaro e de’ suoi continuator...
Hospitality and Inclusion through Cultural Heritage
Il volume raccoglie i contributi presentati al convegno internazionale di studi ABC – Accoglienza e beni culturali – Hospitality and Cultural Heritage, promosso dall’Istituto di Studi Avanzati dell’Università di Bologna e svoltosi il 24 ottobre 2019. L’opera vuole dimostrare l’importanza del patrimonio culturale come strumento per l’integrazione sociale dei migranti. I saggi, a firma di importanti studiosi internazionali, illustrano alcune delle più significative esperienze a livello europeo di valorizzazione del museo come luogo di inclusione sociale, riconoscimento e mediazione interculturale.
