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Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds
Honouring Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds analyzes aspects of the constructed narratives and reconstructed realities of the visual-material record of diverse Mediterranean faith communities from medieval into contemporary times.
The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300-1600
This volume aims to broaden and nuance knowledge about the history, art, culture, and heritage of Eastern Europe relative to Byzantium. From the thirteenth century to the decades after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the regions of the Danube River stood at the intersection of different traditions, and the river itself has served as a marker of connection and division, as well as a site of cultural contact and negotiation. The Routledge Handbook of Byzantine Visual Culture in the Danube Regions, 1300–1600 brings to light the interconnectedness of this broad geographical area too often either studied in parts or neglected altogether, emphasizing its shared history and heritage of the re...
Meanings and Functions of the Ruler's Image in the Mediterranean World (11th – 15th Centuries)
(The open access version of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.) The book proposes a reassessment of royal portraiture and its function in the Middle Ages via a comparative analysis of works from different areas of the Mediterranean world, where images are seen as only one outcome of wider and multifarious strategies for the public mise-en-scène of the rulers’ bodies. Its emphasis is on the ways in which medieval monarchs in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-types, and media. Contributors are Michele Bacci, Nicolas Bock, Gerardo Boto Varela, Branislav Cvetković, Sofia Fernández Pozzo, Gohar Grigoryan Savary, Elodie Leschot, Vinni Lucherini, Ioanna Rapti, Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza, Marta Serrano-Coll, Lucinia Speciale, Manuela Studer-Karlen, Mirko Vagnoni, and Edda Vardanyan.
The Luminous Way to the East
"The Missionary Dynamism of the Church of the East It would be an attractive undertaking for the historian to be able to follow in the footsteps of those heralds of the Gospel, who went forth from Antioch with firmness and tenacity in those early days making their way to the East . . . building new centers of Christian irradiation, creating communities and spreading the doctrine of Jesus everywhere. The interest would certainly grow if we were familiar with the challenges faced by these first evangelizers on their way to the Far East. Gaining that knowledge, however, is no easy task. Christ's teaching had to cover immense distances on its road from Antioch towards the East. . . . The details...
A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, 2 Volume Set
A one-of-a-kind exploration of archaeological evidence from the Roman Empire between 44 BCE and 337 CE In A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Empire, distinguished scholar and archaeologist Professor Barbara Burrell delivers an illuminating and wide-ranging discussion of peoples, institutions, and their material remains across the Roman Empire. Divided into two parts, the book begins by focusing on the “unifying factors,” institutions and processes that affected the entire empire. This ends with a chapter by Professor Greg Woolf, Ronald J. Mellor Professor of Ancient History at UCLA, which summarizes and enlarges upon the themes and contributions of the volume. Meanwhile, the sec...
Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on the early modern period in particular. This Special Issue aims to build on these works and to expand their range, both geographically and chronologically. This collection focuses on lived religion and the devotional practices found in the domestic settings of late medieval and early modern Europe. More particularly, it investigates the degree to which the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm intersected with the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings. Its broad geographical range (spanning northern, southern, central and eastern Europe) includes practices related to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. This Special Issue will be of interest to historians, art historians, medievalists, early modernists, historians of religion, anthropologists and theologians, as well as those interested in the history of material religious culture. It also offers important insights into research areas such as gender studies, histories of the emotions and histories of the senses.
La teoria del restauro nel Novecento da Riegl a Brandi
L’idea di un Convegno internazionale su La teoria del restauro nel Novecento da Riegl a Brandi è nata dall’esigenza di ricostruire le tappe fondamentali che hanno fatto del restauro un concetto centrale dell’odierno orizzonte culturale fino a culminare nella Teoria del restauro pubblicata da Cesare Brandi nel 1963. Fedeli all’articolazione del Convegno, gli atti che ora si pubblicano muovono da Aloi Riegl e dal contesto europeo per proseguire attraverso il contributo di altri protagonisti e concezioni: dalle sporadiche ma lucide prese di posizione di Roberto Longhi agli apporti di Corrado Ricci, Giulio Carlo Argan, Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti e Bruno Zevi. Inserita in questo plesso st...
"Esset Bibernell, dann sterbt ihr nid so schnell." Garten und Gesundheit
Naturerfahrung, Gartentherapie, Heilpflanzen, Kräuterbücher, Badekultur, Reformpädagogik, Friedrich Fröbel Alles, was wächst und gedeiht, hat in der Zeit der Pandemie mehr als üblich Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Viele Menschen haben das Grün vor ihrer Haustür neu entdeckt. Gärtnern, der Aufenthalt an der frischen Luft oder der Spaziergang im Grünen haben sich als heilsame Praktiken in unserem inzwischen hoch technisierten Leben bestätigt. Längst sind auch einerseits Heilpflanzen und andererseits Gartentherapie und Naturpädagogik verstärkt in den Fokus des Interesses gerückt. "Garten und Gesundheit" eröffnet ein weites Feld heilsamer Naturerfahrung zwischen Medizin, Botanik, Kulturgeschichte und Gesellschaft. Mit "Florilegium": Heilpflanzenwissen zu sieben ausgewählten Pflanzen im Porträt (Ringelblume, Vogelknöterich, Hauswurz, Safran, Bibernelle, Pfingstrose, Lilie), inkl. Rezepte
L'Officina dello sguardo
I due volumi raccolgono contributi di autorevoli studiosi italiani e stranieri che, partendo dalla pluralità di orizzonti di interesse di Maria Andaloro, avviano inediti percorsi critici e storiografici. Se I luoghi dell’arte, titolo della prima serie di saggi, s’incentra sulla geografia artistica della Sicilia e del Mediterraneo, di Roma e di Bisanzio nel Medioevo, raggiungendo però anche territori ‘altri’, dall’Anatolia preistorica fino alla Cina, la seconda raccolta, Immagine, memoria, materia, sviluppa una varietà di affondi tematici che comprende gli sguardi dell’estetica, della critica d’arte, della diagnostica e del restauro, in omaggio al pensiero della studiosa, sempre volto a riunificare e al contempo a distinguere i molteplici ambiti del sapere artistico, in un’ottica di vitale complessità creativa.
L'Officina dello sguardo
I due volumi raccolgono contributi di autorevoli studiosi italiani e stranieri che, partendo dalla pluralità di orizzonti di interesse di Maria Andaloro, avviano inediti percorsi critici e storiografici. Se I luoghi dell’arte, titolo della prima serie di saggi, s’incentra sulla geografia artistica della Sicilia e del Mediterraneo, di Roma e di Bisanzio nel Medioevo, raggiungendo però anche territori ‘altri’, dall’Anatolia preistorica fino alla Cina, la seconda raccolta, Immagine, memoria, materia, sviluppa una varietà di affondi tematici che comprende gli sguardi dell’estetica, della critica d’arte, della diagnostica e del restauro, in omaggio al pensiero della studiosa, sem...
