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The White Nuns
The White Nuns considers Cistercian women and the women who were their patrons in a clear-eyed reading of narrative texts and administrative records. In rejecting long-accepted misogynies and misreadings, Constance Hoffman Berman offers a robust model for historians writing against received traditions.
Custom Made
Olga Kisseleva’s series, Custom Made (1998-2013), explores a wide range of concepts about interactivity and participation in a contemporary global culture. From her early interactive web work How are you? (1998) to her intervention in ecology in Biopresence (2013), she has considered what the world would be like if we rethink our relationships to communication, gaming, telepresence, “n” time and the media-led perception of the world today, by contrasting this with our human sensibility, by what we see, feel and do. This book documents 18 inter-related works by the artist with an essay by Barbara Formis. This ebook has external links to 9 video clips among its 185 pages alongside over 100 photos.
Reassessing the Roles of Women as 'Makers' of Medieval Art and Architecture (2 Vol. Set)
The twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today's standard division of artist from patron.
Women and Art in Early Modern Europe: Patrons, Collectors, and Connoisseurs
This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally. While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.
Il priorato cluniacense dei Santi Pietro e Paolo a Castelletto Cervo. Scavi e ricerche 2006-2014
L’opera presenta i risultati delle indagini archeologiche condotte tra il 1991 e il 2007 dalla Soprintendenza Archeologica di Ostia nella basilica identificata con la cattedrale paleocristiana della città di Porto, sotto la direzione scientifica di Lidia Paroli, autrice di numerosi studi nell’ambito dell’archeologia tardoantica e altomedievale, e di Mauro Maiorano, che ha coordinato la ricerca sul campo tra il 1997 e il 2007. Il lavoro è tra i più completi esempi di indagine estensiva secondo i criteri stratigrafici di un edificio paleocristiano e ha permesso di recuperare importanti elementi sul processo di trasformazione interna dello spazio basilicale in relazione alle pratiche l...
Handbook of Palaeodemography
This book examines methods for linking osteo-archaeological data with historical and environmental sources to shed light on the living conditions of past populations. Covering all time periods from prehistory to the 20th century, it aims to construct models that capture plausible demographic dynamics from highly fragmentary evidence. Starting from the known in order to explore the unknown, this book presents a historical view of methods used in the past and present as well as proposes original ones. The paleodemographic methods presented in this handbook have been tested on anthropological and archaeological data and can easily be applied. This manual represents a fruitful collaboration between historical demographers and anthropological archaeologists who, with the help of mathematicians and statisticians, detail research that opens an important historical dimension to the discipline. Written in a readily understandable manner, it serves as an ideal resource for those wishing to interpret ancient bones in demographic terms.
Female Piety and the Catholic Reformation in France
Hillman presents a fascinating account of the role that women played during the Catholic Reformation in France. She reconstructs the devotional practices of a network of powerful women showing how they reconciled Catholic piety with their roles as part of an aristocratic elite, challenging the view that the Catholic Reformation was a male concern.
Maisons paysannes en France et leur environnement, XVe-XXe siècles
Les maisons paysannes, sur l'ensemble du territoire français, sont encore nombreuses et habitées.Elles font l'objet d'une étude globale dans ce livre. Trois points de vue caractérisent l'approche de Jean-René Trochet. Une perspective spatiale. Dans un grand nombre de régions, l'ouvrage fait découvrir ces maisons paysannes dans leur environnement. L'analyse de leur insertion au sein des systèmes agraires qui coexistaient dans l'espace français entre la fin du Moyen Age et les débuts de la période contemporaine (XIXe, XXe siècles) inscrit cette géographie dans une histoire de longue durée. Une perspective historique. Par l'étude de cas circonstanciés de maisons paysannes, de le...
