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Aristocrats and Statehood in Western Iberia, 300-600 C.E.
In a distant corner of the late antique world, along the Atlantic river valleys of western Iberia, local elite populations lived through the ebb and flow of empire and kingdoms as historical agents with their own social strategies. Contrary to earlier historiographical accounts, these aristocrats were not oppressed by a centralized Roman empire or its successor kingdoms; nor was there an inherent conflict between central states and local elites. Instead, Damián Fernández argues, there was an interdependency of state and local aristocracies. The upper classes embraced state projects to assert their ascendancy within their communities. By doing so, they enacted statehood at the local level, ...
Carmina Latina Epigraphica – Developments, Dynamics, Preferences
Zeitliche und regionale Entwicklungen ebenso wie offensichtliche Präferenzen von antiken Verfassern und Auftraggebern prägen die enorme Vielfalt der Carmina Latina Epigraphica. In der römischen Republik und Kaiserzeit dominieren Grabinschriften in Versmaß, seit der Spätantike werden offensichtlich auch andere Textgruppen zunehmend attraktiver. In Republik und Spätantike waren solche eingeschriebenen Gedichte mit oder ohne Prosa-Rahmung eher ein Elitenphänomen, wohingegen die Epigramme in der Kaiserzeit eine populäre Textgruppe für breite Bevölkerungsschichten waren. Im Band werden verschiedene Aspekte von Text-Entwicklungen durch die Jahrhunderte ebenso untersucht wie regionale Ver...
The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization
This unique collection applies globalization concepts to the discipline of archaeology, using a wide range of global case studies from a group of international specialists. The volume spans from as early as 10,000 cal. BP to the modern era, analysing the relationship between material culture, complex connectivities between communities and groups, and cultural change. Each contributor considers globalization ideas explicitly to explore the socio-cultural connectivities of the past. In considering social practices shared between different historic groups, and also the expression of their respective identities, the papers in this volume illustrate the potential of globalization thinking to brid...
Painting in Stone
A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.
Violencia deliberada
Presentación del editor: El dominio de los hombres sobre las mujeres es un fenómeno histórico que caracteriza las formaciones sociales estatales de Grecia y Roma, del Próximo Oriente antiguo y del Egipto faraónico, y son los distintos tipos de violencia -física, sexual y simbólica- sus herramientas principales de construcción y de permanencia. Este libro reúne las ponencias presentadas en el simposio internacional Violencia deliberada. Sus autoras y autores analizan las violencias sexistas que, desde la antigüedad, como si se tratara de un hecho ineluctable, impregnana las vidas de muchas mujeres, como Neera, la extranjera; Pacula Annia, la sacerdotisa, y Agripina, la madre de Nerón, o Aurelia Atiena, la ninfa Io y la virgen asceta Principia. Ellas y otras muchas, cuyos nombres desconocemos, son las verdaderas protagonistas de este libro. Del valor y la determinación de las mujeres nombradas y evocadas en estas páginas, y de tantas otras con las que compartimos hoy nuestras vidas, surgen la luz y el aliento para (re)accionar frente a las violencias patriarcales.
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.
Púrpura. Del mercado al poder
Este libro analiza la púrpura desde sus diversos aspectos: sus propiedades naturales como son descritas en las fuentes históricas, su olor y sus matices de color; la investigación de su antiquísimo origen; la reconstrucción del proceso de su fabricación, el trabajo especializado de sus operarios; la estructura de sus factorías y el seguimiento de las rutas de su mercado en el antiguo Mediterráneo. No falta, incluso, la enumeración y descripción de los productos utilizados como sucedáneos de la púrpura que, como todo artículo de calidad, tuvo sus imitadores. De un objeto de valor pasó a convertirse en todo un símbolo de poder y jerarquía y, como tal, aún pervive entre nosotros.
2012
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