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Violence in Fifteenth-century Text and Image
Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.
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Images of Plague and Pestilence
Since the late fourteenth century, European artists created an extensive body of images, in paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other media, about the horrors of disease and death, as well as hope and salvation. This interdisciplinary study on disease in metaphysical context is the first general overview of plague art written from an art-historical standpoint. The book selects masterpieces created by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Van Dyck, and Poussin, and includes minor works dating from the fourteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the most important innovative artistic works that originated during the Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. This study of the changing iconographic patterns and their iconological interpretations opens a window to the past.
Ancient Egyptian Myths
Illustrated with 180 artworks and photographs, Ancient Egyptian Myths is an engaging and highly informative exploration of a rich mythology that still fascinates today.
Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole
Unter dem Siegel der Nekropole 5 Andrew Chugg The Lost Tombs of the Last Pharaohs. The purpose of this fresh article is to present new evidence that connects the sarcophagus of the last 30th Dynasty pharaoh, Nectanebo II, currently displayed in the British Museum, with a fragment of Macedonian funerary sculpture from the middle of the Ptolemaic period, which is now in Venice. The context of this connection is the search for the missing tombs (there were at least three in Egypt) of Alexander the Great. Michael E. Habicht Meta-database of cranial measurements from Ancient Egypt and Nubia. The study presents a complex and extended database of the morphology of skulls and (partly) also for the b...
Healthmaking in Ancient Egypt
This book explores the health of ancient Egyptians living in the New Kingdom village of Deir el-Medina. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines skeletal analysis with textual evidence, the book examines how social factors, such as social support, healthcare access, and economic stability, played crucial roles in buffering individuals from stress and promoting good health. This is the first, comprehensive book on the bioarchaeology of Deir el-Medina including data from human remains spanning the site’s New Kingdom occupation. This book highlights how the Social Determinants of Health can be used to explain how past people maintained their health.
Der Brotkönig
Ein junger Pflanzenbau-Wissenschaftler entdeckt den ebenso wahnsinnigen wie realistischen Plan eines Konzernchefs, Macht über die weltweite Nahrungsmittelproduktion zu erlangen. Der Wissenschaftler und der Konzernchef werden Gegner, keiner von beiden ist es gewohnt oder bereit, aufzugeben. Unterwegs mit entgegengesetzten Lebenszielen – der eine strebt nach Macht, der andere nach Weisheit – erfahren sie, wie Macht funktioniert, in der Familie, in der Politik und in der Wirtschaft. Ein Abenteuer um Macht und Weisheit, um den Glauben an sich selbst oder an Gott. Eine Geschichte um die Frage, wie es der Menschheit gelingen kann, zukunftsfähig zu werden.
