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Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
1858 05 19 Catalogue of a Small Cabinet of Coins, the Property of a Collector, Comprising Some Rare Greek Coins, in Silver; to which is Added, the Collection of Coins Formed by the Late Very Reverend W.D. Conybeare, D.D. Dean of Llandaff, Containing Some Consular and Imperial Denarii, Some English Coins and Antiquities, Mahogany Cabinets, &c
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Science, and Art
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c
Author: The Victorians and Ancient Rome
Author: Norman VancePublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0631180761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
THE VICTORIANS & ANCIENT ROME Norman Vance has written the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome. His comprehensive account shows how not only scholars and poets but also engineers, soldiers, scientists and politicians gained inspiration from the writing, theory and practice of their Roman predecessors. The Roman theme is traced in nineteenth-century painting and music as well as literature and political discussion. There are chapters on the imaginative influence throughout the nineteenth century of five major Roman poets, framed by other chapters on Rome and European revolutions, nineteenth-century versions of Roman history, fictions of Rome, imperialism and decadence. Attention is also paid to the influence of developments in archaeology both at Rome and Pompeii and at Romano-British sites. Professor Vance provides a fascinating account of the sense of connection Victorian Britain felt with the Roman experience, a connection made the more complex because Britain had once been a Roman colony and because Christianity took hold and spread under the Roman Empire.
Notitia Monastica: Or, An Account of All the Abbies, Priories, and Houses of Friers Heretofore in England and Wales;
Author: Thomas TannerPublisher:
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Category : Abbeys
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Roman Officers and English Gentlemen
Author: Richard HingleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134563116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This landmark book shows how much Victorian and Edwardian Roman archaeologists were influenced by their own experience of empire in their interpretation of archaeological evidence. This distortion of the facts became accepted truth and its legacy is still felt in archaeology today. While tracing the development of these ideas, the author also gives the reader a throrough grounding in the history of Roman archaeology itself.
Classics in Britain
Author: Christopher StrayPublisher: Classical Presences
ISBN: 9780199569373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This unique volume summarizes and reflects the work of a leading voice in the history of Classics in Britain, bringing together both previously published articles, now newly revised, and never before published work. Topics range from the school classroom to the politics of universities, and from the social uses of classical knowledge to the publishing of textbooks: although the volume as a whole maintains a particular focus on the role of books and journals in the reception of Classics, the chapters also draw on anecdotal and documentary sources to offer a vivid exploration of the more obscure corners of the world of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars, teachers, and pupils. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which illustrates the utility of comparative analysis of institutions, focusing on Oxford and Cambridge in particular; the second looks at the transformative role of printing and publishing, and at the history of the Hellenic Society (1879) and the Classical Association (1903), in relation to the changing place of Classics in British society. The third focuses on pedagogy, examining textbooks and classroom activity and stressing the dialectical nature of reception, as evidenced by the resistance of pupils to their teachers' lessons. Engaging and insightful in isolation, together they offer an expansive and unparalleled overview of the history and sociology of classical education and scholarship between 1800 and 2000.
Classical Victorians
Author: Edmund RichardsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113962010X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Victorian Britain set out to make the ancient world its own. This is the story of how it failed. It is the story of the headmaster who bludgeoned his wife to death, then calmly sat down to his Latin. It is the story of the embittered classical prodigy who turned to gin and opium - and the virtuoso forger who fooled the greatest scholars of the age. It is a history of hope: a general who longed to be an Homeric hero, a bankrupt poet who longed to start a revolution. Victorian classicism was defined by hope - but shaped by uncertainty. Packed with forgotten characters and texts, with the roar of the burlesque-stage and the mud of the battlefield, this book offers a rich insight into nineteenth-century culture and society. It explores just how difficult it is to stake a claim on the past.
Greater Rome and Greater Britain
Author: Sir Charles Prestwood LucasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108024017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This 1912 work analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the British Empire by means of comparison with that of Rome.