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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Acta Ad Archaeologiam Et Artium Historiam Pertinentia
Author: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
Author: Siri SandePublisher: Scienze e Lettere
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia
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ISBN: 9788866872474
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt
Author: Gillian Spalding-StraceyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004430512
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey offers an exploration of the variety of ways in which the Holy Cross was expressed in imagery, in the monastic and ecclesiastical settings of late antique Egypt.
Bodies, Borders, Believers
Author: Anne Hege GrungPublisher: James Clarke & Company
ISBN: 0227905547
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This stimulating collection of essays by prominent scholars honours Turid Karlsen Seim. Bodies, Borders, Believers brings together biblical scholars, ecumenical theologians, archaeologists, classicists, art historians, and church historians, working side by side to probe the past and its receptions in the present. The contributions relate in one way or another to Seim's broad research interests, covering such themes as gender analysis, bodily practices, and ecumenical dialogue. The editors have brought together an international group of scholars, and among the contributors many scholarly traditions, theoretical orientations, and methodological approaches are represented, making this book an interdisciplinary and border-crossing endeavour. A comprehensivebibliography of Seim's work is included.
Old Saint Peter's, Rome
Author: Rosamond McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107729637
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 523
Book Description
St Peter's Basilica in Rome is arguably the most important church in Western Christendom, and is among the most significant buildings anywhere in the world. However, the church that is visible today is a youthful upstart, only four hundred years old compared to the twelve-hundred-year-old church whose site it occupies. A very small proportion of the original is now extant, entirely covered over by the new basilica, but enough survives to make reconstruction of the first St Peter's possible and much new evidence has been uncovered in the past thirty years. This is the first full study of the older church, from its late antique construction to Renaissance destruction, in its historical context. An international team of historians, art historians, archaeologists and liturgists explores aspects of the basilica's history, from its physical fabric to the activities that took place within its walls and its relationship with the city of Rome.
Rome in the Ninth Century
Author: John OsbornePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009415379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the material culture of ninth-century Rome, drawing together disparate strands of evidence.
A Companion to Byzantine Italy
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004307702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy which provides a fresh synthesis of current research as well as new insights on various aspects of its local societies from the 6th to the 11th century.
Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004473572
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
This illustrated book is a coherently conceived collection of interdisciplinary essays by distinguished authors on the city of Rome and its contacts with western Christendom in the early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 AD). The first part integrates historical, archaeological, numismatic and art historical approaches to studying the transition of the city of Rome from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and offers groundbreaking new analyses of selected sites and problems. Attention is given to the economic, social, religious and cultural history of the city. In the second part of the volume historical, archaeological, liturgical and palaeographical approaches address Rome's contacts and influence in Latin Christendom in this period, with particular regard to Rome's place within Italian politics and its cultural influence in Carolingian Francia and Anglo-Saxon England.
Death and Changing Rituals
Author: J. Rasmus BrandtPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 178297640X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration. The contributions presented here are focused not on the examination of different funerary practices, their function and meaning, but on the changes of such rituals – how and when they occurred and how they may be explained. Based on case studies from a range of geographical regions and from different prehistoric and historical periods, a range of key themes are examined concerning belief and ritual, body and deposition, place, performance and commemoration, exploring a complex web of practices.