Author: Paul MARTIN (Conservateur du Musée Historique de Strasbourg.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Armes Et Armures de Charlemagne À Louis XIV. Armour and Weapons. (Translated by René North.) With Illustrations.
Author: Paul MARTIN (Conservateur du Musée Historique de Strasbourg.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Armes et armures de Charlemagne à Louis XIV
Author: Paul MartinThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
Author: Clifford J. RogersPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195334035
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1798
Book Description
This set is an excellent companion to J. R. Strayer's edited Dictionary of the Middle Ages (CH, Nov'87; Supplement I, ed. by W. C. Jordan, CH, Sep'04, 42-0044). The focus on warfare allows the editors to offer larger entries on major topics (e.g., "Agincourt," "Crusades," "Feudalism") and introduce many complementary topics. The editors are concerned with Europe; they expand coverage into Asia or Africa only because of the connection to medieval Europe. Coverage also includes an abundance of entries pertaining to Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the 1,000-plus entries are about a page in length, but a few approach 50 pages. Medium and large-size entries, such as "Chivalry," "Germany," and "Slavic Lands," discuss primary sources and very valuable historiographies. A thorough index helps readers locate the Knights Templar under "Orders, Military, Levantine Orders." Cross-references and bibliographies follow each of the signed entries. Locating reliable and scholarly information on the Knights Templar and Vlad Tepes (Dracula) is tricky. Some of the bibliographies include sources in foreign languages. For example, the references for the Black Army of Hungary are in Hungarian. Noticeably missing are entries for the many wars. This set is particularly suited to research libraries. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by W. M. Fontane.
Armes et armures de Charlemagne à Louis 14
Author: Paul MartinArms and Armour of the Crusading Era, 1050-1350: Illustrations
Author: David NicolleImagination and Fantasy in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time
Author: Albrecht ClassenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110693666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The notions of other peoples, cultures, and natural conditions have always been determined by the epistemology of imagination and fantasy, providing much freedom and creativity, and yet have also created much fear, anxiety, and horror. In this regard, the pre-modern world demonstrates striking parallels with our own insofar as the projections of alterity might be different by degrees, but they are fundamentally the same by content. Dreams, illusions, projections, concepts, hopes, utopias/dystopias, desires, and emotional attachments are as specific and impactful as the physical environment. This volume thus sheds important light on the various lenses used by people in the Middle Ages and the early modern age as to how they came to terms with their perceptions, images, and notions. Previous scholarship focused heavily on the history of mentality and history of emotions, whereas here the history of pre-modern imagination, and fantasy assumes center position. Imaginary things are taken seriously because medieval and early modern writers and artists clearly reveal their great significance in their works and their daily lives. This approach facilitates a new deep-structure analysis of pre-modern culture.
Titian's Portraits through Aretino's Lens
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271044255
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
After classical antiquity, the Italian Renaissance raised the portrait, whether literary or pictorial, to the status of an important art form. Among sixteenth-century Renaissance painters, Titian made his reputation, and much of his living, by portraiture. Titian's portraits were promoted by his friend, Pietro Aretino, an eminent poet and critic, who addressed his letters and sonnets to the same personages whom Titian portrayed. In many of these letters (which often included sonnets), Aretino described both an individual patron and Titian's portrait of that patron, thus stimulating the reciprocal relation between a verbal and pictorial portrait. By investigating this unprecedented historical phenomenon, Luba Freedman elucidates the meaning conveyed by the portrait as an artistic form in Renaissance Italy. Fusing iconographical analysis of the most famous Titian portraits with rhetorical analysis of Aretino's literary legacy as compared to contemporary reactions, Freedman demonstrates that it is due to Titian's many portraits and to Aretino's repeated simultaneous writings about them that the portrait ceased being primarily a social-historical document, preserving the sitter's likeness for posterity. It gradually became, as it is today, a work of art, the artist's invention, which gives its viewer an aesthetic pleasure.
The Age of Chivalry
Author: Liliane FunckenPublisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
These three volumes illustrate in detail armor, weapons and warfare tactics from the eighth century to the end of the Renaissance. The text, recounting stories about events and personalities of the period, brings alive this fascinating era of military history.--From publisher description.
Of His Array Telle I No Lenger Tale
Author: H M Zijlstra-ZweensPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658831
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
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A Translation of the Cycle of Willame of Orange
Author: Guérard PiffardPublisher:
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Category : Chansons de geste
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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