Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900: P to Periodical
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibrarySolitudo
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004367438
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800. Contributors include Oskar Bätschmann, Carla Benzan, Mette Birkedal Bruun, Dominic E. Delarue, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Christine Göttler, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christiane J. Hessler, Walter S. Melion, Raphaèle Preisinger, Bernd Roling, Paul Smith, Marie Theres Stauffer, Arnold A. Witte, and Steffen Zierholz.
The Lost Libraries of Tunis
Author: Laura HinrichsenPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111343634
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Only little is known about the book culture of Tunis, although the city had been a centre for teaching and learning throughout Ḥafṣid rule in Ifrīqiya (c. 1230 to 1574). The libraries of Tunis are considered lost since the sack of the city by the armies of the emperor Charles V in the summer of 1535. This study reconstructs for the first time the original holdings of Tunis' medieval libraries and shows what can still be learned from these recovered fragments. An in-depth analysis of a wide range of texts and artefacts shows that the Ḥafṣid libraries were looted and their collections redistributed, mostly among European collectors. The Lost Libraries of Tunis brings Early Modern scholarship on Arabic texts and language into context by utilising the manuscripts from Ifrīqiya as a source to map the interest in, and scholarship on, Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe. With an art-historical and sociohistorical interpretation of the reconstructed manuscript corpus, The Lost Libraries of Tunis challenges views accepted among Islamic art historians and describes a dynamic and vivid regional book culture of the Maghreb embedded in the wider Arabic manuscript tradition, precisely showing strong interaction and exchange.
News in Times of Conflict
Author: Jan HillgärtnerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004432620
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Jan Hillgärtner traces the development and spread of the newspaper and the development of the printing industry around it in the Holy Roman Empire in the first half of the seventeenth century.
German Paintings of the Fifteenth Through Seventeenth Centuries
Author: John Oliver HandPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521450935
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
A catalogue of fifteenth and sixteenth century German paintings in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
The Thirty Years War
Author: Ronald AschPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 134925617X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Historians have tried time and again to identify the central issues of the conflict which devastated Europe between 1618 and 1648. The Thirty Years War by Ronald G. Asch puts the religious and constitutional struggle in the Holy Roman Empire squarely back into the centre of events. However, other issues are not neglected. Thus the problems of war finance are shown to be an important key to the interaction between inter-state and domestic conflicts during the war. Equally confessional tensions are analysed as a decisive factor linking international and domestic disputes, and the reader is provided with a succinct narrative account concentrating on the major turning points of the war.
History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation.
Author: Histories of Heinrich Schütz
Author: Bettina VarwigPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139502018
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Bettina Varwig places the music of the celebrated Dresden composer Heinrich Schütz in a richly detailed tapestry of cultural, political, religious and intellectual contexts. Four key events in Schütz's career - the 1617 Reformation centenary, the performance of his Dafne in 1627, the 1636 funeral composition Musikalische Exequien and the publication of his motet collection Geistliche Chormusik (1648) - are used to explore his music's resonances with broader historical themes, including the effects of the Thirty Years' War, contemporary meanings of classical mythology, Lutheran attitudes to death and the afterlife as well as shifting conceptions of time and history in light of early modern scientific advances. These original seventeenth-century circumstances are treated in counterpoint with Schütz's fascinating later reinvention in nineteenth- and twentieth-century German musical culture, providing a new kind of musicological writing that interweaves layers of historical inquiry from the seventeenth century to the present day.