Author: William StukeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Itinerarium Curiosum; Or, An Account of the Antiquities, and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature Or Art, Observed in Travels Through Great Britain
Author: William StukeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Itinerarium Curiosum
Author: William StukeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Itinerarium Curiosum, Or, An Account of the Antiquities and Remarkable Curiosities in Nature Or Art Observed in Travels Through Great Britain
Author: William StukeleyA Catalogue of Books, Arranged in Classes
Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture
Author: Micheline NilsenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351556274
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.
Itinerarium Curiosum
Author: William StukeleyPublisher: Gregg Revivals
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Class List of the Books in the Reference Library
Author: Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700
Author: Mary BatemanPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843846586
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales. Places have the power to suspend disbelief, even concerning unbelievable subjects. The many locations associated with King Arthur show this to be true, from Tintagel in Cornwall to Caerleon in Wales. But how and why did Arthurian sites come to proliferate across the English and Welsh landscape? What role did the medieval custodians of Arthurian abbeys, churches, cathedrals, and castles play in "placing" Arthur? How did visitors experience Arthur in situ, and how did their experiences permeate into wider Arthurian tradition? And why, in history and even today, have particular places proven so powerful in defending the impression of Arthur's reality? This book, the first in-depth study of Arthurian places in late medieval and early modern England and Wales, provides an answer to these questions. Beginning with an examination of on-site experiences of Arthur, at locations including Glastonbury, York, Dover, and Cirencester, it traces the impact that they had on visitors, among them John Hardyng, John Leland, William Camden, who subsequently used them as justification for the existence of Arthur in their writings. It shows how the local Arthur was manifested through textual and material culture: in chronicles, notebooks, and antiquarian works; in stained glass windows, earthworks, and display tablets. Via a careful piecing together of the evidence, the volume argues that a new history of Arthur begins to emerge: a local history.
Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Philip AyresPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1668
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.