Author: Michael Avi-YonahPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Madaba Mosaic Map
Author: Michael Avi-YonahMichael Avi-Yonah, The Madaba mosaic map
Author: Henri E. del MedicoThe Madaba Mosaic Map with Introduction and Commentary by Michael Avi-yonah
Author: Michael Avi-YonahCompte-rendu de : Michael Avi-Yonah, The Madaba Mosaic Map, Jérusalem, The Israël Exploration Society, 1954 ... Signé
Author: Henri E. Del MedicoThe Madaba mosaic map, with introduction and commentary
Author: Michael Avi-YonahThe madaba mosaic map with introduction and commentary by michael avi-yonah
Author: Remains of the Jews
Author: Andrew S. JacobsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804747059
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Remains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the holy land. The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read Christian writings about holy land Jews as colonial writings. These writings created a cultural context in which Christians viewed themselves as powerfuland in which, perhaps, Jews were able to construct a posture of resistance to this new Christian Empire. Remains of the Jews reexamines familiar types of literaturebiblical interpretation, histories, sermons, lettersfrom a new perspective in order to understand how power and resistance shaped religious identities in the later Roman Empire.
Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period
Author: Ingrid BaumgärtnerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110588773
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.
The Mapping of Power in Renaissance Italy
Author: Mark RosenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107067030
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This well-illustrated study investigates the symbolic dimensions of painted maps as products of ambitious early modern European courts.
Maps & Civilization
Author: Norman Joseph William ThrowerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226799735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Preface1. Introduction: Maps of Preliterate Peoples2. Maps of Classical Antiquity3. Early Maps of East and South Asia4. Cartography in Europe and Islam in the Middle Ages5. The Rediscovery of Ptolemy and Cartography in Renaissance Europe6. Cartography in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment7. Diversification and Development in the Nineteenth Century8. Modern Cartography: Official and Quasi-Official Maps9. Modern Cartography: Private and Institutional MapsAppendix A: Selected Map ProjectionsAppendix B: Short List of IsogramsAppendix C: GlossaryNotesIllustration SourcesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.