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Sixteen Classical Highlights
Author: The World Upside Down in 16th-Century French Literature and Visual Culture
Author: Vincent Robert-NicoudPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004381821
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In The World Upside Down in 16th Century French Literature and Visual Culture Vincent Robert-Nicoud offers an interdisciplinary account of the topos of the world upside down in early modern France. To call something ‘topsy-turvy’ in the sixteenth century is to label it as abnormal. The topos of the world upside down evokes a world in which everything is inside-out and out of bounds: fish live in trees, children rule over their parents, and rivers flow back to their source. The world upside down proves to be key in understanding how the social, political, and religious turmoil of sixteenth-century France was represented and conceptualised, and allows us to explore the dark side of the Renaissance by unpacking one of its most prevalent metaphors.
The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th Century China
Author: Kathryn A. LowryPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004145869
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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This study of popular songs offers a new hypothesis about the role of elite in popular culture and evidences how commercial publishing facilitated the rise of selective reading and imitation of texts in late-Ming China, creating a new basis for describing desire and the self.
New York Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Plants in 16th and 17th Century
Author: Fabrizio BaldassarriPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110740001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
In the pre-modern times, while medicine was still relying on classical authorities on herbal remedies, a new engagement with the plant world emerged. This volume follows intertwined strands in the study of plants, examining newly introduced species that captured physicians' curiosity, expanded their therapeutic arsenal, and challenged their long-held medical theories. The development of herbaria, the creation of botanical gardens, and the inspection of plants contributed to a new understanding of the vegetal world. Increased attention to plants led to account for their therapeutic virtues, to test and produce new drugs, to recognize the physical properties of plants, and to develop a new plant science and medicine.
Classical Recordaid
Author: Encyclopedia of British Writers, 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries
Author: Book Builders LLC.Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108699
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
General Relativity And Gravitation, Proceedings Of The 16th International Conference
Author: Nigel T BishopPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814487449
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
The 16th conference of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation (GR16), held at the International Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, from 15 to 21 July, was attended by 450 delegates from around the world. The scientific programme comprised 18 plenary lectures, 1 public lecture and 19 workshops which, excepting 3 plenary lectures, are presented in this proceedings. It was the first major international conference on general relativity and gravitation held on the African continent.
Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 13th - 16th May 2008, Siena, Italy
Author: Isabella Turbanti-MemmiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642146783
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 663
Book Description
The book contains the Proceedings of the 37th International Symposium on Archaeometry, 12th May 2008, Siena, Italy. The aim of the Symposium is to promote the development and use of scientific techniques in order to extract archaeological and historical information from cultural heritage and the paleoenvironment. It involves all Natural Sciences and all types of objects and materials related with human activity. Papers deal with the development and/or application of scientific techniques for extracting information related to human activities of the past, including the biological nature of man himself and the environment in which he lived. Topics include: Field Archaeology and Intergrated Site Studies; Archaeo-chronometry including recent developments in Radiocarbon Dating; Human - Environment Interactions including Geoarchaeology, Palaeoclimate studies, Landscape Archaeology, Environmental reconstructions, etc.; Bioarchaeology; Food preparation and consumption in Antiquity; the Technology and Provenance of Stone, Plaster, Pigments;Ceramics, Glazes, Glass and Vitreous Materials, Metals and Metallurgical Ceramics; and Micro/nano diagnostic techniques.
Directions in Sound
Author: WFIU (Radio station : Bloomington, Ind.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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