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Author: Christina Maranci Publisher: Brepols Publishers ISBN: 9782503549002 Category : Architecture, Armenian Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book opens to the reader the world of early medieval Armenia: its sacred landscapes, striking churches, and rich literary and religious traditions. Examination of three sculpted and inscribed monuments, produced during the global wars of the seventh century, demonstrates the close engagement of Armenia with Byzantine imperial interests and with contemporary events in the Holy Land. The dramatic context of the military frontier, and the apocalyptic expectations of its contemporaries, shaped a vibrant visual culture with ties to both the Byzantine and Sasanian worlds. The seventh-century monuments of Armenia are important not just as an extraordinary moment of local cultural production; they fill a crucial gap in our knowledge about the medieval traditions of the Christian East at a time from which little survives from Constantinople and the imperial heartland. East of Rome, North of Jerusalem is the first English-language book devoted to the subject.
Author: Christina Maranci Publisher: Brepols Publishers ISBN: 9782503549002 Category : Architecture, Armenian Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book opens to the reader the world of early medieval Armenia: its sacred landscapes, striking churches, and rich literary and religious traditions. Examination of three sculpted and inscribed monuments, produced during the global wars of the seventh century, demonstrates the close engagement of Armenia with Byzantine imperial interests and with contemporary events in the Holy Land. The dramatic context of the military frontier, and the apocalyptic expectations of its contemporaries, shaped a vibrant visual culture with ties to both the Byzantine and Sasanian worlds. The seventh-century monuments of Armenia are important not just as an extraordinary moment of local cultural production; they fill a crucial gap in our knowledge about the medieval traditions of the Christian East at a time from which little survives from Constantinople and the imperial heartland. East of Rome, North of Jerusalem is the first English-language book devoted to the subject.
Author: David T Doris Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295802499 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 416
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Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association) Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called aale to protect their properties�farms, gardens, market goods, firewood�from the ravages of thieves. Aale are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape: a dried seedpod tied with palm fronds to the trunk of a fruit tree, a burnt corncob suspended on a wire, an old shoe tied with a rag to a worn-out broom and broken comb, a ripe red pepper pierced with a single broom straw and set atop a pile of eggs. Consequently, aale have rarely been discussed in print, and then only as peripheral elements in studies devoted to other issues. Yet aale are in no way peripheral to Yoruba culture or aesthetics. In Vigilant Things, David T. Doris argues that aale are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life. The humble, often degraded objects that comprise aale reveal as eloquently as any canonical artwork the channels of power that underlie the surfaces of the visible. Aale are warnings, intended to trigger the work of conscience. Aale objects symbolically threaten suffering as the consequence of transgression�the suffering of disease, loss, barrenness, paralysis, accident, madness, fruitless labor, or death�and as such are often the useless residues of things that were once positively valued: empty snail shells, shards of pottery, fragments of rusted iron, and the like. If these objects share �suffering� and �uselessness� as constitutive elements, it is because they already have been made to suffer and become useless. Aale offer would-be thieves an opportunity to recognize themselves in advance of their actions and to avoid the thievery that would make the "useless" people.
Author: Denise A Wheeler Publisher: Balboa Press ISBN: 1452599890 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 111
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This book is a spiritual toolbox--filled with techniques, practices, and suggestions to challenge every belief you presently hold. It will cause you to question whether your beliefs are supporting you and will assist in creating new beliefs that serve your best and highest good. From the introduction for The Power of Spiritual Vigilance: "Thoughts are the building blocks of life. Our thoughts, beliefs, and subsequently our spoken words create our experience of reality and all that has shown up in our lives. Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy ... "It is possible to live a life of harmony and balance--fullness and wholeness. People who have developed a certain mastery over their thoughts, words, and actions, moment by moment, are practicing ... spiritual vigilance and the natural, subsequent result of that practice is living life with fearless faith."
Author: Bruce Clark Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1594676348 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 94
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Feeling stagnant in your relationship with God? Wondering how to breakthrough to a more intimate time with the Father? Take a 40-day journey with Bruce Clark as he shares with you:??how to become more aware of your need for God??how to grow in your relationship with Him on a daily basis??how to gain strength to continue in Him??how intimacy with God can become the core of your lifeAs you walk with God for 40 days, Bruce will help you, as the serious seeker of God, to see how your relationship with Him can be integrated into your daily life and how to go beyond your current level of relationship and experience God in new ways. For this is the only way to truly ADVANCE.
Author: Bissera V. Pentcheva Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000207366 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 254
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Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.
Author: Javier Roiz Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 1438445636 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 328
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Uncovers a fundamental change that took place in Western thinking, especially its departure from the Sephardic philosophy found in the Iberian Peninsula during the 13th century.
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