Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Catalogue of ... Illuminated Manuscripts and ... Books, the Property of Henry Yates Thompson ... Which Will be Sold at Auction by Messrs. Stotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Author: Henry Yates ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Nineteenth-century British Book-collectors and Bibliographers
Author: William BakerPublisher: Detroit, MI : Gale Research
ISBN:
Category : American prose literature
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
An eclectic view of the book and manuscript collecting and bibliographical activity during nineteenth century Britain is presented. Subjects range from the wealthy, bibliographically knowledgeable members of the aristocrats to others who impoverished themselves and their families in their obsession. Discusses how these collections were instrumental in the advocacy of the public library movement.
The Athenaeum
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Catalogue of the Gennadius Library, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Author: Gennadius LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk BuckinghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
The Publisher
Author: Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Medieval Monsters
Author: Damien KempfPublisher:
ISBN: 9780712357906
Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval world. Believed to dwell in exotic, remote areas, these inexplicable parts of God's creation aroused fear, curiosity, and wonder in equal measure. Powerfully captured in the illustrations of manuscripts, such as bestiaries, travel books, and devotional works, they continue to delight audiences today with their vitality and humor. Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops, and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind.
Haunting Experiences
Author: Diane GoldsteinPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 0874216818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.