Imago Mortis
Title | Imago Mortis PDF eBook |
Author | Ashby Kinch |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004243690 |
Here, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material.
Imago mortis
Title | Imago mortis PDF eBook |
Author | Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (1970-). Universiteitsbibliotheek |
Publisher | |
Pages | 27 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Dance of death in art |
ISBN |
The Deaths of Seneca
Title | The Deaths of Seneca PDF eBook |
Author | James Ker |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199959692 |
The forced suicide of Seneca, former adviser to Nero, is one of the most tortured death scenes from classical antiquity. Here, James Ker offers a comprehensive cultural history of Seneca's death scene, situating it in the Roman imagination and tracing its many subsequent interpretations.
Antike Mythen
Title | Antike Mythen PDF eBook |
Author | Ueli Dill |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 775 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110209098 |
Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge von namhaften europäischen und amerikanischenAltertumswissenschaftlern und Religionswissenschaftlern, die einen repräsentativen Querschnitt der zeitgenössischen Erforschung des Mythos, seiner Erscheinungsformen und seiner Transformationen in unterschiedlichen Bereichen und Epochen darbieten.
The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations
Title | The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations PDF eBook |
Author | Jon R. Stone |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 0415969093 |
Jon Stone rounds off the 'Latin for the Illiterati' trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war.
Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography
Title | Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography PDF eBook |
Author | Jonas Grethlein |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 435 |
Release | 2013-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107435447 |
The past is narrated in retrospect. Historians can either capitalize on the benefit of hindsight and give their narratives a strongly teleological design or they may try to render the past as it was experienced by historical agents and contemporaries. This book explores the fundamental tension between experience and teleology in major works of Greek and Roman historiography, biography and autobiography. The combination of theoretical reflections with close readings yields a new, often surprising assessment of the history of ancient historiography as well as a deeper understanding of such authors as Thucydides, Tacitus and Augustine. While much recent work has focused on how ancient historians use emplotment to generate historical meaning, Experience and Teleology in Ancient Historiography offers a new approach to narrative form as a mode of coming to grips with time.
The Book of Hours and the Body
Title | The Book of Hours and the Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sherry C. M. Lindquist |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2024-02-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1003822118 |
This book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.