Recreating Ancient History

Recreating Ancient History
Title Recreating Ancient History PDF eBook
Author Karl A. E.. Enenkel
Publisher BRILL
Pages 469
Release 2021-11-08
Genre History
ISBN 9004496424

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The papers in this volume offer examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and legitimizing the present. The contributors to this volume have addressed a number of important, common issues that span a wide range of subjects from fifteenth-century Italian painting to the teaching of Greek history in eighteenth-century Germany. This volume is of interest for historians of the early modern period from all disciplines and for all those interested in the reception of classical antiquity. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Living History

Living History
Title Living History PDF eBook
Author Hillary Rodham Clinton
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 626
Release 2004-04-19
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780743222259

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Hillary Rodham Clinton tells her life story, describing her dedication to social causes, her relationship with her husband, and her accomplishments and difficult periods as First Lady.

Ancient Rome

Ancient Rome
Title Ancient Rome PDF eBook
Author Peter Connolly
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 72
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780199108091

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This is one of two new titles from the acclaimed master of recreating the ancient world. Peter Connolly's superb illustrations bring to life the world of ancient Rome, giving children aged 8+ a real sense of what it was like to live there. We visit the baths and the laundry, watch chariotraces at the Circus Maximus and gladiator fights at the Colosseum, and discover a wealth of fascinating details of everyday life. Perfect to support homework. Peter Connolly is a best-selling author and illustrator of the ancient world. His previous books with Oxford include Pompeii, The Roman Fort, The Legionary, The Cavalryman, The Ancient Greece of Odysseus, The Holy Land and The Ancient City. These have sold over 250,000 copies in English, and havebeen translated into many other languages. Peter Connolly is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute of Archaeology, London.

Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created

Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created
Title Ancient Brews: Rediscovered and Re-created PDF eBook
Author Patrick E. McGovern
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 280
Release 2017-06-13
Genre Cooking
ISBN 0393253813

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One of Smithsonian Magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year about Food A Forbes Best Booze Book of the Year Interweaving archaeology and science, Patrick E. McGovern tells the enthralling story of the world’s oldest alcoholic beverages and the cultures that created them. Humans invented heady concoctions, experimenting with fruits, honey, cereals, tree resins, botanicals, and more. These “liquid time capsules” carried social, medicinal, and religious significance with far-reaching consequences for our species. McGovern describes nine extreme fermented beverages of our ancestors, including the Midas Touch from Turkey and the 9000-year-old Chateau Jiahu from Neolithic China, the earliest chemically identified alcoholic drink yet discovered. For the adventuresome, homebrew interpretations of the ancient drinks are provided, with matching meal recipes.

Ancient Ink

Ancient Ink
Title Ancient Ink PDF eBook
Author Lars Krutak
Publisher University of Washington Press
Pages 369
Release 2018-01-08
Genre Art
ISBN 0295742844

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The human desire to adorn the body is universal and timeless. While specific forms of body decoration and the motivations for them vary by region, culture, and era, all human societies have engaged in practices designed to augment and enhance people’s natural appearance. Tattooing, the process of inserting pigment into the skin to create permanent designs and patterns, is one of the most widespread forms of body art and was practiced by ancient cultures throughout the world, with tattoos appearing on human mummies by 3200 BCE. Ancient Ink, the first book dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing, presents new, globe-spanning research examining tattooed human remains, tattoo tools, and ancient art. Connecting ancient body art traditions to modern culture through Indigenous communities and the work of contemporary tattoo artists, the volume’s contributors reveal the antiquity, durability, and significance of body decoration, illuminating how different societies have used their skin to construct their identities.

Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England
Title Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England PDF eBook
Author Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 198
Release 2011-04-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0826425399

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Featuring contributions by established and upcoming scholars, Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England explores the ways in which Shakespearean texts engage in the social and cultural politics of sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century translation practices. Framed by the editor's introduction and an Afterword by Ton Hoenselaars, the authors in this collection offer new perspectives on translation and the fashioning of religious, national and gendered identities in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, and The Tempest.

News Networks in Early Modern Europe

News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Title News Networks in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 922
Release 2016-06-27
Genre History
ISBN 9004277196

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News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.