An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia
Title | An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia PDF eBook |
Author | Desmond Seward |
Publisher | Haus Publishing |
Pages | 469 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1907973761 |
An Armchair Traveller's History of Apulia is the story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by past and present day travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture. And yet, while far from inaccessible, until quite recently it was seldom visited by tourists. This portrait of Apulia concentrates on the Apulian people down the ages. Conquerors, whether Messapians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Lombards, Byzantines, Normans, Angevins, Germans or Spaniards, have all left their mark on the region in a cultural palimpsest that at first sight bewilders, but which hugely repays investigation. Arranged in short chapters, the narrative travels from north to south, making it an ideal companion for exploring Apulia by car. The Gazetteer, which is cross-referenced to the main text, highlights cities, churches, cathedrals, castles and sites of historical importance to the visitor. For travellers on the ground or students at their desks, this elegant, cloth-bound book will prove invaluable.
The Italic People of Ancient Apulia
Title | The Italic People of Ancient Apulia PDF eBook |
Author | T. H. Carpenter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2014-08-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1139992708 |
The focus of this book is on the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC, when Italic culture seems to have reached its peak of affluence. Scholars have largely ignored these people and the region they inhabited. During the past several decades archaeologists have made significant progress in revealing the cultures of Apulia through excavations of habitation sites and un-plundered tombs, often published in Italian journals. This book makes the broad range of recent scholarship - from new excavations and contexts to archaeometric testing of production hypotheses to archaeological evidence for reconsidering painter attributions - available to English-speaking audiences. In it thirteen scholars from Italy, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Australia present targeted essays on aspects of the cultures of the Italic people of Apulia during the fourth century BC and the surrounding decades.
The Italic People of Ancient Apulia
Title | The Italic People of Ancient Apulia PDF eBook |
Author | T. H. Carpenter |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2014-08-28 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1107041864 |
This book makes recent scholarship on the Italic people of fourth-century BC Apulia available to English-speaking audiences.
Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border
Title | Archaeology on the Apulian – Lucanian Border PDF eBook |
Author | Alastair Small |
Publisher | Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Pages | 906 |
Release | 2022-05-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1803270659 |
The broad valley of the Bradano river and its tributary, the Basentello, separates the Apennine mountains in Lucania from the limestone plateau of the Murge in Apulia in southeast Italy. This book aims to explain how the pattern of settlement and land use changed in the valley over the whole period from the Neolithic to the late medieval.
The Builder
Title | The Builder PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 694 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Papers of the British School at Rome
Title | Papers of the British School at Rome PDF eBook |
Author | British School at Rome |
Publisher | |
Pages | 628 |
Release | 1913 |
Genre | Archaeology |
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The Doty-Doten Family in America
Title | The Doty-Doten Family in America PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 1897 |
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