Recueil factice d'articles de presse sur René Clément, 1947-1963
Title | Recueil factice d'articles de presse sur René Clément, 1947-1963 PDF eBook |
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Pages | 39 |
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Oedipus at Thebes
Title | Oedipus at Thebes PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Knox |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1998-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780300074239 |
Examines the way in which Sophocles' play "Oedipus Tyrannus" and its hero, Oedipus, King of Thebes, were probably received in their own time and place, and relates this to twentieth-century receptions and interpretations, including those of Sigmund Freud.
About the Contemplative Life
Title | About the Contemplative Life PDF eBook |
Author | Philo (of Alexandria.) |
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Pages | 530 |
Release | 1895 |
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Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi
Title | Roman Strigillated Sarcophagi PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Huskinson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 366 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199203245 |
This volume is the first full study of Roman strigillated sarcophagi, the largest group of ancient Roman sarcophagi to survive. Manufactured from the mid-second to the early fifth century AD, covering a critical period in Rome, they provide a rich historical source for exploring the social and cultural life of ancient Rome.
The Pope's Body
Title | The Pope's Body PDF eBook |
Author | Agostino Paravicini-Bagliani |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2000-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226034379 |
In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array of evidence from the eleventh through the fifteenth centuries, Agostino Paravicini- Bagliani addresses this paradox. He studies the rituals, metaphors, and images of the pope's body as they developed over time and shows how they resulted in the expectation that the pope's body be simultaneously physical and metaphorical. Also included is a particular emphasis on the thirteenth century when, during the pontificate of Boniface VIII (1294-1303), the papal court became the focus of medicine and the natural sciences as physicians devised ways to protect the pope's health and prolong his life. Masterfully translated from the Italian, this engaging history of the pope's body provides a new perspective for readers to understand the papacy, both historically and in our own time.
Aging in the Past
Title | Aging in the Past PDF eBook |
Author | David I. Kertzer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 427 |
Release | 2024-07-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520377109 |
Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the modern industrialized world. Yet, despite the recent upsurge of scholarly interest in the lives of older people and the blossoming of historical demography, little historical demographic attention has been paid to the lives of the elderly. A landmark volume, Aging in the Past marks the emergence of the historical demographic study of aging. Following a masterly explication of the new field by Peter Laslett, leading scholars in family history and historical demography offer new research results and fresh analyses that greatly increase our understanding of aging, historically and across cultures. Focusing primarily on post-Industrial Europe and the United States, they explore a range of issues under the broad topics of living arrangements, widowhood, and retirement and mortality. This important work provides a much-needed historical perspective on and suggests possible alternative solutions to the problems of the aged. Contributors: George Alter, Rudolf Andorka, Allen C. Goodman, Myron P. Gutmann, Michael R. Haines, E. A. Hammel, Tamara K. Hareven, Nancy Karweit, David I. Kertzer, Peter Laslett, Andrejs Plakans, Roger L. Ransom, Daniel Scott Smith, Richard Sutch, Peter Uhlenberg, Richard Wall, Charles Wetherell This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.
Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Life in Letters
Title | Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Life in Letters PDF eBook |
Author | Giacomo Meyerbeer |
Publisher | Portland, Or. : Amadeus Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Music |
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