Monumenta Britannica
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1980
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher :
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 25,80 MB
Release : 1980
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : John Aubrey
Publisher :
Page : 1143 pages
File Size : 45,11 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 9780902129504
Author : Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher :
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 36,60 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Natural history
ISBN :
Author : Peta Mayer
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1789624703
Anita Brookner was known for writing boring books about lonely, single women. Misreading Anita Brookner unlocks the mysteries of the Brookner heroine by creating entirely new ways to read six Brookner novels. Drawing on diverse intertextual sources, Peta Mayer illustrates how Brookner’s solitary twentieth-century women can also be seen as variations of queer nineteenth-century male artist archetypes.
Author : Richard Hingley
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191553190
From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries. Richard Hingley's study crosses traditional academic boundaries by exploring sources usually separately addressed by historians, classicists, archaeologists, and geographers, to provide a new perspective on the origin of English and Scottish identity. His book is the first full exploration of these issues to cover such a long period in the development of British society and to relate ideas derived from Roman sources to the development of empire, while also placing ideas of origin in a European context. It is illustrated throughout with artefact drawings, site plans, and photographs.
Author : Benjamin Anderson
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178570687X
Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous antiquarian traditions, but the clear-cut distinction between “indigenous” and “colonial” archaeologies has obscured the intense and dynamic interaction between these seemingly different endeavours. This book concerns the divide between local and foreign antiquarianisms focusing on case studies drawn primarily from the Mediterranean and the Americas. Both regions host robust pre-modern antiquarian traditions that have continued to develop during periods of colonialism. In both regions, moreover, colonial encounters have been mediated by the antiquarian practices and preferences of European elites. The two regions also exhibit salient differences. For example, Europeans claimed the “antiquities” of the eastern Mediterranean as part of their own, “classical,” heritage, whereas they perceived those of the Americas as essentially alien, even as they attempted to understand them by analogy to the classical world. These basic points of comparison and contrast provide a framework for conjoint analysis of the emergence of hybrid or cross-bred antiquarianisms. Rather than assuming that interest in antiquity is a human universal, this book explores the circumstances under which the past itself is produced and transformed through encounters between antiquarian traditions over common objects of interpretation.
Author : Peter N. Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1351219693
The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this described the eastern and southern space in which the Greeks and Romans lived and strove. For Peiresc the Christian, this was the world of the Bible that impacted upon the Greeks and Romans. And for Peiresc of the Mediterranean (for he was born in Aix, spent much time in Marseille, and lived outside of the region for only 6 of his 57 years), this was the territory that his friends and colleagues sailed to, lived in and, usually, came back from. The convergence of these axes in the life of one man, and a man of singular intellectual power and charm whose vast personal paper arsenal had survived, makes this such a compelling project. The essays are arranged in a roughly chronological order. They follow the course of Peiresc’s own projects from his early encounter with the ancient Near East in Greek and Roman literature, through his engagement with Arabic to his deepening kowledge of rabbinic texts to the wider world of the new oriental studies of the seventeenth century which he helped create: Samaritan, Coptic and Ethiopic.
Author : Angus Vine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 18,99 MB
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0199566194
In Defiance of Time contends that the antiquarian project, integral to early modern literary and intellectual culture, depended on the antiquaries' capacity to restore - in their imagination at least - the fragments of the past. It offers original readings of important authors such as Leland, Stow, Spenser, Camden, Drayton, and Selden.