Book Description
Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.
Author : Catherine E. Rigby
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 46,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813922751
Although the British romantic poets - notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron - have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, this text compares English and German literary models of romanticism.
Author : Veronica della Dora
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 24,37 MB
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107139090
Explores Byzantine perceptions of creation and different types of natural environments, and the principles underpinning such perceptions.
Author : Frans Theuws
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9004117342
Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.
Author : Anacleto D’Agostino
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8866559032
Known from the Old Testament as one of the tribes occupying the Promised Land, the Hittities were in reality a powerful neighbouring kingdom: highly advanced in political organization, administration of justice and military genius; with a literature inscribed in cuneiform writing on clay tablets; and with a rugged and individual figurative art ... Newly revised and updated, this classic account reconstructs a complete and balanced picture of Hittite civilization, using both established and more recent sources.
Author : Roberta Sterman Sabbath
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004177523
"Sacred Tropes" interweaves Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an essays which collectively and individually enlist literary approaches including environmental, cultural studies, gender, psychoanalytic, ideological, economic, historicism, law, and rhetorical criticisms. "Sacred Tropes" represents a pioneering, comparatist approach to Abrahamic studies.
Author : Richard McClelland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,87 MB
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3111150534
The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically with the alpine environment, whether as visitors through the well-established leisure industry, as enthusiasts of extreme sports, or as residents who feel the acute end of social and environmental change. Taking a transnational view of Alpine space, the volume demonstrates that the Alps are not geographically peripheral to the nation-state but are a vibrant locus of modern cultural production. As The Draw of the Alps attests, the Alps are nothing less than a crucible in which understandings of what it means to be human have been forged.
Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 21,56 MB
Release : 2002-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0191554731
This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of 'holiness', Meri depicts the practices of living religion and explores the common heritage of all three monotheistic faiths. Critical readings of a wide range of contemporary sources - travel writing, geographical works, pilgrimage guides, legal writings, historical sources, hagiography, and biography - reveal a vibrant religious culture in which the veneration of saints and pilgrimage to tombs and shrines were fundamental.
Author : Michael Edward Moore
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813218772
Drawing on the records of nearly 100 bishops' councils spanning the centuries, alongside royal law, edicts, and capitularies of the same period, this study details how royal law and the very character of kingship among the Franks were profoundly affected by episcopal traditions of law and social order.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2024-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9004704507
Questions about space and the sacred are now central to Byzantine studies. Recent scholarship has addressed issues of embodiment and performance, power and identity, environmental perceptions and territorial imaginations. At the same time, the mobility turn in the humanities prompts new approaches to and understandings of processes of circulation of people, objects and ideas. Drawing together illuminating contributions from scholars in history, art history, literature, geography, architecture and theology, Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond sets the stage for further cross-disciplinary dialogue concerning Orthodox Christian spiritual culture and society in the Byzantine Empire and in the centuries after its fall. Contributors are Veronica della Dora, Ekaterine Gedevanishvili, Molly Greene, Mark Guscin, Christos Antonios Kakalis, Chrysovalantis Kyriacou, Maria Litina, Andrew Louth, Mihail Mitrea, Bissera Pentcheva, Rehav Rubin, and David Williams.
Author : Axel Goodbody
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813931630
One of the more frequently lodged, serious, and justifiable complaints about ecocritical work is that it is insufficiently theorized. Ecocritical Theory puts such claims decisively to rest by offering readers a comprehensive collection of sophisticated but accessible essays that productively investigate the relationship between European theory and ecocritique. With its international roster of contributors and subjects, it also militates against the parochialism of ecocritics who work within the limited canon of the American West. Bringing together approaches and orientations based on the work of European philosophers and cultural theorists, this volume is designed to open new pathways for ecocritical theory and practice in the twenty-first century.