Author : Jeffrey Alan Bowman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 27,18 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801439902
Sicut lex edocet -- Do neo-Romans curse? -- Diligite iustitiam qui iudicatis terram -- Courts and the administration of justice -- Cold cauldrons and the smoldering hand -- Fighting with written records -- Community, memory, and proof -- Winning, losing, and resisting -- Justice and violence in medieval Europe.
Author : Bim Oliver
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1467137715
From the earliest days of settlement, South Temple was Salt Lake's most prestigious street. In 1857, William Staines built the Devereaux House, Salt Lake's first of many mansions. The once-bustling Union Pacific Depot eventually found itself increasingly isolated. Downtown's "gleaming copper landmark" overcame numerous hurdles before its construction was finally finished, and the Steiner American Building helped usher in acceptance of Modernist architecture. Evolving to reflect its continued prominence, in 1975, the thoroughfare's core became the city's first local historic district, and in 1982, it made the National Register of Historic Places. Author and historian Bim Oliver celebrates the changing landmarks along these famous eighteen blocks.
Author : Kenny R. Coventry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0191567833
This book considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. Spatial language has occupied many researchers across diverse fields, such as linguistics, psychology, GIScience, architecture, and neuroscience. However, the vast majority of work in this area has examined spatial language in monologue situations, and often in highly artificial and restricted settings. Yet there is a growing recognition in the language research community that dialogue rather than monologue should be a starting point for language understanding. Hence, the current zeitgeist in both language research and robotics/AI demands an integrated examination of spatial language in dialogue settings. The present volume provides such integration for the first time and reports on the latest developments in this important field. Written in a way that will appeal to researchers across disciplines from graduate level upwards, the book sets the agenda for future research in spatial conceptualization and communication.
Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262620017
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author : David Stea
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 135151363X
Cognitive mapping is a construct that encompasses those processes that enable people to acquire, code, store, recall, and manipulate information about the nature of their spatial environment. It refers to the attributes and relative locations of people and objects in the environment, and is an essential component in the adaptive process of spatial decision-making--such as finding a safe and quick route to from work, locating potential sites for a new house or business, and deciding where to travel on a vacation trip. Cognitive processes are not constant, but undergo change with age or development and use or learning. Image and Environment, now in paperback, is a pioneer study. It brings a new academic discipline to a wide audience. The volume is divided into six sections, which represent a comprehensive breakdown of cognitive mapping studies: "Theory"; "Cognitive Representations"; "Spatial Preferences"; "The Development of Spatial Cognition"; "Geographical and Spatial Orientation"; and "Cognitive Distance." Contributors include Edward Tolman, James Blaut, Stephen Kaplan, Terence Lee, Donald Appleyard, Peter Orleans, Thomas Saarinen, Kevin Cox, Georgia Zannaras, Peter Gould, Roger Hart, Gary Moore, Donald Griffin, Kevin Lynch, Ulf Lundberg, Ronald Lowrey, and Ronald Briggs.
Author : Thomas William Webb
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,58 MB
Release : 1859
Category : Astronomy
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Page : 230 pages
File Size : 17,35 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Animals
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Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107657202
This engaging study focuses on the role of assemblies in later Anglo-Saxon politics, challenging and nuancing existing models of the late Anglo-Saxon state. Its ten chapters investigate both traditional constitutional aspects of assemblies - who attended these events, where and when they met, and what business they conducted - and the symbolic and representational nature of these gatherings. Levi Roach takes into account important recent work on continental rulership, and argues that assemblies were not a check on kingship in these years, but rather an essential feature of it. In particular, the author highlights the role of symbolic communication at assemblies, arguing that ritual and demonstration were as important in English politics as they were elsewhere in Europe. Far from being exceptional, the methods of rulership employed by English kings look very much like those witnessed elsewhere on the continent, where assemblies and ritual formed an essential part of the political order.
Author : Anna Trumbore Jones
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9004177868
The bishop was a figure of unparalleled importance in the tenth and eleventh centuries, as he married the advantages of his noble birth to the sacramental and pastoral role of bishop, drawing upon the resultant range of powers to intervene in all areas of life. Scholarship on the episcopate in this period, however, has tended to cluster around two themes: the role of bishops in the fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and the critiques of these bishops levied by certain church reformers. This book moves beyond these subjects and examines the full scope of bishops activities in southwest France, as they ruled their cathedrals, interacted with lay powers, patronized religious communities, and wrestled with the complex nature of their office.
Author : Cullen J. Chandler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108474640
Traces the political development of the Carolingian Spanish March and revises traditional interpretations of Catalonia's political and constitutional history.
