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The Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Av Jaś Elsner
Häftad, 2018
279 kr
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The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity …
Imagining the Divine
Art in Religions of Late Antiquity across Eurasia
Häftad, 2021
578 kr
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This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 200−1000), across cultures and regions reaching from India to Iberia, to discuss how objects can inform our understanding of religions. During this period major transformations are visible in the …
Figurines
Figuration and The Sense of Scale
Av Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2020
602 kr
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Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always …
Comparativism in Art History
Av Jaś Elsner
Häftad, 2019
730 kr
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Featuring some of the major voices in the world of art history, this volume explores the methodological aspects of comparison in the historiography of the discipline. The chapters assess the strengths and weaknesses of comparative practice in the history of art, and consider the larger issue of the …
Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity
Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2020
638 kr
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This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, …
Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Av Jesus Hernandez Lobato, Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2016
1602 kr
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in …
Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2018
189 kr
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The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity …
Art of the Roman Empire
AD 100-450
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2018
189 kr
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The passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw some of the most significant and innovative developments in Western culture. This stimulating book investigates the role of the visual arts, the great diversity …
Ark of Civilization
Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945
Av Jas Elsner, Katharina Ulmschneider m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1492 kr
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to …
Ark of Civilization
Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945
Av Jas Elsner, Katharina Ulmschneider m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1492 kr
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to …
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Seeing the Gods
Av Ian Rutherford, Jas' Elsner
E-bok, 2006
737 kr
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This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in …
Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul
Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam
Av Simon Swain, Ian Repath m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
3500 kr
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Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy , a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose …
Images of Mithra
Av Rachel Wood, Stefanie Lenk m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
962 kr
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With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place …
Images of Mithra
Av Rachel Wood, Stefanie Lenk m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
962 kr
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With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place …
Figurines
Figuration and The Sense of Scale
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2020
437 kr
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Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always …
Figurines
Figuration and The Sense of Scale
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2020
437 kr
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Figurines are objects of handling. As touchable objects, they engage the viewer in different ways from flat art, whether relief sculpture or painting. Unlike the voyeuristic relationship of viewing a neatly framed pictorial narrative as if from the outside, the viewer as handler is always …
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2021
856 kr
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Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the …
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2021
856 kr
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Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the …
Landscape and Space
Comparative Perspectives from Chinese, Mesoamerican, Ancient Greek, and Roman Art
Av Jaś Elsner
Inbunden, 2021
1129 kr
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Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the …
Pausanias
Travel and Memory in Roman Greece
Av Pausanias, JaS Elsner m. fl.
E-bok, 2003
717 kr
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Pausanias, the Greek historian and traveler, lived and wrote around the second century AD, during the period when Greece had fallen peacefully to the Roman Empire. While fragments from this period abound, Pausanias'' Periegesis ("description") of Greece is the only fully preserved text of travel …
Images of Mithra
Av Philippa Adrych, Robert Bracey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1563 kr
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With a history of use extending back to Vedic texts of the second millennium BC, derivations of the name Mithra appear in the Roman Empire, across Sasanian Persia, and in the Kushan Empire of southern Afghanistan and northern India during the first millennium AD. Even today, this name has a place …
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Seeing the Gods
Häftad, 2007
1316 kr
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This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in …
Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity
Seeing the Gods
Av Jas' Elsner, Ian Rutherford
Inbunden, 2006
4595 kr
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This book presents a range of case-studies of pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman antiquity, drawing on a wide variety of evidence. It rejects the usual reluctance to accept the category of pilgrimage in pagan polytheism and affirms the significance of sacred mobility not only as an important factor in …
Visualizing the Tragic
Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature
Av Chris Kraus, Simon Goldhill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
3443 kr
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Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE became an international and a canonical genre with remarkable rapidity. It is, therefore, a remarkable test case through which to explore how a genre becomes privileged and what the cultural effects of its continuing appropriation are. In this collection of …
Seeing the Face, Seeing the Soul
Polemon's Physiognomy from Classical Antiquity to Medieval Islam
Av George Boys-Stones, Jas Elsner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
5498 kr
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Polemon of Laodicea (near modern Denizli, south-west Turkey) was a wealthy Greek aristocrat and a key member of the intellectual movement known as the Second Sophistic. Among his works was the Physiognomy, a manual on how to tell character from appearance, thus enabling its readers to choose …
The Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Av Jaś Elsner, Jesús Hernández Lobato
Inbunden, 2017
2441 kr
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in …
Poetics of Late Latin Literature
Av Jesus Hernandez Lobato, Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2016
1602 kr
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The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in …
Ark of Civilization
Refugee Scholars and Oxford University, 1930-1945
Av Sally Crawford, Katharina Ulmschneider m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1806 kr
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In the opening decades of the twentieth century, Germany was at the cutting edge of arts and humanities scholarship across Europe. However, when many of its key thinkers - leaders in their fields in classics, philosophy, archaeology, art history, and oriental studies - were forced to flee to …
Saints
Faith without Borders
Av Jas Elsner, Francoise Meltzer
E-bok, 2011
681 kr
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While the modern world has largely dismissed the figure of the saint as a throwback, we remain fascinated by excess, marginality, transgression, and porous subjectivity—categories that define the saint. In this collection, Françoise Meltzer and Jas Elsner bring together top scholars from across the …
Roman Eyes
Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text
Av Jas Elsner
E-bok, 2021
1205 kr
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In Roman Eyes , Jas Elsner seeks to understand the multiple ways that art in ancient Rome formulated the very conditions for its own viewing, and as a result was complicit in the construction of subjectivity in the Roman Empire. Elsner draws upon a wide variety of visual material, from sculpture …
