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13 produkter
Mountain
Nature and Culture
Häftad, 2016
221 kr
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Majestic and awe-inspiring, mountains demand our attention. Through the centuries, they have both repulsed and attracted. They have been appreciated and despised as sites of divine and diabolic sublimity, as the dwellings of gods and demons, hermits and revolutionaries. Mountain encounters have …
Where Light in Darkness Lies
The Story of the Lighthouse
Inbunden, 2022
301 kr
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Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability; between the known and the unknown. As such, …
Mantle of the Earth
Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor
Inbunden, 2020
688 kr
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The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a …
Mantle of the Earth
Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor
E-bok, 2021
1393 kr
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The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians and shaped artists’ and mapmakers’ visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the “metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between the seen and the unseen as a threshold and as a …
Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage
Journeying to the Sacred
Av Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
2749 kr
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This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) …
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
Inbunden, 2016
1832 kr
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Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the …
Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage
Journeying to the Sacred
Av Heather Walton, Alessandro Scafi m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
935 kr
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This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) …
Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage
Journeying to the Sacred
Av Heather Walton, Alessandro Scafi m. fl.
E-bok, 2014
956 kr
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This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) …
Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage
Journeying to the Sacred
Av Avril Maddrell, Veronica della Dora m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
824 kr
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This volume provides a theoretically and empirically-grounded study of the significance of landscape in the experience of Christian pilgrimage across different denominations and its intersection with cultural heritage and tourism. The book focuses on pilgrimages to Meteora (Greece), Subiaco (Italy) …
Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium
Häftad, 2021
654 kr
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Nature is as much an idea as a physical reality. By 'placing' nature within Byzantine culture and within the discourse of Orthodox Christian thought and practice, Landscape, Nature and the Sacred in Byzantium explores attitudes towards creation that are utterly and fascinatingly different from the …
High Places
Cultural Geographies of Mountains, Ice and Science
Av Denis Cosgrove, Veronica Della Dora
Inbunden, 2008
1988 kr
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High mountains, polar expanses, volcanic peaks are exciting and special environments. 13 leading international geographers explore different aspects of these environments - disorientation, exploration, native knowledge, polar research. This is the first book to do this.High places - be they …
Imagining Mount Athos
Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II
Inbunden, 2011
526 kr
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Most writing on Athos has focused on its Byzantine history and sacred heritage. Imagining Mount Athos uncovers a set of alternative and largely unexplored perspectives, equally important in the mapping and dissemination of Athos in popular imagination. The author considers Mount Athos as the site …
Imagining Mount Athos
Visions of a Holy Place, from Homer to World War II
Häftad, 2012
281 kr
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For more than one thousand years the monastic republic of Mount Athos has been one of the most chronicled and yet least accessible places in the Mediterranean. Difficult to reach until the last century and strictly restricted to male visitors only, the Holy Mountain of Orthodoxy has been known in …
