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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 …
New Light on Old Glass
Häftad, 2013
1149 kr
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This new publication brings together a range of leading scholars from Europe, America and the Middle East to discuss the most recent research in the field of Byzantine glass and mosaics in an interdisciplinary context. New Light on Old Glass explores how mosaics are perhaps the most outstanding …
Precious Treasures from the Diamond Throne
Finds from the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment
Av Sam van Schaik, Daniela De Simone m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
561 kr
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The Mahābodhi temple at Bodhgayā in eastern India has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation and attained enlightenment. The site, soon identified as the ‘Diamond Throne’ or vajrāsana, became a destination for pilgrims and a focus of religious attention for more than …
Pots, Prints and Politics
Ceramics with an Agenda, from the 14th to the 20th Century
Häftad, 2021
566 kr
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From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images …
Objects as Insights
R.H. Codrington's Ethnographic Collections from Melanesia
Av Nick Stanley
Häftad, 2021
364 kr
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Robert Codrington (1830-1922) trained to be a priest at Oxford University. He volunteered to work in Nelson, New Zealand, from 1860-4 and was appointed as headmaster of the Melanesian Mission training school on Norfolk Island in 1867. He spent the next twenty years in this post and for eight of …
Gems of heaven'
Recent Research on Engraved Gemstones in Late Antiquity, AD 200-600
Av Chris Entwistle, Noel Adams
Häftad, 2011
992 kr
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This is the companion volume to one devoted to recent research on Byzantine jewellery published in 2010 and forms part of a series organised under the auspices of the British Museum Byzantine Seminar Series. The conference brought together leading scholars from Europe, the USA and the Middle East …
Cosmetic Sets of Late Iron Age and Roman Britain
Häftad, 2010
765 kr
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Cosmetic sets are small two-piece bronze toilet implements for the preparation of mineral powders, probably colourings for the eyelids and face. Found almost exclusively in Britain, they range in date from the Late Iron Age to the 4th century. An association with fertility is indicated by the …
Bejewelled
Men and Jewellery in Tudor and Jacobean England
Häftad, 2017
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Jewellery is often viewed as a feminine preoccupation, but in Tudor and Jacobean England men wore just as much (if not more) jewellery as their female counterparts. Jewels themselves were valued not merely for their intrinsic monetary worth, but also for their ability to reflect status and lineage, …
Excavations at the British Museum
An Archaeological and Social History of Bloomsbury
Av Rebecca Haslam, Victoria Ridgeway
Häftad, 2017
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In 1999 and 2007 respectively, the central courtyard and the northwest corner of the British Museum estate were redeveloped in order to create two iconic additions to the institution: the Great Court and the World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre. The execution of these projects provided the …
Riverine Site Near York
A Possible Viking Camp?
Häftad, 2020
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The location known as ‘A Riverine Site Near York (ARSNY)’ represents a category of Viking site known from the historical record but one that until recently had remained largely undetected archaeologically: the Viking camp. The published investigations at Repton, Derbyshire, although undoubtedly …
