E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series – serie
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7 produkter
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Inbunden, 2019
251 kr
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From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare’s imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having “small Latin and less Greek.” But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the …
Weeping for Dido
The Classics in the Medieval Classroom
Inbunden, 2019
525 kr
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Saint Augustine famously “wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,” and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil’s Aeneid and other classical texts. In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers …
Celestial Aspirations
Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
Inbunden, 2022
544 kr
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A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with …
How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Häftad, 2020
193 kr
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From one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakespeare's imaginationBen Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the …
Celestial Aspirations
Classical Impulses in British Poetry and Art
Häftad, 2027
377 kr
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A unique look at how classical notions of ascent and flight preoccupied early modern British writers and artistsBetween the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with …
Provenance and Possession
Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy
Inbunden, 2024
426 kr
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A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to Renaissance ItalyIn the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Renaissance Italy received a bounty of "goods" from Portuguese trading voyages—fruits of …
On Conservation as a Human Science
Inbunden, 2026
278 kr
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Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic …
