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Author : Gary Frost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953421067
Author : Eric G. Turner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512807868
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author : Abigail Bainbridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000839272
Conservation of Books is the highly anticipated reference work on global book structures and their conservation, offering the first modern, comprehensive overview on this subject. The volume takes an international approach to its subject. Written by over 70 specialists in conservation and conservation science based in 19 countries, its 26 chapters cover traditional book structures from around the world, the materials from which they are made and how they degrade, and how to preserve and conserve them. It also examines the theoretical underpinnings of conservation: what and how to treat, and the ethical, cultural, and economic implications of treatment. Technical drawings and photographs illustrate the structures and treatments examined throughout the book. Ultimately, readers gain an in-depth understanding of the materiality of books in numerous global contexts and reflect on the practical considerations involved in their analysis and treatment. Conservation of Books is a quintessential reference work for book conservators and anyone working with books, such as collection managers, librarians, curators, dealers, collectors, historians, and related professionals. It is also an indispensable text for students to complement hands-on training in this field.
Author : Julia Miller (Conservator)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1940965160
Author : Philip Wesley Comfort
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825445163
The manuscripts that form the Greek New Testament are scattered throughout the world and are usually only accessible to scholars and professionals. These were the manuscripts read by the earliest Christians, which comprised their "New Testament." In his volumes, Philip Wesley Comfort bridges the gap between these extant copies and today's critical text by providing accurate transcriptions of the earliest New Testament manuscripts, with photographs on the facing pages so readers can see the works for themselves. Comfort also provides an introduction to each manuscript that summarizes the contents, date, current location, provenance, and other essential information, including the latest findings. This allows students and scholars to make well-informed decisions about the translation and interpretation of the New Testament. Volume 1 includes manuscripts from Papyrus 1-72. Volume 2 includes manuscripts from Papyrus 75-139 as well as from the uncials. In addition, it features a special section on determining the date of a manuscript. This two-volume set replaces the previously published single volume Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts, as it contains many new manuscripts, updated research, and higher quality images of all manuscripts previously covered.
Author : Beatrice E. Kitzinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108428819
In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.
Author : Kathryn M. Rudy
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800649620
The Medieval book, both religious and secular, was regarded as a most precious item. The traces of its use through touching and handling during different rituals such as oath-taking, is the subject of Kathryn Rudy’s research in Touching Parchment. Rudy presents numerous and fascinating case studies that relate to the evidence of use and damage through touching and or kissing. She also puts each study within a category of different ways of handling books, mainly liturgical, legal or choral practice, and in turn connects each practice to the horizontal or vertical behavioural patterns of users within a public or private environment. With her keen eye for observation in being able to identify various characteristics of inadvertent and targeted ware, the author adds a new dimension to the Medieval book. She gives the reader the opportunity to reflect on the social, anthropological and historical value of the use of the book by sharpening our senses to the way users handled books in different situations. Rudy has amassed an incredible amount of material for this research and the way in which she presents each manuscript conveys an approach that scholars on Medieval history and book materiality should keep in mind when carrying out their own research. What perhaps is most striking in her articulate text, is how she expresses that the touching of books was not without emotion, and the accumulated effects of these emotions are worthy of preservation, study and further reflection.
Author : Lorcan Dempsey
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780838919972
Since he began posting in 2003, Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management systems.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004443556
Refresh the Book discusses the changing perceptions, functions, forms, as well as literary and artistic potential of the book in the digital age.
Author : Alexa Sand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107032224
Focuses on one of the most attractive features of late medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her prayer-book.
Author : George Bryan Souza,Jeffrey Scott Turley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004301542
In The Boxer Codex, two scholars have transcribed, translated and annotated a unique and illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript that deals with the early-modern geography, history and ethnography of the western Pacific and maritime and continental South-east Asia and East Asia.
Author : Michael McCormick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521661021
A comprehensive analysis of economic transition between the later Roman empire and Charlemagne's reigne.
Author : Andrew Burkett
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438463278
Investigates the ways in which new technologies and theories of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media engage with a diverse set of texts by British Romantic writers. Romantic Mediations investigates the connections among British Romantic writers, their texts, and the history of major forms of technical media from the turn of the nineteenth century to the present. Opening up the vital new subfield of Romantic media studies through interventions in both media archaeology and contemporary media theory, Andrew Burkett addresses the ways that unconventional techniques and theories of storage and processing media engage with classic texts by William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, and others. Ordered chronologically and structured by four crucial though often overlooked case studies that delve into Romanticisms role in the histories of incipient technical media systems, the book focuses on different examples of the ways that imaginative literature and art of the period become taken up and transformed bywhile simultaneously shaping considerablynew media environments and platforms of photography, phonography, moving images, and digital media. Romantic Mediations brings contemporary media theory to major Romantic texts and their reception. Few if any scholars working in Romanticism and media have taken up the generational difference between Friedrich Kittlers media theory and the more contemporary media archaeology of Jussi Parikka. Moreover, too often have media theories of Romanticism been restricted to digital media and screen technology. Andrew Burkett creates a new path for Romantic period scholarship by showing the potential of media archaeology for Romantic texts and their long afterlife. Ron Broglio, author of Technologies of the Picturesque: British Art, Poetry, and Instruments 17501830
Author : Karin Scheper
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004291119
The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding explores the development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. From a craft-based perspective, Karin Scheper analyses the diverse material characteristics and demonstrates the information value of the materiality.
Author : Anthony Dunne,Fiona Raby
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262019842
How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.