Decoding Debate In The Venetian Senate

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Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate

Author : Grabiela Rojas Molina
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004520936

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Decoding Debate in the Venetian Senate by Grabiela Rojas Molina Pdf

This book uncovers a long-lost classification mechanism for analysing the Deliberazioni, secretive records of the medieval Venetian Senate. Using Albanian cities as a case study, the book helps identify unspoken state priorities during a transformative decade for Venice.

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856

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Luxury Arts of the Renaissance by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies

Author : Frédéric Bauden,Malika Dekkiche
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 909 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004384637

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Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies by Frédéric Bauden,Malika Dekkiche Pdf

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies gathers twenty-eight essays that offer the most up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers.

Witches of the North

Author : Liv Helene Willumsen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004252929

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Witches of the North by Liv Helene Willumsen Pdf

Witches of the North. Scotland and Finnmark is a comparative study of witchcraft persecution in Scotland and Finnmark, Norway. A wide range of quantitative and qualitative analyses based mainly on legal documents shed light on the witch-hunts in the two regions during the seventeenth century. Statistical analyses give information about tendencies in the source material in total. The qualitative chapters contain close-readings of trial documents, wherein the various voices heard during a trial are analysed: the voice of the scribe, the voice of the law, the voice of the accused person and the voices of the witnesses. The analyses combined provide a broad view of the historical phenomenon in question as well as in-depth studies of individual witchcraft cases.

Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture

Author : Marion Dolan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030765118

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Decoding Astronomy in Art and Architecture by Marion Dolan Pdf

For centuries, our ancestors carefully observed the movements of the heavens and wove that astronomical knowledge into their city planning, architecture, mythology, paintings, sculpture, and poetry. This book uncovers the hidden messages and advanced science encoded within these sacred spaces, showing how the rhythmic motions of the night sky played a central role across many different cultures. Our astronomical tour transports readers through time and space, from prehistoric megaliths to Renaissance paintings, Greco-Roman temples to Inca architecture. Along the way, you will investigate unexpected findings at Lascaux, Delphi, Petra, Angkor Wat, Borobudur, and many more archaeological sites both famous and little known. Through these vivid examples, you will come to appreciate the masterful ways that astronomical knowledge was incorporated into each society’s religion and mythology, then translated into their physical surroundings. The latest archaeoastronomical studies and discoveries are recounted through a poetic and nontechnical narrative, revealing how many longstanding beliefs about our ancestors are being overturned. Through this celestial journey, readers of all backgrounds will learn the basics about this exciting field and share in the wonders of cultural astronomy.

The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition

Author : Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor Pinch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262517607

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The Social Construction of Technological Systems, anniversary edition by Wiebe E. Bijker,Thomas Parke Hughes,Trevor Pinch Pdf

An anniversary edition of an influential book that introduced a groundbreaking approach to the study of science, technology, and society. This pioneering book, first published in 1987, launched the new field of social studies of technology. It introduced a method of inquiry—social construction of technology, or SCOT—that became a key part of the wider discipline of science and technology studies. The book helped the MIT Press shape its STS list and inspired the Inside Technology series. The thirteen essays in the book tell stories about such varied technologies as thirteenth-century galleys, eighteenth-century cooking stoves, and twentieth-century missile systems. Taken together, they affirm the fruitfulness of an approach to the study of technology that gives equal weight to technical, social, economic, and political questions, and they demonstrate the illuminating effects of the integration of empirics and theory. The approaches in this volume—collectively called SCOT (after the volume's title) have since broadened their scope, and twenty-five years after the publication of this book, it is difficult to think of a technology that has not been studied from a SCOT perspective and impossible to think of a technology that cannot be studied that way.

Understanding Media

Author : Marshall McLuhan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 153743005X

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Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan Pdf

When first published, Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media made history with its radical view of the effects of electronic communications upon man and life in the twentieth century.

The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521509930

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The Cambridge Companion to Cicero by C. E. W. Steel Pdf

A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.

An Anthropologist on Mars

Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780307367808

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An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks Pdf

Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the simplest social exchange between humans, but has built a career out of her intuitive understanding of animal behavior. Sacks combines the well honed mind of an academician with the verve of a true storyteller, and manages to produce a book at once accessible and challenging. The capacity to observe the patient as a different form of human being, instead of as just an 'interesting case', is a true insight into what Medicine should be; furthermore, as the author insistently teaches, neurological diseases differ from other ailments in that they become a true portion of the persona, and ,in a sense, they belong to the patient, whereas most people consider disease to be something that 'happens' to them, an outside influence not to be confused with the true Self. It is a truly accessible and moving book, and teaches us all something about the diversity and depths of the human kind.

The Exploited Child

Author : Bernard Schlemmer
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856497216

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The Exploited Child by Bernard Schlemmer Pdf

Ib. Child labour in society

Dynamics of Contention

Author : Doug McAdam,Sidney Tarrow,Charles Tilly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521011876

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Dynamics of Contention by Doug McAdam,Sidney Tarrow,Charles Tilly Pdf

"Over the past two decades the study of social movements, revolution, democratization and other non-routine politics has flourished. And yet research on the topic remains highly fragmented, reflecting the influence of at least three traditional divisions. The first of these reflects the view that various forms of contention are distinct and should be studied independent of others. Separate literatures have developed around the study of social movements, revolutions and industrial conflict. A second approach to the study of political contention denies the possibility of general theory in deference to a grounding in the temporal and spatial particulars of any given episode of contention. The study of contentious politics are left to 'area specialists' and/or historians with a thorough knowledge of the time and place in question. Finally, overlaid on these two divisions are stylized theoretical traditions - structuralist, culturalist, and rationalist - that have developed largely in isolation from one another." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001016172.html.

A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature

Author : Victoria Moul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1108820069

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A Guide to Neo-Latin Literature by Victoria Moul Pdf

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and political significance was produced throughout Europe and beyond from the time of Petrarch (c.1400) well into the eighteenth century. This is the first available work devoted specifically to the enormous wealth and variety of neo-Latin literature, and offers both essential background to the understanding of this material and sixteen chapters by leading scholars which are devoted to individual forms. Each contributor relates a wide range of fascinating but now little-known texts to the handful of more familiar Latin works of the period, such as Thomas More's Utopia, Milton's Latin poetry and the works of Petrarch and Erasmus. All Latin is translated throughout the volume.

Universe of the Mind

Author : Юрий Михайлович Лотман
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025321405X

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Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of Culture Yuri M. Lotman Introduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann Shukman A major book by one of the initiators of cultural studies. "Universe of the Mind is an ambitious, complex, and wide-ranging book that semioticians, textual critics, and those interested in cultural studies will find stimulating and immensely suggestive." --Journal of Communication "Soviet semiotics offers a distinctive, richly productive approach to literary and cultural studies and Universe of the Mind represents a summation of the intellectual career of the man who has done most to guarantee this." --Slavic and East European Journal Universe of the Mind addresses three main areas: meaning and text, culture, and history. The result is a full-scale attempt to demonstrate the workings of the semiotic space or intellectual world. Part One is concerned with the ways that texts generate meaning. Part Two addresses Lotman's central idea of the semiosphere--the domain in which all semiotic systems can function--presented through an analogy with the global biosphere. Part Three focuses on semiotics from the point of view of history. A seminal text in cultural semiotics, the book's ambitious scope also makes it applicable to disciplines outside semiotics. The book will be of great interest to those concerned with cultural studies, anthropology, Slavic studies, critical theory, philosophy, and historiography. Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman is the founder of the Moscow-Tartu School and the initiator of the discipline of cultural semiotics.

Textbooks and Quality Learning for All

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015066414676

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Textbooks and Quality Learning for All by Unesco Pdf

Focused on the dual aspects of access and quality, this publication discusses the role of textbooks in facilitating quality education for all. The book consists of reviews of the international perspectives as well as case studies on Brazil, Russian Federation, and Rwanda. It also documents strategies that could help to optimise procedures of textbook development, production, and evaluation; enhance textbooks' pedagogical impact; improve teachers' selection of textbooks; and raise textbook supply efficiently.

Media Spectacle

Author : Douglas Kellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134493951

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Media Spectacle by Douglas Kellner Pdf

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to this fascinating new book, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' - a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles - including Elvis, The X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Doug Kellner draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. In this excellent follow up to his best selling Media Culture, Kellner's fascinating new volume delivers an informative read for students of sociology, culture and media.