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Author : Edward Hutton
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788027236909
Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691201979
A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom. Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval "Dark Ages." Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna's lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.
Author : Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot)
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813213583
This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography
Author : Alexander Nagel,Giancarla Periti
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art, Byzantine
ISBN : 2503583997
"It is clear that Renaissance artists and their patrons were interested in Ravenna's buildings and their decorations, both before Vasari's negative pronouncements and after them. Contemporary European travelers and diarists have left descriptions of the city's heritage, by then in ruinous condition. What happens if we reinsert this corpus of Ravenna's treasures and their multiple imbrications into our histories of Renaissance art? How can our narratives change if we trace and study an almost forgotten, albeit rich and articulated series of intersections between Ravenna's splendors and ambitious works of art and architecture from early modern Italy? These instances of creative imitations and recreations can best be recovered if we focus on the Renaissance production and humanists' accounts of the city's treasures, that is, works in various media and size, to map out an extended dimension of early modern visual culture."--Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
Author : Edward 1875-1969 Hutton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014370493
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Tony Burgess
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Canadian fiction
ISBN : 1897535325
Tony Burgess has been experimenting with apocalypse fiction in numerous earlier works: the language/speech virus in 'Pontypool', the enigmatic small world in the big world of Caesarea, and other less elaborate speculations. News coverage of the fall of Baghdad and its aftermath were the inspiration for 'Ravenna,' especially the smaller stories of people being killed suddenly in their homes in the middle of otherwise normal days. Each story in 'Ravenna Gets' begins as any novel might,but abruptly loses the luxury of becoming a novel through a seemingly random and violent intrusion from beyond the world established by the story. The effect is intended to be that of the experience of war as the sudden end of stories, rather than being a war story itself. This destabilizing 'pinch' seeps into the consciousness of some of the stories, not as a consciousness of events, but rather as nightmarish bends in experience and perception. 'Ravenna Gets' could probably be classified as speculative fiction, influenced by J.G. Ballard, and, though experimental in spirit, it employs strong conventional storytelling techniques."...out on the edge and experimental to the point of reader-confusion, but surprisingly alluring. When taking a reader to the cliff edge, then the writing must be as enticing as chocolate even if the story smells bad. I don't get it and I didn't enjoy it, but I couldn't look away: This poetic, fast-flying nihilistic narrative of carnage is well done." - Globe & Mail" 'Ravenna Gets', in particular, concerns itself with sudden and convulsive deaths; Christmas reading this is not. Many of the tales, which are all named after an address in Collingwood, begin like a standard short story - what Burgess calls "the lightness and the pointlessness of establishing life" - before its characters are suddenly dispatched in a variety of ghoulish ways." - The Ottawa Citizen" 'In Ravenna Gets', Tony Burgess is up to his old, sick, satisfying tricks. Small Ontario towns are whacking each other with more gore than Hostel, more pitchforks than American Gothic. This is a pitiful excuse for literature and Tony Burgess is our only hope." - Clint Burnham, author of 'Smoke Show' and 'Airborne Photo'
Author : Edward 1875-1969 Hutton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015246656
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788074843174
This carefully crafted ebook: "A Story of Ravenna (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader. A tragic and short love story taking place in the city of Ravenna, told by Giovanni Boccaccio. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist and the author of a number of notable works including the Decameron, On Famous Women, and his poetry in the Italian vernacular. Boccaccio is particularly notable for his dialogue, of which it has been said that it surpasses in verisimilitude that of virtually all of his contemporaries, since they were medieval writers and often followed formulaic models for character and plot.
Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521836722
A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works.
Author : Evan Daugherty,John Lee Hancock,Hossein Amini
Publisher : Poppy
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316213257
A breathtaking new vision of a legendary tale. Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.
Author : Veronica West-Harling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191069130
The richest and most politically complex regions in Italy in the earliest middle ages were the Byzantine sections of the peninsula, thanks to their links with the most coherent early medieval state, the Byzantine empire. This comparative study of the histories of Rome, Ravenna, and Venice examines their common Byzantine past, since all three escaped incorporation into the Lombard kingdom in the late 7th and early 8th centuries. By 750, however, Rome and Ravenna's political links with the Byzantine Empire had been irrevocably severed. Thus, did these cities remain socially and culturally heirs of Byzantium? How did their political structures, social organisation, material culture, and identities change? Did they become part of the Western political and ideological framework of Italy? This study identifies and analyses the ways in which each of these cities preserved the structures of the Late Antique social and cultural world; or in which they adapted each and every element available to them to their own needs, at various times and in various ways, to create a new identity based partly on their Roman heritage and partly on their growing integration with the rest of medieval Italy. It tells a story which encompasses the main contemporary narratives, documentary evidence, recent archaeological discoveries, and discussions on art history; it follows the markers of status and identity through titles, names, ethnic groups, liturgy and ritual, foundation myths, representations, symbols, and topographies of power to shed light on a relatively little known area of early medieval Italian history.
Author : Tim Parks
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780393866858
The acclaimed author of Italian Ways returns with an exploration into Italy’s past and present—following in the footsteps of Garibaldi’s famed 250-mile journey across the Apennines. In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy’s legendary revolutionary, was finally forced to abandon his defense of Rome. He and his men had held the besieged city for four long months, but now it was clear that only surrender would prevent slaughter and destruction at the hands of a huge French army. Against all odds, Garibaldi was determined to turn defeat into moral victory. On the evening of July 2, riding alongside his pregnant wife, Anita, he led 4,000 hastily assembled men to continue the struggle for national independence elsewhere. Hounded by both French and Austrian armies, the garibaldini marched hundreds of miles across the Appenines, Italy’s mountainous spine, and after two months of skirmishes and adventures arrived in Ravenna with just 250 survivors. Best-selling author Tim Parks, together with his partner Eleonora, set out in the blazing summer of 2019 to follow Garibaldi and Anita’s arduous journey through the heart of Italy. In The Hero’s Way he delivers a superb travelogue that captures Garibaldi’s determination, creativity, reckless courage, and profound belief. And he provides a fascinating portrait of Italy then and now, filled with unforgettable observations of Italian life and landscape, politics, and people.
Author : Judith Herrin,Janet Laughland Nelson
Publisher : University of London Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ravenna (Italy)
ISBN : 1909646148
A tale of two cities : Rome and Ravenna under Gothic rule / Peter Heather -- Episcopal commemoration in late fifth-century Ravenna / Deborah M. Deliyannis -- Production, promotion, and reception : the visual culture of Ravenna between late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Maria Cristina Carile -- Ravenna in the sixth century : the archaeology of change / Carola Jäggi -- The circulation of marble in the Adriatic Sea at the time of Justinian / Yari A. Marano -- Social instability and economic decline of the Ostrogothic community in the aftermath of the imperial victory : the papyri evidence / Salvatore Cosentino -- A striking evolution : the mint of Ravenna during the early Middle Ages / Vivien Prigent -- Roman law in Ravenna / Simon Corcoran -- The church of Ravenna, Constantinople, and Rome in the seventh century / Veronica Ortenberg West-Harling -- Nobility, aristocracy, and status in early Medieval Ravenna / Edward M. Schoolman -- Charlemagne and Ravenna / Jinty Nelson -- The early Medieval naming-world of Ravenna, eastern Romagna, and the Pentapolis / Wolfgang Haubricht -- San Severo and religious life in Ravenna during the ninth and tenth centuries / Andrea Augenti and Enrico Cirelli -- Life and learning in earliest eleventh-century Ravenna : the evidence of Peter Damian's letters / Michael Gledhill -- Culture and society in Ottonian Ravenna : imperial renewal or new beginnings? / Tom Brown.
Author : Michael Teitelbaum
Publisher : Grosset & Dunlap
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0448486180
Young Fievel Mousekewitz and his friends must figure out a way to stop the attacks of a dreaded band of cats known as The Mott Street Maulers.
Author : Henry Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Goths
ISBN : UOM:39015005320315
