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Author : Samuel John Klingensmith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226443302
Author : Gary B. Cohen,Franz A. J. Szabo
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1845454332
The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krakow to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.
Author : Dorinda Outram
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813942025
Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations. Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who emerges not only as an administrative reformer and notorious militarist but also as a "master of fools," a ruler who used fools to prop up his uncertain power. The autobiography of the itinerant fool Peter Prosch affords a rare insider’s view of the small courts in Catholic south Germany, Austria, and Bavaria. Full of sharp observations of prelates and princes, the autobiography also records episodes of the extraordinary cruelty for which the German princely courts were notorious. Joseph Fröhlich, court fool in Dresden, presents more appealing facets of foolery. A sharp salesman and hero of the Meissen factories, he was deeply attached to the folk life of fooling. The book ends by tying the growth of Enlightenment skepticism to the demise of court foolery around 1800. Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us such a vivid depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of power in Enlightenment Europe.
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136647437
Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of the stakeholders. The book goes on to focus on the role of the government in grooming the Indian business to be sensitive of its social concerns. Drawing on rich empirical data, the book shows that CSR in India cannot be conceptualized in ethnocentric terms. Arguing that it is not about ‘the typical Indianness’ of the articulation, it emphasizes the point that CSR in India needs to be conceptualized in a wider perspective by taking into account its philosophical roots with reference to the prevalent socio-economic and political context. The book is a valuable contribution to the literature on CSR, and is of interest to scholars of Asian Studies, business and development studies.
Author : R. Ahrendt,M. Ferraguto,D. Mahiet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781137463272
How does music shape the exercise of diplomacy, the pursuit of power, and the conduct of international relations? Drawing together international scholars with backgrounds in musicology, ethnomusicology, political science, cultural history, and communication, this volume interweaves historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives.
Author : Michael E. Allsopp,John J. O'Keefe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 155612760X
Pope John Paul II's encyclical Vertatis Splendor is an historic document: the first extensive analysis of the foundations of morality by a pope. It stands alongside the new catechism as a major statement about Christian morality, the role of reason in the moral life, and the vision of life for the disciple of Jesus.
Author : John Read (maker to the army.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555022621
Author : Peter Lusztig,Bernhard Schwab
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 1065 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483144832
Managerial Finance in a Canadian Setting, Fourth Edition relates the theories to the practice of managerial finance. The contents of the book are organized into eight parts that tackle the various concerns in the practice of managerial finance. The text first covers the institutional environment within which financial management takes place, which includes a brief introduction to areas of business law and taxation. Part II covers the determination of economic value, while Part III presents various long-term sources of funds available to a firm. The next part discusses the overall financing mix that a firm should employ in funding its operation. Part V covers short- and intermediate-term financing, and Part VI tackles financial analysis, planning, and control. The seventh part deals with working-capital management, while the eighth part talks about external expansion. The book will be of great use to financing managers. Students and professionals of finance related fields such as accounting and banking will also benefit from this book.
Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606062982
This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery— the mainstay of museums—traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history—even the emergence of the modern category of fine art—was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.
Author : Ida Maria Street
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015011013631
Author : Sarah Lichtenstein,Paul Slovic
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-08-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139457781
One of the main themes that has emerged from behavioral decision research during the past three decades is the view that people's preferences are often constructed in the process of elicitation. This idea is derived from studies demonstrating that normatively equivalent methods of elicitation (e.g., choice and pricing) give rise to systematically different responses. These preference reversals violate the principle of procedure invariance that is fundamental to all theories of rational choice. If different elicitation procedures produce different orderings of options, how can preferences be defined and in what sense do they exist? This book shows not only the historical roots of preference construction but also the blossoming of the concept within psychology, law, marketing, philosophy, environmental policy, and economics. Decision making is now understood to be a highly contingent form of information processing, sensitive to task complexity, time pressure, response mode, framing, reference points, and other contextual factors.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Aesthetics, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39015062080356
Author : Celestia Angenette Bloss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : UCAL:$B297035
Author : Kyle C. Strobel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317034575
Jonathan Edwards is considered by many to be America’s greatest theologian. Many have lauded him as one of the great theologians in church history. This book brings together major Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant theologians to assess Edwards’s theological acumen. Each chapter places Edwards in conversation with a thinker or a tradition over a specific theological issue.
Author : John Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:319510020058678