To Wake The Dead A Renaissance Merchant And The Birth Of Archaeology

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393072846

Get Book

To Wake the Dead: A Renaissance Merchant and the Birth of Archaeology by Marina Belozerskaya Pdf

How Cyriacus of Ancona—merchant, spy, and amateur classicist—traveled the world, fighting to save ancient monuments for posterity. At the beginning of the fifteenth century, a young Italian bookkeeper fell under the spell of the classical past. Despite his limited education, the Greeks and Romans seemed to speak directly to him—not from books but from the physical ruins and inscriptions that lay neglected around the shores of the Mediterranean.As an international merchant, Cyriacus of Ancona was accustomed to the perils of travel in foreign lands—unlike his more scholarly peers with their handsome libraries and wealthy patrons, who benefited greatly from the discoveries communicated in his widely distributed letters and drawings. Having seen firsthand the destruction of the world’s cultural heritage, Cyriacus resolved to preserve it for future generations. To do so he would spy on the Ottomans, court popes and emperors, and even organize a crusade.Some images in the ebook are not displayed owing to permissions issues.

Author : Joseph P. Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440829604

Get Book

The World of Renaissance Italy [2 volumes] by Joseph P. Byrne Pdf

Students of the Italian Renaissance who wish to go beyond the standard names and subjects will find in this text abundant information on the lives, customs, beliefs, and practices of those who lived during this exciting time period. The World of Renaissance Italy: A Daily Life Encyclopedia engages all of the Italian peninsula from the Black Death (1347–1352) to 1600. Unlike other encyclopedic works about the Renaissance era, this book deals exclusively with Italy, revealing the ways common Italian people lived and experienced the events and technological developments that marked the Renaissance era. The coverage specifically spotlights marginal or traditionally marginalized groups, including women, homosexuals, Jews, the elderly, and foreign communities in Italian cities. The entries in this two-volume set are organized into 10 sections of 25 alphabetically listed entries each. Among the broad sections are art, fashion, family and gender, food and drink, housing and community, politics, recreation and social customs, and war. The "See Also" sources for each article are listed by section for easy reference, a feature that students and researchers will greatly appreciate. The extensive collection of contemporary documents include selections from a diary, letters, a travel journal, a merchant's inventory, Inquisition testimony, a metallurgical handbook, and text by an artist that describes what the author feels constitutes great work. Each of the primary source documents accompanies a specific article and provides an added dimension and degree of insight to the material.

Author : Michael Gagarin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3369 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9780195170726

Get Book

The Oxford encyclopedia of ancient Greece and Rome. - Vol. 1 - 7 by Michael Gagarin Pdf

Author : Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004443433

Get Book

A Companion to Death, Burial, and Remembrance in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, c. 1300–1700 by Philip Booth,Elizabeth Tingle Pdf

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

Author : James Symonds
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226654

Get Book

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance by James Symonds Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European cultures. This sense was expressed through a fascination with materiality and the natural world, and a growing attachment to things. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. James Symonds is Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Dennis Geronimus,Michael Kwakkelstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004366282

Get Book

Piero di Cosimo by Dennis Geronimus,Michael Kwakkelstein Pdf

Piero di Cosimo: Painter of Faith and Fable makes available the proceedings of a conference of the same name, hosted by the Dutch University Institute for Art History (NIKI), Florence, in September 2015, at the conclusion of the second of two exhibitions dedicated to Piero at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. It is the twelfth publication in the NIKI series and the first such anthology to be published by Brill.

Author : Eleni Tounta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040095379

Get Book

The Travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona in the Aegean Sea by Eleni Tounta Pdf

This book explores the travels of Cristoforo Buondelmonti and Ciriaco d’Ancona to the Greek lands in the early fifteenth-century eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on post-colonial studies' frameworks, such as travel writing and imaginative geographies, this volume offers an innovative examination of colonial discursive and cultural practices within the Latin dominions in the Greek lands. It sheds light on their contributions to the conceptualisation of both the "Italian metropolitan" space and the "Greek" identity of the colonised. This volume investigates how Cristoforo’s and Ciriaco’s travel narratives utilised conceptual tools and representation systems of early humanism to support Latin political and economic interests in the eastern Mediterranean. It delves into the imaginative geographies of Venetian Crete, the islands of the archipelago, Constantinople, the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, and portrayals of the Ottomans as constructed by the two travelers, offering insights into the interaction of Latin humanistic and colonial discourses and the agency of travellers in shaping the colonial space. The book will be of value to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students across various research fields, including Renaissance and postcolonial studies, travel literature, Latin dominions in the Aegean, Byzantine and Ottoman histories.

Author : Florian Schaffenrath,María Teresa Santamaría Hernández
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004427105

Get Book

Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Albasitensis by Florian Schaffenrath,María Teresa Santamaría Hernández Pdf

In 2018, a conference of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies took place in Albacete (“Humanity and Nature: Arts and Sciences in Neo-Latin Literature”). This volume publishes the event’s proceedings which deal with a broad range of fields, including literature, history, philology.

Author : Sean Roberts
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674068070

Get Book

Printing a Mediterranean World by Sean Roberts Pdf

In 1482 Francesco Berlinghieri produced the Geographia, a book of over 100 folio leaves describing the world in Italian verse interleaved with lavishly engraved maps. Roberts demonstrates that the Geographia represents the moment of transition between printing and manuscript culture, while forming a critical base for the rise of modern cartography.

Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199717323

Get Book

The Great Sea by David Abulafia Pdf

Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of empires; and the remarkable cast of characters-sailors, merchants, migrants, pirates, pilgrims-who have crossed and re-crossed it. Ranging from prehistory to the 21st century, The Great Sea is above all a history of human interaction. Interweaving major political and naval developments with the ebb and flow of trade, Abulafia explores how commercial competition in the Mediterranean created both rivalries and partnerships, with merchants acting as intermediaries between cultures, trading goods that were as exotic on one side of the sea as they were commonplace on the other. He stresses the remarkable ability of Mediterranean cultures to uphold the civilizing ideal of convivencia, "living together." Now available in paperback, The Great Sea is the definitive account of perhaps the most vibrant theater of human interaction in history.

Author : Jessica Wärnberg
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837731077

Get Book

City of Echoes by Jessica Wärnberg Pdf

In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another presence has dominated Rome for 2,000 years -the pope, whose actions and influence echo down the ages. In this epic tale, historian Jessica Wärnberg tells, for the first time, the story of Rome through the lens of its popes, illuminating how these remarkable (and unremarkable) men have transformed lives and played a crucial role in deciding the fate of the city. Emerging as the anonymous leader of a marginal cult in the humblest quarters of the city, less than 300 years later the pope sat enthroned in a gilt basilica, endorsed by the emperor himself. Eventually, the Roman pontiff would supplant even the emperors, becoming the de facto ruler of Rome and pre-eminent leader of the Christian world. Shifting elegantly between the panoramic and the personal, the spiritual and the profane, this is a fresh and often surprising take on a city, a people and an institution that is at once familiar and elusive.

Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004405479

Get Book

Plundered Empire by Michael Greenhalgh Pdf

Providing extensive documentation, the book examines the mechanics, trials and tribulations of plundering the Ottoman East for private and public collections in Europe. It helps document the continuing debate about the ethics of museum collections.

Author : John M. Weeks,Jason de Medeiros
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442237407

Get Book

A Research Guide to the Ancient World by John M. Weeks,Jason de Medeiros Pdf

A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources is a partially annotated bibliography that covers the study of the ancient world, and closes the traditional subject gap between the humanities and the social sciences in this area of study. This book is the only bibliographic resource available for such holistic coverage.

Author : Kathryn Blair Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781107139084

Get Book

The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land by Kathryn Blair Moore Pdf

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.

Author : Gareth D. Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190683368

Get Book

Pietro Bembo on Etna: The Ascent of a Venetian Humanist by Gareth D. Williams Pdf

This book is centered on the Venetian humanist Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), on his two-year stay in Sicily in 1492-4 to study the ancient Greek language under one of its most distinguished contemporary teachers, the Byzantine émigré Constantine Lascaris, and above all on his ascent of Mount Etna in 1493. The more particular focus of this study is on the imaginative capacities that crucially shape Bembo's elegantly crafted account, in Latin, of his Etna adventure in his so-called De Aetna, published at the Aldine press in Venice in 1496. This work is cast in the form of a dialogue that takes place between the young Bembo and his father Bernardo (himself a prominent Venetian statesman with strong humanist involvements) after Pietro's return to Venice from Sicily in 1494. But De Aetna offers much more than a one-dimensional account of the facts, sights and findings of Pietro's climb. Far more important in the present study is his eye for creative elaboration, or for transforming his literal experience on the mountain into a meditation on his coming-of-age at a remove from the conventional career-path expected of one of his station within the Venetian patriciate. Three mutually informing features that are critical to the artistic originality of De Aetna receive detailed treatment in this study: (i) the stimulus that Pietro drew from the complex history of Mount Etna as treated in the Greco-Roman literary tradition from Pindar onwards; (ii) the striking novelty of De Aetna's status as the first Latin text produced at the nascent Aldine press in the prototype of what modern typography knows as Bembo typeface; and (iii) Pietro's ingenious deployment of Etna as a powerful, multivalent symbol that simultaneously reflects the diverse characterizations of, and the generational differences between, father and son in the course of their dialogical exchanges within De Aetna.