A Century of Giants, A.D. 1500 to 1600
Author: Ted Byfield
Publisher: CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780968987391
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Author: Ted Byfield
Publisher: CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780968987391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ted Byfield
Publisher: CHRISTIAN HISTORY PROJECT
Published: 2011-06
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780986939600
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sydney Joseph Freedberg
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 768
ISBN-13: 9780300055870
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Art', declared Vasari in Lives of the Artists, has been reborn and reached perfection in our time'. Indeed the roster of great names in painting of the Cinquecento, which only begins with those of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, appears to justify this grand claim. Professor Freedberg here discusses the individual painters and analyses the hallmarks of their work. He traces the classical style of the High Renaissance, the Mannerism that succeeded it, and the events, in North Italy especially, that resist stylistic categories. He has given order to this diversity, but at the same time has preserved the intense individuality of the works of art.
Author: Claire Jowitt
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-05-21
Total Pages: 585
ISBN-13: 1000075761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book has been nominated for The Mountbatten Award for Best Book in the Maritime Media Awards 2021. The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400‒1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field. Ranging from cartography to poetry and decorative design to naval warfare, the book shows how once-traditional and often Euro-chauvinistic depictions of oceanic ‘mastery’ during the early modern period have been replaced by newer global ideas. This comprehensive volume challenges underlying assumptions by balancing its assessment of the consequences and accomplishments of European navigators in the era of Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan, with an awareness of the sophistication and maritime expertise in Asia, the Arab world, and the Americas. By imparting riveting new stories and global perceptions of maritime history and culture, the contributors provide readers with fresh insights concerning early modern entanglements between humans and the vast, unpredictable ocean. With maritime studies growing and the ocean’s health in decline, this volume is essential reading for academics and students interested in the historicization of the ocean and the ways early modern cultures both conceptualized and utilized seas.
Author: Charles James Longman
Publisher:
Published: 1897
Total Pages: 624
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Graham Connah
Publisher: BAR International Series
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 108
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Archaeology, Volume 91 This book is an original study of very large pots in parts of Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria. Found in excavations and surface fieldwork, they have been attributed to the So, a group of pre-Islamic inhabitants of the area before the sixteenth century AD, who have become mythologised as giants. Originally for burial, in some cases the pots have been dug up by villagers and reused: for brewing beer or as dye pits for indigo cloth. The book focuses on a group of these pots that survived until the late twentieth century in villages in a small part of Borno, north-eastern Nigeria. With the passage of time and terrorist activities in the region, their fate is now unknown and the photographs from 1963 to 1993 reproduced in this book have become a major archive of an unusual pottery group.
Author: Lionel Frost
Publisher: UNSW Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780868402680
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores changes in city density by comparing Melbourne, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Auckland and other new frontier cities. Includes a new interpretation of the effect of development on problems faced by frontier cities, and a detailed bibliography. The author lectures on economics and economic history at La Trobe University.
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 396
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