The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville
The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1139456164

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This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560–636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged by subject matter. It contains much lore of the late classical world beginning with the Seven Liberal Arts, including Rhetoric, and touches on thousands of topics ranging from the names of God, the terminology of the Law, the technologies of fabrics, ships and agriculture to the names of cities and rivers, the theatrical arts, and cooking utensils. Isidore provides etymologies for most of the terms he explains, finding in the causes of words the underlying key to their meaning. This book offers a highly readable translation of the twenty books of the Etymologies, one of the most widely known texts for a thousand years from Isidore's time.

Technics and Civilization
Technics and Civilization

Author: Lewis Mumford

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2010-10-30

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 0226550273

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Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture

Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women

Author: Sylvia Wolf

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0300077815

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Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women

Haunted Media
Haunted Media

Author: Jeffrey Sconce

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780822325727

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Examines the repeated association of new electronic media with spiritual phenomena from the telegraph in the late 19th century to television.

Music in English Renaissance Drama
Music in English Renaissance Drama

Author: John H. Long

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780813153353

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Nowhere is the richness and variety of the English Renaissance better shown than in the dramatic works of the period which combined to an unusual degree the arts of poetry, music, acting, and dance. This collection of essays by a number of distinguished scholars offers a series of views of the music of this drama -- ranging from the mystery cycles still performed in the late sixteenth century to the cavalier drama of the early seventeenth. The essays included here are mainly concerned with the minor dramatic forms -- the mystery plays, the "entertainments," the masques, and the works of such playwrights as Marston and Cartwright -- which reveal more extensively the blending of music and drama; and they illustrate a variety of approaches to the dramatic art. The collection as a whole demonstrates the need for an interdisciplinary consideration of this important area of study. Of especial value to musicologists is the bibliography of extant music used in dramatic works of the period.