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Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1134641168
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-15
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1134641176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 0415198089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-06-28
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781138405240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.
Author: Sarah A. Rous
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2019-11-12
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0299322807
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the various ways ancient Athenians purposefully reused stone artifacts, objects, and buildings in order to shape their own and their descendants' collective ideas about their community's past and its bearing on the present and future. The book introduces the concept of "upcycling" to refer to this intentionally meaningful reuse, where evidence is preserved of an intentionality behind the decision to re-employ a particular object in a particular new context, often with implications for the shared memory of a group. Utilizing archaeological, literary, and epigraphic evidence, this investigation connects seemingly disparate cases of upcycling over eight centuries of Athenian history, treating the city as a continuously evolving cultural community. In establishin g upcycling as a distinct phenomenon of intentionally meaningful reuse, this study offers a process- and agency-focused alternative to the traditional discourses on spolia and reuse, while also making a substantial contribution to the growing field of memory studies by identifying a crucial component within the overall "work of memory" within a community. Through an original interdisciplinary approach, the book illuminates a vital practice through which Athenians shaped social memory in the physical realm, literally building their history into their city.
Author: Anders Andrén
Publisher: Nordic Academic Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 918911681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of Old Norse Religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia are investigated and interpreted by archaeologists, historians, art historians, historians of religion as well as scholars of literature, onomastics and Scandinavian studies. For obvious reasons, these studies belong to the main curricula in Scandinavia but are also carried out at many other universities in Europe, the United States and Australia a fact that is evident to any reader of this book. In order to bring this broad and varied field of research together, an international conference on Old Norse religion was held in Lund in June 2004. About two hundred delegates from more than fifteen countries took part. The intention was to gather researchers to encourage and improve scholarly exchange and dialogue, and Old Norse religion in long-term perspectives presents a selection of the proceedings from that conference. The 75 contributions elucidate topics such as worldview and cosmology, ritual and religious practice, myth and memory as well as the reception and present-day use of Old Norse religion. The main editors of this volume have directed the multidisciplinary research project Roads to Midgard since 2000. The project is based at Lund University and funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
Author: Mayke de Jong
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2001-06-28
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9047404041
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 19 papers presented in this volume by North American and European historians and archaeologists discuss how early medieval political and religious elites constructed ‘places of power’, and how such places, in turn, created powerful people. They also examine how the ‘high-level’ power exercised by elites was transformed in the post-Roman kingdoms of Europe, as Roman cities gave way as central stages for rituals of power to a multitude of places and spaces where political and religious power were represented. Although the Frankish kingdoms receive a large share of attention, contributions also focus on the changing topography of power in the old centres of the Roman world, Rome and Constantinople, to what ‘centres of power’ may have meant in the steppes of Inner Asia, Scandinavia or the lower Vistula, where political power was even more mobile and decentralised than in the post-Roman kingdoms, as well as to monasteries and their integration into early medieval topographies of power.
Author: Howard Williams
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 1441992227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did past communities and individuals remember through social and ritual practices? How important were mortuary practices in processes of remembering and forgetting the past? This innovative new research work focuses upon identifying strategies of remembrance. Evidence can be found in a range of archaeological remains including the adornment and alteration of the body in life and death, the production, exchange, consumption and destruction of material culture, the construction, use and reuse of monuments, and the social ordering of architectural space and the landscape. This book shows how in the past, as today, shared memories are important and defining aspects of social and ritual traditions, and the practical actions of dealing with and disposing of the dead can form a central focus for the definition of social memory.
Author: Martin Millett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-08-04
Total Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 0191002526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.
Author: Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 653
ISBN-13: 9004170839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis survey and synthesis of the structural and decorative uses of Roman remains, particularly marble, throughout the mediaeval Mediterranean, deals with the Christian West - but also Byzantium and Islam, each the inheritor of much Roman territory. It includes a 5000-image DVD.
