Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings
Author: John Denison Champlin
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 448
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Author: John Denison Champlin
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Janet L. Nelson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-11
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1317899571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important and long-awaited study is the first full-scale biography of Charlemagne's grandson, King of the West Franks from 843 to 877, and Emperor from 875. Posterity has not been kind to Charles or his age, seeing him as a fatally weak ruler in decadent times, threatened by Viking invaders and overmighty subjects. Janet Nelson, however, reveals an able and resourceful ruler who, under challenging conditions, maintained and enhanced royal authority, and held together the kingdom that, outlasting the Carolingians themselves, in due course became France.
Author: Joranson Einar
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Published: 1901
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ISBN-13: 9780259676058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Milosch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 153812758X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe study of provenance—the history of the creation and ownership of an artefact, work of art, or specimen—provides insights into the history of taste and collecting, illuminating the social, economic, and historic trends in which an object was created and collected. It is as much a history of people as it is of objects, and its study often reveals intricate networks of relationships, patterns of activity and motivations. This book promotes the study of the history of collecting and collections in all their variety through the lens of provenance, and explores the subject as a cross-disciplinary activity. Perhaps for the first time in a publication, it draws on expertise ranging from art history and anthropology, to natural history and law, looking at periods from antiquity through the 18th century and the Holocaust era to the present, and materials from Europe and the Americas to China and the Pacific. The issues raised are wide-ranging, touching on aspects of authenticity, cultural meaning and material transformation and economic and commercial drivers, as well as collector and object biography. The book fills a gap in the study of collecting and provenance, taking the subject holistically and from multiple standpoints, better to reflect the widening interest in provenance from a range of disciplinary perspectives. This book will be a service to the field, from established scholars and museum professionals to students of collecting history, cultural heritage, and museum studies.
Author: Conor Whately
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-06-22
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9004461612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Procopius on Soldiers and Military Institutions in the Sixth-Century Roman Empire, Conor Whately examines Procopius’ coverage of rank-and-file soldiers in his three works, reveals the limitations, and highlights his value to our understanding of recruitment.
Author: Pomponius Mela
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780472084524
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first modern translation of one of the world's earliest ethnographies
Author: Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9004166696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.
Author: Daniel Mahoney
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Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9782503586588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorical writing has shaped identities in various ways and to different extents. This volume explores this multiplicity by looking at case studies from Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic World, and China around the turn of the first millennium. The chapters in this volume address official histories and polemical critique, traditional genres and experimental forms, ancient traditions and emerging territories, empires and barbarians. The authors do not take the identities highlighted in the texts for granted, but examine the complex strategies of identification that they employ. This volume thus explores how historiographical works in diverse contexts construct and shape identities, as well as legitimate political claims and communicate 'visions of community'.
Author: Hans J. Hummer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-01-12
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1139448544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow exactly did political power operate in early medieval Europe? Taking Alsace as his focus, Hans Hummer offers an intriguing new case study on localised and centralised power and the relationship between the two from c. 600–1000. Providing a panoramic survey of the sources from the region, which include charters, notarial formulas, royal instruments, and Old High German literature, he untangles the networks of monasteries and kin groups which made up the political landscape of Alsace, and shows the significance of monastic control in shaping that landscape. He also investigates this local structure in light of comparative evidence from other regions. He tracks the emergence of the distinctive local order during the seventh century to its eventual decline in the late tenth century in the face of radical monastic reform. Highly original and well balanced, this 2006 work is of interest to all students of medieval political structures.
Author: James Lowry
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-17
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1317149521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDisplaced archives have long been a problem and their existence continues to trouble archivists, historians and government officials. Displaced Archives brings together leading international experts to comprehensively explore the current state of affairs for the first time. Drawing on case studies from around the world, the authors examine displaced archives as a consequence of conflict and colonialism, analysing their impact on government administration, nation building, human rights and justice. Renewed action is advocated through considerations of the legal approaches to repatriation, the role of the international archival community, ‘shared heritage’ approaches and other solutions. The volume offers new theoretical, technical and political insights and will be essential reading for practitioners, academics and students in the field of archives, cultural property and heritage management, as well as history, politics and international relations.