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Author: Jonathan James Graham Alexander
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 552
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of essays by colleagues and pupils of Jonathan Alexander, the eminent Professor of Fine Arts at the New York Institute of Fine Arts who is regarded as a leading expert on the illuminated manuscripts. A bibliography of Alexander's own work is included showing the extent of his output.
Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 754
ISBN-13: 014313292X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's role in the downfall of Anne Boleyn "This a book that - and it's not often you can say this - we have been awaiting for four hundred years." --Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall Since the sixteenth century we have been fascinated by Henry VIII and the man who stood beside him, guiding him, enriching him, and enduring the king's insatiable appetites and violent outbursts until Henry ordered his beheading in July 1540. After a decade of sleuthing in the royal archives, Diarmaid MacCulloch has emerged with a tantalizing new understanding of Henry's mercurial chief minister, the inscrutable and utterly compelling Thomas Cromwell. History has not been kind to the son of a Putney brewer who became the architect of England's split with Rome. Where past biographies portrayed him as a scheming operator with blood on his hands, Hilary Mantel reimagined him as a far more sympathetic figure buffered by the whims of his master. So which was he--the villain of history or the victim of her creation? MacCulloch sifted through letters and court records for answers and found Cromwell's fingerprints on some of the most transformative decisions of Henry's turbulent reign. But he also found Cromwell the man, an administrative genius, rescuing him from myth and slander. The real Cromwell was a deeply loving father who took his biggest risks to secure the future of his son, Gregory. He was also a man of faith and a quiet revolutionary. In the end, he could not appease or control the man whose humors were so violent and unpredictable. But he made his mark on England, setting her on the path to religious awakening and indelibly transforming the system of government of the English-speaking world.
Author: Emma Dillon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-04-27
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 0199875839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sense of Sound is a radical recontextualization of French song, 1260-1330. Situating musical sound against sonorities of the city, madness, charivari, and prayer, it argues that the effect of verbal confusion popular in music abounds with audible associations, and that there was meaning in what is often heard as nonsensical.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-08-22
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9004517030
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents fresh evidence and new perspectives on the diverse ways in which women created and interacted with cultures of song between c. 600 and c. 1500.
Author: Therese Martin
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 1185
ISBN-13: 9004185550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twenty-four studies in this volume propose a new approach to framing the debate around the history of medieval art and architecture to highlight the multiple roles played by women, moving beyond today's standard division of artist from patron.
Author: Nigel Saul
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0199606137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments. It examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, and sculpted effigies. It analyzes them in an historical context to show what they reveal of the self image and religious aspirations of those they commemorate.--Summary by the editor.
Author: Teresa Shawcross
Publisher: Springer Nature
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Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 3031352637
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: punctum books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0692299300
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of essays examining the ways in which humanity is enmeshed in its surroundings.
Author: Vladimir Agrigoroaei
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-12-30
Total Pages: 763
ISBN-13: 9004524223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author and six historical characters of his own choosing tell tales and guide you through the artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece. They show you patterns, influences, and dissimilar evolutions in what appears to be a 13th-14th century cultural conundrum.
Author: Matthew Mindrup
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 0262042754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history—as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design, and architect's muse. For more than five hundred years, architects have employed three-dimensional models as tools to test, refine, and illustrate their ideas. But, as Matthew Mindrup shows, the uses of physical architectural models extend beyond mere representation. An architectural model can also simulate, instruct, inspire, and generate architectural designs. It can be, among other things, sign, souvenir, toy, funerary object, didactic tool, medium, or muse. In this book, Mindrup surveys the history of architectural models by investigating their uses, both theoretical and practical. Tracing the architectural model's development from antiquity to the present, Mindrup also offers an interpretive framework for understanding each of its applications in the context of time and place. He first examines models meant to portray extant, fantastic, or proposed structures, describing their use in ancient funerary or dedicatory practices, in which models are endowed with magical power; as a medium for architectural reverie and inspiration; and as prototypes for twentieth-century experimental designs. Mindrup then considers models that exemplify certain architectural uses, exploring the influence of Leon Battista Alberti's dictum that models be simple, lest they distract from the architect's ideas; analyzing the model as a generative tool; and investigating allegorical, analogical, and anagogical interpretations of models. Mindrup's histories show how the model can be a surrogate for the architectural structure itself, or for the experience of its formal, tactile, and sensory complexity; and beyond that, that the manipulation, play, experimentation, and dreaming enabled by models allow us to imagine architecture in new ways.
