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Book Sixty Years of Patronage

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Book Sixty Years of Patronage

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  • Author : Arts Council of Great Britain
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Sixty Years of Patronage written by Arts Council of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome

Download or read book Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome written by Barbara K. Gold and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virgil, Horace, Catullus, Propertius—these are just a few of the poets whose work we would be without today were it not for the wealthy and powerful patrons upon whose support the Roman cultural establishment so greatly depended. Who were these patrons? What benefits did they give, to whom, and why? What effect did the support of such men as Maecenas and Pompey have on the lives and work of those who looked to them for aid? These questions and others are addressed in this volume, which explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day. The subject is approached from various vantage points: literary, artistic, historical. The essayists reach conclusions that dispel the many misconceptions about Roman patronage derived from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century models in England and Europe. An understanding of the workings of patronage is indispensable in helping us see how the Roman cultural establishment functioned in the four centuries of its flourishing and also in helping us read and enjoy specific poems and works of art. A book for all concerned with classical literature, art, and social history, Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome not only deepens our understanding of the ancient world but also suggests important avenues for future exploration.

Book The Anti Patronage Catechism  By Robert Burns  D D  Second thousand

Download or read book The Anti Patronage Catechism By Robert Burns D D Second thousand written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early History of Church Patronage  Being a Precise Statement of the Acts of Assembly and of the Scottish Parliament Before     1688     Also of the Acts of Parliament 1690  of the Act of Union  and of the Act 1712 C  12  with an Interpretation of Certain Passages in the Second Book of Discipline  By a Member of the Faculty of Advocates  Sir Charles Ferguson

Download or read book The Early History of Church Patronage Being a Precise Statement of the Acts of Assembly and of the Scottish Parliament Before 1688 Also of the Acts of Parliament 1690 of the Act of Union and of the Act 1712 C 12 with an Interpretation of Certain Passages in the Second Book of Discipline By a Member of the Faculty of Advocates Sir Charles Ferguson written by Church of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patrons of History

Download or read book Patrons of History written by Longina Jakubowska and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores resilience, social capital and relationships of power in an examination of the manner in which capital can be converted from one form to another. Through a study of the survival of the Polish gentry, in spite of the communist regime's attempts to disempower and discredit them through land reform and high-profile trials, Patrons of History shows how the gentry managed not only to survive as a class, but also to remain influential. By revitalising older forms of cultural capital invested with education and transnational networks, the gentry were able to transform wealth, land, patronage, lifestyle and the ability to define patriotism and authorise a version of history, so as to ensure that noble heritage remained an advantageous resource in the face of communist opposition. Drawing on rich interview material spanning fifteen years, Patrons of History sheds light not only on communism as it existed and the stratification that persisted under such regimes, but also on the functioning of relationships of power and the ways in which privilege can be studied in the contemporary world. As such, this book will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers and historians interested in cultural and social capital, inequality and resistance.

Book Wingfield College and Its Patrons

Download or read book Wingfield College and Its Patrons written by Peter Bloore and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 650th anniversary of the foundation of Wingfield College was the occasion for a special two-day symposium marking the culmination of a three-year UEA-funded research project into the college and castle. The building projects of the late medieval aristocracy focused on their homes and the monasteries, churches or chantry foundations under their patronage where their family were buried and commemorated. This commemoration allowed a visual celebration of their achievements, status and lineage, the scale and prestige of which reflected on the fortunes of the family as a whole. Wingfield is explored in the context of both the actual building of the castle, chantry chapel and the college, and that of the symbolic function of these as a demonstration ion of aristocratic status. The contributions to this book examine many topics which have hitherto been neglected, such as the archaeology of the castle, which had never been excavated, the complex history of the college's architecture, and the detailed study of the monuments in the church. The latest techniques are used to reconstruct the college and castle, with a DVD to demonstrate these. And the context of the family and its fortunes are explored in chapters on the place of the de la Poles in fifteenth century history, as soldiers, administrators and potential claimants to the throne.

Book Commentaries on the Laws of England

Download or read book Commentaries on the Laws of England written by William Blackstone and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan

Download or read book Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan written by AndrewL. Maske and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Potters and Patrons in Edo Period Japan: Takatori Ware and the Kuroda Domain traces the development of one of Japan's best-documented ceramic types, from its beginnings around 1600 until the abolition of the domain system in 1871. Using historical records, archaeological material from early kilns and consumer sites, and the results of comparative chemical analysis, this study explores the operation of Takatori as the official ceramic workshop of the Kuroda, lords of one of the largest domains in Japan. Spanning cultural, aesthetic, economic and practical aspects, this book presents Takatori ware as an ideal archetype with which to compare developments in elite ceramics in other parts of Japan throughout the Edo period. In addition to its scholarly examination of the operation of a domain-sponsored ceramics workshop over more than 250 years, the book includes illustrations of examples from each of the seven Takatori workshop locations, including beautiful pieces that have never before appeared in print.

Book Address Delivered Before the Friends and Patrons of the Troy Hospital

Download or read book Address Delivered Before the Friends and Patrons of the Troy Hospital written by David Lowrey Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patrons of Paleontology

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  • Author : Jane P. Davidson
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-21
  • ISBN : 025303356X
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Patrons of Paleontology written by Jane P. Davidson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th and early 20th centuries, North American and European governments generously funded the discoveries of such famous paleontologists and geologists as Henry de la Beche, William Buckland, Richard Owen, Thomas Hawkins, Edward Drinker Cope, O. C. Marsh, and Charles W. Gilmore. In Patrons of Paleontology, Jane Davidson explores the motivation behind this rush to fund exploration, arguing that eagerness to discover strategic resources like coal deposits was further fueled by patrons who had a genuine passion for paleontology and the fascinating creatures that were being unearthed. These early decades of government support shaped the way the discipline grew, creating practices and enabling discoveries that continue to affect paleontology today.

Book Patrons and Adversaries

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  • Author : Caroline Castiglione
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2005-02-03
  • ISBN : 0195346629
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Patrons and Adversaries written by Caroline Castiglione and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern Roman countryside was a site of contestation between great aristocratic families and an expanding papal political regime. Rarely has the role of the inhabitants of this landscape--the villagers--been considered as part of that power struggle. As Caroline Castiglione shows in this compelling revisionist work, one Roman aristocratic family, the Barberini, was not squeezed out of governing by the extension of the papal bureaucracy, but rather became increasingly engaged with it during the long eighteenth century. Through their participation in the rural commune, villagers in an extensive territory belonging to the Barberini became active participants in the governing of the countryside. Villagers cultivated and exploited interference from the aristocratic family and the papal government, but they also kept urban elites at bay, defending their rights through the strategies of adversarial literacy. Such literate practices drew on village mastery of local constitutions, debates in the village assembly, and brilliant use of the legal system of the papacy to thwart the designs of the Barberini. Later villagers created and interpreted sources for themselves, effectively challenging the elite monopoly on making and interpreting texts. A lost world of increasingly savvy villagers, irate nobles, and exasperated bureaucrats emerges here in an engaging narrative that chronicles how seemingly marginalized villagers challenged the pragmatic control of the Roman countryside, using texts and ideas that urban elites had exported to the countryside for other purposes.

Book The Drama s Patrons

Download or read book The Drama s Patrons written by Leo Hughes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. —Samuel Johnson, 1747 Democratic ferment, responsible for political explosions in the seventeenth century and expanded power in the eighteenth, affected all phases of English life. The theatre reflected these forces in the content of the plays of the period and in an increased awareness among playgoers that the theatre "must please to live." Drawing from a wealth of amusing and informative contemporary accounts, Leo Hughes presents abundant evidence that the theatre-going public proved zealous, and sometimes even unruly, in asserting its role and rights. He describes numerous species of individual pest—the box-lobby saunterers, the vizard masks (ladies of uncertain virtue), the catcallers, and the weeping sentimentalists. Protest demonstrations of various interest groups, such as footmen asserting their rights to sit in the upper gallery, reflect the behavior of the audience as a whole—an audience that Alexander Pope described as "the manyheaded monster of the pit." Hughes analyzes the changes in the audience's taste through the long span from Dryden's day to Sheridan's. He illustrates the decline in taste from the sophisticated, if bawdy, comedy of the Restoration Period to the sentimentalism and empty show of later decades. He attributes the increased emphasis on sentiment and spectacle to audience influence and describes the effects of audience demands on managers, playwrights, and players. He describes in detail the mixed assembly that frequented the theatre during this period and the greatly enlarged theatres that were built to accommodate it. Hughes concludes that it was the English people's basic love of liberty that allowed them to accept audience disruptions considered intolerable by foreign visitors and that the drama's patrons greatly influenced the quality of theatrical production during this long period.

Book The Anti Patronage Catechism   By Robert Burns  D D   Second Thousand

Download or read book The Anti Patronage Catechism By Robert Burns D D Second Thousand written by Robert BURNS (Minister of St. George's, Paisley.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Session of the Washington State Grange

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Session of the Washington State Grange written by Washington State Grange and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: