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Book Sumptuary Law in N  rnberg

Download or read book Sumptuary Law in N rnberg written by Caleb Guyer Kelly and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sumptuary Law in N  rnberg

Download or read book Sumptuary Law in N rnberg written by Kent Roberts Greenfield and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1918 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nuremberg  a Renaissance City  1500   1618

Download or read book Nuremberg a Renaissance City 1500 1618 written by Jeffrey Chipps Smith and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated study of Renaissance Nuremberg explores the city’s social and artistic history through the sixteenth century and beyond. The German city of Nuremberg reached the height of its artistic brilliance during the Renaissance, becoming one of the foremost cultural centers in all of Europe by 1500. Nuremberg was the home of painter Albrecht Dürer, whose creative genius inspired generations of German artists. However, Dürer was only one of a host of extraordinary painters, printmakers, sculptors, and goldsmiths working in the city. Following a map of the city’s principal landmarks, Guy Fitch Lytle provides a compact historical background for Jeffrey Chipps Smith's detailed discussions of the city’s social and artistic significance. Smith examines the religious function of art before and during the Reformation; the early manifestations of humanism in Nuremberg and its influence on the art of Dürer and his contemporaries; and the central role of Dürer’s pedagogical ideas and his workshop in the dissemination of Renaissance artistic concepts. Finally, Smith surveys the principal artists and stylistic trends in Nuremberg from 1500 to the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Nuremberg: A Renaissance City, 1500-1618 contains biographical sketches of forty-five major artists of the period, plus more than three hundred illustrations depicting the city and its most magnificent artistic treasures.

Book Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Download or read book Women and Gender in Medieval Europe written by Margaret C. Schaus and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-20 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.

Book Governance of Cons Passion

Download or read book Governance of Cons Passion written by A. Hunt and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the sumptuary laws that regulated conspicuous consumption in respect to dress, ornaments, and food that were widespread in late medieval and early modern Europe. It argues that sumptuary laws were attempts to stabilize social recognizability in the urban `world of strangers' and in the governance of cities. The gendered character of sumptuary laws are viewed as components of 'gender wars'. These laws are explored as projects directed at the reform of popular culture and in their links to the governance of vagrancy and of popular recreation. This study challenges the view that the sumptuary actually died and develops an argument that in the modern world the regulation of consumption persists, but becomes dispersed throughout a range of both public and private forms of governance. The conclusions stresses the persistence of projects of governance of personal appearance and of private consumption.

Book Circulars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Johns Hopkins University
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1374 pages

Download or read book Circulars written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University  Baltimore  Maryland

Download or read book Report of the President of the Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Johns Hopkins University Circular

Download or read book The Johns Hopkins University Circular written by Johns Hopkins University and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, registers, announcement material, etc.

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Widower s Lament

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  • Author : Ronald K. Rittgers
  • Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
  • Release : 2021-09-21
  • ISBN : 1506424805
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book A Widower s Lament written by Ronald K. Rittgers and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with Christian lament in the late Reformation by exploring the efforts of a talented yet little-known layman to cope with the death of his beloved wife. A work of haunting candor and searching faith, The Pious Meditations furnishes insight into life in the past as well as resources for life in the present.

Book Alphabetical Finding List

Download or read book Alphabetical Finding List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utopianism for a Dying Planet

Download or read book Utopianism for a Dying Planet written by Gregory Claeys and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-12-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the utopian tradition offers answers to today’s environmental crises In the face of Earth’s environmental breakdown, it is clear that technological innovation alone won’t save our planet. A more radical approach is required, one that involves profound changes in individual and collective behavior. Utopianism for a Dying Planet examines the ways the expansive history of utopian thought, from its origins in ancient Sparta and ideas of the Golden Age through to today's thinkers, can offer moral and imaginative guidance in the face of catastrophe. The utopian tradition, which has been critical of conspicuous consumption and luxurious indulgence, might light a path to a society that emphasizes equality, sociability, and sustainability. Gregory Claeys unfolds his argument through a wide-ranging consideration of utopian literature, social theory, and intentional communities. He defends a realist definition of utopia, focusing on ideas of sociability and belonging as central to utopian narratives. He surveys the development of these themes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries before examining twentieth- and twenty-first-century debates about alternatives to consumerism. Claeys contends that the current global warming limit of 1.5C (2.7F) will result in cataclysm if there is no further reduction in the cap. In response, he offers a radical Green New Deal program, which combines ideas from the theory of sociability with proposals to withdraw from fossil fuels and cease reliance on unsustainable commodities. An urgent and comprehensive search for antidotes to our planet’s destruction, Utopianism for a Dying Planet asks for a revival of utopian ideas, not as an escape from reality, but as a powerful means of changing it.

Book Albrecht Durer

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jane Campbell Hutchison
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2003-08-29
  • ISBN : 113558172X
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Albrecht Durer written by Jane Campbell Hutchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-29 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hutchison's book is a complete guide on Durer and the research on his work, his historical import and his aesthetic legacy.

Book Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England

Download or read book Sumptuary Legislation and Personal Regulation in England written by Frances Elizabeth Baldwin and published by Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press. This book was released on 1926 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medieval Fabrications

Download or read book Medieval Fabrications written by E. Burns and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied cultural functions of dress, textiles, and clothwork are used in this collection of essays to examine long-standing assumptions about the Middle Ages. At one end of the spectrum, questions of dress call up feminist theoretical investigations into the body and subjectivity, while broadening those inquiries to include theories of masculinity and queer identity as well. At the other extreme, the production and distribution of textiles carries us into the domain of economic history and the study of material commodities, trade and cultural patterns of exchange within western Europe and between east and west. Contributors to this volume represent a broad array of disciplines currently involved in rethinking medieval culture in terms of the material world.

Book Foucault and Political Reason

Download or read book Foucault and Political Reason written by Andrew Barry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous influence of Michel Foucault in gender studies, social theory, and cultural studies, his work has been relatively neglected in the study of politics. Although he never published a book on the state, in the late 1970s Foucault examined the technologies of power used to regulate society and the ingenious recasting of power and agency that he saw as both consequence and condition of their operation. These twelve essays provide a critical introduction to Foucault's work on politics, exploring its relevance to past and current thinking about liberal and neo-liberal forms of government. Moving away from the great texts of liberal political philosophy, this book looks closely at the technical means with which the ideals of liberal political rationalities have been put into practice in such areas as schools, welfare, and the insurance industry. This fresh approach to one of the seminal thinkers of the twentieth century is essential reading for anyone interested in social and cultural theory, sociology, and politics.