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Book The Penn Library Collections at 250

Download or read book The Penn Library Collections at 250 written by University of Pennsylvania. Library and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making the Renaissance Manuscript

Download or read book Making the Renaissance Manuscript written by Nicholas Herman and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Collection of Emblemes

Download or read book A Collection of Emblemes written by George Wither and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book All Negro Comics  1

    Book Details:
  • Author : One Publishers
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2015-12-31
  • ISBN : 9781522995425
  • Pages : 52 pages

Download or read book All Negro Comics 1 written by One Publishers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of the first comic book created by black artists, writers and publisher, jam-packed with fast action, African Adventure, good clean humor and fantasy. Every brush stroke and pen line in the drawings on these pages are by negro artists. This publication is another milestone in the splendid history of negro journalism. But in this first issue we meet Ace Harlem (a detective), the Dew Dillies (pixie-like children), Lion Man (jungle defender) and Sugarfoot (Amos and Andy type humor). There is also a two-page text story, a one page humor strip, and a quartet of funnies called Hep Chicks on Parade. I would have loved to see Ace Harlem continue and what the artwork would have developed as in Lion Man. And I think that Hep Chicks is funny, regardless of time period. These books are constantly updated with the best version Enjoy a nostalgic trip down memory lane with the best titles from the golden age of comics. Escamilla Comics has lovingly remastered these timeless classics with vivid color correction, image restoration and has also added an enhanced reading experience with Kindle Panel View The comic reprints from Calumet History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old.

Book Embodying the Soul

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meg Leja
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2022-04-26
  • ISBN : 0812298500
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Embodying the Soul written by Meg Leja and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodying the Soul explores the possibilities and limitations of human intervention in the body's health across the ninth-century Carolingian Empire. Early medieval medicine has long been cast as a superstitious, degraded remnant of a vigorous, rational Greco-Roman tradition. Against such assumptions, Meg Leja argues that Carolingian scholars engaged in an active debate regarding the value of Hippocratic knowledge, a debate framed by the efforts to define Christian orthodoxy that were central to the reforms of Charlemagne and his successors. From a subject with pagan origins that had suspicious links with magic, medical knowledge gradually came to be classified as a sacred art. This development coincided with an intensifying belief that body and soul, the two components of individual identity, cultivated virtue not by waging combat against one another but by working together harmoniously. The book demonstrates that new discussions regarding the legitimacy of medical learning and the merits of good health encouraged a style of self-governance that left an enduring mark on medieval conceptions of individual responsibility. The chapters tackle questions about the soul's material occupation of the body, the spiritual meaning of illness, and the difficulty of diagnosing the ills of the internal bodily cavity. Combating the silence on "dark-age" medicine, Embodying the Soul uncovers new understandings of the physician, the popularity of preventative regimens, and the theological importance attached to dietary regulation and bloodletting. In presenting a cultural history of the body, the book considers a broad range of evidence: theological and pastoral treatises, monastic rules, court poetry, capitularies, hagiographies, biographies, and biblical exegesis. Most important, it offers a dynamic reinterpretation of the large numbers of medical manuscripts that survive from the ninth century but have rarely been the focus of historical study.

Book Stokowski

Download or read book Stokowski written by Oliver Daniel and published by New York : Dodd, Mead & Company. This book was released on 1982 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel, long time associate and friend unfolds "Stoki's" extraordinary career, spanning more than 75 years of music-making. The story of this conductor's involvement with the musical institutions of this century, his vigor, productivity and vision, is closely entwined with the history of music in America. Though there were many facets to Stokowski's personality, including his vanity, showmanship, and love of publicity, Daniel reminds us that behind the glamour and headlines, Stokowski's contribution to music was profound and of lasting importance. The author's style is anecdotal, relying on extensive quotations from memoirs, correspondence and especially personal interviews. ISBN 0-396-07936-9.

Book Memoir of Dr  Karl Hermann Berendt

Download or read book Memoir of Dr Karl Hermann Berendt written by Daniel Garrison Brinton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Information Literacy in Music

Download or read book Information Literacy in Music written by Beth Christensen and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information Literacy in Music: An Instructor’s Companion is a practical guide to information literacy instruction for busy librarians and music faculty. This book contains examples of course-integrated assignments designed to help postsecondary music students develop foundational skills in information literacy. These assignments have been solicited from experienced librarians and faculty across the United States, and they represent a broad spectrum of approaches to music research, from historical to applied studies. Be inspired by new and creative solutions to students’ information literacy challenges and by the many examples of successful collaborations between librarians and music faculty.

Book Henry Charles Lea  1825 1909

Download or read book Henry Charles Lea 1825 1909 written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Companion to Renaissance Drama

Download or read book A New Companion to Renaissance Drama written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Companion to Renaissance Drama provides an invaluable summary of past and present scholarship surrounding the most popular and influential literary form of its time. Original interpretations from leading scholars set the scene for important paths of future inquiry. A colorful, comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the material conditions of Renaissance plays, England's most important dramatic period Contributors are both established and emerging scholars, with many leading international figures in the discipline Offers a unique approach by organizing the chapters by cultural context, theatre history, genre studies, theoretical applications, and material studies Chapters address newest departures and future directions for Renaissance drama scholarship Arthur Kinney is a world-renowned figure in the field

Book Taxonomies of Knowledge

Download or read book Taxonomies of Knowledge written by Emily Steiner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taxonomies of Knowledge: Information and Order in Medieval Manuscripts examines the role of the manuscript book in organizing and classifying knowledge. The essays demonstrate how the technologies of the book allow scholars to determine what medieval readers and writers thought information was and how it could be transmitted to others.

Book Penn Library Exhibitions  The Illustrated Book  1780 1830

Download or read book Penn Library Exhibitions The Illustrated Book 1780 1830 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the online version of "The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830," an exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania Library. Notes that the items are selected from the Harris N. Hollin collection within the Department of Special Collections. Includes information on books with hand-colored illustrations on such topics as architecture, costumes and portraits, the military, natural history, and travel. Lists acknowledgments and links to the Library's home page.

Book The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton

Download or read book The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton written by University of Pennsylvania. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rare archival illustrations show contemporary (1870-1900) photographs of the University of Pennsylvania Museum library and portraits of individual authors represented in the Brinton Library."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Millionaire and the Bard

Download or read book The Millionaire and the Bard written by Andrea Mays and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the making of the First Folio, relating how a few years after a virtually unknown Shakespeare died, his former partners, friends, and actors gathered his surviving manuscripts.

Book The Brink of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Kazanjian
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2016-05-19
  • ISBN : 0822374102
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book The Brink of Freedom written by David Kazanjian and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Brink of Freedom David Kazanjian revises nineteenth-century conceptions of freedom by examining the ways black settler colonists in Liberia and Mayan rebels in Yucatán imagined how to live freely. Focusing on colonial and early national Liberia and the Caste War of Yucatán, Kazanjian interprets letters from black settlers in apposition to letters and literature from Mayan rebels and their Creole antagonists. He reads these overlooked, multilingual archives not for their descriptive content, but for how they unsettle and recast liberal forms of freedom within global systems of racial capitalism. By juxtaposing two unheralded and seemingly unrelated Atlantic histories, Kazanjian finds remarkably fresh, nuanced, and worldly conceptions of freedom thriving amidst the archived everyday. The Brink of Freedom’s speculative, quotidian globalities ultimately ask us to improvise radical ways of living in the world.

Book International Dictionary of Library Histories

Download or read book International Dictionary of Library Histories written by David H. Stam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the format of Fitzroy Dearborn's highly successful International Dictionary of Historic Places and International Dictionary of University Histories, the International Dictionary of Library Histories provides basic information for each institution - location and holdings - followed by an extensive (1,000-5,000 word) essay on its history as well as a Further Reading list. In addition, the dictionary includes introductory articles on the history of various types of libraries and a library history in various regions of the world. The dictionary profiles more than 200 institutions from around the world, including the world's most important research libraries and other libraries with globally or regionally notable collections, innovative traditions, and significant and interesting histories. The essays take advantage of the growing scholarship of library history to provide insightful overviews of each institution, including not only the traditional values of these libraries but their innovations as well, such as developments in automated systems and electronic delivery. The profiles will emphasize the unique materials of research in these institutions - archives, manuscripts, personal and institutional papers. The introductory articles on types of libraries include topics ranging from theological libraries to prison libraries, from the ancient to the digital. An international team of more than 200 leading scholars in the field have contributed essays to the project.

Book Performing Objects and Theatrical Things

Download or read book Performing Objects and Theatrical Things written by Marlis Schweitzer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book rethinks historical and contemporary theatre, performance, and cultural events by scrutinizing and theorizing the objects and things that activate stages, venues, environments, and archives.