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Book Memorie storiche del culto e venerazione dell immagine di Maria Santissima venerata in Tivoli nella chiesa di S  Maria Maggiore

Download or read book Memorie storiche del culto e venerazione dell immagine di Maria Santissima venerata in Tivoli nella chiesa di S Maria Maggiore written by Stanislao Melchiorri and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Space  Place  and Motion  Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City

Download or read book Space Place and Motion Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city. By considering cities large (Rome) and small (Aalst) in regions as disparate as Ireland and Mexico, the essays collected here seek to uncover the commonalities and differences in confraternal practice as they played out on the urban stage. From the candlelit oratory to the bustling piazza, from the hospital ward to the festal table, from the processional route to the execution grounds, late medieval and early modern cities, this interdisciplinary book contends, were made up of fluid and contested ‘confraternal spaces.’ Contributors are: Kira Maye Albinsky, Meryl Bailey, Cormac Begadon, Caroline Blondeau-Morizot, Danielle Carrabino, Andrew Chen, Ellen Decraene, Laura Dierksmeier, Ellen Alexandra Dooley, Douglas N. Dow, Anu Mänd, Rebekah Perry, Pamela A.V. Stewart, Arie van Steensel, and Barbara Wisch.

Book Pictures and Reality

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jens T. Wollesen
  • Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Pictures and Reality written by Jens T. Wollesen and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental pictures and their social reality in Rome around 1300 are the focus of this study. The frescoes and mosaics under examination belong to the hitherto neglected façades and porticoes of important basilicas. Many of them - now lost or fragmented - described their cult repertory. They propagated ideas of their commissioners and mirrored the reality of the beholder, in terms of a new pictorial mimesis or verisimilitude. Their visual arguments were targeted towards the Romans, and, more importantly, towards the pilgrims who visited the eternal city to seek remission for their sins. The function of these pictorial media to transmit new and unconventional contents, phrased as a new pictorial vernacular, was increasingly devoted to the needs and expectations of a profoundly changed lay public. This process - although it coincided with the activity of Giotto - had its own distinctly Roman history.

Book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967  Subjects

Download or read book University of California Union Catalog of Monographs Cataloged by the Nine Campuses from 1963 Through 1967 Subjects written by University of California (System). Institute of Library Research and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorie storiche del culto e venerazione dell immagine di Maria Santissima

Download or read book Memorie storiche del culto e venerazione dell immagine di Maria Santissima written by Stanislaus Melchiorri and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rome 1300

    Book Details:
  • Author : Herbert L. Kessler
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300081534
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Rome 1300 written by Herbert L. Kessler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On this Jubilee year, the authors take readers back to the first Holy Year, 1300, when Pope Boniface VII promised eternal peace for the souls of all Christians who trekked to the Eternal City. 225 illustrations, 60 in color.

Book Roma Felix

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  • Author : Éamonn Ó Carragáin
  • Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780754660965
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Roma Felix written by Éamonn Ó Carragáin and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Roman empire fell, medieval Europe continued to be fascinated by Rome itself, 'the Chief of Cities', once the centre of the empire, including its history, its buildings, and above all its early Christian martyrs, and the papacy, central to the western Latin church. This book explores ways in which the city itself was preserved, envisioned, and transformed not only by its residents, but also by the many pilgrims who flocked to Rome, and by northern European cultures (in particular, the Irish and English) who imagined and imitated the city as they understood it.

Book Birth  Marriage  and Death   Ritual  Religion  and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England

Download or read book Birth Marriage and Death Ritual Religion and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England written by David Cressy and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From childbirth and baptism through to courtship, weddings, and funerals, every stage in the life-cycle of Tudor and Stuart England was accompanied by ritual. Even under the protestantism of the reformed Church, the spiritual and social dramas of birth, marriage, and death were graced with elaborate ceremony. Powerful and controversial protocols were in operation, shaped and altered by the influences of the Reformation, the Revolution, and the Restoration. Each of the major rituals was potentially an arena for argument, ambiguity, and dissent. Ideally, as classic rites of passage, these ceremonies worked to bring people together. But they also set up traps into which people could stumble, and tests which not everybody could pass. In practice, ritual performance revealed frictions and fractures that everyday local discourse attempted to hide or to heal. Using fascinating first-hand evidence, David Cressy shows how the making and remaking of ritual formed part of a continuing debate, sometimes strained and occasionally acrimonious, which exposed the raw nerves of society in the midst of great historical events. In doing so, he vividly brings to life the common experiences of living and dying in Tudor and Stuart England.

Book Icons and Power

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  • Author : Bissera V. Pentcheva
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2010-11-01
  • ISBN : 9780271048161
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Icons and Power written by Bissera V. Pentcheva and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pentcheva demonstrates that a fundamental shift in the Byzantine cult from relics to icons, took place during the late tenth century. Centered upon fundamental questions of art, religion, and politics, Icons and Power makes a vital contribution to the entire field of medieval studies.

Book Moving Subjects

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  • Author : Kathleen Ashley
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9789042012554
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Moving Subjects written by Kathleen Ashley and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of "moving subjects" they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.

Book Church and City  1000 1500

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  • Author : David Abulafia
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-07-18
  • ISBN : 9780521525060
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Church and City 1000 1500 written by David Abulafia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays is intended as a tribute to the distinguished medieval historian Christopher Brooke. It addresses new questions in areas of medieval history which Professor Brooke has made his own: urban life and religious life. The fourteen essays explore the coexistence of religious ideas and ecclesiastical institutions with urban practices and townspeople. They span five hundred years of the history of western Christendom, ranging from Magdeburg to Majorca, and from Cambridge to Cluny. The essays break new ground in a number of areas in medieval history: in economic history, the history of ideas, and the history of religious institutions. The contributors have been attuned throughout to the complex interactions of groups and ideas within urban space. The book also contains a bibliography of Christopher Brooke's writings and an appreciation of his work.

Book City and Cosmos

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  • Author : Keith D. Lilley
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2009-09-01
  • ISBN : 1861897545
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book City and Cosmos written by Keith D. Lilley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In City and Cosmos, Keith D. Lilley argues that the medieval mind considered the city truly a microcosm: much more than a collection of houses, a city also represented a scaled-down version of the very order and organization of the cosmos. Drawing upon a wide variety of sources, including original accounts, visual art, science, literature, and architectural history, City and Cosmos offers an innovative interpretation of how medieval Christians infused their urban surroundings with meaning. Lilley combines both visual and textual evidence to demonstrate how the city carried Christian cosmological meaning and symbolism, sharing common spatial forms and functional ordering. City and Cosmos will not only appeal to a diverse range of scholars studying medieval history, archaeology, philosophy, and theology; but it will also find a broad audience in architecture, urban planning, and art history. With more of the world’s population inhabiting cities than ever before, this original perspective on urban order and culture will prove increasingly valuable to anyone wishing to better understand the role of the city in society.

Book The Dead and the Living in Paris and London  1500 1670

Download or read book The Dead and the Living in Paris and London 1500 1670 written by Vanessa Harding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Cities of God

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  • Author : Augustine Thompson
  • Publisher : Penn State University Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780271024776
  • Pages : 502 pages

Download or read book Cities of God written by Augustine Thompson and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When religion is considered, the subjects are usually saints, heretics, theologians, and religious leaders, thereby ignoring the vast majority of those who lived in the communes. Drawing on many ecclesiastical and secular sources, this book aims to give a voice to the majority - orthodox lay people and those who ministered to them.

Book Some Italian Scenes and Festivals

Download or read book Some Italian Scenes and Festivals written by Thomas Ashby and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorie storiche della miracolosa immagine della Madonna Ssma detta della Vittoria che si venera in Roma nella chiesa de  pp  Carmelitani Scalzi alle terme

Download or read book Memorie storiche della miracolosa immagine della Madonna Ssma detta della Vittoria che si venera in Roma nella chiesa de pp Carmelitani Scalzi alle terme written by Teodoro : di S. Maria and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dominion of the Eye

Download or read book Dominion of the Eye written by Marvin Trachtenberg and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-23 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trachtenberg's book exmines the urban transformation of Florence in the fourteenth century. Focusing on the creation of the Piazza della Signoria and the Piazza del Duomo, he documents in engaging detail how and why urban planners, in league with the civic government, enlarged these urban spaces. Articulating the design principles that served as the foundation for these urban renewal projects, Trachtenberg's book fundamentally revises our understanding of urban planning in the early modern period, countering the received claim that rational planning begins only in the Renaissance. His book also brings a new depth of understanding to the entire visual culture of Trecento Florence, demonstrating how many of the developments in painting, sculpture and architecture of this period form the basis of the achievements of the Quattrocento, particularly the discovery of perspective. Combining both empirical and post-structuralist methods, Trachtenberg's book is among the first, if not the first, to question critically many of the assumptions that have formed the basis of scholarship of Renaissance art since the sixteenth century.