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Book Heavenly Bodies

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  • Author : Paul Koudounaris
  • Publisher : Thames and Hudson
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 9780500251959
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Heavenly Bodies written by Paul Koudounaris and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing visual history of the veneration in European churches and monasteries of bejeweled and decorated skeletons Death has never looked so beautiful. The fully articulated skeleton of a female saint, dressed in an intricate costume of silk brocade and gold lace, withered fingers glittering with colorful rubies, emeralds, and pearls—this is only one of the specially photographed relics featured in Heavenly Bodies. In 1578 news came of the discovery in Rome of a labyrinth of underground tombs, which were thought to hold the remains of thousands of early Christian martyrs. Skeletons of these supposed saints were subsequently sent to Catholic churches and religious houses in German-speaking Europe to replace holy relics that had been destroyed in the wake of the Protestant Reformation. The skeletons, known as “the catacomb saints,” were carefully reassembled, richly dressed in fantastic costumes, wigs, crowns, jewels, and armor, and posed in elaborate displays inside churches and shrines as reminders to the faithful of the heavenly treasures that awaited them after death. Paul Koudounaris gained unprecedented access to religious institutions to reveal these fascinating historical artifacts. Hidden for over a century as Western attitudes toward both the worship of holy relics and death itself changed, some of these ornamented skeletons appear in publication here for the first time.

Book Mistress of the Catacombs

Download or read book Mistress of the Catacombs written by David Drake and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to the the epic tale of the Lord of the Isles, David Drake's saga of magic and might. For the first time in a thousand years, the Kingdom of the Isles has a government and a real ruler: Prince Garric of Haft. The enemies joining against him intend to destroy not only the kingdom but humankind as well. The rebels gathering in the West outnumber the royal army and the magic they wield can strike into the heart of the palace itself, but far greater dangers lie behind those. On the far fringes of the Isles, ancient powers ready themselves for a titanic struggle in which human beings are mere pawns--or fodder! Reptilian and insect monsters from out of the ages march on the kingdom, commanded by wizards no longer human or never human at all. If unchecked, their ravening slaughter will sweep over the Isles as destructively as a flood of lava. Garric, ripped from his time and body, must make new allies if he and his kingdom are to survive. Watching them all from the blackness of a tomb walled off in time and space, the Mistress waits... And her fangs drip poison! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Book The Archaeology of Rome  The Catacombs

Download or read book The Archaeology of Rome The Catacombs written by John Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Body in Bioethics

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  • Author : Alastair V. Campbell
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2009-05-07
  • ISBN : 1135393001
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book The Body in Bioethics written by Alastair V. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thorough and comprehensive, this volume engages with recent debates about the uses and abuses of the human body, both living and dead.

Book The Empire of Death

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  • Author : Paul Koudounaris
  • Publisher : National Geographic Books
  • Release : 2011-09-20
  • ISBN : 0500251789
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Empire of Death written by Paul Koudounaris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bone fetishism in the ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual and compelling work of cultural history. It is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces of art created from human bone. These unique structures have been pushed into the footnotes of history; they were part of a dialogue with death that is now silent. The sites in this specially photographed and brilliantly original study range from the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Palermo, where the living would visit mummified or skeletal remains and lovingly dress them; to the Paris catacombs; to fantastic bone-encrusted creations in Austria, Cambodia, the Czech Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Peru, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and elsewhere. Paul Koudounaris photographed more than seventy sites for this book. He analyzes the role of these remarkable memorials within the cultures that created them, as well as the mythology and folklore that developed around them, and skillfully traces a remarkable human endeavor.

Book The catacombs

Download or read book The catacombs written by John Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Roman Catacombs

Download or read book The Roman Catacombs written by James Spencer Northcote and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catacombs of Rome

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  • Author : John Henry Parker
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-08-01
  • ISBN : 3385549809
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Catacombs of Rome written by John Henry Parker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

Book Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History

Download or read book Public Uses of Human Remains and Relics in History written by Silvia Cavicchioli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal theme of this volume is the importance of the public use of human remains in a historical perspective. The book presents a series of case studies aimed at offering historiographical and methodological reflections and providing interpretative approaches highlighting how, through the ages and with a succession of complex practices and uses, human remains have been imbued with a plurality of meanings. Covering a period running from late antiquity to the present day, the contributions are the combined results of multidisciplinary research pertaining to the realities of the Italian peninsula, hitherto not investigated with a long-term and multidisciplinary historical perspective. From the relics of great men to the remains of patriots, and from anatomical specimens to the skeletons of the saints: through these case studies the scholars involved have investigated a wide range of human remains (real or reputed) and of meanings attributed to them, in order to decipher their function over the centuries. In doing so, they have traversed the interpretative boundaries of political history, religious history and the history of science, as required by questions aimed at integrating the anthropological, social and cultural aspects of a complex subject.

Book The Catacombs

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  • Author : Jeremy Bates
  • Publisher : World's Scariest Places
  • Release : 2015-02-24
  • ISBN : 9780993764691
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Catacombs written by Jeremy Bates and published by World's Scariest Places. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paris, France is known as the City of Lights, a metropolis renowned for romance and beauty. Beneath the bustling streets and cafes, however, exists The Catacombs, a labyrinth of crumbling tunnels home to six million dead. When a video camera containing mysterious footage is discovered deep within their depths, a group of friends venture into the tunnels to investigate. But what starts out as a lighthearted adventure takes a turn for the worse when they reach their destination and stumble upon the evil lurking there.

Book The Lesson of the Catacombs

Download or read book The Lesson of the Catacombs written by Alexander Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Archaeology of Rome  The catacombs of Rome

Download or read book The Archaeology of Rome The catacombs of Rome written by John Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jewish Catacombs

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  • Author : Elsa Laurenzi
  • Publisher : Gangemi Editore Spa
  • Release : 2013-03-28T00:00:00+01:00
  • ISBN : 8849275749
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Jewish Catacombs written by Elsa Laurenzi and published by Gangemi Editore Spa. This book was released on 2013-03-28T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This slender well-written book is packed with easy-toread information about the structure of the Jewish community of Rome and the politics and history of the city where it developed and grew. Not an easy task because very little documentation has survived to the present day; Elsa Laurenzi is honest enough to inform the reader of this difficulty and avoids making “easy” but unfounded statements. Instead she takes the reader by the hand and illustrates the customs and culture of a society that was part of a much larger society, as different as it was tolerant, one that knew how to integrate different and contrasting forms of reality. Using a glossary inserted into the text, she uses the sources available - ancient authors, epigraphic texts, archaeological remains – to provide useful and accurate explanations about a terminology not everyone may be familiar with.

Book The Bone Gatherers

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  • Author : Nicola Denzey
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2007-07-01
  • ISBN : 0807013188
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Bone Gatherers written by Nicola Denzey and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bone gatherers found in the annals and legends of the early Roman Catholic Church were women who collected the bodies of martyred saints to give them a proper burial. They have come down to us as deeply resonant symbols of grief: from the women who anointed Jesus's crucified body in the gospels to the Pietà, we are accustomed to thinking of women as natural mourners, caring for the body in all its fragility and expressing our deepest sorrow. But to think of women bone gatherers merely as mourners of the dead is to limit their capacity to stand for something more significant. In fact, Denzey argues that the bone gatherers are the mythic counterparts of historical women of substance and means-women who, like their pagan sisters, devoted their lives and financial resources to the things that mattered most to them: their families, their marriages, and their religion. We find their sometimes splendid burial chambers in the catacombs of Rome, but until Denzey began her research for The Bone Gatherers, the monuments left to memorialize these women and their contributions to the Church went largely unexamined. The Bone Gatherers introduces us to once-powerful women who had, until recently, been lost to history—from the sorrowing mothers and ghastly brides of pagan Rome to the child martyrs and women sponsors who shaped early Christianity. It was often only in death that ancient women became visible—through the buildings, burial sites, and art constructed in their memory—and Denzey uses this archaeological evidence, along with ancient texts, to resurrect the lives of several fourth-century women. Surprisingly, she finds that representations of aristocratic Roman Christian women show a shift in the value and significance of womanhood over the fourth century: once esteemed as powerful leaders or patrons, women came to be revered (in an increasingly male-dominated church) only as virgins or martyrs—figureheads for sexual purity. These depictions belie a power struggle between the sexes within early Christianity, waged via the Church's creation and manipulation of collective memory and subtly shifting perceptions of women and femaleness in the process of Christianization. The Bone Gatherers is at once a primer on how to "read" ancient art and the story of a struggle that has had long-lasting implications for the role of women in the Church.

Book The Ladies  Pearl

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1842
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book The Ladies Pearl written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening

Download or read book Park and Cemetery and Landscape Gardening written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book State of Missouri  Respondent  Vs  B  Clark Hyde  Appellant

Download or read book State of Missouri Respondent Vs B Clark Hyde Appellant written by Bennett Clark Hyde and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: