Between the Middle Ages and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between the Middle Ages and Modernity write by Charles H. Parker. This book was released on 2007. Between the Middle Ages and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, early modern, and modern history, and on the Renaissance and Reformation.
Medieval Modern
Medieval Modern - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medieval Modern write by Alexander Nagel. This book was released on 2012-11-06. Medieval Modern available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rich collisions and fresh perspectives illuminate the profound continuities of thought and practice that have marked Western art through the ages This groundbreaking study offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Moving across the familiar period lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art to reveal the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. In a series of episodic chapters, he reconsiders from an innovative double perspective a number of key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and idolatry to installation and the museum as institution. He shows how the central tenets of modernism – serial production, site-specificity, collage, the readymade, and the questioning of the nature of art and authorship – were all features of earlier times before modernity, revived by recent generations. Nagel examines, among other things, the importance of medieval cathedrals to the 1920s Bauhaus movement, the parallels between Renaissance altarpieces and modern preoccupations with surface and structure; the relevance of Byzantine models to Minimalist artists; the affinities between ancient holy sites and early earthworks; and the similarities between the sacred relic and the modern readymade. Alongside the work of leading 20th-century medievalist writes such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Leo Steinberg, and Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson, and Damien Hirst. The effect of these encounters goes in two directions at once: each age offers new insights into the other, deepening our understanding of both past and present, and providing a new set of reference points that reframe the history of art itself.
Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy
Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy write by Lorenzo Pericolo. This book was released on 2015. Remembering the Middle Ages in Early Modern Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jessica N. Richardson, Introduction, Frederic Clark, Antiquitas and the Medium Aevum: The Ancient/Medieval Divide and Italian Humanism, C. Jean Campbell, Vasari in Practice, Or How to Build a Tomb and Make it Work, Eugenio Refini, Shifting Identities: Jacopo Campora's De Immortalitate Anime from Manuscript to Print, Arturo Calzona, Leon Battista Alberti: 'Philology' of Forms and Time in Sant'Andrea, Mantua, Jane Tylus, Did Siena Have a Renaissance?, Dale Kinney, Persistence and Discontinuity in Roman Churches, David Quint, Pulci's Morgante and the End of the Medieval World, Lorenzo Pericolo, Incorporating the Middle Ages: Lazzaro Bastiani, the Bellini, and the Greek and German Architecture of Medieval Venice, Federica Pich, Dante and Petrarch in Giovan Battista Gelli's Lectures at the Florentine Academy, Jessica N. Richardson, Medieval Column Crosses in Early Modern Bologna, Kirstin Noreen, The Assumption Procession in Sixteenth-Century Rome, Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Changing Historical Perspectives? Giovan Pietro Bellori and the Middle Ages in Rome, Frances Gage, Observation and Periodization in Giulio Mancini's Documentation of Early Christian and Medieval Art in Rome, Lorenzo Pericolo, Epilogue: The Shifting Boundaries of the Middle Ages: From Die Kultur der Renaissance in Italien (1860) to Anachronic Renaissance (2010).
Interspecies Interactions
Interspecies Interactions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Interspecies Interactions write by Sarah Cockram. This book was released on 2017-09-14. Interspecies Interactions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Interspecies Interactions surveys the rapidly developing field of human-animal relations from the late medieval and early modern eras through to the mid-Victorian period. By viewing animals as authentic and autonomous historical agents who had a real impact on the world around them, this book concentrates on an under-examined but crucial aspect of the human-animal relationship: interaction. Each chapter provides scholarly debate on the methods and challenges of the study of interspecies interactions, and together they offer an insight into the part that humans and animals have played in shaping each other’s lives, as well as encouraging reflection on the directions that human-animal relations may yet take. Beginning with an exploration of Samuel Pepys’ often emotional relationships with the many animals that he knew, the chapters cover a wide range of domestic, working, and wild animals and include case studies on carnival animals, cattle, dogs, horses, apes, snakes, sharks, and invertebrates. These case studies of human-animal interactions are further brought to life through visual representation, by the inclusion of over 20 images within the book. From ‘sleeve cats’ to lion fights, Interspecies Interactions encompasses a broad spectrum of relationships between humans and animals. Covering topics such as use, emotion, cognition, empire, status, and performance across several centuries and continents, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of historical animal studies.
East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times write by Albrecht Classen. This book was released on 2013-09-03. East Meets West in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This new volume explores the surprisingly intense and complex relationships between East and West during the Middle Ages and the early modern world, combining a large number of critical studies representing such diverse fields as literary (German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, and Arabic) and other subdisciplines of history, religion, anthropology, and linguistics. The differences between Islam and Christianity erected strong barriers separating two global cultures, but, as this volume indicates, despite many attempts to 'Other' the opposing side, the premodern world experienced an astonishing degree of contacts, meetings, exchanges, and influences. Scientists, travelers, authors, medical researchers, chroniclers, diplomats, and merchants criss-crossed the East and the West, or studied the sources produced by the other culture for many different reasons. As much as the theoretical concept of 'Orientalism' has been useful in sensitizing us to the fundamental tensions and conflicts separating both worlds at least since the eighteenth century, the premodern world did not quite yet operate in such an ideological framework. Even though the Crusades had violently pitted Christians against Muslims, there were countless contacts and a palpitable curiosity on both sides both before, during, and after those religious warfares.
