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Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800
Published 2009Subjects: “…Painting, Spanish.…”
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An Armenian artist in Ottoman Egypt Yuhanna al-Armani and his Coptic icons /
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Art and devotion at a Buddhist temple in the Indian Himalaya /
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The Idea of the Book in the Middle Ages : Language Theory, Mythology, and Fiction /
Published 1985Table of Contents: “…The semiology of space in the Middle Ages: on manuscript painting, sacred architecture, scholasticism, and music --…”
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Dutch culture in the Golden Age
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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Mpu Monaguṇa's Sumanasāntaka an old Javanese epic poem, its Indian source and Balinese illustrations /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Myths of kingship : journeys and landscapes in the ancient Javanese imaginary / by Peter Worsley -- pt. 5. Balinese paintings of the Sumanasāntaka / by Peter Worsley.…”
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Death of a nation American culture and the end of exceptionalism /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…The birth and death of American history -- Historians leaving home, killing fathers -- The crisis of American literary criticism from World War I to World War II -- Elegies for the national landscape -- The new literary criticism : the death of the nation born in New England -- The vanishing national landscape : painting, architecture, music, and philosophy in the early twentieth century -- The disintegration of national boundaries : literary criticism in the late twentieth century -- The end of American history.…”
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Catalonia a cultural history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Birth and rebirth of a nation -- The first town in Spain (Portbou) -- Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona) -- Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees -- Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens -- The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer) -- The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró -- I Come from a silence : Raimon -- Tourism and war -- The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret -- Plain and river. …”
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Egypt and the Classical World : Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity /
Published 2022Table of Contents: “…Kelder -- Mediterranean Encounters: Greeks, Carians, and Egyptians in the First Millennium BC / Alexandra Villing -- "I Am Isis": The Role of Speech in the Cult of Isis / Martin Bommas -- The Creation of New "Cultural Codes": The Ptolemaic Queens and Their Syncretic Processes with Isis, Hathor, and Aphrodite / Martina Minas-Nerpel -- The Kellis Mammisi: A Painted Chapel from the Final Centuries of the Ancient Egyptian Religion / Olaf E. …”
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Re-thinking Renaissance objects
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley -- Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley -- Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper -- Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek -- New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo -- Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves -- Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall -- Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy -- Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.…”
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Early modern encounters with the Islamic East performing cultures /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…English women in Oriental dress: playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish embassy letters and Daniel Defoe's Roxana / Susanne Scholz -- Painting the "Orient" Dosso Dossi's Melissa / Wibke Joswig -- Materialising Islam on the early modern English stage / Matthew Dimmock -- Encounters on stage. …”
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Spirits unseen the representation of subtle bodies in early modern European culture /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Vapours and veils : the edge of the unseen / Christine Gottler -- Poltergeist the prequel : aspects of other worldly disturbances in early modern times / Wolfgang Neuber -- Fire, smoke and vapour, Jan Brueghel's "poetic hell' : ghespoock in early modern European art / Christine Gottler -- Moveable feasts of reason : description, intelligence, and the excitation of sight / Bret Rothstein -- Images in the air : optical games, magic, and imagination / Sven Dupre -- Material gazes and flying images in Marsilio Ficino and Michelangelo / Berthold Hub -- Spirits of love: Castiglione and Neo-Platonic discourses of vision / Wietse de Boer -- Painting's enchanting poison : artistic eficacy and the transfer of spirits / Thijs Weststeijn -- "Singe the enchantment for sleepe" : music and bewitched sleep in early modern English drama / Sarah F. …”
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Temptation in the Archives : Essays in Golden Age Dutch Culture /
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