Listing 1 - 10 of 38 | << page >> |
Sort by
|
Choose an application
language --- linguistics --- literature --- modern culture
Choose an application
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.
Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Maritime, Britain, Sea, early modern, culture.
Choose an application
This volume offers the author’s central articles on the medieval and early modern history of cartography for the first time in English translation. A first group of essays gives an overview of medieval cartography and illustrates the methods of cartographers. Another analyzes world maps and travel accounts in relation to mapped spaces. A third examines land surveying, cartographical practices of exploration, and the production of Portolan atlases.
HISTORY / Medieval. --- Cartography. --- Early Modern Culture. --- Medieval Culture. --- Travel Literature.
Choose an application
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.
Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Maritime, Britain, Sea, early modern, culture.
Choose an application
Drawing on a rich array of textual and visual primary sources, including medicine, satires, play scripts, dictionaries, natural philosophy, and texts on collecting wonders, this book provides a fresh perspective on monstrosity in early modern European culture. The essays explore how exceptional bodies challenged social, religious, sexual and natural structures and hierarchies in the sixteenth, seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and contributed to its knowledge, moral and emotional repertoire. Prodigious births, maternal imagination, hermaphrodites, collections of extraordinary things, powerful women, disabilities, controversial exercise, shapeshifting phenomena and hybrids are examined in a period before all varieties and differences became normalized to a homogenous standard. The historicizing of exceptional bodies is central in the volume since it expands our understanding of early modern culture and deepens our knowledge of its specific ways of conceptualizing singularities, rare examples, paradoxes, rules and conventions in nature and society.
Choose an application
Painting --- Roman history --- Etruscan [language] --- antieke schilderkunst --- Roman [modern culture] --- schilderkunst
Choose an application
Long description: Is it possible to create a community for those who resist family and communal life? A community where everyone lives according to their own rhythm, and yet respects the individual rhythms of others? In a thought-provoking and original, interdisciplinary approach to questions of conviviality, the contributions of this anthology respond to Roland Barthes' 1977 lecture series on the subject of How to Live Together at the Collège de France in Paris and explore Barthes' utopia of idiorrhytmic life forms in literature, arts and other media. Biographical note: Knut Stene-Johansen (Dr. phil.), born in 1957, is Professor of Comparative Literature and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. In his research he uses concepts from the medical humanities, psychoanalysis, 18th century studies and historical and contemporary gastronomy. Christian Refsum (Dr. Art.), born in 1962, is Professor of Comparative Literature, and teaches aesthetics, literary history and theory at the University of Oslo. He specializes in the fields of aesthetics, love studies and world literature. Johan Schimanski (Dr. Art.), born in 1963, is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo and at present Head of Research at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. He is also a visiting research professor of cultural encounters at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on border poetics, Arctic discourses, and literary exhibition practices.
Culture --- Cultural Theory --- cultural studies --- General Literature Studies --- Communities --- Idiorrythmy --- Conviviality --- Individualism --- Modern Culture
Choose an application
This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and perceived by their audiences: readers, listeners, and viewers. According to the current understanding that opposing cognitive categories that are so common in modern thinking do not apply to pre-modern mentalities, we argue that individuals in medieval and pre-modern societies did not necessarily consider sacred and secular, male and female, real and fictional, and opposing emotions as absolute dichotomies.The contributors to the present collection examine a wide range of cultural artifacts - literary texts, wall paintings, sculptures, jewelry, manuscript illustrations, and various objects as to what they reflect regarding the dominant perceptual system - the network of beliefs, worldviews, presumptions, values, and norms of viewing/reading/hearing different from modern epistemology strongly predicated on the binary nature of things and people. The essays suggest that analyzing pre-modern cultural works of art or literature in light of reception theory can lead to a better understanding of how those cultural products influenced individuals and impacted their thoughts and actions.
Early Modern Ages. --- Reception Studies. --- burred boundaries. --- pre-modern Europe. --- pre-modern culture.
Choose an application
Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.
Choose an application
Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Sex in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- Art History. --- Early-Modern Culture and Literature. --- Medieval Culture and Literature. --- Sexuality. --- Social History.
Listing 1 - 10 of 38 | << page >> |
Sort by
|