God`s Architect, Rosemary Hill

Автор: Hill Rosemary
Название: Stonehenge
ISBN: 0674072294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780674072299
Издательство: Harvard University Press
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Welcoming 800,000 visitors each year, Stonehenge is the most famous pre-historic monument in all of Europe. It has inspired modern replicas throughout the world, including one constructed entirely of discarded refrigerators. This curious structure is the subject of cult worship, is a source of pride for Britons, and offers an intellectual challenge for academics. It has captured the imagination and the attention of thousands of people for thousands of years.

Over the centuries, experts have tried to discover the meaning behind Stonehenge. While each new theory contradicts earlier speculation, every new proposal attributes a purpose to the site. From bards of the twelfth century to Black Sabbath, from William Blake to archaeologists of the twenty-first century, Stonehenge has embodied a wealth of intention. Was it designed for winter solstice, for goddess worship, or as a funerary temple? While all have been suggested, even proven, the mystery continues.

Through the eyes of its most eloquent apologists, Rosemary Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many things to Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism. In the end, the stones remain compelling because they remain mysterious apparently simple yet incomprehensible that is the wonder, the enchantment, of Stonehenge."

Автор: Hill, Rosemary
Название: Stonehenge
ISBN: 1861978804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781861978806
Издательство: Profile
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Описание: Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. This title provides wide-ranging history of the megalithic structure, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.