Описание: This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ostensibly document medieval performance instead revise its characteristic features to conform to a playgoing experience that was associated with classical antiquity. This retrospective vision of the late medieval performance tradition contributed to its demise in sixteenth-century France and promoted assumptions about medieval theater that continue to inform the contemporary disciplines of art and theater history.
Описание: Scholars have long studied classical Sanskrit culture in almost total isolation from its courtly context. As the first book-length study to focus exclusively on the royal court as a social and cultural institution, this book fills that gap in the literature. Using both literary and inscriptional sources, it begins with the rise and spread of royal households and political hierarchies from the Gupta period (c. 350–750), and traces the emergence of a coherent courtly worldview which would remain stable for almost a millennium to 1200. Later chapters examine key features of courtly life which have been all but ignored by the previous literature on ancient Indian society: manners, ethics, concepts of personal beauty, and theories of disposition. The book ends with a sustained examination of the theory and practice of erotic love in the context of the wider social dynamics and anxieties which faced the people of the court.
Автор: Howard Williams Название: Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain ISBN: 0521840198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521840194 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11502 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400–1100 AD. Drawing on archaeological evidence from across Britain, including archaeological discoveries, Howard Williams presents a fresh interpretation of the significance of portable artefacts, the body, structures, monuments and landscapes in early medieval mortuary practices. He argues that materials and spaces were used in ritual performances that served as 'technologies of remembrance', practices that created shared 'social' memories intended to link past, present and future. Through the deployment of material culture, early medieval societies were therefore selectively remembering and forgetting their ancestors and their history. Throwing light on an important aspect of medieval society, this book is essential reading for archaeologists and historians with an interest in the early medieval period.
Автор: Adam J. Kosto Название: Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia ISBN: 0521037859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521037853 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7394 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late twelfth century, it is possible to demonstrate the remarkable stability of the fluid structures which they engendered in what is generally thought of as ‘feudal society’. The process of documentary change reveals the true nature and pace of the ‘transformation of the year 1000’. Analysis of the convenientia as an instrument of power and its interaction with oral practices contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of the written word in medieval societies. Finally, a broad historiographical context establishes the significance of this study of Catalonia for a more general appreciation of the medieval Mediterranean world.
Автор: Adam J. Kosto Название: Making Agreements in Medieval Catalonia ISBN: 0521792398 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521792394 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13557 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This study examines the role of written agreements in eleventh- and twelfth-century Catalonia, and how they determined the social and political order. By tracing the fate of these agreements - or convenientiae - from their first appearance to the late twelfth century, it is possible to demonstrate the remarkable stability of the fluid structures which they engendered in what is generally thought of as ‘feudal society’. The process of documentary change reveals the true nature and pace of the ‘transformation of the year 1000’. Analysis of the convenientia as an instrument of power and its interaction with oral practices contributes to a deeper understanding of the role of the written word in medieval societies. Finally, a broad historiographical context establishes the significance of this study of Catalonia for a more general appreciation of the medieval Mediterranean world.
Автор: Costambeys Название: Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy ISBN: 0521178304 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521178303 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5477 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region's history in the early Middle Ages revolves around the rise of the papacy as a secular political power. But Farfa's avoidance of domination by the pope throughout its early medieval history, despite one pope's involvement in its early establishment, reveals that papal aggrandizement had strict limits. Other parties - local elites, as well as Lombard and then Carolingian rulers - were often more important in structuring power in the region. Many were also patrons of Farfa, and this book reveals how a major ecclesiastical institution operated in early medieval politics, as a conduit for others' interests, and a player in its own right.
Автор: Innes, Matthew Название: Introduction to early medieval western europe, 300-900 ISBN: 0415215064 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415215060 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16500 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Studying European history, this textbook combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures of the societies within it. It contains chapter summaries; key topic essays discussing archaeological evidence; illustrations from archaeological finds; and more.
Автор: Squatriti Название: Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy ISBN: 1107034485 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107034488 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11092 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This innovative environmental history of the long-lived European chestnut tree and its woods offers valuable new perspectives on the human transition from the Roman to the medieval world in Italy. Integrating evidence from botanical and literary sources, individual charters and case studies of specific communities, the book traces fluctuations in the size and location of Italian chestnut woods to expose how early medieval societies changed their land use between the fourth and eleventh centuries, and in the process changed themselves. As the chestnut tree gained popularity in late antiquity and became a valuable commodity by the end of the first millennium, this study brings to life the economic and cultural transition from a Roman Italy of cities, agricultural surpluses and markets to a medieval Italy of villages and subsistence farming.
Описание: The Iberian Peninsula has always been an integral part of the Mediterranean world, from the age of Tartessos and the Phoenicians to our own era and the Union for the Mediterranean. The cutting-edge essays in this volume examine what it means for medieval and early modern Iberia and its people to be considered as part of the Mediterranean.
Автор: Gantner Название: The Resources of the Past in Early Medieval Europe ISBN: 1107091713 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107091719 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10681 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume analyses the importance of history, the textual resources of the past and the integration of Christian and imperial Rome into the cultural memory of early medieval Europe within the wider question of identity formation. The case studies in this book shed new light on the process of codification and modification of cultural heritage in the light of the transmission of texts and the extant manuscript evidence from the early middle ages. The authors demonstrate how particular texts and their early medieval manuscript representatives in Italy, Francia, Saxony and Bavaria not only reflect ethnic, social and cultural identities but themselves contributed to the creation of identities, gave meaning to social practice, and were often intended to inspire, guide, change, or prevent action, directly or indirectly. These texts are shown to be part of a cultural effort to shape the present by restructuring the past.
Автор: Chazelle Название: Paradigms and Methods in Early Medieval Studies ISBN: 1403969426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403969422 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 10394 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection of essays critically examines, from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, current approaches to the study of late antique and early medieval Europe.
Описание: Inspired by the path-breaking work of Robert Tittler, the authors explore late Medieval and Early Modern community and identity across England. They examine the decline of neighbourliness, the politics of market towns, clerical status, charity, crime, and ways in which overlapping communities of court and country, London and Lancashire, relate.
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