Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity: Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland, Jas Elsner
Автор: Fikret Yegul, Diane Favro Название: Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity ISBN: 0521470714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521470711 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 44510.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book affirms the enduring attractions of Roman buildings and environments. Incorporating recent research and perceptive interpretations, it presents developments across the Roman world in a lively and accessible manner. By interrogating the meaning of architecture in daily life, it attracts audiences across diverse fields and backgrounds.
Описание: In this book Sadi Marechal examines the survival, transformation and eventual decline of Roman public baths and bathing habits in Italy, North Africa and Palestine during Late Antiquity. Through the analysis of archaeological remains, ancient literature, inscriptions and papyri, the continued importance of bathhouses as social hubs within the urban fabric is demonstrated, thus radically altering common misconceptions of their decline through the rise of Christianity and elite seclusion. Persistent ideas about health and hygiene, as well as perpetuating ideas of civic self-esteem, drove people to build, restore and praise these focal points of daily life when other classical buildings were left to crumble.
Описание: In this book, Philip Kiernan explores how cult images functioned in Roman temples from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity in the Roman west. He demonstrates how and why a temple's idols, were more important to ritual than other images such as votive offerings and decorative sculpture. These idols were seen by many to be divine and possessed of agency. They were, thus, the primary focus of worship. Aided by cross-cultural comparative material, Kiernan's study brings a biographical approach to explore the 'lives' of idols and cult images - how they were created, housed in temples, used and worshipped, and eventually destroyed or buried. He also shows how the status of cult images could change, how new idols and other cult images were being continuously created, and how, in each phase of their lives, we find evidence for the significant power of idols.
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