Animating Empire

Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271081511
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animating Empire written by Jessica Keating and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Author : Jessica Keating
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 027108149X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Animating Empire written by Jessica Keating and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, German clockwork automata were collected, displayed, and given as gifts throughout the Holy Roman, Ottoman, and Mughal Empires. In Animating Empire, Jessica Keating recounts the lost history of six such objects and reveals the religious, social, and political meaning they held. The intricate gilt, silver, enameled, and bejeweled clockwork automata, almost exclusively crafted in the city of Augsburg, represented a variety of subjects in motion, from religious figures to animals. Their movements were driven by gears, wheels, and springs painstakingly assembled by clockmakers. Typically wound up and activated by someone in a position of power, these objects and the theological and political arguments they made were highly valued by German-speaking nobility. They were often given as gifts and as tribute payment, and they played remarkable roles in the Holy Roman Empire, particularly with regard to courtly notions about the important early modern issues of universal Christian monarchy, the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, the encroachment of the Ottoman Empire, and global trade. Demonstrating how automata produced in the Holy Roman Empire spoke to a convergence of historical, religious, and political circumstances, Animating Empire is a fascinating analysis of the animation of inanimate matter in the early modern period. It will appeal especially to art historians and historians of early modern Europe. E-book editions have been made possible through support of the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Author : Sinem Arcak Casale
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226820424
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gifts in the Age of Empire written by Sinem Arcak Casale and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts. When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, religious, and military conflicts that arose have since been widely studied, but little attention has been paid to their diplomatic relationship. Sinem Arcak Casale here sets out to explore these two major Muslim empires through a surprising lens: gifts. Countless treasures—such as intricate carpets, gilded silver cups, and ivory-tusk knives—flowed from the Safavid to the Ottoman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. While only a handful now survive, records of these gifts exist in court chronicles, treasury records, poems, epistolary documents, ambassadorial reports, and travel narratives. Tracing this elaborate archive, Casale treats gifts as representative of the complicated Ottoman-Safavid coexistence, demonstrating how their rivalry was shaped as much by culture and aesthetics as it was by religious or military conflict. Gifts in the Age of Empire explores how gifts were no mere accessories to diplomacy but functioned as a mechanism of competitive interaction between these early modern Muslim courts.

Author : David Chidester
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022611757X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire of Religion written by David Chidester and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is knowledge about religion and religions produced, and how is that knowledge authenticated and circulated? David Chidester seeks to answer these questions in Empire of Religion, documenting and analyzing the emergence of a science of comparative religion in Great Britain during the second half of the nineteenth century and its complex relations to the colonial situation in southern Africa. In the process, Chidester provides a counterhistory of the academic study of religion, an alternative to standard accounts that have failed to link the field of comparative religion with either the power relations or the historical contingencies of the imperial project. In developing a material history of the study of religion, Chidester documents the importance of African religion, the persistence of the divide between savagery and civilization, and the salience of mediations—imperial, colonial, and indigenous—in which knowledge about religions was produced. He then identifies the recurrence of these mediations in a number of case studies, including Friedrich Max Müller’s dependence on colonial experts, H. Rider Haggard and John Buchan’s fictional accounts of African religion, and W. E. B. Du Bois’s studies of African religion. By reclaiming these theorists for this history, Chidester shows that race, rather than theology, was formative in the emerging study of religion in Europe and North America. Sure to be controversial, Empire of Religion is a major contribution to the field of comparative religious studies.

Author : Anthony J. Hall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773530065
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Empire and the Fourth World written by Anthony J. Hall and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that Naomi Klein says could "change the world," Anthony Hall shows that the globalization debate actually began in 1492.

Author : Isabella Lazzarini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350102733
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance written by Isabella Lazzarini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance, explores peace in the period from 1450 to 1648. As with all the volumes in the illustrated Cultural History of Peace set, this volume presents essays on the meaning of peace, peace movements, maintaining peace, peace in relation to gender, religion and war and representations of peace. A Cultural History of Peace in the Renaissance is the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on peace in the early modern era.

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts). Nobleman's letters. Goody two-shoes. Index written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oliver Goldsmith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Prefaces and introductions. Animated nature (extracts) Nobleman's letters. Goody Two-shoes. Index written by Oliver Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patrick Griffin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809095157
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Leviathan written by Patrick Griffin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Author : Lewis Browne
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Graphic Bible from Genesis to Revelation in Animated Maps & Charts written by Lewis Browne and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1928 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graphic Bible that has maps and time lines that tell the stories of the Bible along with written text. Designed to interest children in the reading of the Bible.