Catacomb City

Author : E. Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137468041
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foucault’s Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs written by E. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The catacombs of Rome have captured imaginations for centuries. This innovative study takes a fresh look at these underground spaces, and considers how art, space, texts, and practices can tell us more about the catacombs and the people who dug and decorated them.

Author : Rachel Hachlili
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004496955
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Menorah, the Ancient Seven-armed Candelabrum written by Rachel Hachlili and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The menorah was the most important and dominant symbol in Jewish art, both in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora. The menorah was an integral part of the Temple ritual and was the most important of the Temple vessels. Its later representation served the purpose of reminding the Jews of their previous glory as well as their pride in the Temple, and expressed the longing and hope for the renewal of the Temple services and worship. Following the destruction of the Temple, the menorah took on the profound significance of the Temple. It also came to symbolize Judaism, when it was necessary to distinguish synagogues, Jewish tombs, and catacombs from Christian or pagan structures in the Land of Israel and the Diaspora . The menorah image has been found depicted in synagogues, public buildings, homes, and the funerary context throughout the Land of Israel and the Diaspora, leaving no doubt as to which are Jewish structures. The prominent position of the menorah in Jewish art emphasizes its significance. The book is presenting the art, archaeological, historical and literary evidence for the development, form, meaning, and significance of the menorah during the Second Temple period and the Late Antiquity.

Author : Peter Lampe
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441110046
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christians at Rome in the First Two Centuries written by Peter Lampe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the rise and shape of the earliest churches in Rome, Lampe integrates history, archaeology, theology, and social analysis. He also takes a close look at inscriptional evidence to complement the reading of the great literary texts: from Paul's letter to the Romans to the writings of Clement of Rome, Montanus and Valentinus. 'I want to learn about the daily lives of the urban Roman Christians of the first two centuries, the realities of their social lives... my ultimate goal is to contribute at least one element to a multidimensional interpretation of texts and faith expressions of early Christianity.' Peter Lampe

Author : Maurice Broaddus
Publisher : Apex Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pimp My Airship written by Maurice Broaddus and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warning: Don’t Believe the Hype! All the poet called Sleepy wants to do is spit his verses, smoke chiba, and stay off the COP’s radar—all of which becomes impossible once he encounters a professional protestor known as (120 Degrees of) Knowledge Allah. They soon find themselves on the wrong side of local authorities and have to elude the powers that be. When young heiress Sophine Jefferson’s father is murdered, the careful life she’d been constructing for herself tumbles around her. She’s quickly drawn into a web of intrigue, politics and airships, joining with Sleepy and Knowledge Allah in a fight for their freedom. Chased from one end of a retro-fitted Indianapolis to the other, they encounter outlaws, the occasional circus, possibly a medium, and more outlaws. They find themselves in a battle much larger than they imagined: a battle for control of the country and the soul of their people. The revolution will not be televised!

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501729489
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Cities written by David L. Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In Subterranean Cities, David L. Pike explores the representation of underground space in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period during which technology and heavy industry transformed urban life.The metropolis had long been considered a moral underworld of iniquity and dissolution. As the complex drainage systems, underground railways, utility tunnels, and storage vaults of the modern cityscape superseded the countryside of caverns and mines as the principal location of actual subterranean spaces, ancient and modern converged in a mythic space that was nevertheless rooted in the everyday life of the contemporary city. Writers and artists from Felix Nadar and Charles Baudelaire to Charles Dickens and Alice Meynell, Gustave Doré and Victor Hugo, George Gissing and Emile Zola, and Jules Verne and H. G. Wells integrated images of the urban underworld into their portrayals of the anatomy of modern society. Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers, and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century.

Author : Francesco Pellizzi
Publisher : Peabody Museum Press
ISBN 13 : 087365854X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Res written by Francesco Pellizzi and published by Peabody Museum Press. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes the editorial “The absconded subject of Pop,” by Thomas Crow; “Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs,” by Wu Hung; “On the ‘true body’ of Huineng,” by Michele Matteini; “Apparition painting,” by Yukio Lippit; “Immanence out of sight,” by Joyce Cheng; “Absconding in plain sight,” by Roberta Bonetti; “Ancient Maya sculptures of Tikal, seen and unseen,” by Megan E. O’Neil; “Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried,” by Claudia Brittenham; “The Parthenon frieze,” by Clemente Marconi; “Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem,” by Irina Oryshkevich; “Out of sight, yet still in place,” by Minou Schraven; “Behind closed doors,” by Melissa R. Katz; “Moving eyes,” by Bissera V. Pentcheva; “‘A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned,’” by Rebecca Zorach; “Ivory towers,” by Richard Taws; “Boxed in,” by Miranda Lash; “A concrete experience of nothing,” by William S. Smith; “Believing in art,” by Irene V. Small; “Repositories of the unconditional,” by Gabriele Guercio; “From micro/macrocosm to the aesthetics of ruins and waste-bodies,” by Jeanette Zwingenberger; “Are shadows transparent?” by Roberto Casati; “Invisibility of the digital,” by Boris Groys; “Des formes et des catégories,” by Remo Guidieri; and “Further comments on ‘Absconding,’” by Francesco Pellizzi.

Author : David Lawrence Pike
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801472565
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Cities written by David Lawrence Pike and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New life underground -- Modern necropolis -- Charon's bark -- Urban apocalypse.

Author : Robin Wellmann
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1398484075
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rewiring the Human Brain: How Extra-terrestrials Shape Humanity written by Robin Wellmann and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies strategic goals of advanced extra-terrestrial civilisations, and the implications they have for planet Earth. The theoretical framework is based on logical arguments and statistical considerations. The book explains various empirically and statistically confirmed phenomena for which science has currently no convincing explanation. These phenomena include the existence of religious beliefs, the existence of dreams, the existence of the mental disorder schizophrenia, the statistical evidence for some parapsychological phenomena, and the fact that the human brain capacity decreased since the human civilisation emerged from hunter-gatherers. The theory can be outlined as follows. A technologically highly advanced civilisation settled Earth millions of years ago and has installed its computational infrastructure under the surface of the Earth. The members of the civilisation have uploaded their minds to computers and live in a virtual reality. Their technological infrastructure includes facilities for detecting and manipulating electromagnetic signals at arbitrary position on Earth. They used intelligent programs for directing evolution on Earth, and are now in the process of developing methods for rewiring the human brain. This is done with the goal of controlling human thought processes and to prevent humans from becoming a threat for other civilisations. The first chapter proves the hypothesis with statistical and logical arguments. Putative implications for physics are derived, and creativity and mental illnesses are re-examined in the context of the developed theory. The book then provides a reinterpretation of human history. The last chapter illustrates the developed theory with some channelling reports.

Author : Heather Pringle
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1401383866
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Master Plan written by Heather Pringle and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking history of the Nazi research institute whose work helped lead to the extermination of millions In 1935, Heinrich Himmler established a Nazi research institute called The Ahnenerbe, whose mission was to send teams of scholars around the world to search for proof of Ancient Aryan conquests. But history was not their most important focus. Rather, the Ahnenerbe was an essential part of Himmler's master plan for the Final Solution. The findings of the institute were used to convince armies of SS men that they were entitled to slaughter Jews and other groups. And Himmler also hoped to use the research as a blueprint for the breeding of a new Europe in a racially purer mold. The Master Plan is a groundbreaking expose of the work of German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be warped to justify extermination, and who directly participated in the slaughter -- many of whom resumed their academic positions at war's end. It is based on Heather Pringle's extensive original research, including previously ignored archival material and unpublished photographs, and interviews with living members of the institute and their survivors. A sweeping history told with the drama of fiction, The Master Plan is at once horrifying, transfixing, and monumentally important to our comprehension of how something as unimaginable as the Holocaust could have progressed from fantasy to reality.

Author : Richard Moreno
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 1647790875
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontier Fake News written by Richard Moreno and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When readers see the names Mark Twain and Dan De Quille, fake news may not be the first thing that comes to mind. But these legendary journalists were some of the original, and most prolific, fake news writers in the early years of Nevada’s history. Frontier Fake News puts a spotlight on the hoaxes, feuds, pranks, outright lies, witty writing, and other literary devices utilized by a number of the Silver State’s frontier newsmen from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries. Often known collectively as the Sagebrush School, these journalists were opinionated, talented, and individualistic. While Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), who got his start at Virginia City’s Territorial Enterprise, and Dan De Quille (William Wright), who some felt was a better writer than Twain, are the most well-known members of the Sagebrush School, author Richard Moreno includes others such as Fred Hart, who concocted a fake social club and reported on its gatherings for Austin’s Reese River Reveille, and William Forbes, who enjoyed sprinkling clever puns with political undertones in his newspaper articles. Moreno traces the beginnings of genuine fake news from founding father Benjamin Franklin’s “Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle, Number 705, March 1782,” a fake newspaper aimed at swaying British public opinion, to the fake news articles of New York and Baltimore papers in the early 1800s. But these examples are only a prelude to the amazing accounts of petrified men, freeze-inducing solar armor, magically magnetic rocks, blood-curdling massacres, and other nonsense stories that appeared in Nevada’s frontier newspapers and beyond.