Lepanto And Beyond

Author : Laura Stagno
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702640
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lepanto and Beyond written by Laura Stagno and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary approach to the Iberian and Italian perceptions and representations of the Battle of Lepanto and the Muslim “other” The Battle of Lepanto, celebrated as the greatest triumph of Christianity over its Ottoman enemy, was soon transformed into a powerful myth through a vast media campaign. The varied storytelling and the many visual representations that contributed to shape the perception of the battle in Christian Europe are the focus of this book. In broader terms, Lepanto and Beyond also sheds light on the construction of religious alterity in the early modern Mediterranean. It presents cross-disciplinary case studies that explore the figure of the Muslim captive in historical documentation, artistic depictions, and literature. With a focus on the Republic of Genoa, the authors also aim to balance the historical scale and restore the important role of the Genoese in the general scholarly discussion of Lepanto and its images.

Author : Paul A. Olson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803215740
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond a Common Joy written by Paul A. Olson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Soul of the age!? Ben Jonson eulogized Shakespeare, and in the next breath, ?He was not of an age but for all time.? That he was both ?of the age? and ?for all time? is, this book suggests, the key to Shakespeare?s comic genius. In this engaging introduction to the First Folio comedies, Paul A. Olson gives a persuasive and thoroughly engrossing account of the playwright?s comic transcendence, showing how Shakespeare, by taking on the great themes of his time, elevated comedy from a mere mid-level literary form to its own form of greatness?on par with epic and tragedy. Like the best tragic or epic writers, Shakespeare in his comedies goes beyond private and domestic matters in order to draw on the whole of the commonwealth. He examines how a ruler?s or a court?s community at the household and local levels shapes the politics of empire?existing or nascent empires such as England, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Venice, and the Ottoman Empire or part empires such as Rome and Athens?where all their suffering and silliness play into how they govern. In Olson?s work we also see how Shakespeare?s appropriation of his age?s ideas about classical myth and biblical scriptures bring to his comic action a sort of sacral profundity in keeping with notions of poetry as ?inspired? and comic endings as more than merely happy but as, in fact, uncommonly joyful.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395709
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jews and Muslims Made Visible in Christian Iberia and Beyond, 14th to 18th Centuries written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume aims to show through various case studies how the interrelations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in Iberia were negotiated in the field of images, objects and architecture during the Later Middle Ages and Early Modernity.

Author : Armin Bergmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110722070
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time and Presence in Art written by Armin Bergmeier and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections between medieval artworks' varied presences and their ever-shifting places in time. The volume begins with reflections on the study of temporality and presence in medieval and early modern art history. A second section presents case studies delving into the different ways medieval artworks once created and transformed their original viewers' experience of the present. These range from late antique Constantinople, early Islamic Jerusalem and medieval Italy, to early modern Venice and the Low Countries. A final section explores how medieval artworks remain powerful and relevant today. This section includes case studies on reconstructing presence in medieval art through embodied experience of pilgrimage, art historical research and museum education. In doing so, the volume provides a first dialog between museum educators and art historians on the presence of medieval artifacts. It includes contributions by Hans Belting, Keith Moxey, Rika Burnham and others.

Author : John Flannery
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900424770X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747) written by John Flannery and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747), John M. Flannery describes the establishment and activities of the Portuguese Augustinian mission in Persia. Hopes of converting the Safavid ruler of the Shi’a Muslim state would come to naught, as would the attempts of Shah ‘Abbas I to use the services of the missionaries, as representatives of the Spanish Habsburgs, to forge an anti-Ottoman alliance with the papacy and the Christian rulers of Europe. Prevented from converting Muslims, the Augustinians turned their attention to Armenian and Syriac Christians in Isfahan, later also establishing new missions among Christians in Georgia and the Mandaeans of the Basra region, all of which are described herein. The history of the Augustinian Order is generally under-represented by contrast with other Orders, and this study breaks new ground in existing scholarship.

Author : Jane Grogan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191079847
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Greece and Rome written by Jane Grogan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though the subject of classical reception in early modern Europe is a familiar one, modern scholarship has tended to assume the dominance of Greece and Rome in engagements with the classical world during that period. The essays in this volume aim to challenge this prevailing view by arguing for the significance and familiarity of the ancient near east to early modern Europe, establishing the diversity and expansiveness of the classical world known to authors like Shakespeare and Montaigne in what we now call the 'global Renaissance'. However, global Renaissance studies has tended to look away from classical reception, exacerbating the blind spot around the significance of the ancient near east for early modern Europe. Yet this wider classical world supported new modes of humanist thought and unprecedented cross-cultural encounters, as well as informing new forms of writing, such as travel writing and antiquarian treatises; in many cases, and befitting its Herodotean origins, the ancient near east raises questions of travel, empire, religious diversity, cultural relativism, and the history of European culture itself in ways that prompted detailed, engaging, and functional responses by early modern readers and writers. Bringing together a range of approaches from across the fields of classical studies, history, and comparative literature, this volume seeks both to emphasize the transnational, interdisciplinary, and interrogative nature of classical reception, and to make a compelling case for the continued relevance of the texts, concepts, and materials of the ancient near east, specifically, to early modern culture and scholarship.

Author : Jutta-Annette Page
Publisher : Hudson Hills
ISBN 13 : 9780872901575
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Venice written by Jutta-Annette Page and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lovingly illustrated celebration of the Venetian art of "cristallo" focuses on this remarkable glasswork produced in five countries during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, using essays and photographs to highlight the aesthetic and social dimensions of this unique craft. 281 colour & 47 b/w illustrations

Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812977645
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires of the Sea written by Roger Crowley and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic clash between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world. In Empires of the Sea, acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written a thrilling account of this brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe, a fast-paced tale of spiraling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar. Crowley conjures up a wild cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriors struggling for supremacy and survival in a tale of slavery and galley warfare, desperate bravery and utter brutality. Empires of the Sea is a story of extraordinary color and incident, and provides a crucial context for our own clash of civilizations.

Author : Fabrizio De Donno
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734203X
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Catholicism written by Fabrizio De Donno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays within Beyond Catholicism trace the interconnections of belief, heresy, and mysticism in Italian culture from the Middle Ages to today. In particular, they explore how religious discourse has unfolded within Italian culture in the context of shifting paradigms of rationality, authority, time, good and evil, and human collectivities.

Author : Scott Michael Decker
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Horizon written by Scott Michael Decker and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three science fiction novels by Scott Michael Decker, now available in one volume! Cube Rube: Salvager Jack Carson discovers a ghost cube on Canis Dogma Five that tells him he's the chosen one to become the next Emperor. Together with an orphan girl who claims to be the Princess of Circia, Jack navigates the capital of the Torgassan Empire while evading debt collectors from his past. Amidst his personal struggles, Jack embarks on a journey that forces him to confront his true self and ultimately question the validity of the Cube's prophecy. Doorport: Engineer Janet Thompson's attempt to fix a malfunctioning doorport system uncovers a dangerous reality. As she investigates, six people's lives are drastically altered by the growing disruptions in the fabric of space-time. With the threat of complete collapse looming, Janet must race against time to prevent disaster and save the world as she knows it. Inoculated: Lydia, an orphaned ambassador's daughter, is indifferent to the coronation of the new Empress of the nearby Gaean Empire. However, when an attempt is made to disrupt the ceremony, she realizes she is much more than just a bystander. As she is pursued across the galaxy, Lydia delves into the seedy underground of New Athens, the Imperial capitol, to uncover the truth about her past and her parents' deaths. But why do her fellow humans suddenly despise her, and why are her adopters willing to go to great lengths to protect her?