Medieval and Modern History
Author | : Hutton Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Hutton Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alexander Nagel |
Publisher | : Thames and Hudson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-11-06 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780500238974 |
Rich collisions and fresh perspectives illuminate the profound continuities of thought and practice that have marked Western art through the ages This groundbreaking study offers a radical new reading of art since the Middle Ages. Moving across the familiar period lines set out in conventional histories, Alexander Nagel explores the deep connections between modern and premodern art to reveal the underlying patterns and ideas traversing centuries of artistic practice. In a series of episodic chapters, he reconsiders from an innovative double perspective a number of key issues in the history of art, from iconoclasm and idolatry to installation and the museum as institution. He shows how the central tenets of modernism – serial production, site-specificity, collage, the readymade, and the questioning of the nature of art and authorship – were all features of earlier times before modernity, revived by recent generations. Nagel examines, among other things, the importance of medieval cathedrals to the 1920s Bauhaus movement, the parallels between Renaissance altarpieces and modern preoccupations with surface and structure; the relevance of Byzantine models to Minimalist artists; the affinities between ancient holy sites and early earthworks; and the similarities between the sacred relic and the modern readymade. Alongside the work of leading 20th-century medievalist writes such as Walter Benjamin, Marshall McLuhan, Leo Steinberg, and Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Robert Smithson, and Damien Hirst. The effect of these encounters goes in two directions at once: each age offers new insights into the other, deepening our understanding of both past and present, and providing a new set of reference points that reframe the history of art itself.
Author | : Philip Van Ness Myers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel Bannister Harding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Burton Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1899 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joel Dorman Steele |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 678 |
Release | : 1883 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew Rowley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000473821 |
This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods. Contributors explore miracles, political authority and violence in Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, various Protestant groups, Judaism, Islam and the local religious beliefs of Pacific Islanders who interacted with Christians. The chapters are geographically expansive, with contributions ranging from confessional conflict in Poland-Lithuania to the conquest of Oceania. They examine various types of conflict such as confessional struggles, conversion attempts, assassination and war, as well as themes including diplomacy, miraculous iconography, toleration, theology and rhetoric. Together, the chapters explore the appropriation of accounts of miraculous violence that are recorded in sacred texts to reveal what partisans claimed God did in conflict, and how they claimed to know. The volume investigates theories of justified warfare, changing beliefs about the supernatural with the advent of modernity and the perceived relationship between human and divine agency. Miracles, Political Authority and Violence in Medieval and Early Modern History is of interest to scholars and students in several fields including religion and violence, political and military history, and theology and the reception of sacred texts in the medieval and early modern world.
Author | : Ernst Breisach |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226072843 |
In this pioneering work, Ernst Breisach presents an effective, well-organized, and concise account of the development of historiography in Western culture. Neither a handbook nor an encyclopedia, this up-to-date third edition narrates and interprets the development of historiography from its origins in Greek poetry to the present, with compelling sections on postmodernism, deconstructionism, African-American history, women’s history, microhistory, the Historikerstreit, cultural history, and more. The definitive look at the writing of history by a historian, Historiography provides key insights into some of the most important issues, debates and innovations in modern historiography. Praise for the first edition: “Breisach’s comprehensive coverage of the subject and his clear presentation of the issues and the complexity of an evolving discipline easily make his work the best of its kind.”—Lester D. Stephens, American Historical Review
Author | : Samuel Bannister Harding |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 842 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : History, Modern |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Joseph R. Strayer |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400828570 |
The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.