Representing The Dead
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Representing the Dead
Author | : Helen J. Swift |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843844365 |
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An examination of how the dead were memorialised in late medieval French literature.
Book of the Dead
Author | : Foy Scalf |
Publsiher | : Oriental Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Book of the dead |
ISBN | : 1614910383 |
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Discover how the ancient Egyptians controlled their immortal destiny! This book, edited by Foy Scalf, explores what the Book of the Dead was believed to do, how it worked, how it was made, and what happened to it.
Beyond the Nile
Author | : Sara E. Cole |
Publsiher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2018-04-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781606065518 |
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From about 2000 BCE onward, Egypt served as an important nexus for cultural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean, importing and exporting not just wares but also new artistic techniques and styles. Egyptian, Greek, and Roman craftsmen imitated one another’s work, creating cultural and artistic hybrids that transcended a single tradition. Yet in spite of the remarkable artistic production that resulted from these interchanges, the complex vicissitudes of exchange between Egypt and the Classical world over the course of nearly 2500 years have not been comprehensively explored in a major exhibition or publication in the United States. It is precisely this aspect of Egypt’s history, however, that Beyond the Nile uncovers. Renowned scholars have come together to provide compelling analyses of the constantly evolving dynamics of cultural exchange, first between Egyptians and Greeks—during the Bronze Age, then the Archaic and Classical periods of Greece, and finally Ptolemaic Egypt—and later, when Egypt passed to Roman rule with the defeat of Cleopatra. Beyond the Nile, a milestone publication issued on the occasion of a major international exhibition, will become an indispensable contribution to the field. With gorgeous photographs of more than two hundred rare objects, including frescoes, statues, obelisks, jewelry, papyri, pottery, and coins, this volume offers an essential and inter-disciplinary approach to the rich world of artistic cross-pollination during antiquity.
Speaking with the Dead in Early America
Author | : Erik R. Seeman |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812296419 |
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In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of practices to maintain connection with the deceased—most crucially, the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these relations came to form an important—and since neglected—aspect of Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan England to puritan New England and then on through the American Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central role.
The Presence of the Dead in Our Lives
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Brill |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2012-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9789401208529 |
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This volume offers a selection of articles from authors representing a wide array of disciplines, all of whom explore the following central theme: how can the presence of the dead take life in the hearts of the living? Although individuals die, they can indeed remain “present.” But how? Authors in this volume explicate practical mourning strategies to help survivors cope with the tremendous sadness and emptiness experienced when we lose someone we love.
More Or Less Dead
Author | : Alice Driver |
Publsiher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2015-03-26 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780816531165 |
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More or Less Dead is a rigorous critical work that asks us to reexamine conversations about human rights. This provocative book offers a penetrating portrayal of life and death in Ciudad Juárez.
When the Dead are Razed
Author | : Samuel Martin |
Publsiher | : Slant Books |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2021-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781639820689 |
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"The dead will always find ways to speak" When Teffy Byrne steals a dead sex worker's coded journal from a local art show, she thinks it might shed light on an unsolved murder committed seven years ago. The victim? Teresa Squires, her boyfriend Ger's old flame. But Teffy has to put Teresa's journal aside because Troy Hopper, Ger's former drug boss, is out of Her Majesty's Penitentiary and trying to contact Ger through her. An attempt to protect her lover quickly gets out of hand and Teffy finds herself stranded on an island with a pound of Troy's heroin smuggled inside a dead woman's urn: a dead woman whose daughter is intent on scattering what she thinks are her mother's ashes. But Teffy is determined to get the dope back and crack the code to that stolen journal. She just has no idea how explosive the journal's contents will turn out to be. Martin's propulsive storytelling, knife-edge prose, and deep compassion for the hardscrabble lives of his characters will keep you turning pages in this North Atlantic noir set against the hip galleries and rapidly changing outports of modern Newfoundland.
The Modern Book of the Dead
Author | : Ptolemy Tompkins |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9781451616538 |
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A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.