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The Madaba Map Centenary 1897 1997
Author | : Michele Piccirillo,Eugenio Alliata |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Byzantine antiquities |
ISBN | : UOM:39015055818838 |
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Madaba (Jordan); antiquities; ancient mosaics; congresses.
Using Images in Late Antiquity
Author | : Stine Birk,Troels Myrup Kristensen,Birte Poulsen |
Publsiher | : Oxbow Books |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781782972648 |
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Fifteen papers focus on the active and dynamic uses of images during the first millennium AD. They bring together an international group of scholars who situate the period’s visual practices within their political, religious, and social contexts. The contributors present a diverse range of evidence, including mosaics, sculpture, and architecture from all parts of the Mediterranean, from Spain in the west to Jordan in the east. Contributions span from the depiction of individuals on funerary monuments through monumental epigraphy, Constantine’s expropriation and symbolic re-use of earlier monuments, late antique collections of Classical statuary, and city personifications in mosaics to the topic of civic prosperity during the Theodosian period and dynastic representation during the Umayyad dynasty. Together they provide new insights into the central role of visual culture in the constitution of late antique societies.
Picturing the Islamicate World
Author | : Nadja Danilenko |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004440098 |
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In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world. Safeguarded in al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Book of Routes and Realms (10th century C.E.), the world map and twenty regional maps complement the text to a reference book of the territories under Muslim rule. Rather than shaping the Islamicate world according to political or religious concerns, al-Iṣṭakhrī chose a timeless design intended to outlast upheavals. Considering the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium, al-Iṣṭakhrī’s strategy seems to have paid off. By investigating the Persian and Ottoman translations and all extant manuscripts, Nadja Danilenko unravels the manuscript tradition of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, revealing who took an interest in it and why.
Identity and Territory
Author | : Eyal Ben-Eliyahu |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520966789 |
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Throughout history, the relationship between Jews and their land has been a vibrant, much-debated topic within the Jewish world and in international political discourse. Identity and Territory explores how ancient conceptions of Israel—of both the land itself and its shifting frontiers and borders—have played a decisive role in forming national and religious identities across the millennia. Through the works of Second Temple period Jews and rabbinic literature, Eyal Ben-Eliyahu examines the role of territorial status, boundaries, mental maps, and holy sites, drawing comparisons to popular Jewish and Christian perceptions of space. Showing how space defines nationhood and how Jewish identity influences perceptions of space, Ben-Eliyahu uncovers varied understandings of the land that resonate with contemporary views of the relationship between territory and ideology.
Cities Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant
Author | : Walid Atrash,Andrew Overman,Peter Gendelman |
Publsiher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2022-11-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781803273358 |
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Chapters by leading archaeologists in Israel and the Levant explore themes and sites connected with cities and villages from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods across the region. The result is a rich trove of up-to-date data and insights that will be a must read for scholars and students active in this part of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Asceticism and Christological Controversy in Fifth Century Palestine
Author | : Cornelia B. Horn |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2006-03-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780199277537 |
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The Life of Peter the Iberian by John Rufus records the ascetic struggle of a fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian bishop of Mayyuma, Palestine. Cornelia Horn presents a historical-critical study of the only substantial anti-Chalcedonian witness to the history of the conflict in Palestine and analyses the formative period of fifth-century anti-Chalcedonian hierarchy, theology, and its ascetic expression. Important themes are pilgrimage as an ascetic ideal and asceticism assource of theological authority. Archaeological data on many places in the Levant and textual sources in Syriac, Coptic, Greek, Armenian, and Georgian are examined. This book contributes to our understanding of the origins of anti-Chalcedonian theology and the influence of asceticism on its development, theChristian topography of the Levant, and the history of the anti-Chalcedonian movement in Palestine.
Art and Identity at the Water s Edge
Author | : Tricia Cusack |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781351575737 |
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The water's edge, whether shore or riverbank, is a marginal territory that becomes invested with layers of meaning. The essays in this collection present intriguing perspectives on how the water's edge has been imagined and represented in different places at various times and how this process contributed to the formation of social identities. Art and Identity at the Water's Edge focuses upon national coastlines and maritime heritage; on rivers and seashore as regions of liminality and sites of conflicting identities; and on the edge as a tourist setting. Such themes are related to diverse forms of art, including painting, architecture, maps, photography, and film. Topics range from the South African seaside resort of Durban to the French Riviera. The essays explore successive ideological mappings of the Jordan River, and how Czech cubist architecture and painting shaped a new nationalist reading of the Vltava riverbanks. They examine post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as a filmic spectacle that questions assumptions about American identity, and the coast depicted as a site of patriotism in nineteenth-century British painting. The collection demonstrates how waterside structures such as maritime museums and lighthouses, and visual images of the water's edge, have contributed to the construction of cultural and national identities.
Learning Cities in Late Antiquity
Author | : Jan R. Stenger |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2018-12-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781351578301 |
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Education in the Graeco-Roman world was a hallmark of the polis. Yet the complex ways in which pedagogical theory and practice intersected with their local environments has not been much explored in recent scholarship. Learning Cities in Late Antiquity suggests a new explanatory model that helps to understand better how conditions in the cities shaped learning and teaching, and how, in turn, education had an impact on its urban context. Drawing inspiration from the modern idea of ‘learning cities’, the chapters explore the interplay of teachers, learners, political leaders, communities and institutions in the Mediterranean polis, with a focus on the well-documented city of Gaza in the sixth century CE. They demonstrate in detail that formal and informal teaching, as well as educational thinking, not only responded to specifically local needs, but also exerted considerable influence on local society. With its interdisciplinary and comparatist approach, the volume aims to contextualise ancient education, in order to stimulate further research on ancient learning cities. It also highlights the benefits of historical research to theory and practice in modern education.