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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture'the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary'rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2014)
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After initial ambivalence about distinctive garb for its ministers, early Christianity developed both liturgical garments and visible markers of clerical status outside church. From the ninth century, moreover, new converts to the faith beyond the ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2013)
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In this classic book that records a moment in the history of urban planning, the architect and city planner Harvey H. Kaiser examines the city-building process from the time when a proposal for urban development ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2013)
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Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2012)
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The work of German cultural theorist and art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929) has had a lasting effect on how we think about images. This book is the first in English to focus on his last ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2011)
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Astrology in the Middle Ages was considered a branch of the magical arts, one informed by Jewish and Muslim scientific knowledge in Muslim Spain. As such it was deeply troubling to some Church authorities. Using ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2010)
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The Amduat (literally "that which is in the netherworld") tells the story of the nocturnal journey of Re, the Egyptian Sungod, through the netherworld from the time when the sun dies, after setting in the ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2009)
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A prominent Mediterranean port located near Islamic territories, the city of Valencia in the late fifteenth century boasted a slave population of pronounced religious and ethnic diversity: captive Moors and penally enslaved Mudejars, Greeks, Tartars, ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2006)
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No subject looms larger over the historical landscape of medieval Spain than that of the reconquista, the rapid expansion of the power of the Christian kingdoms into the Muslim-populated lands of southern Iberia, which created ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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Pascoe's book, highly enjoyable and also nicely produced, meditates on the subterranean connections between the collecting passions of Romantic-era collectors and those of the poets, lines from whose poems they often quoted. Pascoe is insightful ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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The opening of Sigmund Bing's gallery L'Art Nouveau had been an eagerly expected event in the Paris art world throughout the latter half of 1895, since Bing first announced that he would be soon exhibiting ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2005)
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This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini's Italy. ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2004)
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Multi-disciplinary in approach and cross-European in scope, this richly illustrated book features new links between the political and the monstrous in the early modern period. Emphasizing the importance of the visual in the culture of ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2004)
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Spanning the backs of choir stalls above the heads of the canons and their officials, large-scale tapestries of saints' lives functioned as both architectural elements and pictorial narratives in the late Middle Ages. In an ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2004)
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In a major contribution to the debate among medievalists about the nature of social and political change in Europe around the turn of the millennium, Jeffrey A. Bowman explores how people contended over property during ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)
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Creating Christian Granada provides a richly detailed examination of a critical and transitional episode in Spain's march to global empire. The city of Granada-Islam's final bastion on the Iberian peninsula-surrendered to the control of Spain's ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)
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This new collection of the letters that Lewis Carroll wrote to the illustrators and prospective illustrators of his books affords fresh insights into Carroll's complex character, traces the history of the books that became great ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)
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For Rebecca Bushnell, English gardening books tell a fascinating tale of the human love for plants and our will to make them do as we wish. These books powerfully evoke the desires of gardeners: they ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)
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From the royal pew of Ivan the Terrible, to Catherine the Great's use of landscape, to the struggles between the Orthodox Church and preservationists in post-Soviet Yaroslavl-across five centuries of Russian history, Russian leaders have ...
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (2003)
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The names of ancient Egyptian kings such as Cheops, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II have become part of popular culture. Yet, for all the tombs and statuary that have survived over the millennia, surprisingly little remains ...
