Libros de la editorial ASHGATE

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  • MEDIEVAL SHIPS AND WARFARE

    ROSE, SUSAN

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-2485-1
    • EAN: 9780754624851
    • Páginas: 468
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.310,00 €

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    This collection of essays and articles from a wide range of journals is intended to make more accessible to students and scholars some of the most important writing in English in this field from the ...

  • OPHELIA AND VICTORIAN VISUAL CULTURE "REPRESENTING BODY POLITICS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY"

    RHODES, KIMBERLY

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5876-4
    • EAN: 9780754658764
    • Páginas: 198
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.94,50 €

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    Kimberly Rhodes's interdisciplinary book is the first to explore fully the complicated representational history of Shakespeare's Ophelia during the Victorian period. In nineteenth-century Britain, the shape, function and representation of women's bodies were typically regulated ...

  • LITURGY AND ARCHITECTURE "FROM THE EARLY CHURCH TO THE MIDDLE AGES"

    DOIG, ALLAN

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5274-8
    • EAN: 9780754652748
    • Páginas: 254
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.27,36 €

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    In this book Allan Doig explores the interrelationship of liturgy and architecture from the Early Church to the close of the Middle Ages, taking into account social, economic, technical, theological and artistic factors. These are ...

  • DANCING WITH DEVTAS: DRUMS, POWER AND POSSESSION IN THE MUSIC OF GARHWAL, NORTH INDIA

    ALTER, ANDREW

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5669-2
    • EAN: 9780754656692
    • Páginas: 266
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.94,13 €

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    In the Central Himalayan region of Garhwal, the gods (devtas) enjoy dancing. Musicians - whether ritual specialists or musical specialists - are therefore an indispensable part of most entertainment and religious events. In shamanistic ceremonies, ...

  • CHANT AND ITS ORIGINS

    FORREST KELLY, THOMAS

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-2632-9
    • EAN: 9780754626329
    • Páginas: 513
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.124,80 €

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    The Latin liturgical music of the medieval church is the earliest body of Western music to survive in a more or less complete form. It is a body of thousands of individual pieces, of striking ...

  • ART AND IDENTITY IN EARLY MODERN ROME

    BURKE, JILL

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5690-6
    • EAN: 9780754656906
    • Páginas: 308
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.102,68 €

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    From the late fifteenth to the late seventeenth century, Rome was one of the most vibrant and productive centres for the visual arts in the West. Artists from all over Europe came to the city ...

  • THE GALERIE ESPAGNOLE AND THE MUSEO NACIONAL 1835-1853 "SAVING SPANISH ART, OR THE POLITICS OF PATRIMONY"

    LUXENBERG, ALISA

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6190-0
    • EAN: 9780754661900
    • Páginas: 298
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.96,57 €

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    An important and critical re-evaluation of the Galerie Espagnole, this book presents new interpretations of the special collection of Spanish (or purportedly Spanish) paintings formed under Louis-Philippe and exhibited in the Louvre from 1838 through ...

  • WOMEN AND PORTRAITS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE

    PEARSON, ANDREA G.

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5666-1
    • EAN: 9780754656661
    • Páginas: 252
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.92,95 €

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    As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular ...

  • FROM ARABIAN TRIBES TO ISLAMIC EMPIRE : ARMY, STATE AND SOCIETY IN THE NEAR EAST C.600-850

    CRONE, PATRICIA

    ASHGATE (2008)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5925-9
    • EAN: 9780754659259
    • Páginas: 326
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.110,00 €

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    This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until ...

  • REFORM, ECCLESIOLOGY, AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

    IZBICKI, THOMAS M.

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5948-8
    • EAN: 9780754659488
    • Páginas: 286
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.101,40 €

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    This collection of the essays of Thomas Izbicki is divided into 3 sections by broad topic: Reform, Ecclesiology and the Christian Life. The selection has a narrow chronological focus, which helps to lend it a ...

  • MOZARABS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SPAIN : IDENTITIES AND INFLUENCES

    HITCHCOCK, RICHARD

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6314-0
    • EAN: 9780754663140
    • Páginas: 200
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.81,45 €

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    Relations between Christians and Muslims and vice versa are the focus of significant contemporary interest, both in the political arena and the community at large. In the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages, Christianity and ...

  • EDUCATION AND WOMEN IN THE EARLY MODERN HISPANIC WORLD

    HOWE, ELIZABETH TERESA

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6033-0
    • EAN: 9780754660330
    • Páginas: 256
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.96,57 €

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    Considering the presence and influence of educated women of letters in Spain and New Spain, this study looks at the life and work of early modern women who advocated by word or example for the ...

  • FOUR TRAVEL JOURNALS "THE AMERICAS, ANTARCTICA AND AFRICA, 1775-1874"

    BEALS, H. K.

    ASHGATE (2008)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-904180-90-9
    • EAN: 9780904180909
    • Páginas: 400
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.104,00 €

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    This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874.
    The first of these is the journal of a participant in a Spanish expedition ...

  • LANDSCAPE AND VISION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN AND FRANCE

    CHARLESWORTH, MICHAEL

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5664-7
    • EAN: 9780754656647
    • Páginas: 218
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.106,00 €

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    A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order ...

  • ALTARPIECES AND THEIR VIEWERS IN THE CHURCHES OF ROME FROM CARAVAGGIO TO GUIDO RENI

    JONES, P. M.

    ASHGATE (2008)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6179-5
    • EAN: 9780754661795
    • Páginas: 390
    • Fecha de edición: 2008

    pvp.143,96 €

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    A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five altarpieces examined here were painted by artists who are admired today ...

  • TRAVELLERS AND COSMOGRAPHERS : STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY MODERN TRAVEL AND ETHNOLOGY

    RUBIES, J-P.

    ASHGATE (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5936-5
    • EAN: 9780754659365
    • Páginas: 370
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.118,76 €

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    Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up ...

  • ASTRONOMY AND ASTROLOGY IN AL-ANDALUS AND THE MAGHRIB

    SAMSO, JULIO

    ASHGATE (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5934-1
    • EAN: 9780754659341
    • Páginas: 382
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.113,93 €

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    This new volume of papers by Julio Samsó deals with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. Opening with a survey of the social ...

  • BARTÓK AND THE GROTESQUE : STUDIES IN MODERNITY, THE BODY AND CONTRADICTION IN MUSIC

    BROWN, JULIE

    ASHGATE (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5777-4
    • EAN: 9780754657774
    • Páginas: 192
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.69,93 €

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    The grotesque is one of art's most puzzling figures - transgressive, comprising an unresolveable hybrid, generally focussing on the human body, full of hyperbole, and ultimately semantically deeply puzzling. In Bluebeard's Castle (1911), The Wooden ...

  • MUSIC AND ITS VIRTUES IN ISLAMIC AND JUDAIC WRITINGS

    SHILOAH, AMNON

    ASHGATE (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5918-1
    • EAN: 9780754659181
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.123,00 €

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    A fascinating aspect of the study of music in medieval Islamic and Judaic writings is the broad and interdisciplinary nature of the works and treatises in which it is covered. In addition, such works verbalize ...

  • THE HOSPITALLERS, THE MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPE

    BORCHARDT, KARL

    ASHGATE (2007)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6275-4
    • EAN: 9780754662754
    • Páginas: 340
    • Fecha de edición: 2007

    pvp.135,00 €

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    Modern study of the Hospitallers, of other military-religious orders, and of their activities both in the Mediterranean and in Europe has been deeply influenced by the work of Anthony Luttrell. To mark his 75th birthday ...