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Published 2005
Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art : A Codicological Study of Iranian and Turkic Illuminated Book Fragments from 8th-11th Century East Central Asia /

: Mediaeval Manichean Book Art focuses on a corpus of c. one hundred fragments of exquisitely illuminated manuscripts that were produced under the patronage of the Turkic-speaking Uygurs in the Turfan region of East Central Asia between the 8th and 11th centuries CE, and used in service of the local Manichaean church. By applying a codicological approach to the analysis of these sources, this study casts light onto a lost episode of Central Asian art history and religious book culture. Each of the five chapters in this book accomplishes a well-defined goal. The first justifies the formation of the corpus . The second examines its dating on the basis of scientific and historical evidence. Chapter three assesses the artistry of their bookmakers, scribes, and illuminators. The fourth documents the patterns of page layout preserved on the fragments. The final chapter analyses the contextual relationship of their painted and written contents . Mediaeval Manichaean Book Art represents a pioneer study in its subject, research methodology, and illustrations. It extracts codicological and art historical data from torn remains of lavishly decorated Middle-Persian, Sogdian, and Uygur language manuscripts in codex, scroll, and "palm-leaf" formats. Through detailed analyses and carefully argued interpretations aided by precise computer drawings, the author introduces an important group of primary sources for future comparative research in Central Asian art, mediaeval book illumination, and Manichaean studies.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047405962
9789004139947

Published 2011
The parting of the sea : how volcanoes, earthquakes, and plagues shaped the story of Exodus /

: xix, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-227) and index. : 9780691150215 : wafaa.lib

Fumetti d'Egitto : L'Egitto dei faraoni nel mondo del fumetto /

: "Torino, Museo Egizio, 6 luglio-31 ottobre 1993" -- title pages verso. : 139 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. : Bibliography : pages 138-139.

Bradley, His Book

: Vol. 1(1896)-2 (1897) : Publication of this title ceased in 1897. : 1948-0717

Published 2010
Word of God, Art of Man : the Qur'an and its creative expressions : selected proceedings from the International Colloquium, London, 18-21 October 2003 /

: xxi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 0199238359

Published 1998
Syrien : Hochkulturen zwischen Mittelmeer und Arabischer Wüste /

: Includes indexes. : 472 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. : 377013978X

Published 2023
Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India : Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series /

: These essays are the revised and updated version of four lectures given in the Yarshater Lecture Series, at SOAS in London in 2013. They concern some aspects of the arts from pre-modern Iran and India, namely, the "making of" of Persian illustrated manuscripts, the iconography of Kashan wares, the use and re-use of luster tiles in Ilkhanid Iran, and the glazed tiles made in three Indian sultanates (Delhi, Bengal and Malwa). These four topics share concepts of influence and impact, although inflected on different modes. The productions they embody represent many poles of influence, even if working on different scales, from the extensive diffusion of products, techniques, and systems to almost isolated productions.
: 1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004549722

Published 2024
A Walk in the Park: Kinesthesia in the Arts of Landscape /

: Current neuroscience discloses that all emotional feeling originates as movement. Kinesthesia, our sixth sense, begins with movement of muscle cells and ends as emotion. Depth perception, which depends on movement, is always feeling-laden. To be expressive, art must somehow move our bodies. Studies of expressive dance demonstrate that we unconsciously model observed movements, duplicating in ourselves the feelings that generated the dancer's movements. The art of landscape creates choreography for a walk. But each of the fine arts play a role in landscape design. Here, then, is a new theory of landscape that easily extends to all the fine arts, explaining our enjoyment in landscape, as well as aesthetic enjoyment more generally.
: 1 online resource (452 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004697591

Published 2012
The revolt of unreason : Miguel de Unamuno and Antonio Caso on the crisis of modernity /

: This book examines solutions to the crisis of modernity proposed by the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno and the Mexican philosopher Antonio Caso. Acceptance of the objective claims of modern scientific rationality and the consequent rejection of the objective validity of artistic, moral, and religious claims generates the crisis of modernity. The problem is that of justifying artistic, moral, and religious claims. Miguel de Unamuno in his classic work, The Tragic Sense of Life , addresses the conflict between the belief in personal immortality and modern scientific rationality. Holding that there is no rational justification for the belief in immortality, Unamuno finds a solution in a "saving scepticism" to act "as if" he deserved immortality. In his book Existence as Economy, as Art, and Charity Caso attempts to create an aposteriori metaphysics based on the "current" results of science supplemented by the intuitions of art and morality. In doing so, Caso believes that he has enlarged the scope of the knowable to include objects of art, morality, and religion. Unamuno, by accepting the strict line of demarcation between faith and reason has no other recourse but to turn to decisionism. By turning to intuitionism, Caso believes that he has blurred the line of demarcation. Decisionism and intuitionism, therefore, are worthy of further exploration.
: 1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789401208215 : 0929-8436 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Machiavelli's Art of Politics.

: In Machiavelli's Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli's political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced view of the complexities of Machiavelli's thought by analyzing his classical background, taking into particular consideration the influence of Xenophon, and his view of the ideal ruler as someone who creates the conditions for a flourishing human life. In addition, Bárcenas explains why Machiavelli defends a republican political order that encourages citizens to live according to their own laws while serving a common good and revises his legacy through the writings of Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and Maurizio Viroli.
: Description based upon print version of record. : 1 online resource (173 pages) : 9789004298026 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2000
Egyptian art : principles and themes in wall scenes /

: 276 p., [59] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-275). : 977305232X

Published 1971
African art : an introduction /

: 288 pages : illustrations, maps, plan ; 22 cm. : Bibliography : pages 275-279.

Gods, men, and heroes : ancient art at the Dallas Museum of Art /

: 144 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142) and index. : 0936227184

Published 2019
Academia in crisis : dystopic optimism and postalgic realism in university life /

: Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starting from their own life worlds and positions in higher education. They share the view that there is no point in turning back, nor in mechanically marching straight on. Above all, they uphold that there is no alternative to treasuring academia as a space for thinking together. Hopefully the fruit of this sine qua non invites to think with, and envision academic activism. Contributors are Samuel Abraham, Stefano Bianchini, Simon Charlesworth, Leonidas Donskis, Frans Kamsteeg, Joost van Loon, Ida Sabelis, Tamara Shefer and Harry Wels.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004402034 : 0929-8436 ;

Published 1982
The Sèvres Egyptian service, 1810-12 /

: Exhibit displayed at Apsley House, London. : 72 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 21 cm. : Bibliography : pages 30. : 0905209249 (pbk.)

Published 1990
Christ, Plato, Hermes Trismegistus : The Dawn of Printing, Volume I Part I /

: More than 190 bibiographical entries. Full descriptions, explanatory notes, references, etc. Index and concordances.
: 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004535343

Party leadership in Israel : maintenance and change /

: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1976. : xiii, 277 pages ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index. : 9652000299

Published 2021
Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture : Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality /

: Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyses the meaning and role of religion in western cultural practices in the twenty-first century. This inquiry situates itself at the intersection between cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of narrative and art. Contributors focus on genres which have yet to receive significant critical attention within the field, including speculative fiction films and television series, autobiographical prose and poetry, action-adventure video games and heavy metal music. In this time of crisis, where traces of religious thinking still persist in the presence or absence of religious faith, this volume's collective look into some of their cultural embodiments is necessary and timely. The volume is addressed primarily to scholars and students interested in intersections between religious and cultural studies, revisions of traditional religious narratives, literature as a space of reflection on today's world, contemporary media studies and remediation.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004453821
9789004453746

Published 1992
Science for conservators /

: Originally published: Crafts Council, 1982-1983. : 3 volumes : illustrations ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 0415071658
0415071631

Published 2014
Religion in times of crisis /

: Religion is alive and well all over the world, especially in times of personal, political, and social crisis. Even in Europe, long regarded the most "secular" continent, religion has taken centre stage in how people respond to the crises associated with modernity, or how they interact with the nation-state. In this book, scholars working in and on Europe offer fresh perspectives on how religion provides answers to existential crisis, how crisis increases the salience of religious identities and cultural polarization, and how religion is contributing to changes in the modern world in Europe and beyond. Cases from Poland to Pakistan and from Ireland to Zimbabwe, among others, demonstrate the complexity and ambivalence of religion's role in the contemporary world.
: Includes index. : 1 online resource (pages) : 9789004277793 : 1061-5210 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.