Ravenna

Author : Judith Herrin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691201978
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenna written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom. Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval "Dark Ages." Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna's lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.

Author : Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot)
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813213584
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Pontiffs of the Church of Ravenna (Medieval Texts in Translation) written by Agnellus (of Ravenna, Abbot) and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation makes this fascinating text accessible for the first time to an English-speaking audience. A substantial introduction to Agnellus and his composition of the text is included along with a full bibliography

Author : Kathryn Davis
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451689
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aurelia, Aurélia written by Kathryn Davis and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eerily dreamlike memoir, and the first work of nonfiction by one of our most inventive novelists. Aurelia, Aurélia begins on a boat. The author, sixteen years old, is traveling to Europe at an age when one can “try on personae like dresses.” She has the confidence of a teenager cultivating her earliest obsessions—Woolf, Durrell, Bergman—sure of her maturity, sure of the life that awaits her. Soon she finds herself in a Greece far drearier than the Greece of fantasy, “climbing up and down the steep paths every morning with the real old women, looking for kindling.” Kathryn Davis’s hypnotic new book is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life, and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. At its center is the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its deep joys and stinging frustrations; it is also a book about time, the inexorable events that determine beginnings and endings. The preoccupations that mark Davis’s fiction are recognizable here—fateful voyages, an intense sense of place, the unexpected union of the magical and the real—but the vehicle itself is utterly new. Aurelia, Aurélia explodes the conventional bounds of memoir. It is an astonishing accomplishment.

Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521836727
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenna in Late Antiquity: AD; 7. Ravenna capital: 600-850 AD written by Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of Ravenna's history and monuments in late antiquity, including discussions of scholarly controversies, archaeological discoveries, and interpretations of art works.

Author : Joaquín Martínez Pizarro
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472106066
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Ravenna written by Joaquín Martínez Pizarro and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful consideration of medieval narrative method

Author : Salvatore Cosentino
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110684438
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship written by Salvatore Cosentino and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years scholarship on late antique and early medieval Ravenna has resulted in a certain number of publications mainly focused on the fields of architecture, mosaics and archaeology. On the contrary, much less attention has been paid on labour – both manual and intellectual – as well as the structure of production and objects derived from manufacturing activities, despite the fact that Ravenna is the place which preserves the highest number of historical evidence among all centres of the late Roman Mediterranean. Its cultural heritage is vast and composite, ranging from papyri to inscriptions, from ivories to marbles, as well as luxury objects, pottery, and coins. Starting from concrete typologies of hand-manufactured goods existing in the Ravennate milieu, the book aims at exploring the multifaceted traditions of late antique and early Byzantine handicraft from the fourth to the eighth century AD. Its perspective is to pay attention more on patronage, social taste, acculturation, workers and the economic industry of production which supported the demand, circulation and distribution of artefacts, than on the artistic evaluation of the objects themselves.

Author : Liana De Girolami Cheney
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527593002
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbara Longhi of Ravenna written by Liana De Girolami Cheney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new impetus to the study of female art in regional areas. It will expand research beyond studies of women’s lives, careers, socio-political patronage, and specific gender issues to look at emblematic, historical, and spiritual aspects of their work. Through an analysis of the paintings of Barbara Longhi, the book reveals the importance of devotional art and the ample creativity of female painters. It highlights the importance of Longhi’s artistic contribution in the study of iconography and iconology on art and devotion in some of her paintings. Although there is limited information about her personal life, through the records of her two Wills and Testaments, we learn about her administrative ability, family dedication, and, most of all, about her Christian religiosity and devotion to the Virgin Mary (La Madonna).

Author : Jerry G. Rose
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329740300
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenna - Volume Two written by Jerry G. Rose and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Touring Editore
ISBN 13 : 9788836535019
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ravenna and its province written by and published by Touring Editore. This book was released on 2006 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Giovanni (da Ravenna)
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838718971
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dragmalogia [Johannis de Ravenna] de eligibili vite genere written by Giovanni (da Ravenna) and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an insight into the intellectual concerns and social thought of a great Paduan humanist. This is the first complete scholarly edition of the major work of Giovanni di Coversino da Ravenna, statesman and successor to Petrarch and Boccaccio, who lived from 1343 to 1408.