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This is the essential companion to the terms used in the Pevsner Architectural Guides. Pevsner's famous designations E. E. and Perp. are among the terms clearly explained in this informative glossary drawn from the vocabulary of the Buildings of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland volumes. To name is to know and beginners will soon find that familiarity with the names(...)
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Pevsner's architectural glossary
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This is the essential companion to the terms used in the Pevsner Architectural Guides. Pevsner's famous designations E. E. and Perp. are among the terms clearly explained in this informative glossary drawn from the vocabulary of the Buildings of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland volumes. To name is to know and beginners will soon find that familiarity with the names quickly helps them understand the similarities and differences between the buildings and styles they see. At the same time, the breadth of the fields covered will be useful even to experts. Many of the entries are supported by line drawings specially commissioned for the series, and photographic sections provide a sequence illustrating stylistic developments in both religious and secular architecture.
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Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies. One theme that threads through the collection is the intimate interrelatedness of West and East evident in encounters within and around the harem, whether in the(...)
Harem histories: Envisioning places and living spaces
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Harem Histories is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies. One theme that threads through the collection is the intimate interrelatedness of West and East evident in encounters within and around the harem, whether in the elite socializing of precolonial Tunis or the popular historical novels published in Istanbul and Cairo from the late nineteenth century onward. Several of the contributors focus on European culture as a repository of harem representations, but most of them tackle indigenous representations of home spaces and their significance for how the bodies of men and women, and girls and boys, were distributed in social space, from early Islamic Mecca to early-twentieth-century Cairo.
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In 1789, Italian-born Spanish naval officer Alejandro Malaspina set off to visit Spain's colonies in Asia and the Americas. For five years, he and his crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, discovering, cataloguing and analyzing flora, fauna, seas, people and lands. The Malaspina Expedition, as it came to be called, anticipated the global spirit of cross-discipline(...)
The Malaspina expedition: a scientific and political voyage around the world, 1789-1794
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In 1789, Italian-born Spanish naval officer Alejandro Malaspina set off to visit Spain's colonies in Asia and the Americas. For five years, he and his crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, discovering, cataloguing and analyzing flora, fauna, seas, people and lands. The Malaspina Expedition, as it came to be called, anticipated the global spirit of cross-discipline synergy that defines the twenty-first century. Ths publication presents the visual legacy of his expedition, combining maps, illustrations and scientific and artistic documents.
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La colonie grecque de Byzance, devenue Constantinople sous l'Empire byzantin et Istanbul sous les Ottomans, abrita seize siècles durant les fastes de deux grands empires couvrant l'Est méditerranéen, des Balkans à l'Afrique du Nord. Cet ouvrage présente l'aventure de cette civilisation dans sa continuité, sur un même site et tout au long des siècles. Le livre s'ouvre sur(...)
Constantinople: de Byzance à Istanbul
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La colonie grecque de Byzance, devenue Constantinople sous l'Empire byzantin et Istanbul sous les Ottomans, abrita seize siècles durant les fastes de deux grands empires couvrant l'Est méditerranéen, des Balkans à l'Afrique du Nord. Cet ouvrage présente l'aventure de cette civilisation dans sa continuité, sur un même site et tout au long des siècles. Le livre s'ouvre sur la ville byzantine et la fondation d'une nouvelle capitale, celle de l'Empire romain devenu chrétien, Constantinople, dotée de magnifiques monuments, dont la célèbre Sainte-Sophie. Vient ensuite l'effondrement du monde antique, suivi de l'éclosion de la Constantinople médiévale avec son infinité d'églises et de monastères ornés de somptueuses mosaïques, ainsi que de précieux manuscrits enluminés et d'icônes aujourd'hui dispersés dans les plus grands musées du monde.
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Le moyen âge
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Le Moyen Âge suscite des images contradictoires, celles d'un âge d'or révolu ou, plus souvent, d'une barbarie débridée. Un certain nombre d'idées reçues sur cette longue période - un millénaire - sont remises en cause dans ce livre riche d'une très belle iconographie parfois inédite, au texte novateur, écrit par une spécialiste du sujet. C'est au Moyen Âge que les hommes(...)
Le moyen âge
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Le Moyen Âge suscite des images contradictoires, celles d'un âge d'or révolu ou, plus souvent, d'une barbarie débridée. Un certain nombre d'idées reçues sur cette longue période - un millénaire - sont remises en cause dans ce livre riche d'une très belle iconographie parfois inédite, au texte novateur, écrit par une spécialiste du sujet. C'est au Moyen Âge que les hommes et les femmes ont maîtrisé la nature pour constituer nos paysages actuels, construire les premiers villages et les villes. Ils ont institué des pouvoirs à l'ombre de l'Église, en sorte que le clergé et les laïcs ont créé l'Occident chrétien. On découvre quelles sont les normes qui régissent la vie, à la campagne comme à la ville, et l'importance de la féodalité. Mais c'est aussi l'époque où les grands rois que sont Philippe Auguste, Saint Louis, Philippe le Bel ou Charles V créent les bases d'un État moderne (contrôle effectif du territoire, administration, fiscalité, droit et institutions). La violence, qui éclate lors des guerres et des croisades, des vengeances et des homicides, est aussi l'occasion de parler de l'honneur, une valeur que partagent toutes les couches de la société, tandis que l'ordre se fonde sur le respect des hiérarchies, qu'elles soient laïques ou religieuses.
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While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, this publication considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. It explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used(...)
The Gothic enterprise: a guide to understanding the medieval cathedral
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While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, this publication considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. It explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. The author describes the difficulties master-builders faced in scheduling construction that wouldn’t be completed during their own lifetimes, how they managed without adequate numeric systems or paper on which to make detailed drawings, and how climate, natural disasters, wars, variations in the hours of daylight throughout the year, and the celebration of holy days affected the pace and timing of work.
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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the(...)
Humanism and the urban world: Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City
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In Humanism and the Urban World, Caspar Pearson offers a profoundly revisionist account of Leon Battista Alberti’s approach to the urban environment as exemplified in the extensive theoretical treatise De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building in Ten Books), brought mostly to completion in the 1450s, as well as in his larger body of written work. This book explores the ways in which Alberti sought to remedy urban problems, tracing key themes that manifest in De re aedificatoria. Chapters address Alberti’s consideration of the city's possible destruction and the city’s capacity to provide order despite its intrinsic instability; his assessment of a variety of political solutions to that instability; his affinity for the countryside and discussions of the virtues of the active versus the contemplative life; and his theories of aesthetics and beauty, in particular the belief that beauty may affect the soul of an enemy and thus preserve buildings from attack.
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Architecture paléochrétienne
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Ce volume réunit la présentation par quelques chercheurs réputés des derniers résultats de leurs travaux sur le terrain. Le thème commun est l'architecture paléochrétienne dans l'Orient méditerranéen. La plus grande place est accordée à quelques monuments prestigieux, objets d'études nouvelles qui renouvellent l'état de nos connaissances ou qui ont été découverts(...)
Architecture paléochrétienne
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Ce volume réunit la présentation par quelques chercheurs réputés des derniers résultats de leurs travaux sur le terrain. Le thème commun est l'architecture paléochrétienne dans l'Orient méditerranéen. La plus grande place est accordée à quelques monuments prestigieux, objets d'études nouvelles qui renouvellent l'état de nos connaissances ou qui ont été découverts récemment. Les fouilles de ces dernières années, présentées par Charles Bonnet, ont rappelé l'importance de la ville de Péluse, à l'Est de l'ancienne branche orientale du delta du Nil, en mettant au jour des monuments originaux et de grande qualité. Les dernières études de Jean-Pierre Sodini et de Lean Luc Biscop, sur l'ensemble de Qal'at Sem'an, construit autour de la colonne de Syméon le Stylite, aboutissent à (les conclusions assurées sur la restitution de ce monument. II en va de même pour le sanctuaire célèbre de Saint-Polyeucte à Constantinople, pour lequel Jonathan Bardill précise la restitution qu'il propose. Enfin la fouille de Sidi Jdidi (Aradi) en Tunisie, due à Aïcha Ben Abed et Michel Fixot, montre un ensemble beaucoup plus modeste, tel qu'on en trouve dans les petites cités de l'antiquité tardive, dont on néglige trop souvent les spécificités.
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This is the first detailed study of Scottish post-Reformation church interiors for fifty years. In the intervening period many of the buildings described by George Hay have been demolished, converted to non-ecclesiastical use or liturgically reordered. However, this study goes further to include many surviving examples not noted by Hay, and extends his work further into(...)
Preaching, word and sacrament: Scottish church interiors 1560-1860
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This is the first detailed study of Scottish post-Reformation church interiors for fifty years. In the intervening period many of the buildings described by George Hay have been demolished, converted to non-ecclesiastical use or liturgically reordered. However, this study goes further to include many surviving examples not noted by Hay, and extends his work further into the nineteenth century, with a detailed study of buildings up to 1860, and with a more general consideration of later nineteenth and early twentieth century church architecture in Scotland. The detailed study of developments in Scotland, especially those in the Presbyterian churches, are set in the context of comparative developments in other parts of Britain and Europe, especially those in the Reformed churches of the Netherlands and Switzerland to create a groundbreaking new study by an established author.
History until 1900
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Réimpression complète des 531 plans qui sont issus de la recherche de Braun et Hogenberg sur les cartes de villes et plans d'Europe, d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique centrale, atlas réalisé à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du ...
Villes du monde: édition intégrale des planches colorées 1572-1617
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Réimpression complète des 531 plans qui sont issus de la recherche de Braun et Hogenberg sur les cartes de villes et plans d'Europe, d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Amérique centrale, atlas réalisé à la fin du XVIe siècle et au début du ...
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