A revealing portrait of class relations during the Italian Renaissance explored through the artistic representations of clothing. In late sixteenth-century Rome, artists found inspiration in bustling streets and taverns, depicting so...Lasīt vairāk
An impeccably researched and beautifully produced concise history of bags through the ages, with examples drawn from the Victoria and Albert Museums remarkable collection. From the hand-stitched embroidered purses of the 16th century, to...Lasīt vairāk
This book uses archaeology and ethnohistory to explore the evidence for the survival of ancestral beliefs and practices related to health and healing in Indigenous Andean communities. The authors argue that through determining the nature of the surv...Lasīt vairāk
Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashions pace of c...Lasīt vairāk
Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a s...Lasīt vairāk
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Drawing on sources from surviving garments to artwork to moralizing pamphlets, this richly illustrated volume presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary represent...Lasīt vairāk
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Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a s...Lasīt vairāk
Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a s...Lasīt vairāk
An unauthorised biography of J.R. R. Tolkien, world famous author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, named author of the century for the 20th century. This biography is a chronological study of his life and puts him into context. It is a valu...Lasīt vairāk
A new biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings - voted as book of the 20th century. In this biography the consulting editors put forward a compelling case that Professor Tolkien was not the ivory tower Professor w...Lasīt vairāk
Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Elizabeth A. Petrino, Jeffrey P. von Arx, Charles L. Currie
(Izdošanas datums: 02-Jan-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9780823233311)
Given its long tradition of authentic dialogue with other religious and philosophical perspectives, Jesuit education is uniquely suited to address the range of opportunities and challenges teachers and students face in the twenty-first century. At f...Lasīt vairāk
Given its long tradition of authentic dialogue with other religious and philosophical perspectives, Jesuit education is uniquely suited to address the range of opportunities and challenges teachers and students face in the twenty-first century. At f...Lasīt vairāk
Ten papers plus an introduction, some of which are taken from a symposium held at the SAA in Chicago in 1999, on the recognition of shamanic traditions within funerary contexts in South America and how to address the diversity within the shamanic ele...Lasīt vairāk
This book reports on the reconaissance and survey of the prehistoric settlement site at the modern fishing town of Puerto López, Canton Jipijapa, in the southern Manabí province of Ecuador. The earliest recorded occuapt...Lasīt vairāk
