[PDF] Antiquity eBook

Author : Dirk Rohmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 2016-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3110485559

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It is estimated that only a small fraction, less than 1 per cent, of ancient literature has survived to the present day. The role of Christian authorities in the active suppression and destruction of books in Late Antiquity has received surprisingly little sustained consideration by academics. In an approach that presents evidence for the role played by Christian institutions, writers and saints, this book analyses a broad range of literary and legal sources, some of which have hitherto been little studied. Paying special attention to the problem of which genres and book types were likely to be targeted, the author argues that in addition to heretical, magical, astrological and anti-Christian books, other less obviously subversive categories of literature were also vulnerable to destruction, censorship or suppression through prohibition of the copying of manuscripts. These include texts from materialistic philosophical traditions, texts which were to become the basis for modern philosophy and science. This book examines how Christian authorities, theologians and ideologues suppressed ancient texts and associated ideas at a time of fundamental transformation in the late classical world.

Author : Kamil Boldan
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Printing
ISBN : 9782503551791

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This volume presents the historical development and important personalities of the time of transition from manuscript book culture to book printing in the years 1450-1550. The first part of the volume contains a thorough description of historical, social and technical background influencing the development of book printing in Bohemia and Moravia and the impact of book printing production on the contemporary Czech society. The authors described the specific historical conditions in the Kingdom of Bohemia after the pre-reformation Hussite movement. The newly emerged Utraquist confession spread in important parts of Bohemia which led to decrease of social and economic contacts between the Kingdom of Bohemia and Catholic states in Europe. Apart from that the decreased activity of Prague University had negative impact on literacy in Bohemia. These two main reasons were detrimental to the development of book printing in Bohemia. The low quality of first prints was not attractive for educated readers who rather chose better equipped foreign books, mainly in Latin. Book printing in Bohemia soon became a matter of closed Czech speaking public. One of the important consequences of this process was weak reception of humanism and classical antiquity in Czech culture, although the former was partly embraced in Bohemia in previous centuries anyway. The second part of the book presents the first printers and editors of printed books before 1550 with a summary of their publishing activities.

Author : Cynthia Ozick
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593318838

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From one of our most preeminent writers, a tale that captures the shifting meanings of the past and how our experience colors those meanings In Antiquities, Lloyd Wilkinson Petrie, one of the seven elderly trustees of the now-defunct (for thirty-four years) Temple Academy for Boys, is preparing a memoir of his days at the school, intertwined with the troubling distractions of present events. As he navigates, with faltering recall, between the subtle anti-Semitism that pervaded the school's ethos and his fascination with his own family's heritage--in particular, his illustrious cousin, the renowned archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie--he reconstructs the passions of a childhood encounter with the oddly named Ben-Zion Elefantin, a mystifying older pupil who claims descent from Egypt's Elephantine Island. From this seed emerges one of Cynthia Ozick's most wondrous tales, touched by unsettling irony and the elusive flavor of a Kafka parable, and weaving, in her own distinctive voice, myth and mania, history and illusion.

Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674076266

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Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.

Author : M. Don Schorn
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,14 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781886940994

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Evolution.

Author : Norman F. Cantor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0062444611

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Bestselling author Norman Cantor delivers this compact but magisterial survey of the ancient world—from the birth of Sumerian civilization around 3500 B.C. in the Tigris-Euphrates valley (present-day Iraq) to the fall of the Roman Empire in A.D. 476. In Antiquity, Cantor covers such subjects as Classical Greece, Judaism, the founding of Christianity, and the triumph and decline of Rome. In this fascinating and comprehensive analysis, the author explores social and cultural history, as well as the political and economic aspects of his narrative. He explains leading themes in religion and philosophy and discusses the environment, population, and public health. With his signature authority and insight, Cantor highlights the great books and ideas of antiquity that continue to influence culture today.

Author : Patricia Fortini Brown
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,91 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300067003

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Inscriptions, medals, and travelers' accounts, on more learned humanist and antiquarian writings, and, most importantly, on the art of the period, Brown explores Venice's evolving sense of the past. She begins with the late middle ages, when Venice sought to invent a dignified civic past by means of object, image, and text. Moving on to the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, she discusses the collecting and recording of antiquities and the incorporation of Roman forms.

Author : Inigo Jones
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2021-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This book focuses on Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England. It is one of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom and is believed to have been constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC.

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Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Archaeology
ISBN :

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Includes section "Reviews."

Author : Eric Rebillard
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 17,58 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813227437

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To understand the past, we necessarily group people together and, consequently, frequently assume that all of its members share the same attributes. In this ground-breaking volume, Eric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke bring renowned scholars together to challenge this norm by seeking to rediscover the individual and to explore the dynamics between individuals and the groups to which they belong.