Archaeopress jun 2024 (5 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The British in the Adriatic, 1800-1825 brings together three detailed studies of British naval and military, diplomatic and commercial activity in the eastern Adriatic during the Napoleonic wars, drawing on original research in various British archives. A focus is the strategically important island of Vis, where there are the remains of British fortifications, another the town of Rijeka where a leading merchant had lengthy dealings with the British Navy Board for the provision of timber. The third part, hitherto unpublished, was written on the bicentenary in 2012 of Napoleon's invasion of Russia. It investigates the unrealized plans by the British and Russians for a diversionary attack in the Adriatic.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Map of the Body, a Map of the Mind is a study about the relationship between geography and power in the ancient Roman world, and most particularly about the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products, including geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs. As Rome broke its political bounds and headed towards empire the whole city became the centre and the Roman world-view changed with it. The Roman state then needed to present to the Roman people an easily-digestible narrative about its imperial ambition and imperial possessions, in a way that went beyond the fact that servitude, enslavement, and misery for many underpinned this expansion. There needed to be a publicly-guided discourse centred around the smoothing out of difference, rather than its obliteration or elimination, and the presentation of many different lifeworlds in a familiar way using geographical information. This marked a way of directing how change could be managed and of reimagining how the world might be and might work at the intersection between selection, knowledge, and insight. Reflection and communication sought to create a communal sense of belonging. If not actually doors, these geographical images were at least windows onto self-identity and otherness, letting light in on a sombre struggle against accidie.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge, from his meticulous publication of the medieval timber structure of 126 High Street and his later elucidation of Tackley's Inn from J. Buckler's nineteenth century records when he was an undergraduate, to more recent work on the Historic Towns Atlas for Oxford. He has taken in the publication of the medieval castle at Portchester, the roofs of Chichester and many other cathedrals, the landscape history of Levens Park, Westmorland, the Round Table at Windsor Castle and the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He is an enthusiast for the history of Antiquity, topographical art, and for reading historical sources in the original. His lively and warm character and sense of fun has made him many friends who also in some sense feel they are his pupils, and this collection of papers has been assembled as a tribute. The first part comprises a preface by the editors, his daughter and son share accounts of being brought up in a household where it was normal for parents to be archaeologists, Jane Woodcock remembers ten years when Julian spent his day in an office arranging exams and cooking gourmet meals, and Deirdre Forde and others reveal his pioneering work teaching building archaeology. The second part consists of papers by friends who share his enthusiasm and in each case write on a facet of his interests, from his brother's paper on the superbly engineered tunnel at Box, a reminder that railways and railway architecture has always been one of Julian's loves, to Oxford topography in a number of papers and the later decor of Windsor Castle.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - St Albans Abbey is one of the greatest of medieval England. The origins of the medieval abbey lie much further in the past, in the time of Roman Verulamium, and the early history of the abbey is that of the martyrdom of Alban, whose burial is associated with the area of the abbey itself. The creation of memorial churches over the graves of saints outside the walls of Roman cities is commonplace in the world of late antiquity. One has only to think of St Peter's or St Paul's without the Walls in Rome, but in Britain no single case is yet known, other than St Albans. This book is about the excavation in 1978 of the site of the medieval chapter house of St Albans Abbey, a building second in importance only to the abbey church itself. The excavation took place in response to the impending construction of a new chapter house, on the exact site of its medieval predecessor, demolished following the suppression of the abbey in the sixteenth century. Enigmatic finds had long revealed that this early Christian site on the hill, now dominated by the great mass of the Norman abbey church, is one of the most important for the study of the history of early England. In just four short months, excavations uncovered fragments of the decorated floor of the Anglo-Saxon abbey and associated burials, along with the magnificent floor of relief-decorated tiles of the medieval chapter house, and the graves of sixteen known figures of the late eleventh-to fifteenth-century abbey, including eleven abbots.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Dinamicas historicas, religiosas e iconograficas en el norte de Africa constituye el tercer volumen de la serie Estudios sobre el Africa Romana que Archaeopress edita desde 2018, derivada de una fructifera colaboracion entre la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, la Universite de la Manouba y el Institute National du Patrimoine de Tunez. Esta nueva publicacion reune un elenco de trabajos cientificos de indole variada que centran su foco de atencion en fenomenos culturales y problematicas historicas concernientes al norte de Africa en su conjunto, con especial interes en el Africa Proconsularis. No se desestiman por ello otras cronologias -e incluso otras geografias afines-, que arrancan desde la prehistoria, pasan por el mundo punico y helenistico grecorromano, se deslizan hasta la Antiguedad tardia y la preeminencia de la cultura arabo-musulmana, desembocando en las percepciones y estereotipos contemporaneos que el colonialismo europeo genero sobre las culturas autoctonas, y algunas aloctonas, africanas. La diversidad de tematicas y de aproximaciones metodologicas son indicadores, en el libro que tienen entre sus manos, de la orientacion multidisciplinar que aglutina al grupo de colaboradores hispano-tunecinos. Por ello, en estas paginas, el lector podra seguir el ritmo de las caravanas de camellos a traves de sus representaciones rupestres; contemplar las imagenes funerarias preferidas por las elites, reflejadas en estelas, sarcofagos y mosaicos del Africa punica y romana; o introducirse en la ritualidad que rodeo la religion sincretica de los dioses cocodrilo y del Senor de los Oasis, en el Egipto de los cesares. …