‎Europe‎

‎N/A;‎

‎PASSAGE TO ASIA. 25 CENTURIES OF EXCHANGE BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE,‎

‎BE, B.A.I., 2010 Hardback, 235 x 315mm., 272pp., 300 colour illustrations. . FINE CONDITION. ISBN 9789085865650.‎

‎Al millennia lang onderhouden Azie en Europa intense relaties. Zowel op het land - via de zijderoute - als op zee ontwikkelden zich commerciele en politieke banden tussen het Oosten en het Westen. Veroveraars als Alexander de Grote, Attila en Dzjengis Khan reisden op zoek naar glorie, rijkdom en macht. Ook Marco Polo, Zheng He en Magelhaen waren gefascineerd door de rijkdommen, de zijde, de kruiden, het porselein. De handel opende de weg voor de verspreiding van de grote religieuze en filosofische stromingen, onuitputtelijke inspiratiebronnen voor kunst en cultuur. De tentoonstelling A Passage to Asia belicht 2500 jaar van uitwisselingen tussen Azie en Europa aan de hand van schatten uit een 20-tal landen. Een tentoonstelling en een festival in de marge van de topconferentie ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) 2010. Asia and Europe form one giant continent, Eurasia, with an endless variation of landscapes, climates, fauna and flora, as well as a wide range of peoples and cultures. Asians and Europeans have been connected with each other for thousands of years. Two cultural factors seem to have linked and influenced the peoples of East and West for thousands of years, Trade and Faith. The book brings together for the first time a selection of 200 art objects from the cultural heritage of 16 Asian countries : Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Specialist in different fields will largely inform the reader with new information. Depuis des millenaires, l'Asie et l'Europe entretiennent d'intenses relations. C'est sur terre - via la ? route de la soie ? - et sur mer que se sont developpes les reseaux commerciaux et politiques entre Orient et Occident. Des conquerants tels Alexandre le Grand, Attila et Gengis Khan ont voyage a la recherche de gloire, richesse et pouvoir. Marco Polo, Zheng He, Magellan, tous etaient fascines par les richesses, la soie, les epices, la porcelaine... Le commerce a ouvert la voie a la diffusion des grands courants religieux et philosophiques, sources d'inspirations inepuisables pour l'art et la culture. A Passage to Asia met en lumiere 2500 ans d'echanges entre l'Asie et l'Europe a travers les tresors d'une vingtaine de pays. Une exposition et un festival en marge du sommet ASEM (Asia-Europe Meeting) 2010. English/ French/ Dutch (NL) edition. New book.‎

Bookseller reference : 25058

‎N/A;‎

‎AUGUSTE RODIN. THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS,‎

‎Athens, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, 1985 Illustrated cardboard cover b/w, 205 x 280mm., 59pp., b/w illustration.‎

‎Athens Cultural Capital of Europe 1985. Text in Greek and English. In good condition.‎

Bookseller reference : 26042

‎ZELINSKY, Bodo (Einleitung).‎

‎SLAWISCHE BUCHILLUSTRATION IM 20. JAHRHUNDERT. RUSSLAND - POLEN - TSCHECHIEN - SLOWAKEI.‎

‎Wien, Bohlau Verlag, 1999 Broschiert, originale Abdeckung Verlag, 30.2x21.4 cm., 237 S., Abbildungen in Farbe und S/W. ISBN 3412124974.‎

‎Literarische Bilderwelten. Internationale Buchgraphik in Europa und Ubersee. Band VI. Herausgegeben von Ulrich von Kritter und Bodo Zelinsky.‎

Bookseller reference : 27870

‎N. De Marchi, H. J. Van Miegroet (eds.)‎

‎Mapping Markets for Paintings in Europe, 1450-1750‎

‎, Brepols, 2006 XIV 458 p., 27 b/w ill., 178 x 254 mm, Languages: English, Paperback. ISBN 9782503518305.‎

‎Over the course of the fifteenth century easel paintings edged out tapestries, frescoes and wood inlay pictures on the walls of private dwellings. Millions of such paintings were produced in the period 1450-1800, in all shapes and sizes, and across the whole range of prices. Who bought them? How were they distributed? What place did they occupy among other "luxury" possessions? Such questions seem to require that visual culture be treated as an integral part of family spending and commercial pursuits. This volume is the outcome of a four-year collaboration between art historians, economists, social historians and museum professionals from the US, Australia and Europe; its aim was to map the new ground identified by these and related questions, in local contexts, but with comparative and longitudinal concerns constantly in mind. The result is an entirely new matrix of the business and artistic interactions through which visual cultures in early modern Europe were formed. The editors, Neil De Marchi and Hans J. Van Miegroet, an economist and an art historian, have collaborated across their disciplines for ten years. Here they have interspersed participants' essays with brief connecting observations, to produce a text that respects disciplinary expertise while making connections across locations and across time. Much has been written about European paintings; but how markets in paintings emerged, who they served, what roles and institutions were developed that enabled them to function effectively, and how exchange affected visual preferences, have not been studied in such a deliberately wide-angled, comparative way. Mapping Markets is not only a book about paintings, but a compendium of cross-disciplinary methods and insights. It charts the state of research in this trans-disciplinary field, identifies gaps, and poses questions for scholars and students wishing to pursue further the issues raised here.‎

Bookseller reference : 31357

‎P. Hardwick (ed.);‎

‎Playful Middle Ages. Meanings of Play and Plays of Meaning: Essays in Memory of Elaine C. Block,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, XIV 247 p., 95 b/w ill., 2 b/w tables, 1 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528809.‎

‎Love play or playing dead, wordplay or playing games - the notion of play inhabits all spheres of human activity. This collection of essays brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines to explore aspects of playfulness in the later European Middle Ages. From manuscript to performance and from the domestic to the doctrinal, the exuberance and ambiguity of verbal and visual play is interrogated in order to decode layers of meaning in texts and artefacts. These twelve papers celebrate the work of Elaine C. Block, whose dedicated study of misericords has, through countless articles and books, made the riches of this dizzying iconographic resource easily available to scholars for the first time. Her monumental Corpus on Medieval Misericords volumes will no doubt inform medieval scholars for generations to come, and those included in the present collection are both proud and grateful to be of the first generation to benefit from her work on this body of carvings which challengingly - and playfully - straddles the sometimes invisible line between the sacred and profane. Languages: English, French.‎

Bookseller reference : 32418

‎P. Lombaerde (ed.);‎

‎Reception of P.P. Rubens's Palazzi di Genova during the 17th Century in Europe: Questions and Problems,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Paperback, 262 p., 200 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503513010.‎

‎Rubens book Palazzi di Genova' was well diffused in European countries as England, the Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy thanks to the numerous contacts the famous painter and diplomat maintained in humanistic, artistic and political circles. From 1622 on this book, containing two volumes, was edited at several times during the 17th and 18th Century. But the direct influences of the numerous facades, plans, cross-sections, staircases and building details on modern architecture look rather limited, especially in his own country. In this study, several scholars in architectural history analyse how the examples of Genoese palazzi and churches as presented by Rubens were accepted in different European countries. Much attention is given to the question if these examples inspired a new architectural typology, in which the inner court of the houses was substituted by a 'salone in mezzo'. An attempt is made to situate Rubens' book among the late 16th and early 17th Century treatises and model books. The way in which Rubens presented the new Genoese architecture of villa's, palaces and churches and the introduction he wrote as a 'painter-architect' to this book were so modern at that time, that the reception of this prestigious edition in folio had more to do with changes in considering architectural theory and practice as with the propagation of a late renaissance style influenced by Antique examples. Languages: English, French, German. New.condition !!‎

Bookseller reference : 33575

‎J. P. Helfers (ed.);‎

‎Multicultural Europe and Cultural Exchange in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Hardback, VIII+182 p., 25 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503514703.‎

‎Contemporary criticism focuses on contested issues at the borders and in the interstices of cultures. Medieval and Early Modern European culture, previously conceived as monolithic, is now being reconceived as heterogeneous, a site of tensions, contest, accommodation, and subversion. The essays in this volume describe a Europe that is multicultural in fact, and trace the exchanges between cultural groups, subcultures and dominant cultures, and between individuals and the cultures that they inhabit. The critical works in this volume are drawn from a variety of disciplines: art history, literary studies, history and historiography, and cultural studies. A number are interdisciplinary, examining topics of cultural studies as diverse as fashion, rhetorical self-fashioning, and the history of architecture, all in the context of their surrounding contexts. A special strength of this volume is the visual impact of its three illustrated monographs.These essays will appeal to all who see the importance of reconceiving European history in terms of contemporary multicultural perspectives, as well as to those who are specially interested in medieval architecture, the history of fashion, French and English Renaissance literature, Hebraic studies, and medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean history. New.‎

Bookseller reference : 33659

‎S. O. Glosecki (ed.);‎

‎Myth in Early Northwest Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XLII+338 p., 8 b/w ill., 155 x 225 mm. ISBN 9782503526652.‎

‎This collection of fifteen essays by distinguished scholars addresses a formative era (approximately 500-1000 C.E.) in Northwest Europe. Myths of the time exhibit the interplay of classical, biblical, Celtic, and Germanic (including Old Norse and Old English) cultures during the Carolingian and Viking periods, showing how Christian and native religions engaged with each other. The studies also attend to current myth theory. Myths and mythology from early-medieval Northwest Europe remain influential through the works of Tolkien and contemporary self-realization movements; this volume offers readers the latest research by many of the world's leading scholars on the subject. New.‎

Bookseller reference : 33668

‎S. Lazaris (ed.);‎

‎cheval dans les societes antiques et medievales,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Paperback, approx. 450 p., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503544403.‎

‎Ces Actes des Journees d'etude internationales (Strasbourg, 6-7 novembre 2009) sont l'aboutissement d?un programme de recherche (2007-2009), mene au sein de l'UMR 7044 (Etude des civilisations de l'Antiquite : de la Prehistoire a Byzance), sur la place du cheval dans l'empire byzantin. Les 14 contributions qu'ils reunissent sont consacrees au cheval de guerre et de loisir dans l'Antiquite et au Moyen Age. L?ouvrage est divise en trois sections. Dans la premiere, les contributeurs analysent la naissance du corps de cavalerie dans l?armee romaine et ses emplois. Sont egalement etudies les differences regionales du pourtour mediterraneen dans l?elevage du cheval, les prix pratiques ou encore les connaissances hippologiques des Anciens. Les travaux qui composent la deuxieme partie proposent des syntheses sur le cheval medieval, byzantin et occidental. Ils abordent le sujet a travers les textes, les sources archeologiques, les representations et les us et coutumes des civilisations etudiees. Enfin, la derniere partie s?interesse aux instruments hippiques, aux armes et a l?hippiatrie. Y sont ainsi reexaminees les innovations, adoptions et adaptations, dans l?Antiquite tardive, des pieces de l?equipement equin essentielles pour le combat, telles que l?etrier et le mors. Les armes des cavaliers sont reevaluees, ainsi que les changements dans leurs techniques de combat suite a la diffusion de l?etrier. On trouvera aussi l?analyse du vocabulaire employe pour l?anatomie du cheval dans la litterature hippiatrique grecque, qui connait a cette periode un essor sans precedent, lie au developpement de la cavalerie romaine et protobyzantine. French, English, German.‎

Bookseller reference : 34529

‎Vanhaverbeke, J. Poblome, M. Waelkens, F. Vermeulen, R. Brulet (eds.)‎

‎Thinking about Space, The potential of surface survey and contextual archaeology in the definition of space in Roman times.‎

‎, Brepols, 2008 Paperback, X 255 p., 5 colour ill., 210 x 295 mm, Languages: English. fine condition !!. ISBN 9782503513577.‎

‎The incorporation of new provinces in the Roman Empire, both in the East and the West, coincides with marked changes in urban infrastructure and layout, and in rural settlement patterns, as is attested by numerous excavations and surveys.While scholars agree on the quantitative and qualitative transformation of cities and their territories, such as an increase in the number of monumental buildings and rural sites, a significantly higher degree of urbanization, a more sophisticated lifestyle etc., little research has been devoted to the ways in which these structures and sites, and their internal components, were organized spatially. The eleven papers presented in this volume result from workshops organized by the international, interdisciplinary ROCT-network (Roman Crafts and Trade). From a heterogeneous chronological and geographical background, the peer-reviewed collection of papers focuses on one central issue: the use of space in the Roman world. Space, on all sorts of levels, shapes human life, now as in the past. The edited volume contrasts two dimensions of space: the macro-scale at regional level and the micro-scale at local level. Moreover, the selected papers are written against a variety of methodological backgrounds and practices, including excavation and surveying strategies, contextual analysis and material culture studies. The variety of content, approaches and interpretation results from the conscious deliberation that this is the only possible way to think about space in the Roman world. The contributions cover the Roman world with its provinces, throughout the long period in history which can be considered Roman in each of the study areas.Frank Vermeulen is professor of Roman archaeology and of archaeological method at Ghent University. His research interests cover settlement history and landscape development in the western Mediterranean during Antiquity. Raymond Brulet est Professeur d'Archeologie nationale a l'Universite catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve). Il est specialise dans la periode de l'Antiquite tardive et dans le domaine de l'Archeometrie. Hannelore Vanhaverbeke is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO-Belgium); she is the field director of the annual rural surveys near Sagalassos and teaches at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). Jeroen Poblome is a research professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He studies artisanal production organization and exchange patterns and mechanisms in the ancient eastern Mediterranean, with fieldwork in Boeotia, Pisidia and Cilicia.‎

Bookseller reference : 42514

‎Kramer, Jane.‎

‎Berichten uit Europa.‎

‎'s-Gravenhage, SDU, 1991 Softcover met flappen, 692pp., 24x14cm., zeer goede staat. ISBN 9061790824.‎

Bookseller reference : 43694

‎K. Zilmer, J. Jesch‎

‎Epigraphic Literacy and Christian Identity Modes of Written Discourse in the Newly Christian European North.<br>‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2012 Hardcover. VI 273 p., 39 b/w ill., 15 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English. Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503542942.‎

‎This collection of nine essays deals with the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe.<br>This volume examines the role of epigraphic literacy within the newly introduced Christian culture and the developing tradition of literacy in Northern Europe during the Viking Age and the High Middle Ages. The epigraphic material under scrutiny here originates from Scandinavia and North-West Russia ? two regions that were converted to Christianity around the turn of the first millennium. Besides traditional categories of epigraphic sources, such as monumental inscriptions on durable materials, the volume is concerned with more casual inscriptions on less permanent materials. The first part of the book discusses a form of monumental epigraphic literacy manifested on Scandinavian rune stones, with a particular focus on their Christian connections. The second part examines exchanges between Christian culture and ephemeral products of epigraphic literacy, as expressed through Scandinavian rune sticks, East Slavonic birchbark documents and church graffiti. The essays look beyond the traditional sphere of parchment literacy and the Christian discourse of manuscript sources in order to explore the role of epigraphic literacy in the written vernacular cultures of Scandinavia and North-West Russia.‎

Bookseller reference : 44822

‎Bubalo‎

‎Pragmatic Literacy in Medieval Serbia‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2014 Hardcover. XXVI 428 p., 38 b/w ill., 2 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Fine copy. Including an index. ISBN 9782503549613.‎

‎Examining the significance and uses of written documents in medieval Serbian society, for the very first time the manifestations of everyday literacy are revealed in the area where the East and the West intersect in southeastern Europe.<br>The interweaving of Latin and Byzantine influences shaped the culture of literacy in medieval Serbia. Unprecedented in the field, this study aims to show that, even if only about 1000 Serbian medieval documents are preserved, this does not mean that little had been written. An exploration of the use of written documents in commercial, legal, and private relations in late medieval Serbia constitutes the basic scope of the research. It focuses on the documents? fate and on their social roles from the moment they were issued or submitted to their beneficiaries. The making of charters - by rulers, the Church, the aristocracy, towns, and public notaries - is analysed, as are the main fields of the use of the written word - evidentiary procedure, diplomacy, and correspondence. The citation of individual examples of pragmatic literacy allows us to give an approximate idea of how widespread the belief in the power of the written word really was. Even though the ways in which documentary literacy manifested itself in late medieval Serbia display certain idiosyncrasies, the growth in the use and reputation of written documents suggests that the Serbian case was not all that unlike the written customs and practices elsewhere in medieval Europe.‎

Bookseller reference : 44874

‎R.V. Chetanian‎

‎Catalogue des fragments et manuscrits grecs du Matenadaran d'Erevan‎

‎, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2008 Hardcover. 240 p., 85 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: French, Including an index. Fine copy. ISBN 9782503529790.‎

‎Grace a une convention passee entre le Matenadaran d?Erevan et l?Universite d?Aix-Marseille 1, R. Varteni Chetanian a pu etablir le catalogue des manuscrits grecs et des fragments grecs presents au sein des manuscrits armeniens conserves dans la prestigieuse bibliotheque de la capitale de l?Armenie. Au cours de ses sejours a Erevan, elle a sans cesse beneficie du soutien et des conseils des bibliothecaires. Je les remercie d?avoir rendu possible l?elaboration de cet instrument de travail. La presente publication permet de faire connaitre aux chercheurs du monde entier des documents precieux, mais insuffisamment pris en compte par les hellenistes et les armenisants. En particulier, il reste beaucoup a faire dans le domaine des traductions des textes litteraires grecs en armenien. Le Catalogue de R. Varteni Chetanian, qui a par ailleurs publie une remarquable etude sur la traduction armenienne des Homelies sur les Actes des apotres de Jean Chrysostome, donne un moyen nouveau de progresser dans ce champ de recherche. C?est dire que le present Catalogue ne doit pas etre envisage comme une fin ou une cloture. Il doit au contraire etre a l?origine d?autres travaux : travaux d?edition des plus importants textes grecs exhumes par R. Varteni Chetanian ; travaux de numerisation des fragments et des manuscrits, afin de rendre possible leur consultation a distance. Jalon pour l?avenir de la recherche historique et philologique, voila comment doit etre envisage ce Catalogue. Sa confection a ete l?occasion de tisser des liens scientifiques entre l?Armenie et la France. Puissent les travaux qu?il suscitera permettre de poursuivre dans la meme voie et d?approfondir le sillon ainsi trace.‎

Bookseller reference : 45136

‎SANCHEZ, A.E.P.‎

‎musee du Prado.‎

‎, Mercatorfonds, Antwerpen, Relie, avec jaquette d'editeur et boite carton., 340 x 260 mm., 669 pp., 900 ills. en coul., Bon etat (jaquette un peu decoloree).‎

Bookseller reference : 47731

‎Merel-Brandenburg‎

‎baptistere Saint-Jean au sein du groupe episcopal du Puy-en-Velay‎

‎, Brepols Publishers, 2018 Paperback, Illustrated, French, English, 352 pagina's. ISBN 9782503570280.‎

‎Ce volume retrace l'histoire du baptistere Saint-Jean du Puy-en-Velay, depuis la fin du Ve s. jusqu'a nos jours. En 2004, avant la restauration et la reaffectation au culte du baptistere Saint-Jean au Puy-en-Velay, une equipe pluridisciplinaire a entrepris de revoir, grace a un examen attentif des documents ecrits et iconographiques, des vestiges archeologiques et une analyse des maconneries, l?architecture, le decor et la chronologie du baptistere. L?ouvrage rend compte a travers diverses contributions des resultats de ce programme mettant en evidence l?anciennete du batiment et sa place dans l?ensemble cathedral. Le baptistere a ete construit des la fin du Ves.- VIes., au nord de la cathedrale, sur un site romain occupe par une terrasse amenagee pour l?edification du sanctuaire romain. Le plan actuel, rectangulaire a abside, a ete determine des le premier etat, seuls une partie de elevation et les amenagements interieurs ont ete progressivement modifies, individualisant des espaces distincts correspondant aux evolutions de la liturgie baptismale et aux differents usages. La nef de la premiere construction etait rythmee d?arcatures. Au centre a ete mise au jour la cuve a piscine octogonale attestant l?anciennete de la fonction baptismale. Au cours des VIIIe et IXe s., le decor sculpte a ete complete par des stucs et des peintures. Les premieres modifications structurelles et liturgiques a partir du Xe siecle, les embellissements du XVIIIe s. et les restaurations du debut du XXe s. dissimulaient ces etapes indispensables a la comprehension d?un monument exceptionnel en Gaule, conserve en plan et partiellement en elevation, au sein d?un vaste groupe episcopal a ete precisee grace aux comparaisons avec des ensembles similaires en Europe. Anne-Benedicte Merel-Brandenburg a fait ses etudes a Paris-Sorbonne et est titulaire d?une these soutenue en 2007 sur la Sculpture de l?Antiquite tardive en Languedoc mediterraneen. Archeologue, elle a fouille a Paris et en Languedoc, et dirige le chantier des eglises cemeteriales de Montferrans(Aude) De 1989 a 2002, elle a enseigne a L?Ecole du Louvre, l?Histoire de l?architecture occidentale : Antiquite tardive, depuis 2013 l?archeologie de la Gaule romaine. Elle est membre associee a l?equipe de recherche de l?Ecole du Louvre.‎

Bookseller reference : 51644

‎Koldeweij Jos, Vandenbroeck Paul‎

‎JHERONIMUS BOSCH. ALLE SCHILDERIJEN EN TEKENINGEN‎

‎, Ludion, 2003 Softcover, geillustreerde kartonomslag met flappen, 235 x 315mm., pagina's niet genummerd, prachtige en uitgebreide kleurillustratie. ISBN 9789056622190.‎

‎Deze aantrekkelijk vormgegeven, rijk geillustreerde publicatie verschijnt bij gelegenheid van de grote overzichtstentoonstelling over het leven en werk van Jheronismus Bosch in het Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Deze tentoonstelling wordt gezien als de publiekstrekker van Rotterdam 2001, Culturele Hoofdstad van Europa. Er zijn maar weinig schilders van wie leven en werk ons voor zoveel raadsels stellen als Bosch. Hij is gezien als vrome katholiek, als voorloper van de reformatie, als gnosticus en als ketterse naaktloper. Sommigen zien zijn werk als strikt binnen de leer van de kerk passend, anderen zien het als bron van occulte wijsheid. In het boek komt niet alleen het volledige geschilderde en getekende oeuvre van Jheronimus Bosch aan de orde, maar zal vooral worden ingegaan op diens leefwereld en wereldbeeld. Dit boek wil in de eerste plaats afrekenen met tal van de dikwijls bizarre oordelen over Bosch. Gedegen studie van de late middeleeuwen leert ons dat het oeuvre van Bosch helemaal niet zo afwijkt van wat men elders in de (volks)kunst en (volks)literatuur van zijn tijd kan vinden. Wat blijft is de ongelooflijke fantasie en het grote meesterschap van de kunstenaar. Boek is als nieuw.‎

Bookseller reference : 55727

‎VAN OS, HENK‎

‎GEBED IN SCHOONHEID.‎

‎, Zwolle, Waanders, 1994.**, Paperback , Originele geillustreerde uitgeversomslag in kleur, 22,5x28cm, 192pp, geillustreerd in kleur en z/w. ISBN 9781858940137.‎

‎Schatten van prive-devotie in Europa, 1300-1500.‎

Bookseller reference : 57109

‎Florian Heilmeyer (ed.)‎

‎Celebrating Public Architecture: Buildings from the Open Call in Flanders 2000-21‎

‎, Jovis Verlag, 2021, Paperback, 256 pages, 300 illustrations, 24 x 17 cm, English. ISBN 9783868596922.‎

‎The Open Call in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking, northern part of Belgium) is more than just another architecture competition: any governmental agency or public institution can choose to work with an Open Call for any given construction project. Since its invention by the first Flemish Government Architect bOb Van Reeth in 2000, more than 700 assignments have been published in this procedure, resulting in almost 350 completed public architectural and infrastructural projects so far. This volume compiles 70 of these, from all over Flanders?from its west coast to the Dutch border in the east?to illustrate the astounding quality of these projects. They prove that public architecture can be daring, thought-provoking, cooperative, and well-done at the same time. The book takes an extensive look at how this procedure works, how it is received by architects, politicians, and clients?and ultimately, at the outstanding public architecture in Flanders as an example for other countries to study closely. Including buildings by 51N4E, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Dierendonckblancke, Zaha Hadid, KAAN, Maxwan, Hideyuki Nakayama, Ney & Partner, noAarchitecten, OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, RCR Arquitectes, Robbrecht en Daem, Sergison Bates, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Xaveer de Geyter, among others.‎

Bookseller reference : 57470

‎Bartosz Kontny‎

‎Archaeology of War. Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 264 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:108 b/w, 23 col., 1 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, 7 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503607375.‎

‎From graves to settlements, and from the battlefield to underwater sacrificial sites, weapons dating to the Roman and Migration Period have long been found in an array of contexts throughout the region that forms modern-day Poland. This volume for the first time aims to draw together research into these finds, gathered throughout the author?s career, in a synthetic approach that sees discoveries of swords and other armaments analysed against a broad, comparative background. The work begins with a focus on votive deposits from lakes, here used as a lens for addressing questions about military strategy and war ritual more generally, before moving on to explore the weapons and warriors of the Przeworsk and Wielbark Cultures, as well as shedding light on the lives of the Balts. Finally, an in-depth analysis is made of shields from the protohistoric period, exploring the genesis and variability of the forms taken by this protective weapon. Through this approach, this richly illustrated volume sheds new light not only on the typology and chronology of weaponry from the Roman and Migration Periods, but also on the symbolism and functionality that these arms held.‎

Bookseller reference : 63040

‎Elena S Stolyarik, John M. Kleeberg‎

‎Scythians and Greeks on the Western Black Sea. The Coinage of the Kings of Scythia Minor in Dobruja, 218/212-110 BCE‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, viii + 228 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:201 b/w, 17 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897224062.‎

‎Summary The Scythians have fascinated investigators since the time of Herodotus. This study examines the bronze and silver coinage of the kingdom of Scythia Minor in Dobruja at the mouth of the Danube River, a Scythian successor state that emerged in the second century BCE after the breakup of Scythia Magna. It is based on a corpus of over 1,500 coins, more than ever before, and draws upon scholarship in nine languages, including hard-to-find sources from Bulgaria, Romania, USSR, Ukraine, and Russia. The much-debated chronology of the six kings of Scythia Minor (Kanites, Tanousas, Charaspes, Ailis, Sariakes, and Akrosas) is determined through literary evidence, inscriptions, die linkage, shared monograms, coin hoards, and counterstamps. Metrological analysis distinguishes four denominations, plus the alterations and debasements of the weight standard during the troubled reigns of Ailis and Sariakes. Fifteen counterstamps that appear on Scythian coins are attributed to the local Greek poleis of Callatis, Tomis, Istros, and Dionysopolis. An inventory of four hoards and 47 findspots of single coins identifies the mint site, Dionysopolis. The volume concludes with a catalog of 63 major coin types and 15 counterstamps, plus bibliography and index. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction Scythia Magna and Dobruja Literary and Epigraphic Sources for the Kingdom of Scythia Minor in Dobruja Earlier Studies of the Coins of Scythia Minor Ethnic Identification and Chronology of the Kings of Scythia Minor Coin Types, Legends, and Magistrates' Monograms Metrology, Weight Standard, Denominations, and Die Orientation Countermarks on Scythian Coins The Geographic Pattern of the Circulation of Scythian Coins The Mint Location: Dionysopolis Conclusion Catalog of Coins and Countermarks Appendix: List of Magistrates' Monograms and Mintmarks Abbreviations Ancient Sources Inscriptions Papyri Auction Catalogs and Electronic Sales Bibliography Index‎

Bookseller reference : 63356

‎Bury, Michael Elam, Caroline [edit.] Warwick, Genevieve [edit.] Dethloff, Diana Baker, Christopher [edit.] Gibson-Wood, Carol Griffiths, Antony Hattori, Cord lia Lafranconi, Matteo Landau, David McDonald, Mark P. Turner, Nicholas Wood, Jeremy‎

‎Collecting prints and drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750‎

‎, Ashgate , 2003, Hardcover with dusjacket, 225 pages, Illustrated. **fine!!. ISBN 9780754600374.‎

‎Collecting prints and drawings in Europe, c. 1500-1750 ; Papers of a conference held at the National Gallery in London in 1997, organized by the Burlington Magazine and sponsored by the Getty‎

Bookseller reference : 63700

‎Michael E. Stone, Emanuela Timotin‎

‎Cheirograph of Adam in Armenian and Romanian Traditions. New Texts and Images‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 187 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 25 col., 2 tables b/w., 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503599977.‎

‎Summary This book explores the legend of Adam's Contract with Satan that was made after the expulsion from the Garden of Eden.This legend was current in the Eastern Orthodox churches of SE Europe as well as in the Caucasus. Unknown forms of the legend have been found in two traditions, the Romanian and the Armenian, and are investigated here. Notably this legend has found its way into folk stories and sometimes into folk music, showing how widely it was accepted and distributed. This legend also inspired images in both traditions. In Romania the most striking illustrations are to be found in Bukovina province, in frescos on the famous painted churches of that region, as well as in manuscripts. In Armenia features of this story are incorporated into the iconography of the Baptism of Christ in the River Jordan. TABLE OF CONTENTS Series' preface Preface Abbreviations and Critical Signs Introduction Part 1: New Armenian Evidence for the Cheirograph Legend Armenian Folk Tales A Literary Text A Proposed New Piece of Armenian Iconographic Evidence New Armenian Evidence from Literary Texts Part 2: New Romanian Evidence for the Cheirograph Legend The Legend of the Cheirograph in the Romanian Literary Tradition Iconography Between Literary and Iconographic Tradition Epilogue Bibliography Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources Subject Index‎

Bookseller reference : 64368

‎Leszek Gardeta, Kamil Kajkowski (eds)‎

‎Animals and Animated Objects in the Early Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 206 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:30 b/w, 37 col., 8 tables b/w., 6 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503600901.‎

‎Summary Since time immemorial, animals have played crucial roles in people's lives. In Continental and Northern Europe, especially in the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages, animals were both feared and revered. Varying and often ambivalent perceptions of fauna were expressed through everyday practices, religious beliefs, and the zoomorphic ornamentation of a wide plethora of objects that ranged from jewellery, weapons, and equestrian equipment to wagons and ships. This timely volume critically investigates the multivalence of animals in medieval archaeology, literature, and art in order to present human attitudes to creatures such as bears, horses, dogs, and birds in a novel and interdisciplinary way. The chapters gathered together here explore the prominence of animals, animal parts, and their various visual representations in domestic spaces and the wider public arena, on the battlefield, and in an array of ritual practices, but also examine the importance of zoomorphic art for emerging elites at a time of social and political tensions across Scandinavia and the oft-overlooked Western Slavic and Baltic societies. This innovative book draws together scholars from across Europe in order to pave the way for a nuanced international and interdisciplinary dialogue that has the capacity to substantially increase our perception of human and animal worlds of the Early Middle Ages. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations 1. Animals and Animated Objects in Early Medieval Worlds: An Introduction Leszek Garde?a and Kamil Kajkowski 2. Bear Phalanges and Bearskins in Graves of the First Millennnium AD: Cultural Developments and Characteristics of a Unique Burial Custom in Central and Northern Europe Sebastian Beermann 3. What Could Birds do for the Dead? Animals and Humans in the Mortuary Practices of Viking Age Ribe Sarah Croix 4. Between Life and Death: Waterfowl in Viking Age Funerary Practices Klaudia Karpi?ska 5. Exploring Animals as Agents and Objects in Early Medieval Iceland and Scandinavia Harriet J. Evans Tang and Keith Ruiter 6. Horse Burials on Viking Age Gotland: Between Mounted Warriors and Totemic Animals Matthias S. Toplak 7. Horses and Burial Rites in the Early Piast State and Pomerania Jerzy Sikora 8. Riders on the Storm: Decorative Horse Bridles in the Early Piast State and Pomerania Leszek Garde?a and Kamil Kajkowski 9. Between the Beasts: On the Meaning and Function of Small Quadruped Figurines from Estonia T nno Jonuks and Tuuli Kurisoo‎

Bookseller reference : 64403

‎Zsuzsanna Papp Reed‎

‎Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 469 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 1 col., 2 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503595528.‎

‎Summary This is a novel, interdisciplinary study of the Mongol military campaign in Eastern Europe (1241-1242) ? the North, as thirteenth-century Europeans saw the region ? in the works of contemporary English chronicler, Matthew Paris of St Albans Monastery. Tracing the journey of his sources, the volume explores thirteenth-century information networks against the backdrop of the struggle between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV. Parallel to the history of information, the subject of the study is the Chronica majora and its afterlife, Matthew's chronicle world where the sometimes fictitious (and often very real) episodes of the Mongol story unfold. Tracing major landmarks in the meta-history of the Chronica majora, the author wishes to emancipate Matthew Paris as a historian ? one in the series of a multitude of others who continue to write and rewrite the history of the Mongol invasion across centuries of historiography. The volume is a handy companion both to scholars of English historiography and those who want to read critically the oft-cited primary sources of the history of the Mongol military operations in Europe. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. Inside the Book Mise-en-ab me Within and Without The North by the Northwest Chapter 2. Outside the Book The Book in the Scriptorium The Scriptorium in England England in the European Networks Chapter 3. Fright: Mongols in the North and East (1237-1240) 1237: Chaldeans, Medes, Persians, and Armenians 1238: Northbound to Hungaria major 1239: Dacia, Gothia, Frisia 1240: False Alarm and Irruption Chapter 4. Fight: Mongols in the Middle (1241) Holy War on the Mongols The First 1241 Cluster The Second 1241 Cluster Chapter 5. Flight: Rivaling Stories of Retreat (1243-1248) 1243: The Tartar Khan's Englishman 1244: Frederick's Triumph 1244: The Man from Russia 1245-1248: Endgame Chapter 6. Letters from the Afflicted Lands in the Additamenta Chapter 7. The Afterlife of Matthew's Mongol Story Chronicles and their Afterlife Back to the Future: Modern historiography Vice prologi Appendix 1: List of Manuscripts Manuscripts containing the Chronica majora and its fragments / continuations Manuscripts containing Matthew Paris's Flores historiarum, and its fragments / continuations Flores manuscripts listed in medieval catalogues Notes on transcription Further appendices Bibliography Index‎

Bookseller reference : 64580