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Author |
: Nadine Guilhou |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2017-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784915230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784915238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liber Amicorum–Speculum Siderum: Nūt Astrophoros by : Nadine Guilhou
In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia.
Author |
: Alicia Maravelia |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 2020-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789696400 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789696402 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Environment and Religion in Ancient and Coptic Egypt: Sensing the Cosmos through the Eyes of the Divine by : Alicia Maravelia
Proceedings of a conference held in Athens in 2017, this volume presents 34 fresh and original papers (plus 2 abstracts) on ancient Egyptian religion, environment and the cosmos. Papers connect many interdisciplinary approaches including Egyptology, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, geography, botany, zoology, ornithology, theology and history.
Author |
: Silvia Zago |
Publisher |
: Lockwood Press |
Total Pages |
: 521 |
Release |
: 2022-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781948488549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 194848854X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Journey through the Beyond by : Silvia Zago
This volume offers the first comprehensive overview of the evolution over time of a foundational concept of the Egyptian afterlife beliefs, the Duat, or netherworld. The Duat is a complicated, multifaceted notion, which was never canonized into a single version of the beyond, but offered instead a variety of alternatives attempting to describe the metaphysical realms beyond the visible world, and beyond life. Theological speculations gave rise to a rich textual and visual repertoire, which underwent a process of evolution over thousands of years, during which newer ideas and images were constantly introduced. Through the analysis of royal and non-royal funerary texts from the late Old Kingdom to the end of the New Kingdom, this book traces the development of the conceptualization of the notion of Duat, outlining what it encompassed and where it was imagined to be located. In addition to the translation and discussion of the most significant passages of the texts analyzed, each chapter also provides an overview of the individual compositions and of the relevant theological, cosmological, and astronomical notions complementing the conceptual framework, of which the Duat formed but a part. Additionally, discussions of concurrent changes in Egyptian culture, society, and ideology are included in order to clarify the context in which afterlife beliefs and related texts evolved. An analysis of the correlation between funerary compositions and their material supports complements the study, emphasizing the Egyptians' belief in a magical synergy between texts, images, and their contexts in the activation of a suitable, effective afterlife for the recipients of the texts.
Author |
: Mladen Tomorad |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 298 |
Release |
: 2019-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789693409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789693403 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Egypt in Croatia: Croatian Fascination with Ancient Egypt from Antiquity to Modern Times by : Mladen Tomorad
Elements from Ancient Egypt have been present in Croatia ever since Antiquity. 'Egypt in Croatia' considers artefacts discovered in present-day Croatia, 16th-20th century travellers, Egyptian collections and early collectors (1820s-1950s), the development of Egyptology as a field of study as well as the various elements of ‘Egyptomania’.
Author |
: Nils Billing |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2018-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004372375 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004372377 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Performative Structure by : Nils Billing
In The Performative Structure: Ritualizing the Pyramid of Pepy I, Nils Billing investigates the ancient Egyptian pyramid complex as a performative structure, ritualized through the operative faculty inherent in monumental architecture, text, and image. The main body of research is given over to an analysis of the Pyramid Texts found in the pyramid of king Pepy I of the Sixth Dynasty (ca 2300 BCE). It is demonstrated that the texts were distributed on distinct space-bound thematic and ritual levels in order to perpetuate a cultic activity from which the lord of the tomb could be transformed by moving through the different chambers and corridors towards the exit. Just as the decoration program of the mortuary temple once delineated the ritual and ideological structure of the royal mortuary cult, the corpus of texts distributed in the pyramid provided a monumentalized performative structure that effectuated the perennial rebirth for its owner.
Author |
: Electra Apostola |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2022-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781803273778 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1803273771 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Current Research in Egyptology 2021 by : Electra Apostola
15 Egyptological and Papyrological papers investigate a great variety of issues, including social and religious aspects of life in ancient Egypt, ritual and magic, language and literature, ideology of death, demonology, the iconographical tradition, and intercultural relations, ranging chronologically from the Prehistoric to the Coptic period.
Author |
: Tamás Mekis |
Publisher |
: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages |
: 375 |
Release |
: 2020-02-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789693348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789693349 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Hypocephalus: An Ancient Egyptian Funerary Amulet by : Tamás Mekis
The hypocephalus is an element of Late Period and Ptolemaic funerary equipment—an amuletic disc placed under the head of mummies. Its shape emulates the sun’s disc, and its form is planar (although it is occasionally concave). This volume analyses the written records and iconography of these objects.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 309 |
Release |
: 2019-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004409682 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004409688 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Uberto Decembrio, Four Books on the Commonwealth - De re publica libri IV by :
Uberto Decembrio’s Four Books on the Commonwealth (De re publica libri IV, ca. 1420), edited and translated by Paolo Ponzù Donato, is one of the earliest examples of the reception of Plato’s Republic in the fifteenth century. The humanistic dialogue provides an illuminating insight into such themes as justice, the best government, the morals of the prince and citizen, education, and religion. Decembrio’s dialogue is dedicated to Filippo Maria Visconti, duke of Milan, the ‘worst enemy’ of Florence. Making use of literary and documentary sources, Ponzù Donato convincingly proves that Decembrio’s thought, which shares many points with the Florentine humanist Leonardo Bruni, belongs to the same world of Civic Humanism.
Author |
: Matteo Valleriani |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 406 |
Release |
: 2020-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030308339 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030308332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis De Sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period by : Matteo Valleriani
This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology. Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the then recently founded University of Paris. It soon became a mandatory text all over Europe. As a result, a tradition of commentaries to the text was soon established and flourished until the second half of the 17th century. Here, readers will find an informative overview of these commentaries complete with a rich context. The essays explore the educational and social backgrounds of the writers. They also detail how their careers developed after the publication of their commentaries, the institutions and patrons they were affiliated with, what their agenda was, and whether and how they actually accomplished it. The editor of this collection considers these scientific commentaries as genuine scientific works. The contributors investigate them here not only in reference to the work on which it comments but also, and especially, as independent scientific contributions that are socially, institutionally, and intellectually contextualized around their authors.
Author |
: Gwendoline de Mûelenaere |
Publisher |
: Brill's Studies on Art, Art Hi |
Total Pages |
: 468 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 900444453X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004444539 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3X Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands by : Gwendoline de Mûelenaere
"In Early Modern Thesis Prints in the Southern Netherlands, Gwendoline de Mûelenaere offers an account of the practice of producing illustrated thesis prints in the seventeenth-century Southern Low Countries. She argues that the evolution of the thesis print genre gave rise to the creation of a specific visual language combining efficiently various figurative registers of a historical and symbolic nature. The book offers a reflection on the representation of knowledge and its public recognition in the context of academic defenses. Early Modern Thesis Prints makes a timely contribution to our understanding of early modern print culture and more specifically to the expanding field of study concerned with the role of visual materials in early modern thought"--