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Author : Robert Deshman
Release : 1997
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Book Synopsis Another Look at the Disappearing Christ by : Robert Deshman
Download or read book Another Look at the Disappearing Christ written by Robert Deshman. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jennifer R. Davis
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Long Morning of Medieval Europe by : Jennifer R. Davis
Download or read book The Long Morning of Medieval Europe written by Jennifer R. Davis. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent advances in research show that the distinctive features of high medieval civilization began developing centuries earlier than previously thought. The era once dismissed as a "Dark Age" now turns out to have been the long morning of the medieval millennium: the centuries from AD 500 to 1000 witnessed the dawn of developments that were to shape Europe for centuries to come. In 2004, historians, art historians, archaeologists, and literary specialists from Europe and North America convened at Harvard University for an interdisciplinary conference exploring new directions in the study of that long morning of medieval Europe, the early Middle Ages. Invited to think about what seemed to each the most exciting new ways of investigating the early development of western European civilization, this impressive group of international scholars produced a wide-ranging discussion of innovative types of research that define tomorrow's field today. The contributors, many of whom rarely publish in English, test approaches extending from using ancient DNA to deducing cultural patterns signified by thousands of medieval manuscripts of saints' lives. They examine the archaeology of slave labor, economic systems, disease history, transformations of piety, the experience of power and property, exquisite literary sophistication, and the construction of the meaning of palace spaces or images of the divinity. The book illustrates in an approachable style the vitality of research into the early Middle Ages, and the signal contributions of that era to the future development of western civilization. The chapters cluster around new approaches to five key themes: the early medieval economy; early medieval holiness; representation and reality in early medieval literary art; practices of power in an early medieval empire; and the intellectuality of early medieval art and architecture. Michael McCormick's brief introductions open each part of the volume; synthetic essays by accomplished specialists conclude them. The editors summarize the whole in a synoptic introduction. All Latin terms and citations and other foreign-language quotations are translated, making this work accessible even to undergraduates. The Long Morning of Medieval Europe: New Directions in Early Medieval Studies presents innovative research across the wide spectrum of study of the early Middle Ages. It exemplifies the promising questions and methodologies at play in the field today, and the directions that beckon tomorrow.
Author : Adam Timothy Bradford
Release : 2010-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Jesus Discovery by : Adam Timothy Bradford
Download or read book The Jesus Discovery written by Adam Timothy Bradford. This book was released on 2010-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put the New Testament alongside the first century manuscripts of Josephus, add an understanding of human psychology plus some inspired insights and you have 'The Jesus Discovery - Another Look At Christ's Missing Years.' Dr Bradford's new book traces the human identity of Jesus through the life of his 'earthly father' Joseph. Was Jesus an itinerant carpenter? Why did he gravitate to the temple when lost in Jerusalem aged 12? Who looked after him? Could an itinerant have cleared the temple market without being arrested by the temple guard? Why was Jesus not arrested in the temple courts but Peter and John were? These and many other questions are answered in a startling new analysis of the life of Christ that elevates him to one of the highest places in Jewish life, while holding true to the Gospel narratives.
Author : Phil Maciak
Release : 2019-08-27
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis The Disappearing Christ by : Phil Maciak
Download or read book The Disappearing Christ written by Phil Maciak. This book was released on 2019-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, American popular culture was booming with opportunities to see Jesus Christ. From the modernized eyewitness gospel of Ben-Hur to the widely circulated passion play films of Edison, Lumière, and Pathé; from D. W. Griffith’s conjuration of a spectral white savior in Birth of a Nation to W. E. B. Du Bois’s “Black Christ” story cycle, Jesus was constantly and inventively visualized across media, and especially in the new medium of film. Why, in an era traditionally defined by the triumph of secular ideologies and institutions, were so many artists rushing to film Christ’s miracles and use his story and image to contextualize their experiences of modernity? In The Disappearing Christ, Phillip Maciak examines filmic depictions of Jesus to argue that cinema developed as a model technology of secularism, training viewers for belief in a secular age. Negotiating between the magic trick and the documentary image, the conflicting impulses of faith and skepticism, the emerging aesthetic of film in this period visualized the fraught process of secularization. Cinematic depictions of an appearing and disappearing Christ became a powerful vehicle for Americans to navigate a rapidly modernizing society. Studying these films alongside a multimedia, interdisciplinary archive of novels, photographs, illustrations, and works of theology, travel writing, and historiography, The Disappearing Christ offers a new narrative of American cultural history at the intersection of cinema studies and religious studies.
Author : Marina Vidas
Release : 2006
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Christina Psalter by : Marina Vidas
Download or read book The Christina Psalter written by Marina Vidas. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed analysis of an exquisitely illuminated thirteenth-century Parisian manuscript (The Royal Library, Copenhagen) which was owned by Christina of Norway (1234-1262), daughter of Håkon IV and wife of Philip of Castile and León. New information is provided about the Psalter?'s medieval and later components, its liturgical and other functions, missing illuminations and texts, as well as its provenance and date. Furthermore, the stylistic and iconographic similarities between the Psalter and some of the most important manuscripts illuminated in Paris in the Period, like the three-volume Moralized Bibles, are discussed. Suggestions also are made about the meanings the texts and images might have had for their intended audience.
