Picturing Royal Charisma Kings And Rulers In The Near East From 3000 Bce To 1700 Ce
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Picturing Royal Charisma Kings And Rulers In The Near East From 3000 Bce To 1700 Ce
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Author : Arlette David
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2023-05-04
Picturing Royal Charisma Kings And Rulers In The Near East From 3000 Bce To 1700 Ce written by Arlette David and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Social Science categories.
This book assesses how Middle Eastern leaders manipulated visuals to advance their rule from around 4500 BC to the 19th century AD. In nine fascinating narratives, it showcases the dynamics of long-lasting Middle Eastern traditions, dealing with the visualization of those who stood at the head of the social order.
Picturing Royal Charisma Kings And Rulers In The Near East From 3000 Bce To 1700 Ce
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language : en
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Release Date : 2023
Picturing Royal Charisma Kings And Rulers In The Near East From 3000 Bce To 1700 Ce written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
Picturing Royal Charisma assesses how Middle Eastern leaders manipulated visuals to advance their rule from around 4500 BC to the 19th century AD. In nine fascinating narratives, it showcases the dynamics of long-lasting Middle Eastern traditions, dealing with the visualization of those who stood at the head of the social order. The contributions discuss: Mesopotamian kings who cast themselves as divine representatives in art; the relationships between the ?king of men? and ?king of beasts? ? the lion; Akhenaten?s visual conception of a divine king without hybrid attributes; the royal image as guiding movements of visitors in the palace of Nimrud; continuities in the functions and representation of Neo-Assyrian eunuchs that survived in the Achaemenid, Sasanian, Byzantine and Islamic courts; the triumphal arch of the emperor Titus and its reflections in Christian Constantinople; patterns of authority and royal legitimacy in 3rd century AD Palmyra and Rome; the use of the Biblical past in the construction of kingship in 12th century Crusader Jerusalem; and the use of ?the power of images? by Islamic rulers, adopting visuals of thrones and throne-rooms despite Islamic opposition to the figurative portrayal of kings.
Imaginary Kings
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Author : Olivier Hekster
language : en
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
Release Date : 2005
Imaginary Kings written by Olivier Hekster and has been published by Franz Steiner Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This volume looks at various ways in which royal images functioned within different ideological frameworks in the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. It argues that visibility lies at the heart of power, especially under monarchic rule. The contributions highlight how, throughout the ancient Mediterranean, patterns can be detected in the use of royal images. There seem to have been continuous (re)negotiations between innovation and tradition, East and West, and between aerealAe and aeimaginaryAe kings. Contents Richard Fowler / Olivier Hekster: Imagining kings: From Persia to Rome Lindsay Allen: Le roi imaginaire: An audience with the Achaemenid king Peter Thonemann: The tragic king: Demetrios Poliorketes and the city of Athens Margherita Facella: Roman perception of Commagenian royalty Matthew Gisborne: A curia of kings: Sulla and royal imagery Richard Fowler: aeMost fortunate rootsAe: Tradition and legitimacy in Parthian royal ideology Olivier Hekster: Captured in the gaze of power: Visibility, games and Roman imperial representation Ted Kaizer: Kingly priests in the Roman Near East? Bibliography Index
Envisioning The Past Through Memories
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Author : Davide Nadali
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-08-11
Envisioning The Past Through Memories written by Davide Nadali and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-11 with History categories.
Memory is a constructed system of references, in equilibrium, of feeling and rationality. Comparing ancient and contemporary mechanisms for the preservation of memories and the building of a common cultural, political and social memory, this volume aims to reveal the nature of memory, and explores the attitudes of ancient societies towards the creation of a memory to be handed down in words, pictures, and mental constructs. Since the multiple natures of memory involve every human activity, physical and intellectual, this volume promotes analyses and considerations about memory by focusing on various different cultural activities and productions of ancient Near Eastern societies, from artistic and visual documents to epigraphic evidence, and by considering archaeological data. The chapters of this volume analyse the value and function of memory within the ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian societies, combining archaeological, textual and iconographical evidence following a progression from the analysis of the creation and preservation of both single and multiple memories, to the material culture (things and objects) that shed light on the impact of memory on individuals and community.
The Triumph Of The Symbol
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Author : Tallay Ornan
language : en
Publisher: Saint-Paul
Release Date : 2005
The Triumph Of The Symbol written by Tallay Ornan and has been published by Saint-Paul this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This book analyzes the history of Mesopotamian imagery form the mid-second to mid-first millennium BCE. It demonstrates that in spite of rich textual evidence, which grants the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses an anthropmorphic form, there was a clear abstention in various media from visualizing the gods in such a form. True, divine human-shaped cultic images existed in Mesopotamian temples. But as a rule, non-anthropomorphic visual agents such as inanimate objects, animals or fantastic hybrids replaced these figures when they were portrayed outside of their sacred enclosures. This tendency reached its peak in first-millennium Babylonia and Assyria. The removal of the Mesopotamian human-shaped deity from pictorial renderings resembles the Biblical agenda not only in its avoidance of displaying a divine image but also in the implied dual perception of the divine: according to the Bible and the Assyro-Babylonian concept the divine was conceived as having a human form; yet in both cases anthropomorphism was also concealed or rejected, though to a different degree. In the present book, this dual approach toward the divine image is considered as a reflection of two associated rather than contradictory religious worldviews. The plausible consolidation of the relevant Biblical accounts just before the Babylonian Exile, or more probably within the Exile - in both cases during a period of strong Assyrian and Babylonian hegemony - points to a direct correspondence between comparable religious phenomena. It is suggested that far from their homeland and in the absence of a temple for their god, the Judahite deportees adopted and intensified the Mesopotamian avoidance of anthropomorphic picorial portrayals of deities. While the Babylonian representations remained confined to temples, the exiles would have turned a cultic reality - i.e., the nonwritten Babylonian custom - into a written, articulated law that explicity forbade the pictorial representation of God.
The Cambridge World History
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Author : Jerry H. Bentley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-09
The Cambridge World History written by Jerry H. Bentley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-09 with History categories.
The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.
Empires And Diversity
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Author : Gregory E. Areshian
language : en
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Release Date : 2013-12-31
Empires And Diversity written by Gregory E. Areshian and has been published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with History categories.
For more than four thousand years, empires have been geographically the largest polities on Earth, shaping in many respects the human past and present in different epochs and on different continents. Covering the time span from the second millennium B.C.E. to the sixteenth century C.E., and geographic areas from China to South America, the case studies included in this volume demonstrate the necessity to combine perspectives from the longue duree and global comparativism with the theory of agency and an understanding of specific contexts for human actions. Contributions from leading scholars examine salient aspects of the Hittite, Assyrian, Ancient Egyptian, Achaemenid and Sasanian Iranian, Zhou to Han Dynasty Chinese, Inka, and Mughal empires.
Monsoon Islam
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Author : Sebastian R. Prange
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Monsoon Islam written by Sebastian R. Prange and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with History categories.
Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.
Gender And Methodology In The Ancient Near East Approaches From Assyriology And Beyond
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Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
language : en
Publisher: Edicions Universitat Barcelona
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Gender And Methodology In The Ancient Near East Approaches From Assyriology And Beyond written by Stephanie Lynn Budin and has been published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Social Science categories.
This collection of 23 essays, presented in three sections, aims to discuss women’s studies as well as methodological and theoretical approaches to gender within the broad framework of ancient Near Eastern studies. The first section, comprising most of the contributions, is devoted to Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern archaeology. The second and third sections are devoted to Egyptology and to ancient Israel and biblical studies respectively, neighbouring fields of research included in the volume to enrich the debate and facilitate academic exchange. Altogether these essays offer a variety of sources and perspectives, from the textual to the archaeological, from bodies and sexuality to onomastics, to name just a few, making this a useful resource for all those interested in the study of women and gender in the past.
Prince Pen And Sword Eurasian Perspectives
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Author : Maaike van Berkel
language : en
Publisher: Rulers & Elites
Release Date : 2018-02
Prince Pen And Sword Eurasian Perspectives written by Maaike van Berkel and has been published by Rulers & Elites this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with History categories.
A synoptic interpretation of the rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.