Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux....Daugiau...
Anglo-Saxon Coins (1961) is an illustrated analysis of the coinage of the Anglo-Saxon era. It examines the coins of the end of Roman Britain and those of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, as well as those of the Vikings, Ireland and Wales....Daugiau...
This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and taste makers during the years leading to, during and following World War II....Daugiau...
This volume highlights the trade in slaves during the ninth and tenth centuries as driving exchanges on a trans-continental scale. A combination of general surveys and regional case-studies sets Gotland and the early medieval slave trade in a firmer...Daugiau...
Julia Augusta examines the socio-political impact of coin images of Augustus wife, Livia, within the broader context of her image in other visual media and reveals the detailed visual language that was developed for the promotion of Livia as the pre...Daugiau...
Originally written in 1905, this volume examines the coins of Japan, especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal charm which pervades their inscriptions and the sentiments which they set forth. They are written in characters which are a...Daugiau...
This new edition of Architectural Tiles: Conservation and Restoration continues to inform and educate in methodology and techniques pertaining to this broad subject. The new overview of common problems will be helpful in domestic and ecclesiastical...Daugiau...
The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century....Daugiau...
The articles republished in this volume are ground-breaking studies that employ a large body of religious figural imagery of Byzantine lead seals ranging from the 6th to the 15th century....Daugiau...
This collection of essays models and refines the study of these complicated volumes. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, it offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics and religion in the early modern period, and promis...Daugiau...
Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a perio...Daugiau...
Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts but first and foremost he was a bibliographer and a book historian. The present collection contains fifteen of his book-historical articles, two reviews and one published version of a lectur...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 22-Jan-2010, Leidėjas: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd), ISBN-13: 9781444317855)
A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts....Daugiau...
This study provides an extensive analysis of the energy and environmental policies needed to create cities that sustain themselves. It uses case studies from 12 European cities to reflect the different conditions that have to be met....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 14-Feb-2008, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199233359)
This collection of new essays presents a set of debates about what money was in antiquity and how it functioned. The focus is mainly on the Greeks, who were not the original inventors of coinage but were responsible for its widespread adoption, and...Daugiau...
This outstanding introductory survey collects, presents and examines, for the very first time, the portraits and representations of Alexander the Great on the ancient coins of the Greek and Roman period....Daugiau...
The effective preparation of garments for display is essential for exhibitions of contemporary and historical dress. Costumes not only need to be visually appealing but also fully supported and historically accurate. This book provides a comprehensi...Daugiau...
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits...Daugiau...
The author argues that the collecting practices of classical Greece and Rome offer a rich tapestry of experiences which can be reconstructed to illuminate a pivotal period in the long and ever-developing phenomenon of collecting....Daugiau...
Two themes uniting the essays in this collection are the provenance and history of medieval manuscripts during the Middle Ages, and the fates that befell them in England in the period after the invention of printing and the 16th-century dissolution...Daugiau...
Exploring the nexus of emotions, consumption and commodification they represent, A.F. Robertson tracks the rise of the porcelain collectible market; interviews the women collectors themselves; and visits their clubs, fairs and homes to understand...Daugiau...
The study of collection is a growth point in cultural studies, conceived as a study of practice, of the ways in which people make sense of the world by bringing elements together. This volume focuses on 19th- and earlier 20th-century collectors....Daugiau...
This study in the fields of Roman history and numismatics includes significant updates in chronology, historical perspective and numismatic attribution. The 550-year period covered is divided into 12 epochs, with the post-Constantinian empire treate...Daugiau...
