Architecture
Discover the best architecture books, including top picks on architecture design and essential reads .
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The Song of Bertrand Du GuesclinBertrand du Guesclin was one of the main architects of the recovery of France. From humble beginnings he rose to become one of the great heroic figures of French history. This is the first English translation of Cuvelier's epic poem about him. Bertrand du...
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Urban Religious Events: Public Spirituality in Contested SpacesHow might we best understand the relationship between the vibrant religious landscapes we see in many cities and contemporary urban social processes? Through case studies drawn from around the world, contributors explore the ways in which these processes interact in cities. This book argues...
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The Golden Legend: Lives of the SaintsTranslated by William Claxton in 1483, The Golden Legend became one of the first books printed in English. Originally written in Latin by the Blessed Jacobus da Varagine, archbishop of Genoa, The Golden Legend was one of the most popular works of religious literature...
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Allart Van Everdingen: Master of the Rugged LandscapeThe first English-language introduction to the evocative, detailed and subversively artificial landscapes of a neglected Dutch masterIn 1644 the young Dutch artist Allart van Everdingen (1621-75) traveled in Norway. It was an inspiring experience that set the course for his career. He went on...
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Metapolis. Topoi. Scenarios.: For Urban-Rural Sustainability in Lower SaxonyUrban and rural areas alike witness severe dynamics. Moreover, understandings of what constitutes the urban and the rural are changing, too. Metapolis conceptualizes the network of urban and rural settlements interconnected by flows of people, goods, and information. How can this Metapolis be understood...
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Technical LandsDesignating land as technical is a political act. Doing so entails dividing, marginalizing, and rendering portions of the Earth inaccessible. Technical lands are co-extensive with political and physical boundaries instrumentalized by their exceptional status. Their remote location, delimited boundary, and active management occlude their...
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Intimacies: The Architecture of Youssef TohmeFounded in 2008, the French-Lebanese firm of Youssef Tohme Architects and Associates has a delicate signature that takes the regional context as its starting point in developing an individual architectural language. By using a wide variety of materials that interact with the built environment,...
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Urban Agricultural HeritageUrban gardening and agriculture have become important elements of sustainable urban planning in the context of persistent urbanization amid limited resources. However, a consideration of the cultural-historical dimension has been lacking up to now. The editors present the first comprehensive outline of traditional forms...
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The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781-1844The story of Seville's Archive of the Indies reveals how current views of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are based on radical historical revisionism in Spain in the late 1700s. The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history and media-archaeological study of...
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Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart CourtThe story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.Life in the court of the House of Stuart has...
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Robert Kilwardby's Commentary on the Ethics of AristotleKilwardby's work on the first three books of the Nicomachean Ethics is the first medieval commentary on the Ethics whose author is known. The critically edited Latin text contains a careful explanation of Aristotle's text on happiness and moral virtue.Author: Anthony J. CelanoPublisher: BrillPublished:...
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The Dynastic Drama of BeowulfA strikingly original approach to Beowulf, linking its structure to the dynastic life-cycle. The original audience of Beowulf was steeped in ancient Scandinavian royal legend. But for modern readers of the poem, these traditions are frustratingly obscure and confusing. This book argues that Beowulf...
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Μαγικές ΙστορίεςΜια μαγισσούλα, ένα λαγουδάκι που κατέχει το ταλέντο της μαγείας, ένα πνεύμα του νερού και μια καλή μάγισσα Μαγεία και εξυπνάδα, πραγματικότητα και θρύλοι συνδυάζονται στις τέσσερις ιστορίες για κρυφά γέλια και σκέψη.Μια ιστορία, στην οποία το σημαντικότερο είναι ότι μπορεί να την σκεφτεί...
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Η εγγονήΗ Μαντελίν Λαγκράνζε, η εγγονή του προέδρου της Λέσχης χορού Lietzensee θεωρεί τον κοινωνικό χορό ως μια απλή πολιτισμική τεχνική, την οποία μαθαίνει χωρίς μεγάλη φιλοδοξία. Και τότε συναντά τους χορευτές Square Dance της λέσχης. Και η καρδιά της μαγεύεται όχι μόνο από τον...
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Spectres of John Ball: The Peasants' Revolt in English Political History, 1381-2020For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most famous - or infamous - figures in the history of English rebels. Ball was one of the central figures of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and was soon vilified, receiving a hostile press...
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The Endless SearchWhen two South Dakota high school girls go missing on their way to a graduation party, suspicion falls onto local neighbor boy, Eli Thorson, whose scrapes with the law already include attempted rape. He denies knowledge of their whereabouts, and no trace of the...
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Das Mittelalter: Ein fesselnder Führer zum dunklen Mittelalter und dem Schwarzen Tod2 komplette Manuskripte in 1 Buch: Das dunkle Zeitalter: Ein fesselnder Führer in die Zeit vom Fall des Römischen Reiches bis zur Renaissance Der Schwarze Tod: Ein fesselnder Leitfaden zur tödlichsten Pandemie im mittelalterlichen Europa und in der Geschichte der Menschheit Nach dem Fall...
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The Mystical Presence of Christ: The Exceptional and the Ordinary in Late Medieval ReligionThe Mystical Presence of Christ investigates the connections between exceptional experiences of Christ's presence and ordinary devotion to Christ in the late medieval West. Unsettling the notion that experiences of seeing Christ's figure or hearing Christ speak are simply exceptional events that happen at...
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Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English AuthorshipThe prescience of medieval English authors has long been a source of fascination to readers. Retrospective Prophecy and Medieval English Authorship draws attention to the ways that misinterpreted, proleptically added, or dubiously attributed prognostications influenced the reputations of famed Middle English authors. It illuminates...
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The Decameron Ninth Day in PerspectiveThe Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before...
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