1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990000944460203316

Autore

TANSINI, Raffaella

Titolo

I  ritratti di Agrippina Maggiore / Raffaella Tansini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : Bretschneider, 1995

ISBN

88-7689-113-7

Descrizione fisica

109 p., [23] p. di tav. : ill. ; 30 cm

Collana

Supplementi alla Rivista di Archeologia , 0392-0895 ; 15

Disciplina

704.9424

Soggetti

Agrippina : Maggiore - Iconografia

Collocazione

XI.3. Coll.3/ 15(X B COLL. 114/15)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910139485703321

Titolo

Geography and ethnography : perceptions of the world in pre-modern societies / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub and Richard J.A. Talbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-46165-6

9786612461651

1-4443-1565-X

1-4443-1566-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

The ancient world comparative histories

Classificazione

LC 50000

Altri autori (Persone)

RaaflaubKurt A

TalbertRichard J. A. <1947->

Disciplina

304.23

930

Soggetti

Geographical perception

Human geography

Civilization, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Geography and Ethnography; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Where the Black Antelope Roam: Dharma and Human Geography in India; 3 Humans, Demons, Gods, and Their Worlds: The Sacred and Scientific Cosmologies of India; 4 Structured Perceptions of Real and Imagined Landscapes in Early China; 5 Nonary Cosmography in Ancient China; 6 Knowledge of Other Cultures in China's Early Empires; 7 The Mississippian Peoples' Worldview; 8 Aztec Geography and Spatial Imagination; 9 Inca Worldview

10 Masters of the Four Corners of the Heavens: Views of the Universe in Early Mesopotamian Writings11 The World and the Geography of Otherness in Pharaonic Egypt; 12 On Earth as in Heaven: The Apocalyptic Vision of World Geography from Urzeit to Endzeit according to the Book of Jubilees; 13 ""I Know the Number of the Sand and the Measure of the Sea"": Geography and Difference in the Early Greek World; 14 Continents, Climates, and Cultures: Greek Theories of Global Structure; 15 The Geographical Narrative of Strabo of Amasia; 16 The Roman Worldview: Beyond Recovery?

17 The Medieval Islamic Worldview: Arabic Geography in Its Historical Context18 The Book of Curiosities: An Eleventh-Century Egyptian View of the Lands of the Infidels; 19 Geography and Ethnography in Medieval Europe: Classical Traditions and Contemporary Concerns; 20 Europeans Plot the Wider World, 1500-1750; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of DiscoveryProvides cross-cultural comparison of ancient societies around the globe, from the Chinese to the Incas and Aztecs, from the Greeks and Romans to the peoples of ancient IndiaExplores newly discovered medieval Islamic materials



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910482021803321

Autore

Vahdat Vahid (Architect)

Titolo

Occidentalist perceptions of European architecture in nineteenth-century Persian travel diaries : travels in farangi space / / Vahid Vahdat Zad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Taylor & Francis, 2017

New York : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

9781315547510

1315547511

9781134759316

1134759312

9781134759385

113475938X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

ARC000000

Disciplina

720.94/09034

Soggetti

Space (Architecture) - Europe - Foreign public opinion, Iranian

East and West

Travelers' writings, Persian - 19th century - History and criticism

Iranians - Travel - Europe - History - 19th century

Iranians

Europe Civilization 19th century

Iran Intellectual life 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral--Texas A & M University, 2014) under the title: Imagining the modern : an Occidentalist perception and representation of farangi architecture and urbanism in 19th-Century Persian travel diaries.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The first brick -- 2. Modernity in a suitcase -- 3. When worlds collide -- 4. Imagining the modern -- 5. Tajaddod as a discourse.

Sommario/riassunto

In the midst of Europe’s nineteenth-century industrial revolution, four men embarked on separate journeys to the wondrous Farangestan – a land of fascinating objects, mysterious technologies, heavenly women, and magical spaces. Determined to learn the secret of Farangestan’s



advancements, the travelers kept detailed records of their observations. These diaries mapped an aspirational path to progress for curious Iranian audiences who were eager to change the course of history. Two hundred years later, Travels in Farangi Space unpacks these writings to reveal a challenging new interpretation of Iran’s experience of modernity. This book opens the Persian travelers’ long-forgotten suitcases, and analyzes the descriptions contained within to gain insight into Occidentalist perspectives on modern Europe. By carefully tracing the physical and mental journeys of these travelers, the book paints a picture of European architecture that is nothing like what one would expect.