1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462937803321

Autore

Pluskowski Aleksander

Titolo

The archaeology of the Prussian crusade : holy war and colonisation / / Aleksander Pluskowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-07986-8

1-136-16281-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (449 p.)

Disciplina

943.8/32022

Soggetti

Excavations (Archaeology) - Prussia, East (Poland and Russia)

Military art and science - History - Medieval, 500-1500

Electronic books.

Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) Antiquities

Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) Civilization

Prussia, East (Poland and Russia) Social life and customs

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; Preface and acknowledgements; Terminology and glossary; 1 Introduction: historical framework and sources; 2 Pre-Christian Prussia: early medieval Baltic society; 3 The ravages of holy war: crusade and colonisation in the thirteenth century; 4 A land of red castles: consolidating the Teutonic Order's state in the fourteenth century; 5 From colonisation to urbanisation: towns and international trade; 6 Converting Prussia: the Christianisation of the Teutonic Order's state

7 From forest to field: the changing environment of medieval Prussia8 The end of holy war: from the decline of a crusader state in the fifteenth century to constructing memories of medieval Prussia in the twentieth century; 9 Conclusion: holy war and colonisation; Further readinq; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Archaeology of the Prussian Crusade explores the archaeology and material culture of the crusade against the Prussian tribes in the 13th century, and the subsequent society created by the Teutonic Order which lasted into the 16th century. It provides the first synthesis of the



material culture of a unique crusading society created in the south-eastern Baltic region over the course of the 13th century. It encompasses the full range of archaeological data, from standing buildings through to artefacts and ecofacts, integrated with written and artistic sources

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154785903321

Titolo

Creative lives in classical antiquity : poets, artists and biography / / edited by Richard Fletcher, Johanna Hanink [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-75696-3

1-316-75768-4

1-316-75780-3

1-316-75792-7

1-316-67065-1

1-316-75840-0

1-316-75804-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge classical studies

Disciplina

880.09

Soggetti

Classical biography - History and criticism

Biography as a literary form

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2016).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Opening remarks -- Orientation: what we mean by 'Creative lives' / Johanna Hanink and Richard Fletcher -- 'Lives' as parameter: the privileging of ancient lives as a category of research c. 1900 / Constanze Güthenke -- Part II. Dead poets societies -- Close encounters with the ancient poets / Barbara Graziosi -- Recognizing Virgil / Andrew Laird -- Part III. Lives in unexpected places -- A poetic possession: Pindar's Lives of the poets / Anna Uhlig -- What's in a life? Some forgotten faces of Euripides / Johanna Hanink -- Lives from stone: Epigraphy and biography in Classical and Hellenistic Greece /



Polly Low -- Part IV. Laughing matters and lives of the mind -- On bees, poets and Plato: Ancient biographers' representations of the creative process / Mary Lefkowitz -- The life and philosophy of Aristippus in the Socratic epistles / Kurt Lampe -- Imagination dead imagine: Diogenes Laertius' work of mourning / Richard Fletcher -- Part V. Portraits of the artist -- 'It is Orpheus when there is singing': The mythical fabric of musical lives / Pauline A. Leven -- The artists as anecdote: Creating creators in ancient texts and modern art history / Verity Platt -- Freud and the biography of antiquity / Miriam Leonard -- Envoi /  John Henderson.

Sommario/riassunto

What happened when creative biographers took on especially creative subjects (poets, artists and others) in Greek and Roman antiquity? Creative Lives in Classical Antiquity examines how the biographical traditions of ancient poets and artists parallel the creative processes of biographers themselves, both within antiquity and beyond. Each chapter explores a range of biographical material that highlights the complexity of how readers and viewers imagine the lives of ancient creator-figures. Work in the last decades has emphasized the likely fictionality of nearly all of the ancient evidence about the lives of poets, as well as of other artists and intellectuals; this book now sets out to show what we might nevertheless still do with the rich surviving testimony for 'creative lives' - and the evidence that those traditions still shape how we narrate modern lives too.