1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910563076503321

Autore

Gunn Cate

Titolo

Ancrene Wisse and vernacular spirit : from pastoral literature to vernacular spirituality / / Cate Gunn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cardiff, : University of Wales Press, 2007

[Cardiff, Wales] : , : University of Wales Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

9780708320341

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages

Disciplina

255.901

Soggetti

Devotional literature, English (Middle) - History and criticism

English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism

Nuns - Religious life

Nuns - Books and reading - England - History - To 1500

Women - Religious aspects - Christianity

English

Languages & Literatures

English Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction --Part I. The religious context --1. The Fourth Lateran Council --2. Eucharist theology --3. The female religious movement: anchorites and beguines --4. Anchorite spirituality --5. Lay piety --Part II. Pastoralia and vernacular pastoral literature --6. Pastoralia --7. The rhetoric of preaching --8. Beguine sermons --9. Pastoral literature --Part III. Ancrene Wisse: text and context --10. The rhetoric of Ancrene Wisse; i. Structure; ii. Exempla and similitudines --11. Ancrene Wisse: asceticism and contemplation --12. Reading Ancrene Wisse as vernacular spirituality --Conclusion --Bibliography --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. This book offers a fresh contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages. This book is innovative in



that it provides an introduction to "Ancrene Wisse", one of the most important works in English of the thirteenth century. It offers a new contextualisation which engages with the history of lay piety and vernacular spirituality in the Middle Ages, thus extending analysis of the book beyond its original purpose as a guide for anchoresses. The placing of "Ancrene Wisse" within this context also allows comparisons to be made with other literature for semi-regular women, such as sermons preached to beguines - semi-religious women who formed communities in the Low Countries and France in the High Middle Ages.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970941303321

Titolo

Landscape infrastructure : case studies by SWA / / Ying-Yu Hung ... [et al.] ; The Infrastructure Research Initiative at SWA (ed.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : Birkhauser, c2011

ISBN

9783034611541

3034611544

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HungYing-Yu

Disciplina

712.0222

712

Soggetti

Landscape architecture

Land use - Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface / Aquino, Gerdo -- Essays -- Reading the Recent Work of SWA / Waldheim, Charles -- Landscape Infrastructure: Systems of Contingency, Flexibility, and Adaptability / Hung, Ying-Yu -- Foregrounding / Czerniak, Julia -- Second Nature: New territories for the exiled / Geuze, Adriaan / Skjonsberg, Matthew -- Modulating Infrastructural Flows to Create Open Space / Robinson, Alexander -- Case Studies -- Performance -- Aggregate -- Network -- Increment -- Project credits -- The authors -- Illustration credits -- Acknowledgements



Sommario/riassunto

Infrastructure is a much discussed topic within the field of landscape architecture. It regards the entire urban and rural space as a network that calls for an integrated planning and urban design approach. Natural and man-made infrastructures are viewed as forming a single, overarching whole. The book examines this robust and ecologically sustainable approach with essays by well-known experts in the field. It also documents 14 international case studies by SWA landscape architects and urban designers, among them the technologically innovative roof domes for Renzo Piano's California Academy of Science in San Francisco, the restoration of the Buffalo Bayou in Houston, and several master plans for ecological corridors in China and Korea. Other projects develop smart re-use concepts for railroad tracks that no longer serve their original purpose, such as Kyung-Chun railway in Seoul or Katy Trail in Dallas. All projects are described extensively with technical diagrams and plans. The publication offers ideas for reinventing, repurposing, and repositioning infrastructure as a viable medium for addressing issues of ecology, transit, urbanism, and habitat.

Infrastruktur ist ein derzeit vieldiskutierter Begriff in der Landschaftsarchitektur. Er begreift den gesamten städtischen wie ländlichen Raum als Netzwerk, das einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz in der Planung erfordert. Natürliche und geschaffene Infrastrukturen werden als Einheit aufgefasst. Dieses Buch beleuchtet das neue und ökologisch nachhaltige  Konzept in Essays von namhaften Fachleuten. Dazu werden ca. 13 internationale Beispiele exemplarisch dokumentiert. Die Infrastructure Research Initiative ist Teil der SWA Group, das sich seit seiner Gründung 1957 durch Peter Walker zu einem der wichtigsten und größten US-amerikanischen Büros für Landschaftsplanung entwickelt hat. Internationales Aufsehen erregte u.a. ihre Gestaltung der technisch innovativen Dachkuppeln für die von Renzo Piano entworfene California Academy of Science in San Francisco (2008), die mit heimischer Flora bepflanzt wurden.