1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390393203316

Autore

Leighton Alexander <1568-1649.>

Titolo

An appeal to the Parliament; or Sions plea against the prelacie [[electronic resource] ] : The summe wheroff is delivered in a decade of positions. In the handling vvhereoff, the Lord Bishops, and their appurtenances are manifestlie proved, both by divine and humane lawes, to be intruders vpon the priviledges of Christ, of the King, and of the common-vveal: and therefore vpon good evidence given, she hartelie desireth a iudgement and execution

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Amsterdam], : Printed [by J.F. Stam], the year & moneth wherein Rochell was lost [1628, i.e. 1629?]

Descrizione fisica

[16], 344 p. : ill. (engravings)

Soggetti

Episcopacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

By Alexander Leighton.

Printer's name and conjectured publication date from STC. La Rochelle fell in October 1628.

Running title reads: Syons plea against the prelacy.

In this edition the fifth leaf is signed A; G3r has "I.C." in plain italic.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781427603321

Autore

Wu Hung <1945->

Titolo

The art of the Yellow Springs [[electronic resource] ] : understanding Chinese tombs / / Wu Hung

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, c2010

ISBN

1-280-49357-7

9786613588807

1-86189-718-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Disciplina

736/.50951

Soggetti

Tombs - China - History

Sepulchral monuments - China - History

Grave goods - China - History

Architecture, Chinese

Art, Chinese

Cosmology, Chinese

China Antiquities

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 (p. [234]-254) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Art of the Yellow Springs Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Introduction; 1. Spatiality; From Casket Grave to Chamber Grave; A Tripartite Universe; Representing the Soul; 2. Materiality; Spirit Articles; Tomb Figurines and the Medium of                 Representation; The Body: Preservation and Transformation; 3. Temporality; Cosmic/Mythic Time; 'Lived Objects'; Historical Narratives; Journey; Coda: Portraying Chinese Tombs; References; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

No other civilization in the pre-modern world was more obsessed with creating underground burial structures than the Chinese. For at least five thousand years, from the fourth millennium BCE to the early twentieth century, Chinese people devoted an extraordinary amount of wealth and labour to building tombs and furnishing them with exquisite objects and images.In art history these ancient burial sites have mainly been appreciated as 'treasure troves' of exciting and often



previously unknown works of art. New trends in Chinese art history are challenging this way of studying funerary art: now a