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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784338703321

Autore

Rivers Shayne

Titolo

Conservation of furniture / / Shayne Rivers, Nick Umney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Burlington, MA, : Butterworth Heinemann, 2003

ISBN

1-136-41537-8

1-281-02362-0

9786611023621

0-08-052464-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (845 p.)

Collana

Butterworth-Heinemann series in conservation and museology

Disciplina

684.1044

Soggetti

Furniture - Repairing

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; Conservation of Furniture; Copyright; Contents; Series editors' preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Illustration acknowledgements; Part 1 History; 1 Furniture history; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Earliest times to the Middle Ages; 1.2.1 Egypt; 1.2.2 Greece; 1.2.3 Rome; 1.2.4 Byzantium and the Romanesque period; 1.3 Medieval; Background; Functional types; Design and construction; Materials used; Tools and techniques; Surface decoration and finish; Organization of the trade; 1.4 Renaissance to Industrial Revolution; 1.4.1 1500-1600; Background; Functional types; Design and construction

Materials used Tools and techniques; Surface decoration and finish; Organization of the trade; 1.4.2 1600-1700; Background; Functional types; Design and construction; Materials used; Trade practice, tools and techniques; Surface decoration and finish; 1.4.3 1700-1800; Background; Functional types; Design and construction; Materials used; Tools and techniques of conversion and construction; Surface decoration and finish; Organization of trades; 1.5 The nineteenth century; Background; Functional types; Style and type of construction; Materials used; Tools and techniques

Surface decoration and finish Organization of trades and manufacturing; 1.6 The twentieth century; Context; Materials used;



Tools and techniques of conversion and construction; Surface decoration and finish; Organization of trades and manufacturing; 1.7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Part 2 Materials; 2 Wood and wooden structures; 2.1 Introduction to wood as material; 2.2 The nature of wood: appearance, cellular structure and identification; 2.2.1 Gross features; Grain; Texture; Figure; Colour; Taxonomy - the classification of plants; 2.2.2 Wood anatomy: softwoods; 2.2.3 Cell structure: hardwoods

2.2.4 Wood identification2.2.5 Hand-lens examination; 2.2.6 Microscopic examination; 2.2.7 Other methods; 2.3 Chemical nature of wood; 2.3.1 Chemical constituents of wood; 2.3.2 The cellulose structure within cell walls; 2.4 Wood-water relations and movement; 2.4.1 Hygroscopicity; 2.4.2 Measuring moisture content of wood; 2.4.3 Dimensional change; 2.4.4 Estimating dimensional change; 2.5 Mechanical properties; 2.5.1 Defining mechanical properties; 2.5.2 Relative strength properties; 2.5.3 Factors affecting the strength of wood; 2.5.4 Role of wood strength in furniture

2.6 Manufactured timber products2.6.1 Veneers; 2.6.2 Plywood and related materials; 2.6.3 Reconstituted wood products; 2.7 Wooden structures; 2.7.1 Types of joints; 2.7.2 Critical success factors for joints; 2.7.3 Dovetail joints; 2.7.4 Mortise and tenon joints; 2.7.5 Other joint types; Bibliography; 3 Upholstery materials and structures; 3.1 Introduction to upholstery; 3.1.1 Classification and terminology; 3.1.2 Historical development; 3.1.3 Technical examination; 3.2 Top surface/simple structures; 3.2.1 Leather/skin/parchment; Skin; Leather; Structure processing and properties

Methods of working and uses of leather

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910349543603321

Titolo

Scripture, Tradition, and Reason in Christian Ethics : Normative Dimensions / / edited by Bharat Ranganathan, Derek Alan Woodard-Lehman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019

ISBN

9783030251932

3030251934

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 259 p.)

Disciplina

230

241

Soggetti

Christianity

Ethics

Religion - Philosophy

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Philosophy of Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Normative Dimensions in Christian Ethics -- Section I Scripture -- 2. Christian Ethics, the Bible, and the Powers of Reading -- 3. Between Comparison and Normativity: Scriptural Reasoning and Religious Ethics -- 4. The Asceticism of Interpretation: John Cassian, Hermeneutical Askēsis, and Religious Ethics -- Section II Tradition -- 5. Choosing to Become Who You Are: Authority and Freedom in Karl Barth's Account of Moral Formation -- 6. Natural Law, Freedom, and Tradition: A Catholic Perspective on Mediating Between Liberty and Freedom -- 7. Schelling's Pauline Anthropology -- Section III Reason. -8. Paul Ramsey's Christian Deontology -- 9. Union with Christ: Participation as the Ground of Christian Ethics in Augustine and Reformed Augustinianisms -- 10. Mothering Theo-Political Ideology: Natural Law, Empirical Facts, and Discourse Politics. .

Sommario/riassunto

How should we understand the relationship between Christian ethics and religious ethics? Among comparative, ethnographic, and normative



methodologies? Between confessional and non-confessional orientations, or between theology and philosophy? This volume brings together emerging religious ethicists to engage the normative dimensions of Christian ethics. Focusing on scripture, tradition, and reason, the contributors to this volume argue for a vision of Christian ethics as religious ethics. Toward this end, they engage with scripture, interpretation, and religious practice; examine the putative divide between reason and tradition, autonomy and heteronomy; and offer proposals about the normative characterization of conceptual and practical issues in contemporary religious ethics. Collectively, the volume engages Christian thought to make an argument for the continuing relevance of normative methodologies in contemporary religious and theological ethics.