1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450876003321

Autore

Drinkwater J. F

Titolo

The Alamanni and Rome 213-496 (Caracalla to Clovis) [[electronic resource] /] / John F. Drinkwater

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-15496-2

9786611154967

0-19-153777-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 p.)

Disciplina

937.004/39

Soggetti

Alemanni (Germanic people)

Electronic books.

Rome History Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries

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. [368]-389) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Prelude -- Arrival -- Settlement -- Society -- Service -- Conflict 285-355 -- Conflict 356-61 -- Conflict 365-94 -- The fifth century -- Appendix : the Lyon medallion.

Sommario/riassunto

A pioneering study of the Alamanni, one of the so-called barbarian tribes raiding the Roman Empire in the third century AD. John Drinkwater uses new archaeological and historical findings to trace their complex, and sometime surprising, relationship with the world of imperial Rome. - ;The Alamanni and Rome focuses upon the end of the Roman Empire. From the third century AD, barbarians attacked and then overran the west. Some - Goths, Franks, Saxons - are well known, others less so. The latter include the Alamanni, despite the fact that their name is found in the French ('Allemagne') and Spanis



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795651703321

Autore

Gertsman Elina

Titolo

The Absent Image : Lacunae in Medieval Books / / Elina Gertsman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Penn State University Press

ISBN

0-271-08784-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

745.6/700902

Soggetti

Nothing (Philosophy) in art

Emptiness (Philosophy) in art

Absence in art

Manuscripts, Medieval

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Imaginary Realms -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Phantoms of Emptiness -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Traces of Touch -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Penetrating the Parchment -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death.Innovative and challenging, this book will find its



primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00207740

Titolo

Altgermanistische Editionswissenschaft / herausgegeben von Thomas Bein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main, : Peter Lang, c1995

ISBN

36-314-7642-6

Descrizione fisica

391 p. ; 22 cm.

Disciplina

830.2

Soggetti

CRITICA LETTERARIA TEDESCA

Letteratura tedesca - Edizioni critiche

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia