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Record Nr.

UNISA996309071903316

Autore

Buccellati Federico

Titolo

Size matters : understanding monumentality across ancient civilizations / / edited by Federico Buccellati [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2019

Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

3-8394-4538-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350)

Collana

Histoire ; 146

Disciplina

722

Soggetti

Monuments - Social aspects

Monuments - History

Historic sites

Conference papers and proceedings.

History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1  Content    5  Preface    7  Introduction    11  Monuments and Monumentality - different perspectives    17  Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology    41  Perceiving monumentality    65  Monumentalbaukunst - Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum    93  Monumentality in context - a reply from Egyptology    99  The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental    107  Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor    133  Zerstörungswut - The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times    157  The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view    171  The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE    193  La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales    209  The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system    223  Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of



Cosa, post-197 BCE    241  Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II    269  Monumentality by numbers    291  Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem's Urban Landscape    309  Contributors    345

Sommario/riassunto

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it?  But how else can we measure monumentality?  Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.