Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations /

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 methodolo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Buccellati, Federico (Editor ), Hageneuer, Sebastian (Editor ), Levenson, Felix (Editor ), van der Heyden, Sylva (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Alemán
Publicado: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2019]
Colección:Histoire (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 146.
Temas:
Historic sites > Congresses.
Monuments > History > Congresses.
Monuments > Social aspects > Congresses.
Ancient History.
Architecture.
Cultural History.
Energetics.
History.
Identity.
Labour.
Monument.
Perception.
Reception.
Lieux historiques > Congrès.
Monuments > Histoire > Congrès.
Monuments > Aspect social > Congrès.
Ancient history: to c 500 CE.
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
Monuments
Historic sites
Monumentality
Architecture
Energetics
Identity
Labour
Monument
Perception
Reception
Cultural History
Ancient History
History
Conference papers and proceedings
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • Preface
  • Introduction / Buccellati, Federico / Hageneuer, Sebastian / Heyden, Sylva van der / Levenson, Felix
  • Part I. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
  • Monuments and Monumentality - different perspectives / Levenson, Felix
  • Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology / Buccellati, Federico
  • Perceiving monumentality / Hageneuer, Sebastian / Heyden, Sylva van der
  • Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
  • Monumentalbaukunst - Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum / Gleiter, Jörg H.
  • Monumentality in context - a reply from Egyptology / Bußmann, Richard
  • Part II. Case Studies
  • The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental / Delitz, Heike / Levenson, Felix
  • Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor / Bernbeck, Reinhard
  • Zerstörungswut - The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times / Autenrieth, Sabrina N. / Boekel, Dieuwertje van
  • The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view / White, Kirrily / Lane, Rachel
  • The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE / Butterlin, Pascal
  • La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales / Cousin, Laura
  • The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system / Hof, Catharine
  • Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE / Mogetta, Marcello
  • Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II / Silva, Mónica Pacheco
  • Monumentality by numbers / Hageneuer, Sebastian / Schmidt, Sophie C.
  • Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem's Urban Landscape / Smoak, Jeremy / Mandell, Alice
  • Contributors

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