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The idea of order : the circular archetype in prehistoric Europe /

"Richard Bradley investigates the idea of circular buildings - whether houses or public architecture - which, though unfamiliar in the modern West, were a feature of many parts of prehistoric Europe. Why did so many people build circular monuments? Why did they choose to live in circular houses...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bradley, Richard, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One: Times and Spaces. The Circular Ruins ; Conceptions and Perceptions ; Life and Art.
  • Part Two: Circular Structures in a Circular World. Houses into Tombs ; Turning to Stone ; The Enormous Room.
  • Part Three: Circular Structures in a Rectilinear World. Significant Forms ; The Atrraction of Opposites ; The New Order.
  • Summing Up. From Centre to Circumference.