Stonehenge /

Hill guides the reader on a tour of Stonehenge in all its cultural contexts, as a monument to many things--to Renaissance Humanism, Romantic despair, Victorian enterprise, and English Radicalism.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hill, Rosemary
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Series:Wonders of the world (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects:
Megalithic monuments > England > Wiltshire.
Monuments mégalithiques > Angleterre > Wiltshire.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
Antiquities
Historiography
Megalithic monuments
Stonehenge (England)
Wiltshire (England) > Antiquities.
Stonehenge (England) > Historiography.
Stonehenge (Angleterre)
Stonehenge (Angleterre) > Historiographie.
England > Stonehenge
England > Wiltshire
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A very short pre-history
  • Contending with oblivion : the antiquaries
  • Art, order, proportion : the architects
  • "Cold ston'y horror" : the romantics
  • The age of Darwin
  • Archaeology, astronomy and the age of Aquarius
  • The new millennium.

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