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The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while including the theatrical tradition as one of their most important sources. By examining visual sources such as paintings frescos and stage designs together with letters guild-ledgers descriptions of performances and relevant treatises a new methodology to approach the development of this early modern visuality is offered. The result is an historical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen as facets of a single process which led to the development of Italy’s visual culture. The book also offers new insights into Leonardo da Vinci’s theatrical works Raphael’s Disputa Vasari’s Lives and Pietro da Cortona’s fresco paintings. The Spectacle of Clouds 1439-1650 examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived imagined and represented from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century crossing over into the fields of history religion and philosophy. | The Spectacle of Clouds 1439–1650 Italian Art and Theatre

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The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

The studies brought together in this volume were published over the last thirty years and are concerned directly or indirectly with the Portuguese presence in India between about 1500 and 1650. They have been arranged into four groups of which the first 'The Portuguese in India' includes pieces on the changing character of the empire in India Goa in the 17th century the Portuguese India Company of 1628-33 smugglers the great famine of the early 1630s and the ceremonial induction process for new viceroys. A second group focuses on the life career and background of the count of Linhares before during and after his term as viceroy at Goa. The third group consists of studies on travel and communications between India and Portugal both by sea and by land. The collection concludes with studies under the heading of 'historiography and problems of interpretation' on Charles Boxer as a biographer and on Vasco da Gama's reputation for violence. | The Portuguese in India and Other Studies 1500-1700

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Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

The thirteen studies in this volume explore critical problems in Fatimid history and historiography many specifically focused on the content of doctrinal writings produced by the Ismaili supporters and agents of this caliphate who worked on behalf of the dynasty both within the empire and outside. Several concern issues in disputes that separated the various factions of Medieval Islam and served to distinguish the Ismailis from the rest often branding the Fatimids with the charge of heterodoxy. Others deal with the consequence of Shiite rule over a largely non-Shiite populace. Yet others involve the relationship between religious ideology and the administration of government. Among the themes featured in this collection there are separate investigations of institutions of learning of succession to the imamate the da`wa the judiciary relations with the Byzantines and with the Abbasids and works on heresiography doctrines of time and the accusation that the Ismailis upheld the metempsychosis of the human soul. The latter topics help to situate the Ismailis and hence the Fatimids within the broader context of Islamic thought. | Fatimid History and Ismaili Doctrine

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Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can and should be understood beyond the dichotomy of personal and political between people and nature in the field of environmental anthropology. The book uses a broad philosophical methodology based on the phenomenological theories of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Tim Ingold and Alfred Schutz combined with post-structuralist conceptions of the relationship between person and world individual and society. The field research consisted of ethnographic travel observation and recorded dialogue with individuals based in each ecovillage: Arca Verde situated in Campos de Cima da Serra; Vrinda Bhumi a Vaishnava ecovillage in Baependi-MG; Goura Vrindavana a Vaishnava ecovillage in Paraty-RJ; and Muriqui Assu Ecovillage Project a secular ecovillage in Niterói-RJ. Throughout the book ethnographic research is woven together with poetic interludes images personal narrative experience and phenomenological theory bringing a new understanding and approach to environmental anthropology as a discipline. Including a Preface written by Tim Ingold it will appeal to academics researchers and upper-level students in phenomenology environmental philosophy environmental anthropology religious studies and social sciences more broadly. | Ecological Epistemologies and Spiritualities in Brazilian Ecovillages In the Labyrinth of an Environmental Anthropology

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Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings much of them with an empirical basis albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians. | Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

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