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Cultivating the Renaissance A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas

Cultivating the Renaissance A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics philosophy and aesthetics of the age and chronicles the rise of an extraordinary family from obscure farmers to European royalty. From the fourteenth to the eighteenth century the Medici family dominated European life. While promoting both arts and sciences the Medici helped create a new style of architecture present a new idea of villa life and promote the novel idea of living in harmony with nature. Used variously for pleasure and sports scholarly and amorous liaisons commercial enterprise and botanical experimentation their villas both expressed and influenced contemporary ideas on politics philosophy art and design. Each patron's public interests and private passions as well as the architects artists and philosophers they employed are examined. Through a chronological approach this book reveals how the villas were used their reception by contemporary commentators their legacy and their current state five centuries after they were first built. Lavishly illustrated Cultivating the Renaissance is of great interest to students and scholars of architecture horticulture landscape history philosophy art and the history of the Renaissance in Italy. | Cultivating the Renaissance A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas

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Relics Shrines and Pilgrimages Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity

Relics Shrines and Pilgrimages Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity

Since Late Antiquity relics have provided a privileged spiritual bond between life and death between human beings and divinity. Royalty nobility and clergy all tried to obtain the most prestigious remains of sacred bodies since they granted influence and fame and allowed the cult around them to be used as a means of sacralization power and propaganda. This volume traces the development of the veneration of relics in Europe and how these objects were often catalysts for the establishment of major pilgrimage sites that are still in use today. The book features an international panel of contributors taking a wide-ranging look at relic worship across Europe from Late Antiquity until the present day. They begin with a focus on the role of relics in Jacobean pilgrimage before looking at the link between relics and their shrines more generally. The book then focuses in on two major issues in the study of relics the stealing of relics (Furta Sacra) and their modern-day scientific examination and authentication. These topics demonstrate not only symbolic importance of relics but also their role as physical historical objects in material religious expression. This is a fascinating collection featuring the latest scholarship on relics and pilgrimage across Europe. It will therefore be of great interested to academics working in Pilgrimage Religious History Material Religion and Religious Studies as well as Anthropology Archaeology Art and Cultural Studies. | Relics Shrines and Pilgrimages Sanctity in Europe from Late Antiquity

GBP 38.99
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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

GBP 35.99
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