Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity

Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland

Elsner, Jas

Cambridge University Press

03/2020

530

Dura

Inglês

9781108473071

15 a 20 dias

1280

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1. Introduction Jas Elsner; Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan problem Robert Bracey; 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish; 4. Mystery cult and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish; 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and religion in the forms of late Roman art Jas Elsner; 6. The rise of Byzantine art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova; 7. Ferdinand Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk; Part II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances; 8. The road from decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art Nadia Ali; 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel Wood; 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial Siva Robert Bracey; Part III. Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Jas Elsner; 12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth century Robert Bracey; 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s) Nadia Ali; 14. Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon art, race and religion Katherine Cross.