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Honouring the work of the renowned historian Margaret Muller, After
the Text will appeal to students and academics in Byzantine
literature / Covering the use of rhetoric, poetry, fables, and
hagiography in Byzantium, those interested in Byzantine Greek will
find this book particularly enlightening / These studies illustrate
the profound richness of Byzantine culture through its literature
by analysing texts within context
Honouring the work of the renowned historian Margaret Muller, After
the Text will appeal to students and academics in Byzantine
literature / Covering the use of rhetoric, poetry, fables, and
hagiography in Byzantium, those interested in Byzantine Greek will
find this book particularly enlightening / These studies illustrate
the profound richness of Byzantine culture through its literature
by analysing texts within context
Links Geotechnics with Railway Track Engineering and Railway
Operation Good railway track and railway operations depend on good
geotechnics, in several different ways and at varying levels.
Railway Geotechnics covers track, track substructure, load
environment, materials, mechanics, design, construction,
measurements, and management. Illustrated by case studies, with an
emphasis on the geotechnical aspects of railway engineering, it
discusses these topics from a historical perspective. It also
presents the methodologies and best practices developed over the
past 20 years. Written by Four Experienced Professionals This book:
Emphasizes the practical aspects and best practices for railway
track and substructure Contains guidelines for design,
construction, and maintenance of railway track and substructure
Provides many examples and case studies Railway Geotechnics is
written primarily for professionals and graduate students, and
begins with the fundamentals and basic principles, leading in to
practical applications. The authors bring considerable experience
and expertise, with many years of research and development,
academia, railway operations, and consulting.
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring
Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany
the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The
exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions
ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most
popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the
exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular
exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual
objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium
and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for
display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition
curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a
different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed,
whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or
the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine
millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium
that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of
exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of
this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has
become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing
Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no
general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine
exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present
different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general
public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting
Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other
exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in
curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object
Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in
the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider
Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in
which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society.
These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the
volume in context.
Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public
monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles.
In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns
and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'.
In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy
Apostles, offering an account of its architecture and internal
decoration, notably the mosaics, seven of which are also depicted
as 'wonders'. On one level, the poem offers an account of what was
visible, a sense of city topography and, in the case of the
Apostoleion, a vital description of a now-lost building. But it
cannot be read as a straightforward description. Rather,
Constantine's work offers insights into Byzantine perceptions of
works of art. The monuments Constantine decided to portray and the
ways in which he chose to describe them say as much, if not more,
about the social and cultural milieu in which he operated as about
the actual physical appearance of the monuments themselves.
Further, the poem itself, as it survives in one fifteenth-century
manuscript, raises questions: is it, in its current form, a single
poem or is it made up of a compilation of Constantine's writings?
This book supersedes the two previous editions of the poem, both
dating to 1896, and provides the first full translation of the
text. It consists of a new Greek edition of Constantine's poem,
with an introductory essay, prepared by Ioannis Vassis, and a
translation and commentary by a group of scholars headed by Liz
James. Liz James also contributes an extensive discussion of the
two distinct parts of the poem, the city monuments and the Church
of the Holy Apostles.
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring
Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany
the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The
exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex exhibitions
ever mounted at the Royal Academy, as well as one of the most
popular, and the overall aim of the book is to reflect on the
exhibition of Byzantine art, both as an academic and popular
exercise, and through the choice and discussion of individual
objects. Exhibitions present a very different picture of Byzantium
and its culture from works of history. The choices of object for
display, their arrangement, and the underlying aims of exhibition
curators and designers mean that every exhibition presents a
different picture of Byzantium. Particular emphases can be placed,
whether on everyday life or high court culture; Constantinople or
the provinces; or claims of continuity or change over the Byzantine
millennium. The essays explore aspects of the image of Byzantium
that results from these choices. Given the enormous popularity of
exhibitions of Byzantine objects (continued after the completion of
this volume by exhibitions in Paris, Bonn and Istanbul), art has
become one of the most popular and accessible means of popularizing
Byzantium to a wide public audience. Hitherto there has been no
general consideration of either the historiography of Byzantine
exhibitions or the ways in which they have been set up to present
different aspects of Byzantine culture to an academic and general
public. The essays are divided into 3 sections: Exhibiting
Byzantium sets the 2009 exhibition into the context of other
exhibitions of Byzantine art and considers the issues involved in
curating and viewing such major collections of medieval art; Object
Lessons offers a set of studies of individual objects that were in
the exhibition; Byzantium through its Art moves to consider
Byzantine art more widely, thinking about the different ways in
which objects can be used to study Byzantine culture and society.
These are preceded by an introduction by the editors which sets the
volume in context.
Constantine of Rhodes's tenth-century poem is an account of public
monuments in Constantinople and of the Church of the Holy Apostles.
In the opening section of the work, Constantine describes columns
and sculptures within the city, seven of which he calls 'wonders'.
In the second part of the poem, he portrays the Church of the Holy
Apostles, offering an account of its architecture and internal
decoration, notably the mosaics, seven of which are also depicted
as 'wonders'. On one level, the poem offers an account of what was
visible, a sense of city topography and, in the case of the
Apostoleion, a vital description of a now-lost building. But it
cannot be read as a straightforward description. Rather,
Constantine's work offers insights into Byzantine perceptions of
works of art. The monuments Constantine decided to portray and the
ways in which he chose to describe them say as much, if not more,
about the social and cultural milieu in which he operated as about
the actual physical appearance of the monuments themselves.
Further, the poem itself, as it survives in one fifteenth-century
manuscript, raises questions: is it, in its current form, a single
poem or is it made up of a compilation of Constantine's writings?
This book supersedes the two previous editions of the poem, both
dating to 1896, and provides the first full translation of the
text. It consists of a new Greek edition of Constantine's poem,
with an introductory essay, prepared by Ioannis Vassis, and a
translation and commentary by a group of scholars headed by Liz
James. Liz James also contributes an extensive discussion of the
two distinct parts of the poem, the city monuments and the Church
of the Holy Apostles.
The papers in this volume derive from the 31st Spring Symposium of
Byzantine Studies held for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies at
the University of Sussex, Brighton, in March 1997. Desire, sex,
love and the erotic are not terms usually associated with Byzantium
and Byzantine Studies, unlike celibacy, virginity and asceticism,
which more readily spring to mind. In order to examine whether the
balance between these two extremes needed redressing, desire and
denial was adopted as the theme for this symposium. The papers in
this volume, by a group of international scholars, explore the many
different aspects of Byzantine perceptions towards their own
humanity and the frailties of that humanity. Using evidence from
archaeology, art history and literary texts, ranging from sermons
to legal documents, these chapters reveal writings about love, both
secular and religious; images of sexuality and sensuality; the law;
and Byzantine attitudes to bodies and the senses. What the
symposium illustrated is that the question of desires in the
Byzantine world is significant, and that such desires can offer
insights into Byzantine conceptions of their own world.
When a structure is put under an increasing compressive load, it
becomes unstable and buckling occurs. Buckling is a particularly
significant concern in designing shell structures such as aircraft,
automobiles, ships, or bridges. This book discusses stability
analysis and buckling problems and offers practical tools for
dealing with uncertainties that exist in real systems. The
techniques are based on two complementary theories which are
developed in the text. First, the probabilistic theory of stability
is presented, with particular emphasis on reliability. Both
theoretical and computational issues are discussed. Secondly, the
authors present the alternative to probability based on the notion
of 'anti-optimization', a theory that is valid when the necessary
information for probabilistic analysis is absent, that is, when
only scant data are available. Design engineers, researchers, and
graduate students in aerospace, mechanical, marine, and civil
engineering who are concerned with issues of structural integrity
will find this book a useful reference source.
Links Geotechnics with Railway Track Engineering and Railway
Operation Good railway track and railway operations depend on good
geotechnics, in several different ways and at varying levels.
Railway Geotechnics covers track, track substructure, load
environment, materials, mechanics, design, construction,
measurements, and management. Illustrated by case studies, with an
emphasis on the geotechnical aspects of railway engineering, it
discusses these topics from a historical perspective. It also
presents the methodologies and best practices developed over the
past 20 years. Written by Four Experienced Professionals This book:
Emphasizes the practical aspects and best practices for railway
track and substructure Contains guidelines for design,
construction, and maintenance of railway track and substructure
Provides many examples and case studies Railway Geotechnics is
written primarily for professionals and graduate students, and
begins with the fundamentals and basic principles, leading in to
practical applications. The authors bring considerable experience
and expertise, with many years of research and development,
academia, railway operations, and consulting.
In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall
mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking
into account a wide range of issues, including style and
iconography, technique and material, and function and patronage,
she examines mosaics within their historical context. She asks why
the mosaic was such a popular medium and considers how mosaics work
as historical 'documents' that tell us about attitudes and beliefs
in the medieval world. The book is divided into two part. Part I
explores the technical aspects of mosaics, including glass
production, labour and materials, and costs. In Part II, James
provides a chronological history of mosaics, charting the low and
high points of mosaic art up until its abrupt end in the late
middle ages. Written in a clear and engaging style, her book will
serve as an essential resource for scholars and students of
medieval mosaics.
Modern East Asia: A History explores the history of China, Japan,
Korea, and Vietnam from the late eighteenth century to the present.
The text presents information on each country individually and also
demonstrates how historical trends within each nation are linked.
The book begins with an introduction to cultural foundations and a
brief history of East Asia in the seventeenth century. The volume
progresses chronologically, beginning in 1830 with a discussion of
the major crises that swept East Asia, including covering both
domestic and international challenges. In proceeding chapters,
readers learn about key events, ideas, conflicts, and negotiations
that have shaped East Asia throughout history. They read about the
termination of the feudal structure in Japan, French colonial
conquest in Vietnam, the birth of modern nationalism in China, the
events that led to Korea splitting into two separate nations, and
more. Comprehensive and complete, Modern East Asia provides readers
with a thorough exploration of the progression of China, Japan,
Korea, and Vietnam throughout the modern period. The text is ideal
for world history courses, especially those that focus on East
Asia.
In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth
a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and
processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and
expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development
of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research
areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web
searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied
to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science,
biometric identification, digital libraries, the military,
education, commerce, culture and entertainment. Machine Learning
and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image Retrieval describes
several approaches of integrating machine learning and statistical
modeling into an image retrieval and indexing system that
demonstrates promising results. The topics of this book reflect
authors' experiences of machine learning and statistical modeling
based image indexing and retrieval. This book contains detailed
references for further reading and research in this field as well.
In the early 1990s, the establishment of the Internet brought forth
a revolutionary viewpoint of information storage, distribution, and
processing: the World Wide Web is becoming an enormous and
expanding distributed digital library. Along with the development
of the Web, image indexing and retrieval have grown into research
areas sharing a vision of intelligent agents. Far beyond Web
searching, image indexing and retrieval can potentially be applied
to many other areas, including biomedicine, space science,
biometric identification, digital libraries, the military,
education, commerce, culture and entertainment.
Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling Approaches to Image
Retrieval describes several approaches of integrating machine
learning and statistical modeling into an image retrieval and
indexing system that demonstrates promising results. The topics of
this book reflect authors' experiences of machine learning and
statistical modeling based image indexing and retrieval. This book
contains detailed references for further reading and research in
this field as well.
Since 2005, a series of significant developments has been
unfolding in the area of the Tongking Gulf under the rubric of an
ambitious project called "Two Corridors and One Rim." Proposed by
Vietnam in 2004 and enthusiastically embraced by China, the project
is designed to link their shared shores and hinterlands by
superhighways and high-speed rail. An area that had seemed a
backwater for two hundred years has suddenly become a dynamic
engine of growth.Yet how innovative are these developments? Drawing
on fresh historical insights and recent archaeological research in
northern Vietnam and southern China, "The Tongking Gulf Through
History" reveals that this region has long been a center of
cultural, political, and economic exchange. From a historical point
of view, contributors argue, the Gulf of Tongking has come full
circle. Inspired by the Braudelian vision that regionality arises
from long-term human interactions, essays avoid state-centered
approaches of nationalist histories to focus on local communities
throughout the Gulf. In doing so, they reveal a complex pattern of
interrelationships and geopolitical factors that has shaped the
gulf region for over two millennia.The first half of the volume
covers the era from the Neolithic to the tenth century, when an
independent state emerged from old Chinese Jiaozhi, or modern
northern Vietnam; the second surveys the nine centuries that
followed, in which only two states came to share the maritime
shores of the Tongking Gulf. Together, the essays illuminate how
millennia of recurring human interactions within this geographical
space have created a regional ensemble with its own longstanding
historical integrity and dynamics.
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