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A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period
1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in
production, transportation, and information-sharing in a
post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics
to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales
of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of
the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be
treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where
will the 21st century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural
History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used,
interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years.
Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the
material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object.
The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology;
economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily
objects; object worlds. Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the
University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth, is
Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors:
Dan Hicks and William Whyte
First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation
in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main
church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in
London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round
nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is
extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture
with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any
English building of its period. It also holds one of the most
famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major
developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of
the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial
restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary
importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or
critical attention, a gap that is remedied by this volume. It
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Ages, and
allaspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth
century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated
with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use
of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material
available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster
casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip
Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William
Whyte, Christopher Wilson. Robin Griffith-Jones is Master of the
Temple at the Temple Church; David Park is a Professor at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period
500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of
human-made objects and their consequences and impacts. The power
and agency of objects significantly evolved over this time.
Exploring objects and artefacts within art, technology, and
everyday life, the volume challenges our understanding of both life
worlds and object worlds in medieval society. The 6 volume set of
the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been
created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last
2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular
attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea
of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood;
technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture;
bodily objects; object worlds. Julie Lund is Associate Professor at
the University of Oslo, Norway. Sarah Semple is Professor at Durham
University, UK. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period
1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of
re-awakening when classical knowledge was rediscovered, leading to
an efflorescence in philosophy, art, and literature. The period
fostered an emerging sense of individualism across European
cultures. This sense was expressed through a fascination with
materiality and the natural world, and a growing attachment to
things. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects
examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set
loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the
West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at
the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered
in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects;
everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
James Symonds is Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers
the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people,
ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume -from
scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and
shackles -encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The
entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns
of consumption, facilitated by innovations in maritime transport,
new forms of exchange relations, and the exploitation of
non-Western peoples and lands. The world of objects in the
Enlightenment reveal a Western material culture profoundly shaped
by global encounters. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of
Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted
and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this
time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material
world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes
covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic
objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects;
object worlds. Audrey Horning is Professor at William & Mary,
USA, and at Queen's University Belfast, UK. Volume 4 in the
Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and
William Whyte
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the
period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material
world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The
revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made,
impacted on lives at every scale -from body to home to workplace to
city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific
knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class
structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform
the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of
Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted
and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this
time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material
world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes
covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic
objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects;
object worlds. Carolyn White is Professor at the University of
Nevada, Reno, USA. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Objects set.
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
How have objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose
in the world over the last 2500 years? Over this time, the West has
developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre
of which is the idea of the object. This set brings together over
50 scholars, in 1776 pages, to examine how the world of human
subjects shapes and is shaped by the world of material objects.
Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives
the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the
volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the
relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter
titles) are: Objecthood; Technology; Economic Objects; Everyday
Objects; Art; Architecture; Bodily Objects; Object Worlds. The six
volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (500 BCE to 500 CE); 2 - Medieval Age
(500 to 1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400 to 1600); 4 - Age of
Enlightenment (1600 to 1760); 5 - Age of Industry (1760 to 1900); 6
- Modern Age (1900 to the present). The Cultural Histories Series A
Cultural History of Objects is part of The Cultural Histories
Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase
and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a
fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by
annual subscription or perpetual access (see
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred
years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the
English-speaking world, you will be close to a Victorian built or
remodelled ecclesiastical building. Contemporary experience of
church buildings is almost entirely down to the zeal of Victorians
such as John Henry Newman, Henry Wilberforce and Augustus Pugin,
and their ideas about the role of architecture in our spiritual
life and well-being. In Unlocking the Church, William Whyte
explores a forgotten revolution in social and architectural history
and in the history of the Church. He details the architectural and
theological debates of the day, explaining how the Tractarians of
Oxford and the Ecclesiologists of Cambridge were embroiled in the
aesthetics of architecture, and how the Victorians profoundly
changed the ways in which buildings were understood and
experienced. No longer mere receptacles for worship, churches
became active agents in their own rights, capable of conveying
theological ideas and designed to shape people's emotions. These
church buildings are now a challenge: their maintenance, repair or
repurposing are pressing problems for parishes in age of declining
attendance and dwindling funds. By understanding their past,
unlocking the secrets of their space, there might be answers in how
to deal with the legacy of the Victorians now and into the future.
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The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++York University Law School
Libraryocm33115789Includes index.Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark,
1889. 144 p.; 23 cm.
This title presents a fresh look at the issue of establishment of
the Church of England in an ecumenical, multi-cultural and secular
context. This book offers a definitive account of the recent
history and theology of the establishment of the Church of England.
Written in an accessible style and at the same time rooted in
serious scholarship, it offers a range of views and opinions as
well as an awareness of contemporary political and social problems.
It asks a number of penetrating questions, including the key issue
of the extent to which churches, and particularly the Church of
England, can be protected from equality legislation, while at the
same time expecting to have special political and social
privileges. This issue relates to the thorny problems of the reform
of the House of Lords, and even to the future of the Monarchy.
While there is no effort to impose a particular agenda or solution,
the book is nevertheless often provocative and suggests a number of
ways forward for establishment. It is intended as a lively
contribution to an often-overlooked debate, which has nevertheless
become increasingly important in the multi-cultural context of
contemporary Britain. "Affirming Catholicism" is a progressive
movement in the Anglican Church, drawing inspiration and hope from
the Catholic tradition, confident that it will bear the gifts of
the past into the future. The books in this series aim to make the
Catholic element within Anglicanism once more a positive force for
the Gospel, and a model for effective mission today.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
In the late nineteenth century one man changed Oxford forever. T.
G. Jackson built the Examination Schools, the Bridge of Sighs,
worked at a dozen colleges, and restored a score of other Oxford
icons. He also built for many of the major public schools, for the
University of Cambridge, and at the Inns of Court. A friend of
William Morris, he was a pioneering member of the arts and crafts
moment. A distinguished historian, he also restored dozens of
houses and churches - and ensured the survival of Winchester
Cathedral. As an architectural theorist he was a leader of the
generation that rejected the Gothic Revival and sought to develop a
new and modern style of building. Drawing on extensive archival
work, and illustrated with a hundred images, this is the first
in-depth analysis of Jackson's career ever written. It sheds light
on a little-known architect and reveals that his buildings, his
books, and his work as an arts and craftsman were not just
important in their own right, they were also part of a wider social
change. Jackson was the architect of choice for a particular group
of people, for the 'intellectual aristocracy' of late Victorian
England. His buildings were a means by which they could articulate
their identity and demonstrate their distinctiveness. They reformed
the universities and the schools whilst he refashioned their image.
Essential reading for anyone interested in Victorian architecture
and nineteenth-century society, this book will also be of interest
to all those who know and love Oxford or Cambridge.
A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500
BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and
buildings to furniture and fashion. Many of our current attitudes
to the world of things are shaped by ideas forged in classical
antiquity. We now understand that we do not merely do things to
objects, they do things to us. Reinterpreting objects in Greece and
Rome casts new light on our understanding of ourselves and turns
the ancient world upside down. The 6 volume set of the Cultural
History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used,
interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years.
Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the
material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object.
The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology;
economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily
objects; object worlds. Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient
History at the University of Cambridge, UK. Volume 1 in the
Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and
William Whyte
Classes, Culture, and Politics investigates those fields in British
history that have been illustrated by the works of Ross McKibbin,
one of the foremost historians of twentieth century Britain.
Written by a distinguished team of scholars, it examines McKibbin's
life and thought, and explores the implications of his arguments.
One of his most important achievements has been to break down the
artificial barriers that existed between 'social' and 'political'
history, in order to enrich the writing of both; that legacy is
reflected throughout this volume.
From international football to Liberal internationalism, from the
hedonism of the early Labour party to the relationship between
London cabbies and Thatcherism, this volume is an ambitious attempt
to explore contemporary Britain, endeavouring to be as original,
unsycophantic, rebarbative, and diverting as the historian whose
work has inspired it.
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