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Egypt Ancient and Modern
No full textContents: 1. Egypt ancient and modern / Timothy Champion and Peter Ucko -- 2. The wisdom of Egypt: classical views / John Tait -- 3. Ancient Egypt in medieval Arabic writings / Okasha El Daly -- 3. Images of ancient Egypt in the Latin middle ages / Charles Burnett -- 5. The Renaissance afterlife of ancient Egypt (1400-1650) / Brian A. Curran -- 6. Ancient Egypt in 17th and 18th century England / David Boyd Haycock -- 7. Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th century archaeology and anthropology / Timothy Champion
The appropriation of the Phoenicians in British imperial ideology
No full textThe Phoenicians played ambivalent roles in Western historical imagination. One such role was as a valued predecessor and prototype for the industrial and maritime enterprise of nineteenth-century imperial Britain. Explicit parallels were drawn in historical representations and more popular culture. It was widely believed that the Phoenicians had been present in Britain, especially in Cornwall, despite a lack of convincing historical evidence, and much importance was placed on supposed archaeological evidence. Ideological tensions arose from the need to reconcile ancient and modern Britain, and from the Semitic origin of the Phoenicians. This example shows the power of archaeological objects to provide material support for national and imperial constructions of the past
Dorothy U. Seyler. The Obelisk and the Englishman: The Pioneering Discoveries of Egyptologist William Bankes. 304 pp., illus., bibl., index. New York: Prometheus Books, 2015. $26 (cloth).
No full textCelts: Art and Identity. Edited by J. Farley and F. Hunter . British Museum Press, London, 2015. Pp. 304, illus. Price: £40.00 (bound); £25.00 (paper). isbn 978 0 7141 2835 1 (bound); 978 0 7141 2836 8 (paper).
No full textFood, technology and culture in the Late Bronze Age of southern England: Perforated clay plates of the Lower Thames valley
No full textPerforated plates of fired clay have long been recognised as a component of Late Bronze Age material culture in south-eastern England, but recent developer-funded excavations have produced a wealth of new evidence. These artefacts, showing a considerable degree of standardisation, are now known from more than 70 sites, which show a markedly riverine and estuarine distribution along the lower Thames. Their function is still uncertain, but it is suggested that they were parts of ovens for baking bread, a new technology for food preparation in the later Bronze Age. Some of the largest assemblages of such plates are found at strongly defended sites, and it is further suggested that the baking and consumption of bread was particularly associated with such sites of social authority. The estuarine distribution is discussed in this paper, and it presents further evidence for the regionally distinctive nature of food consumption in later prehistory.<br/
Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th century archaeology and anthropology
No full textFrom the earliest times, Egypt and its past has been known to other peoples in Europe and the Near East; it was well known in the Greek and Roman worlds, which frequently expressed a sense of amazement at the culture and wisdom of pharaonic Egypt. Their approach could vary from emphasising the strangeness or perversity of Egypt to seeing Egypt as the natural precursor of all later human developments and achievements.Ancient Egypt also played a major role in the Judaeo-Christian biblical tradition. Though to some a place of oppression, it was again mostly seen as a source of civilization. But before the growth of travel to Egypt and the rise of Egyptology in the 18th and 19th centuries, detailed knowledge of Egypt was very limited.The Wisdom of Egypt examines the sources of evidence about Ancient Egypt available to scholars, and the changing visions of Egypt and of Egypt's role in human history that they produced. Its scope extends from the Classical world, through Europe and the Arabic worlds in the Middle Ages, to writers of the Renaissance, and to the work of scholars and scientists of Early Modern Europe.It also assesses whether the awe inspired by Egypt (which clearly again and again changed in character over time) belonged to a sustained tradition, or represented a series of fresh and independent encounters with an impenetrable culture.Contents include:1.Egypt as Wisdom: The Classical View;
2.Ancient Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings;
3.The Image of Egypt in the Middle Ages (until ca. 1400);
4.The Renaissance Afterlife of Ancient Egypt;
5.Ancient Egypt in 18th century English Science, Religion and 'Archaeology': An Overview;
6.Beyond Egyptology: Egypt in 19th and 20th Century Archaeology and Anthropology
Prehistoric Kent
No full textContents Introduction 1 The Growth of Achaeology in Kent 2 The Palaeolithic Archaeology of Kent 3 Prehistoric Kent 4 Roman Kent 5 Anglo-Saxon Kent to AD 800 6 Bibliograph
The growth of archaeology in Kent
No full textContents Introduction 1 The Growth of Achaeology in Kent 2 The Palaeolithic Archaeology of Kent 3 Prehistoric Kent 4 Roman Kent 5 Anglo-Saxon Kent to AD 800 6 Bibliograph
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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