Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> History - Ancient & Classical

For nearly 1400 years, the Anuradhapura Kingdom flourished as one of the great civilisations of the ancient world. Its capital, resplendent with gleaming white dagobas and huge monasteries with thousands of monks proclaimed its opulence and grandeur. The people and their unique culture prospered. Then, in the space of just a few years, it was snuffed out, abandoned, engulfed by forest, and forgotten.

What happened? Why did a civilisation that had thrived for so long suddenly collapse and disappear into the realms of folk memory? Who caused it? Why did it happen?

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This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary and archaeological evidence with contemporary space theory. It applies a variety of interdisciplinary methods including access analysis, literary and gender theory to offer a critical framework for interpreting Roman gardens as physical sites and representations.

The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society examines how the garden functioned as a conceptual, sensual and physical space in Roman society, and its use as a vehicle of cultural communication. Readers will...

Attempting to formulate solutions to these problems were the new imperial dynasty, the Isaurians. Taking power in 717 as Constantinople was under siege by the Arabs, they would rule until 802 when Irene, the first empress to rule in her own right, was...

This issue of Culture and Cosmos includes edited papers based on presentations at the 2014 Sophia Centre Conference titled 'The Marriage of Heaven and Earth'. The notion of marriage as the creative and productive union of archetypal forces, powers or entities is shamelessly borrowed from the alchemical tradition. As is in previous years conference explored a range of topics covered by the umbrella term 'cultural astronomy and astrology', and as represented through the research and teaching of the Sophia Centre University of Wales Trinity Saint David, including the MA in Cultural...