Size matters understanding monumentality across ancient civilizations

When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters - or does it? But how else can we measure monumentality? Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Cluster of Excellence 264 TOPOI funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Buccellati, Federico (Editor), Buccellati, Federico, editor (editor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2019
Bielefeld, Germany : [2019]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Histoire
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433356506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter 1 Content 5 Preface 7 Introduction 11 Monuments and Monumentality - different perspectives 17 Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology 41 Perceiving monumentality 65 Monumentalbaukunst - Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum 93 Monumentality in context - a reply from Egyptology 99 The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental 107 Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor 133 Zerstörungswut - The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times 157 The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view 171 The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE 193 La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales 209 The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system 223 Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE 241 Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II 269 Monumentality by numbers 291 Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem's Urban Landscape 309 Contributors 345