Search results for ""Author John Cherry""
British Museum Press The Holy Thorn Reliquary Objects in Focus
Book SynopsisThis book explores the meaning and history of this fascinating object, and tells the tale of its remarkable survival and eventual passage to the British Museum.
£6.00
Fircone Books Ltd The Ludlow Castle Heraldic Roll
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£12.30
British Museum Press Delight in Diversity Display in the British
Book SynopsisA transcription of a day-long seminar held at the British Museum in 1995 to discuss aspects of display at the museum. Invited guests examined specific displays and were joined by many of the staff and other curators. A stimulating discussion ensued which makes fascinating reading for all involved with heritage management.
£20.36
Ashmolean Museum Richard Rawlinson & His Seal Matrices: Collecting
Book SynopsisThe Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive. Created by Dr Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755) in the first half of the eighteenth century, it consists of 830 matrices ranging in date from the 13th to the early 18th century. It includes the collection of seal matrices formed by Giovanni Andrea Lorenzani, a Roman bronze caster, which Rawlinson acquired in Rome together with a catalogue written in 1708. This collection is primarily Italian, but the Rawlinson collection also includes examples from many other countries England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germany Spain, and Scandinavia as well as Italy. The study of seals was much neglected in the middle of the twentieth century, but the study now attracts greater interest. This is due to their visual appeal, sense of identity and their representation of symbols. This book will appeal to a wide variety of readers from those interested in collecting, Jacobitism, history of the early eighteenth century, the Grand Tour, antiquaries, and seals and seal matrices. This book has four introductory chapters which set the scene for the collecting of seal matrices, tell the life of Richard Rawlinson and Giovanni Andrea Lorenzani, analyse their collections and relate the history of the collection after Rawlinson's death in 1755. One hundred seals, all illustrated, are described in detail, with much unpublished data, and an indication is given of the contribution they make to the sigillography of the different countries.Table of ContentsForeword; Abbreviations; Seals and Seal Matrices; Dr Richard Rawlinson DCL; Giovanni Andrea Lorenzani; The Content of the Rawlinson Collection; From Bodleian to Ashmolean; Catalogue; Bibliography; Concordance.
£32.00
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Prehistorians Round the Pond
Book SynopsisThis volume represents a pioneering examination of the nature and identities of Aegean prehistory as a discipline. Emerging from a workshop that generated lively debate among a wide cross-section of scholars, it offers one of the first published attempts to situate Aegean prehistory within a modern self-critical and reflexive context.Trade Review Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables About the Authors Authors' Addresses Preface 1. Reflections on the 'Aegean' and its prehistory: present routes and future destinations Despina Margomenou, John F. Cherry and Lauren E. Talalay 2. 'Just the facts, Ma'am': surveying Aegean prehistory's state of health John F. Cherry and Lauren E. Talalay 3. A profile of Aegean prehistorian in the 1990s Tracey Cullen 4. The landscapes of modern Greek Aegean archaeology Stelios Andreou 5. Embedding Aegean prehistory in institutional practice: a view from one of its North American centers Jack L. Davis and Evi Gorogianni 6. The Aegean prehistorian's role in classical studies today Bryan E. Burns 7. Greek modernists' discovery of the Aegean, or How the Aegean came to occupy Greece's center Artemis Leontis Commentary and response 8. Round a bigger pond Colin Renfrew 9. On our political relevance? Michael Fotiadis 10. Whither Aegean prehistory? Yannis Hamilakis
£17.50
