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J. Elsner, "From the Culture of Spolia to the Cult of Relics: The Arch of Constantine and the Genesis of Late Antique Forms," Papers of the British School at Rome 68 (2000), 149–84. A. Esch, "Spolien: Zum Wiederverwendung antike Baustücke und Skulpturen in mittelalterlichen Italien," Archiv für Kunstgeschichte 51 (1969), 2–64.
Statue of William Dunbar, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Title page of Dunbar's The Goldyn Targe in the Chepman and Myllar Prints of 1508. ( National Library of Scotland ). William Dunbar (1459 or 1460 – by 1530) was a Scottish makar , or court poet, active in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
[1] [2] Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Leavened with comic elements, Middlemarch approaches significant historical events in a realist mode: the Reform Act 1832 , early railways, and the accession of King William IV .
Salvador Ponce Lopez (May 27, 1911 – October 18, 1993) was a Filipino writer, journalist, educator, diplomat and statesman.. He studied at the University of the Philippines (UP) and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1931 and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy in 1933.
Musaylima (Arabic: مُسَيْلِمَةُ), otherwise known as Musaylima ibn Ḥabīb (Arabic: مسيلمة ابن حبيب) d.632, was a claimant of prophethood [1] [2] [3] from the Banu Hanifa tribe. [4] [5] Based from Diriyah in present day Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he claimed to be a prophet and was an enemy of Islam in 7th-century Arabia.
The book measures 195 by 145 by 75 millimetres (7.7 by 5.7 by 3.0 in). [6] The book originally consisted of 222 folios of vellum, of which 5 are missing. [7] The text is written in two columns in a fine pointed insular minuscule. The manuscript contains four miniatures, one each of the four Evangelists' symbols. Some of the letters have been ...
Subversion and containment is a concept in literary studies introduced by Stephen Greenblatt in his 1988 essay "Invisible Bullets". [1] It has subsequently become a much-used concept in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to textual analysis.
[1] [2] An accolade is a pointed arch composed of two ogee curves, also known as sigmoid lines, which mirror one another. [3] [1] It can be formed by a pair of reverse ogee curves over a three-centred arch ending in a vertical finial. [4] [5] The form can also be described as the combination of a convex arch and a concave arch. [6]