Brigitte Heuer's Books

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006

By: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele,Brigitte Heuer,Elena V. Boykova

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Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006

By: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele,Brigitte Heuer,Elena V. Boykova

Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3112208889

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9783112208885

The Mineral and the Visual

Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture

By: Brigitte Buettner

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Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture

By: Brigitte Buettner

Opulent jeweled objects ranked among the most highly valued works of art in the European Middle Ages. At the same time, precious stones prompted sophisticated reflections on the power of nature and the experience of mineralized beings. Beyond a visual regime that put a premium on brilliant materiality, how can we account for the ubiquity of gems in medieval thought? In The Mineral and the Visual, art historian Brigitte Buettner examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in secular medieval art. Exploring the layered roles played by gems in aesthetic, ideological, intellectual, and economic practices, Buettner focuses on three significant categories of art: the jeweled crown, the pictorialized lapidary, and the illustrated travel account. The global gem trade brought coveted jewels from the Indies to goldsmiths’ workshops in Paris, fashionable bodies in London, and the crowns of kings across Europe, and Buettner shows that Europe’s literal and metaphorical enrichment was predicated on the importation of gems and ideas from Byzantium, the Islamic world, Persia, and India. Original, transhistorical, and cross-disciplinary, The Mineral and the Visual engages important methodological questions about the work of culture in its material dimension. It will be especially useful to scholars and students interested in medieval art history, material culture, and medieval history.

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Penn State Press

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0271093684

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9780271093680

The Reluctant Empress

A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria

By: Brigitte Hamann

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The Reluctant Empress

A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria

By: Brigitte Hamann

The real-life tale behind Netflix's Empress Sisi and the Anarchist, whose assassination in 1898 shocked the world. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as 'Sisi', belongs to a famous love story of European royalty. In 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was 15. They were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairy-tale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her tragic death augured the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire. First published in 1988, Brigitte Hamann's definitive biography tells Elisabeth's story from her birth into Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist. In her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; but Hamann shows us a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie.

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Faber & Faber

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0571287565

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9780571287567

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006

By: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele,Brigitte Heuer,Elena V. Boykova

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Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Proceedings of the 49th Permanent International Altaistic Conference, Berlin, July 30 – August 4, 2006

By: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele,Brigitte Heuer,Elena V. Boykova

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Book's by Brigitte Heuer

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

The Mineral and the Visual

The Mineral and the Visual

The Reluctant Empress

The Reluctant Empress

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

Man and Nature in the Altaic World.

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