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Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

By: Roland Betancourt

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Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

By: Roland Betancourt

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book surveys classical, late antique, and medieval theories of vision to elaborate on how various spheres of the Byzantine world categorized and comprehended sensation and perception. Revisiting scholarly assumptions about the tactility of sight in the Byzantine world, it demonstrates how the haptic language associated with vision referred to the cognitive actions of the viewer as they grasped sensory data in the mind in order to comprehend and produce working imaginations of objects for thought and memory. At stake is how the affordances and limitations of the senses came to delineate and cultivate the manner in which art and rhetoric was understood as mediating the realities they wished to convey. This would similarly come to contour how Byzantine religious culture could also go about accessing the sacred, the image serving as a site of desire for the mediated representation of the Divine.

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1108657273

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.

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1108870872

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Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

By: Roland Betancourt

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Studies the interrelation of sight, touch, and the imagination in ancient and medieval Greek theories of perception and cognition.

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The Secrets We Keep

Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire

By: Roland Betancourt

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Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire

By: Roland Betancourt

An intriguing look at secrecy during the Byzantine Empire and the role of the art historian in seeking truth. Secrecy has played a role throughout human history and continues to capture the popular imagination. Some of the most seductive aspects of the Byzantine Empire—such as the relics of the imperial palace and the military uses of Greek fire—have been shrouded in mystery for centuries. This book provides a brief history of secrecy in Byzantium and examines the role of the art historian in uncovering the truth, demonstrating how visual evidence can not only reveal new findings but also purposely conceal answers. Art historians face many challenges in their search for hidden knowledge, including accessing accounts preserved in fragmentary glimpses and reconciling how practices of speculation and reconstruction result in different, and sometimes contradictory, understandings. With pressing urgency, this book asks scholars to consider their role in articulating the stories of marginalized people, particularly for queer and trans history. At the core of these investigations is the quest to discover how clandestine knowledge was transmitted and how relationships were strengthened by collective secret keeping, as well as how concealment is used as a strategy for exercising power. With insights into the religious, imperial, military, and cultural uses of secrecy, this book offers an intriguing look at the ways secrecy manifested itself during the Byzantine Empire and the implications it has for the issues we face today.

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Getty Publications

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1606069098

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Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

By: Roland Betancourt

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Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean

By: Roland H. Ebel,Ray Taras,James D. Cochrane

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean

By: Roland H. Ebel,Ray Taras,James D. Cochrane

This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere -- where the United States has been the central actor -- have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.

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SUNY Press

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0791406040

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Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems

By: Roland Glowinski

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Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems

By: Roland Glowinski

This book describes the mathematical background and reviews the techniques for solving problems, including those that require large computations such as transonic flows for compressible fluids and the Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible viscous fluids. Finite element approximations and non-linear relaxation, and nonlinear least square methods are all covered in detail, as are many applications. This volume is a classic in a long-awaited softcover re-edition.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662126133

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

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Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

By: Roland V. Anglin

Growing local economies, empowering communities, revitalizing downtowns, developing entrepreneurship, building leadership, and enhancing nonprofits — you can achieve all these benefits and more with a comprehensive and strategic revitalization plan. Chronicling the struggle of local revitalization as organizers move from trial and error to effective revitalization strategies, Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development documents the current transformation in community revitalization from market-based incentives to mixed strategies of public sector learning, partnerships, and community capacity. Knowledge about the field and what works is growing, but not always publicized and readily accessible. This reference surveys the breadth of innovative place and people development practices, presenting lessons and examples at a general and textured level, putting information about innovative ways to change, influence, and improve the economic development process within easy reach. Roland Anglin brings his unique vantage point to the topic; his experience as a practitioner and applied academic allowed him to see how community economic development practices grow over time in size, scale, and impact. He highlights the difference between what is now termed community economic development (CED) and traditional local economic development practice, specifically the priority placed on community involvement in economic development partnerships between the private sector and government. The book includes case studies that demonstrate what has and has not worked in revitalization efforts, as well as how active public and private sector partnerships have been the most effective in revitalization efforts. A Resource Guide is included at the end of the book for readers who may want a more expansive understanding of community economic development.

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Routledge

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1351552996

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The Secrets We Keep

Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire

By: Roland Betancourt

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Hidden Histories of the Byzantine Empire

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean

By: Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Case Studies from the Circum-Caribbean

By: Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane

This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere — where the United States has been the central actor — have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.

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State University of New York Press

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1438401809

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Book's by Roland Betancourt

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems

Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Variational Problems

Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development

The Secrets We Keep

The Secrets We Keep

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America

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