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‎Travelling Matters across the Mediterranean. Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects (10th-20th centuries)‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 288 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 24 col., 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503610054.‎

‎Summary In the last two decades, objects have become increasingly relevant to historical studies as the primary focus of research discussing cross-cultural relations. Objects are produced, used, modified, preserved, and destroyed according to historically specific political and cultural settings, thus providing researchers with information and insights about their original background. However, they can also throw light on a large array of cross-cultural encounters when their mobility is put to the fore. Objects can move by being bought, gifted, bartered, and sold, borrowed or stolen, collected and dispersed, just as they can be modified, repaired, reshaped, repurposed, and destroyed in the process. The Mediterranean, as a barrier and as a meeting place for different polities and communities, and as the setting of conflicted experiences of cultural, political, economic, and social transformation, easily lends itself to this kind of historical analysis. Featuring articles on Byzantine imperial silks and bronze doors from southern Italy, eastern luxuries in Istanbul and African bolsas from the Canary Islands, Arabic geographies and Hebrew religious texts travelling from shore to shore and from manuscript to the press, and the 'dead' bodies of holy women and men, this volume intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways: focusing on the 'second-handedness' of displaced objects across the Mediterranean, the volume intersects different chronologies - from antiquity to the present-day - and varying scales, from the individual objects to the much larger one of the histories of their reinterpretation and repurposing. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Rereading, Reshaping, Repurposing Objects in Motion across the Mediterranean Beatrice Falcucci, Emanuele Giusti, Davide Trentacoste (Re)using Byzantine Textiles: Adapting and Reinventing Material Identities through the Connected Mediterranean, Seventh-Twelfth Centuries Anna Kelley Travelling Doors: Medieval Bronze Doors in the Mediterranean Judith Utz Arabic Geography and Sixteenth-Century Cartography: Guillaume Postel and the History of Ab? al-Fid??'s Manuscript Maria Vittoria Comacchi From Africa to the Canary Islands: The Double Lives of Objects (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) Claudia Geremia Manuscripts from Western Europe, Printer from the Land of Israel: Movement between Cultural Spaces in Hebrew Printing in the Eighteenth Century Oded Cohen Dazzling Objects and Ottoman Enthusiasts: Travelling Luxuries Across the Mediterranean and Beyond T lay Artan 'A stone called pourcellaine': Chinese Porcelain and Early Modern Natural History Matthew Martin Life and Afterlife of Religious Bodies: From Organic Matters to Devotional Objects. Corpses on Display in Late Modern Italy (c. 1800-1950) Leonardo Rossi The Journey of Prehistoric Remains: Re-reading the Case of Scoglio del Tonno, Taranto (1899-1950s) Fedra Pizzato Index‎

‎Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the‎

‎Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805 1806 1807 1808. Travel notes made in Russia and Sweden in 1805-1808. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Robert Ker Porter. Porter Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805 1806 1807 1808. Putevye zametki sdelannye v Rossii i Shvetsii v 1805-1808 godakh. Short description: In English (ask us if in doubt).In two volumes (set). In English. With numerous illustrations painted in watercolours and aquatinths into a leaf and turning a leaf. Set. London. Richard Phillips. 1809.T-1: 301c. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbab46c745c024a047‎

‎Catalogue of a travelling exhibition of Moscow artists. Painting, Drawing, Grap‎

‎Catalogue of a travelling exhibition of Moscow artists. Painting, Drawing, Graphics. Kharkiv, 1932. In Ukrainian./Katalog peredvizhnoy vystavki moskovskikh khudozhnikov. Zhivopis, risunok, grafika. Kharkov, 1932. Na ukrainskom yazyke. Kharkov: The Artist, 1932.-34 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-ba2b1a1596e1d4d8.‎

‎Pakhomov D. On the ruins of the old kingdom. Travelling sketches of the Caucasu‎

‎Pakhomov D. On the ruins of the old kingdom. Travelling sketches of the Caucasus./Pakhomov D. Na razvalinakh starogo tsarstva. Putevye ocherki Kavkaza. Pakhomov D. On the ruins of the old kingdom. Traveling sketches of the Caucasus. St. Petersburg: Type A.E. Kolpinsky, 1901. 208. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-242f5cc15e6e6b8f.‎

‎A new and accurate description of all the Direct and Partial Cross Roads in England and Wales.... [Bound together with] A travelling Dictionary ; or Alphabetical Tables.... [together with].... Direct and Principal Cross Roads of Scotland.‎

‎London T. Carnan 1781 Un bel exemplaire de cette série de trois livres, reliés en un seul. Les planches sont en cuir d'origine, le dos est en cuir plus récent et les étiquettes sont noires et bordeaux avec des titres dorés. La reliure est en bon état. Belle carte dépliante des routes d'Angleterre et du Pays de Galles en frontispice. Le premier volume est une cinquième édition de 1785. La première partie est un index des carrefours, suivi d'une liste des routes principales. Le second volume est un dictionnaire de voyage, ou des tables alphabétiques, indiquant les distances entre les villes importantes. Il s'agit également de 1781, et c'est la quatrième édition de ce volume. Le troisième volume (1781, cinquième édition) est consacré aux principales routes d'Écosse. Un exemplaire d'une propreté irréprochable. Indispensable pour les jours de taches solaires où votre GPS ne fonctionne pas. xxiv, 265, iv, 180, ii, [16] (la pagination est de 32 mais il s'agit du nombre de colonnes, deux par page) pages. 18.5cm x 11cm.‎

‎A lovely copy of this set of three books, bound as one. Original leather boards, with a newer leather spine and black and burgundy labels with gilt titles. Binding is in good, clean condition. Lovely clean folding map of the roads of England and Wales as a frontis. The first volume is a 1785 fifth edition. The first part is an index of crossroads, followed by a list of main roads. The second volume is a travelling dictionary, or alphabetical tables, showing the distances between significant towns. This is also 1781, and is the fourth edition of this volume. The third volume (1781, fifth edition) is principal cross roads of Scotland. A beautifully clean example. Essential for those sunspot days when your satnav doesn't work. xxiv, 265., iv, 180., ii, [16] (pagination is 32 but this is the number of columns, two per page) pages. 18.5cm x 11cm. .‎