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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In "Eyewitnessing", Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films, and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This illustrated book surveys the opportunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
Eyewitnessing : the uses of images as historical evidence
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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In "Eyewitnessing", Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films, and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This illustrated book surveys the opportunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
Theory of Photography
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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the oppotunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
Eyewitnessing: The use of Images as Historical Evidence
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What place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence? In Eyewitnessing, Peter Burke reviews graphics, photographs, films and other media from many countries and periods and examines their pragmatic uses. This profusely illustrated book surveys the oppotunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times.
Theory of Photography
Play in Renaissance Italy
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From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in(...)
Play in Renaissance Italy
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From comic verse to practical jokes, pornography to satire, acting to acrobatics, the Renaissance witnessed the flowering of play in all its forms. In the first wide-ranging and accessible introduction to play in Renaissance Italy, Peter Burke, celebrated historian of the Italian Renaissance, synthesizes over forty years’ research, explores the various forms of play in this period, and offers an overview that reveals the many connections between its different domains. While play could be rough, the Church played an increasing role in determining acceptable and unacceptable forms of play, and, after campaigns against violence and obscenity, much of the licentiousness characteristic of the early Renaissance was tamed.
History until 1900, Renaissance
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This book discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of artistic creativity.
The Italian renaissance: culture and society in Italy
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This book discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that characterized this period of artistic creativity.
History until 1900, Renaissance