Tag: Hours

The Book of Hours and the Body


Free Download The Book of Hours and the Body: Somaesthetics, Posthumanism, and the Uncanny
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367504529 | 273 Pages | PDF (True) | 27 MB
It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours-evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture.

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Half-Hours With the Freethinkers


Free Download Half-Hours With the Freethinkers by Charles Bradlaugh
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0469170387 | 204 Pages | EPUB | 443.7 KB
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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