The mesmerizing photographic history of occult phenomena, from levitations and apparitions to spectres, ghosts, and auras. In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published.
 The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

Arts & Photography

Chéroux, Clément

Apraxine, Pierre

Fischer, Andreas

Canguilhem, Denis

Schmit, Sophie

Photography & Video

Yale University Press

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography, fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words' it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle, but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects, Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Linguistic Survey of Scotland) and the numerous publications they have spawned. All atlases as well as the maps in the many individual studies and scattered articles are fully documented. Each of the over 2000 lexical entries identifies the original survey by questionnaire number and gives a detailed list of all the references to printed maps in which these words and phrases are contained. The present volume will prove an indis

An Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain (Varieties of English Around the World)

Reference

Ammann, Daniel

Words, Language & Grammar

John Benjamins Publishing Company

James Joyce in Zurich: A Guide

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Karl Martell blieb der Nachwelt vor allem durch seine militarischen Erfolge im Gedachtnis. Besonders sein Sieg in der Schlacht bei Poitiers (732) gegen die Araber schuf seinen Mythos vom Retter des christlichen Abendlandes. Zugleich wird dem Hausmeier ein gewichtiger Anteil am Aufstieg der Karolinger zum Konig- und Kaisertum beigemessen. Ausgehend von den politischen Voraussetzungen und der Herkunft Karls verfolgt die Darstellung die Durchsetzung, Festigung und Gestaltung seiner Herrschaft im Frankenreich und dessen Randzonen bis zu seiner Alleinherrschaft in den Jahren 737 bis 741. Die Schilderung seiner Feldzuge, seiner Kirchen- und Missionspolitik und seines Wirkens in den eroberten Gebieten zeigt anschaulich, wie sich Karl Martell den politischen Herausforderungen seiner Zeit gegenuber behaupten konnte.

Karl Martell: Der Beginn Karolingischer Herrschaft (Kohlhammer Urban Taschenbucher, 648) (German Edition)

Historical

Kohlhammer Verlag

Kardinäle im Konklave: Die lange Sedisvakanz der Jahre 1268 bis 1271 (Bibliothek des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom, 118) (German Edition)

History

Europe

de Gruyter

English summary: The philosophy of play during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance has been largely neglected by scholars, despite the fact that influential thinkers, such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, perceived recreational play to be a vital part of a philosopher's life. By exploring a heterogeneous collection of diverse philosophical approaches to ludic practices, this innovative study provides the first in-depth discussion of the complexity of medieval and early-modern ludic philosophy. Particular attention is devoted to the relationship between play and philosophy, which the influential Aristotelian discourse on play, initiated by Albert and Thomas, conceptualized as a contradictory dichotomy. By focusing on the manifold epistemic transformations which occurred during the Renaissance, this study analyses how philosophers in various contexts developed alternative or complementary theories of the connection between ludus and philosophia. German description: Die philosophische Geschichte des Spielens nach der Antike lässt man in der Regel mit Friedrich Schillers von Kant inspirierten Briefen Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen beginnen, ohne die ihnen vorausgehende Vielfalt philosophischer Auseinandersetzung mit ludischen Praktiken näher zu betrachten. Vorliegende Studie versteht sich als erster Beitrag zur Erschliessung dieser bislang vernachlässigten spielphilosophischen Ansätze zwischen Mittelalter und Fr|her Neuzeit. Dabei wird insbesondere das Verhältnis von Spielen und Philosophieren in den Blick genommen, das schon bei scholastischen Autoren im Zentrum ludischer Reflexionen stand. So etablierten Gelehrte wie Albertus Magnus oder Thomas von Aquin bereits im 13. Jahrhundert eine strenge Trennung zwischen dem als Rekreation konzipierten Spielen und dem Ernst des Philosophierens, indem sie ludische Erholung mit R|ckgriff auf Aristoteles zum notwendigen Gegenst|ck der Kontemplation erklärten. Die Arbeit zeigt, wie Philosophen zwischen Spätmittelalter und Fr|her Neuzeit im Zuge vielfältiger epistemischer Transformationen das Verhältnis von philosophia und ludus komplementär oder alternativ zu diesem einflussreichen aristotelischen Deutungsschema bestimmten. Unter diesen heterogenen Ansätzen finden sich ein allegorisches Globusspiel des Nikolaus von Kues, die erste philosophischen Therapie |bermässiger Spielleidenschaft und eine naturphilosophische Beschreibung des Tennisspiels am rinascimentalen Hof von Ferrara.

Spielen und Philosophieren zwischen Spätmittelalter und Fr|her Neuzeit (German Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

V&R Academic

Deutsch lernen mit Rhythmus Buch und CD (German Edition)

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Schubert Verlag

The results of the dialect surveys of Great Britain have been published in the form of hundreds of single and collected maps, but so far there has been no actual handbook to the charted material. The Index to Dialect Maps of Great Britain, containing a full introduction, an alphabetical word-list and a comprehensive bibliography, fills this gap. As a compendious directory to mapped words it provides not only a lexical compass in a cartographic jungle, but serves as a guide to the major dialect surveys (Survey of English Dialects, Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects, Linguistic Survey of Scotland) and the numerous publications they have spawned. All atlases as well as the maps in the many individual studies and scattered articles are fully documented. Each of the over 2000 lexical entries identifies the original survey by questionnaire number and gives a detailed list of all the references to printed maps in which these words and phrases are contained. The present volume will prove an indispensable guide for all researchers in the field of dialectology and linguistic variation, enabling its users to gain quick access to the various sources of maps. In this way the Index ― while still a simple work of reference ― may also furnish the materials for more thorough studies of map-making and its implications.

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