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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"ancient architecture"”.
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Foguangsi on Mount Wutai: Architecture of Politics and Religion
… moment in the modern search for China’s ancient architecture”. Most notably, the Buddha Hall, which was erected in the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), was seen as the ideal of a “vigorous style” of its time, and an embodiment of an architectural achievement at the peak of Chinese civilization. …
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Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq
<p>This thesis examines ancient architecture within Syria and Iraq that has been deliberately destroyed by violence. The act of destroying architecture and monuments in both Syria and Iraq, which is often-historical UNESCO protected, will invariably violate various laws, such as the 1954 Hague …
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The writings of Louisa Tuthill : cultivating architectural taste in nineteenth-century America
… Tuthill has been acknowledged for her History of Architecture from the Earliest Times (1848), the first history of architecture published in the United States. However, her numerous other books dealing with architecture have been largely ignored. As early as 1830, Tuthill published Ancient …
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Writing Practical Mathematics in Greek and Roman Antiquity
… outside the canonical texts. In the case of ancient mathematics preserved from classical antiquity, this has included a focus on reading texts as evidence for mathematical practice, and attempts to place them in their socio-historical context. This thesis aims to explore how mathematical …
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Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
… museology and push their histories back to the ancient world. After examining how one might define what we mean by ‘the past’ and its relationship to material things in my introduction, my first chapter provides a literature review of previous studies of similar topics and introduces some of the …