This architectural history, starting with Egypt and Mesopotamia traces the development of building styles and techniques down to the Christianisation of the Roman Empire and the rise of Byzantium. It is magnificently illustrated throughout, although this is no coffee table book - the focus is very m[...]
Continuing the "Architecture in Context" series, this second volume narrates the development of architecture across a huge swathe of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to the Japanese archipelago, over a period extending from prehistory to the arrival of Islam and its distinct traditions from t[...]
The fourth book in the "Architecture in Context" series, this is an unprecedented study of European Architecture in the Middle Ages, from the destruction of Rome by northern barbarians to the rediscovery of Classical values and the rebirth of humanism in 15th-century Italy. Christopher Tadgell cover[...]
The rediscovery of classical ideas and the emergence of the great artists, architects and theorists of late fithteenth and early sixteenth-century Italy led to the cultural peak characterised as the High Renaissance. This fifth volume in the Architecture in Context series begins with a definition of[...]
This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community, i[...]
Unprecedented in scope like its companion volume on the High Renaissance, Transformations, this sixth volume in the Architecture in Context series traces the development of architecture and decoration in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries - particularly the transformation of rationalist [...]
Forfatterne har i flere udgivelser vist, at hvis man vil og kigger efter, er der masser af kilder til Danmarkshistoriens kvinder.
Kvinderne i denne bog levede under vidt forskellige vilkår, men de var alle handlekraftige kvinder.[...]