Size Matters – Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations
When talking about monuments, size undeniably matters – or does it?
But how else can we measure monumentality?
Bringing together researchers from various fields such as archaeology, museology, history, sociology, Mesoamerican studies, and art history, this book discusses terminological and methodological approaches in both theoretical contributions and various case studies. While focusing on architectural aspects, this volume also discusses the social meaning of monuments, the role of forced and free labour, as well as textual monumentality. The result is a modern interdisciplinary take on an important concept which is notoriously difficult to define.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Content
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Preface
Seiten 7 - 10 -
Introduction
Seiten 11 - 14 -
Part I. Theoretical Framework and Methodology
Monuments and Monumentality - different perspectives
Seiten 17 - 40 -
Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology
Seiten 41 - 64 -
Perceiving monumentality
Seiten 65 - 90 -
Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
Monumentalbaukunst - Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum
Seiten 93 - 98 -
Monumentality in context - a reply from Egyptology
Seiten 99 - 104 -
Part II. Case Studies
The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental
Seiten 107 - 132 -
Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor
Seiten 133 - 156 -
Zerstörungswut - The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times
Seiten 157 - 170 -
The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view
Seiten 171 - 192 -
The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE
Seiten 193 - 208 -
La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales
Seiten 209 - 222 -
The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system
Seiten 223 - 240 -
Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE
Seiten 241 - 268 -
Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II
Seiten 269 - 290 -
Monumentality by numbers
Seiten 291 - 308 -
Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem's Urban Landscape
Seiten 309 - 344 -
Contributors
Seiten 345 - 350
2019-09-23, 350 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4538-5
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