Sökning: "late antiquity"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 uppsatser innehållade orden late antiquity.
1. Blomkrukans stilhistoria - konstant och skiftande
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvårdSammanfattning : This work presents the different flowerpots that appear in our history, focused on antiquity, the late middle age/renaissance and the turn of the century 1900. Archeological finds of flowerpots from antiquity are centered around the Mediterainian sea. These flowerpots where fairly simple in design with the exeption of Minoan ornamental flowerpots. LÄS MER
2. Des pieds de la croix à l’art total : Etude des représentations de l’Eglise et de l’art sacré à travers l’ekphrasis huysmansienne
Master-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : The term "ekphrasis" is indisputably problematic. In fact, depending on which definition one might use ekphrastic processes can either be broad, that is extended to any type of description as it was taught in rhetoric treaties during antiquity, or according to its modern definition circumcised to literary representations of works of art. LÄS MER
3. Antinous – överallt Antinous : En receptionshistoria om antikens vackraste man
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : This thesis explores the reception history of Antinous, favourite to the roman emperor Hadrian. Using Michel Foucault's genealogical method, the aim of the thesis is to examine and conclude that Antinous is still, albeit at times hidden, the archetype of the young beautifulman in Western visual culture by examining the expressions of the representation and reception of Antinous as a male ideal of beauty and its change over time. LÄS MER
4. Contra barbaros et haereticos: Konstruktionen av en gallo-romersk identitet i relation till en ’Andra’ i Sidonius, Ruricius och Avitus brevsamlingar
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/HistoriaSammanfattning : This thesis examines a binary Gallo-Roman aristocratic identity by looking at the letter collections of Sidonius Apollinaris, Ruricius of Limoges, and Avitus of Vienne. More specifically, it will put emphasis on the construction of a Gallo-Roman identity which is highly relevant in regard to the context of the fall, or transformation, of the Western Roman Empire. LÄS MER
5. Prefekten Orestes : En maktanalys av skildringen av Praefectus Augustalis
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaSammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine and analyse how the Alexandrian prefect Orestes of late antiquity and his management of the events of 414-415 were depicted in the ancient sources: Socrates Scholasticus, John of Nikiu and Damascius. By applying S. LÄS MER