During the sixteenth-century, Venice was the setting for some of the most admired churches in the whole western canon, while major advances in the sophistication, richness and religious expression of choral polyphony led to pioneering developments in the evolution of stereophonic sound. Printing and publishing brought a sudden acceleration in the spread of knowledge - theoretic...(展开全部)

For courses in Renaissance Art. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other...(展开全部)

For courses in Renaissance Art. Through close examination of Renaissance paintings, drawings, book illustrations, and other art works, Patricia Fortini Brown brings fourteenth and fifteenth century Venice alive. She explores the role of the guilds and the nobility, the unique island setting, the environment of the church and the private home, the political rivalries with other...(展开全部)

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined with the church's architectural space to make Hagia Sophia a performative place of worship representa...(展开全部)

Experiencing the resonant acoustics of the church of Hagia Sophia allowed the Byzantine participants in its liturgical rituals to be filled with the Spirit of God, and even to become his image on earth. Bissera Pentcheva's vibrant analysis examines how these sung rites combined with the church's architectural space to make Hagia Sophia a performative place of worship representa...(展开全部)

Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his disciples from behind a veil, and two thousand years later, in the age of a...(展开全部)

Sound coming from outside the field of vision, from somewhere beyond, holds a privileged place in the Western imagination. When separated from their source, sounds seem to manifest transcendent realms, divine powers, or supernatural forces. According to legend, the philosopher Pythagoras lectured to his disciples from behind a veil, and two thousand years later, in the age of a...(展开全部)

高本汉（Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren），瑞典汉学家，文字学家。担任瑞典皇家人文科学院院长、瑞典皇家学院丹麦皇家学院院士等职。1889年10月5日，高本汉出生于瑞典斯莫兰地区的荣彻平，他的父亲是一位中学教师，高本汉弟兄三人，他排行第二。大哥安东（Lars Anton Natanael）为斯德哥尔摩<新闻日报>的主编，以后在哥本哈根任斯拉夫语言学教授。弟弟希亚尔马（Gustaff Hjalmar Teodor）为隆德大学罗马法教授，后任瑞典最高法院法官。高本汉从小就对方言感兴趣，学习过当地的几种方言。在中学学习期间，他用方言写了一些小说，并且对家乡的方言进行调查，他对中国的兴趣也是从中学开始的。 1889年10月5日，生于瑞典延雪平。十几岁时就已对方言研究产生兴趣，并研读一些当地的方言著作。 1907年，高本汉进入乌普萨...(展开全部)

高本汉（Bernhard Karlgren, 1889-1978） 瑞典人，歌德堡大学教授、校长，远东考古博物馆馆长。主要著作有《中国音韵学研究》（1915-1926）、《中日汉字分析字典》（Analytic Dictionary of Chinese and Sino-Japanese, 1923）《藏语和汉语》（1931）、《诗经研究》（1932）、《汉语的词族》（Word Families in Chinese, 1934）、《汉文典》（Grammata Serica，Script and Phonetics in Chinese and Sino-Japanese ）（1940）、《汉语》（1949）、《中古及上古汉语语音学简论》（Compendium of Phonetics in Ancient and Archaic Chinese）（...(展开全部)

高本汉（Klas Bernhard Johannes Karlgren），瑞典汉学家，文字学家。担任瑞典皇家人文科学院院长、瑞典皇家学院丹麦皇家学院院士等职。1889年10月5日，高本汉出生于瑞典斯莫兰地区的荣彻平，他的父亲是一位中学教师，高本汉弟兄三人，他排行第二。大哥安东（Lars Anton Natanael）为斯德哥尔摩<新闻日报>的主编，以后在哥本哈根任斯拉夫语言学教授。弟弟希亚尔马（Gustaff Hjalmar Teodor）为隆德大学罗马法教授，后任瑞典最高法院法官。高本汉从小就对方言感兴趣，学习过当地的几种方言。在中学学习期间，他用方言写了一些小说，并且对家乡的方言进行调查，他对中国的兴趣也是从中学开始的。 1889年10月5日，生于瑞典延雪平。十几岁时就已对方言研究产生兴趣，并研读一些当地的方言著作。 1907年，高本汉进入乌普萨...(展开全部)