Size Matters - Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations: Understanding Monumentality Across Ancient Civilizations (Histoire)

✍ Scribed by Federico Buccellati (editor), Sebastian Hageneuer (editor), Sylva van der Heyden (editor), Felix Levenson (editor)

• Publisher: transcript publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 351
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Content
Preface
Introduction
Part ITheoretical Framework and Methodology
Monuments and Monumentality – different perspectives
Monumentality: Research Approaches and Methodology
Perceiving monumentality
Responses to the Theoretical Framework and Methodology
Monumentalbaukunst – Architektur als erweiterter Denk- und Erfahrungsraum
Monumentality in context – a reply from Egyptology
Part IICase Studies
The Social Meaning of Big Architecture, or the Sociology of the Monumental
Monumental Negligence: the Difference between Working and Alienated Labor
Zerstörungswut – The Deliberate Destruction of MonuMentality in Ancient and Modern Times
The operation of monumentality in low occupation-density settlements in prehistory: a regional scale view
The Massif Rouge and Early Dynastic high terraces: Dynamics of monumentality in Mesopotamia during the 3rd millennium BCE
La grandeur de Babylone: étude des inscriptions royales
The monumental Late Antique cisterns of Resafa, Syria as refined capacity and water-quality regulation system
Monumentality, Building Techniques, and Identity Construction in Roman Italy: The Remaking of Cosa, post-197 BCE
Monumentality of the Landscape: the Coixtlahuaca Valley Archaeology and the Lienzo Seler II
Monumentality by numbers
Texts in the City: Monumental Inscriptions in Jerusalem’s Urban Landscape
Contributors