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Light as Experience and Imagination from Paleolithic to Roman Times: by David S. Herrstrom, Madison, WI, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017, vii + 181 pp., $85.00/£100 (cloth)

Lora Sigler
- 16 Nov 2020 - 
- Vol. 25, pp 891-893
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A lyrical journey on a sunbeam, David S. Herrstrom as discussed by the authors takes us through the ages, from the Paleolithic to that of the Roman Classicists, attempting to delineate the hu...
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A lyrical journey on a sunbeam, David S. Herrstrom’s volume is short but ambitious. He takes us through the ages—from the Paleolithic to that of the Roman Classicists—attempting to delineate the hu...

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Light Mediations: Introduction

TL;DR: The authors argues that the study of light and lighting devices, and the light mediations yielded by them, is important for scholars of material religion, and discusses the four articles on aest...
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Light and shadow as instruments of literary and visual metaphor in Liviu Rebreanu’s The Forest of the Hanged

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