Memento Mori
Memento Mori
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Zusammenfassung
All around us, in the churches and churchyards of England, are reminders of our inescapable mortality. This book contains photographs, accompanied by poems, prose extracts, anecdotes which convey many emotions making the subject of Death intriguing, inspiring and somehow beautiful.
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Memento Mori by Simon Marsden
Simple stone gravestones, richly carved table tombs and glowing stained glass memorial windows are part of the rich heritage to be found in England's churches and churchyards. They all mark the irrevocable certainty of death and seem to proclaim 'Memento Mori' - 'Remember you are mortal'. The quintessence of the English churchyard and its memorials has been beautifully captured by Simon Marsden who presents the results of his recent tour of the country in this new book. He has selected his personal favourites and the atmospheric illustrations are accompanied by a lively and informative text, as well as excerpts of prose and poetry. Simon Marsden has gained an international reputation for his evocative black and white photographs but for this book he has also taken colour images which provide a new and intriguing perspective. A book that combines the sinister with the sublime; eerie with exquisite; and funereal with fantastic!
" This is a gloriously spooky collection of gravestones, gargoyles, stained glass and other deathly memorabilia.. While the photographs are atmospheric and genuinely eerie, they also possess playfulness that makes this a deeply pleasing record of some of England's stranger, cadaverous sights." Sunday Telegraph, January 2008
Simon Marsden is an Associate Professor at Flinders Law School in Australia, previously at the Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007-2010). Simon specializes in strategic and transboundary approaches to environmental impact assessment, and the relationship between legal systems. Timo Koivurova is Research Professor and Director of the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland in Finland. He has specialized in various aspects of international law applicable in the Arctic and Antarctic regions.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781905624270 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905624271 |
| Titel | Memento Mori |
| Autor | Simon Marsden |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Liverpool University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2007-10-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 176 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
| Hinweis | Nicht verfügbar |