Author: Richard P. Saller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: empire, patronage, personal
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2002-05-09
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0521893925
ISBN-13: 9780521893923

Personal patronage was an accepted element in the functioning of Roman society. It is usually considered to be a particularly Republican phenomenon, which declined as other mechanisms developed with the growth of the imperial bureaucracy. Dr Saller’s book, the first major study of patronage in the early Empire, shows that the patron-client relationship continued on much the same basis into the third century AD. Drawing on literary and epigraphic sources, he examines the language and ideology of the patron-client exchange, and then investigates how the exchange functioned in the political

Author: Karl Julius Holzknecht
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: ages, middle, patronage, literary
Number of Pages: 258
Published: 1967-01-01
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 0714610623
ISBN-13: 9780714610627

Publisher: Philadelphia : [s.n.] Publication date: 1923 Subjects: Authors and patrons Literature, Medieval Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Author: Dustin Griffin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: england, patronage, literary
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 1996-06-28
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0521560853
ISBN-13: 9780521560856

Before the development of a full-blown literary "market" in which an author might hope to make an independent living, books were brought to readers with considerable assistance from patronage. Dustin Griffin offers the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England. Combining the perspectives of literary, social, and political history, he lays out the workings of the system and shows how authors wrote within it, manipulating it to their advantage or resisting the claims of patrons by advancing counterclaims of their own.

Author: Cynthia Damon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: patronage, roman, pathology, parasite, mask
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-02-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0472107607
ISBN-13: 9780472107605

When Romans applied the term "parasite" to contemporaries in dependent circumstances, or clientes, they were evoking one of the stock characters of ancient Greek comedy. In the Roman world the parasite was moved out of his native genre into the literatures of invective and social criticism, where his Greek origins made him a uniquely useful transmitter of Roman perceptions. Whenever the figure of the parasite is used to mask a person in Roman society, we know that an effort of interpretation is underway. The fit between the mask and its wearer is in the eyes of the beholder, and in Rome the ma

Author: June Hall McCash
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Keywords: women, medieval, patronage, cultural
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1996-03-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0820317020
ISBN-13: 9780820317021

The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women as patrons in the evolution of medieval culture. The twelve essays in this volume look at women not simply as patrons of letters but also as patrons of the visual and decorative arts, of architecture, and of religious and educational foundations.Patronage as a means of empowerment for women is an issue that underlies many of the essays. Among the other topics discussed are the various forms patronage took, the obstacles to women’s patronage, and the p

Author: Christopher M. S. Joh
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: napoleonic, europe, revolutionary, patronage, canova, politics, antonio
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0520212010
ISBN-13: 9780520212015

The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe’s most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien rgime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically. Christopher M. S. Johns’s refreshingly original study explores a neglected facet of Canova’s career: the effects of patrons, patronage, and politics on his choice of subjects and manner of working. While other artists produced art in the service of the state, Canova resisted the blandishments of the political powers that commissioned

Author: Roger Tangri
Publisher: James Currey
Keywords: private, enterprise, privatization, parastatals, patronage, africa, politics
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2000-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0852558341
ISBN-13: 9780852558348

This is a general survey of the influence of political factors (especially patronage) on economic performance throughout sub-Saharan Africa, with case studies drawn from Ghana, Zambia and Uganda. North America: Africa World Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers