The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery And Meaning in an Ordinary Church - Couverture rigide

Visser, Margaret

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670879193 ISBN 13 : 9780670879199

Editeur : Viking, 2001

Synopsis

In her first book MUCH DEPENDS ON DINNER, Margaret Visser elegantly explores the elements of a simple meal and delves into its historical, political and biological meanings. With THE GEOMETRY OF LOVE, she turns to the meaning and memory of a building - starting with the eighth-century church of St Agnes in Rome. Built over the grave of a girl, whose rape and murder have never been forgotten, this sanctified building is an extraordinary palimpsest with layers of stories - Visser unpicks the histories and fills them with contemporary resonance.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Margaret Visser writes on history, anthropology, and the mythology of everyday life. Her books, which include The Gift of Thanks, Much Depends on Dinner (which won a Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year), The Way We Are, and The Geometry of Love, have all been bestsellers, and The Rituals of Dinner won the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award. A Professor of Classics for 18 years, she now lives in Toronto and the south of France.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0670879193
• ISBN 13: 9780670879199
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 336
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• Personne responsable: non disponible