Excursion to Southchurch and Prittlewell

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In the late 15th century, a monumental brass was laid in the church at Etchingham (East Sussex) to the memory of two never-married women, Elizabeth Etchingham, who died in 1452, and Agnes Oxenbridge, who died in 1480. This article investigates the possible social meanings of their brass, with a particular eye to Alan Bray's recent interpretations of other funeral monuments dedicated to same-sex couples.     

Pagba Hall Renovated

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Haselden Hall,Wakefield

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An architectural survey of the surviving remains of Haselden Hall was undertaken by the Wakefield Archaeological Research Group in August 1967, a few months prior to the demolition of the building. An excavation to examine the medieval remains on the Hall site was then undertaken and this will be the subject of a separate report to be published elsewhere.     

Langmar Hall in Yerpa Village

Langmar Hall is a ＂Tibetan KTV＂. As in other cities like Lhasa, it is a very crowded place and also a big draw card for tourists. Different from KTVs in the mainland, Langmar Hall does not charge admission. It makes money from beer consumption, so the waitresses are happy to open beers for customers. They often stand beside you, raise your glass and propose a toast to you. Friends from the mainland are not aware of this trick, and believe it is required etiquette, so they are happy to drink as much as they can. People in Lhasa make fun of this and say that the     

德格印经院

德格印经院是一个神圣而又朴素的地方.冬日的阳光从湛蓝的天空中倾撒下来,透过印经院的天井和一扇扇敞开的窗子,一声不响地照在已存在几百年的木刻经版上,它们成排成排肃穆地卧着,如一级级泛着灵光的阶梯,引领着人的灵魂开始了一种飞翔,飞升上蓝天,与那些经版上经文的创造者们晤面,与那些经文里诵念的神灵交流.于是,一切豁然开朗,心灵和眼睛看到的一切,都溢满了阳光.     

峨眉山市飞来殿、香殿维修中的化学加固保护

本介绍了利用高分子材料具有的化学、物理特性,对峨眉山市飞来殿、香殿古建筑糟朽木结构进行加固保护的方法,以及施工工艺。     

康熙时期的养心殿

养心殿作为宫内的一处重要建筑,在康熙时期的情况一直不甚清楚。本文通过零星的记载,尤其是当时西方传教士的著作,对康熙时期养心殿的建筑格局、内部陈设、使用情况等进行了考证,认为与雍正以后的状况有很大差异,其功用是多方面的,从而对养心殿历史沿革的认识更为全面。     

Waltz the Hall: The American Play Party

Spurgeon has provided the academic world with a superb exampleof how oral history has the power not only to supplement thehistorical and academic record but also to enlarge our understandingof a topic. These days, few know of the esoteric folklore genre,the play party, and those who do might well assume that it hasbeen defunct for several decades. Even nineteenth- to earlytwentieth-century folklorists wrote about it as an old and dyingform of childhood recreation. Vance Randolph wrote some     

黄山八面厅的砖雕

一．历史沿革 黄山八面厅原名振声堂,此处“黄山”并非安徽著名旅游胜地,义乌所独有的黄山八面厅位于上溪镇黄山五村,距义乌市中心约25公里。前临凰溪,后靠纱帽尖山的谷底,地势高俊,海拔高度200米。     

Hall of mirrors: Ritualized homosexuality in Melanesia

Herdt, Gilbert H. Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. xviii + 409 pp. including maps, bibliography, and index. $24.95 cloth.     

Tar Monastery: Repair of Greater Gold-Tile Hall

Beautiful clouds enveloping the top of the Lotus Flower Mountain in a golden autumn reacted positively to the surging human crowd at the Tar Monastery. The monastery's Greater and Lesser Gold-Tile Halls have been repaired and a celebratory ceremony was held to mark the success.A Holy LandThe Great Gold-Tile Hall was built at a place where Tsongkapa, founder of the     

定州清真寺礼拜殿

定州清真寺位于定州市中山中路与清风街交叉口,其主体建筑礼拜殿由前殿和后窑殿两部分组成,始建于元至正八年,经明、清两代多次重修,现后窑殿仍保留部分元代砖结构,是我国现存最早的砖无梁殿结构。本文介绍了礼拜殿的建筑形式、内外装饰等。     

The Great Hall of the Bishop's Palace at Hereford

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In the Summer of 2005 the authors directed the excavation of a flat stone setting with a boat-shaped central depression at Skamby, Kuddby parish, Östergötland, Sweden. The stone setting covered a small and poorly preserved boat inhumation, dated by the artefacts recovered to the early Viking period (9th century AD). This is the first excavation of a boat inhumation in the province of Östergötland. The paper reports on the excavations including the discovery of an exceptional collection of 23 amber gaming pieces, which provide a new perspective on Viking-period gaming. The data from this boat grave are considered in relation to the rest of the Skamby cemetery, which remains to be investigated. Judging from a topographical survey of the ridge surrounding the excavated area, and from metal-detector finds recovered from the surrounding fields, the Skamby cemetery appears to be a high-status burial ground divided into two zones, one comprised of boat inhumation graves, the other of circular stone settings likely to cover cremation graves. The results of the excavation lead to a revised picture of boat burial as an élite mortuary rite in southern Sweden during the late 1st millennium AD.     

北京东岳庙喜神殿碑识读

根据现存碑刻资料,明清时期,朝阳门外的东岳庙集中了北京地区最多的香会组织,其中不少是以行业组织为背景。在主殿岱宗宝殿西侧最北端的《梨园重建喜神殿之碑》便是由梨园行公会捐立。碑原址在后罩楼东北角喜神殿前,民国十七年(1928)镌刻。1999年重修东岳庙时,将其挪至西碑林,成为记录喜神殿创建历史的唯一文献资料。碑身高约1.0米,宽近0.68米,16行,行23字,方座,碑额题《梨园重建喜神殿之碑》,仅碑阳刻有文字,现抄录如下:燕都朝阳门外东岳庙开山宗师张公留孙始建于元代,祀天齐仁圣帝,两庑丛神如林,俨若官舍,人禽鬼物,各有职司,迄今五百年,香…