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Virtual heritage has been explained as virtual reality applied to cultural heritage, but this definition only scratches the surface of the fascinating applications, tools and challenges of this fast-changing interdisciplinary field. This book provides an accessible but concise edited coverage of the main topics, tools and issues in virtual heritage. Leading international scholars have provided chapters to explain current issues in accuracy and precision; challenges in adopting advanced animation techniques; shows how archaeological learning can be developed in Minecraft; they propose mixed reality is conceptual rather than just technical; they explore how useful Linked Open Data can be for art history; explain how accessible photogrammetry can be but also ethical and practical issues for applying at scale; provide insight into how to provide interaction in museums involving the wider public; and describe issues in evaluating virtual heritage projects not often addressed even in scholarly papers. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in museum studies, digital archaeology, heritage studies, architectural history and modelling, virtual environments.

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For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a secret world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England and Wales, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders' accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the 'evil eye' and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England's medieval nobility

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Plates -- Chapter 1 - The Succession of Dionysius the Younger -- Chapter 2 - Dionysius and Plato -- Chapter 3 - The Return of Dion -- Chapter 4 - The Overthrow of Dionysius and the Rule of Dion -- Chapter 5 - The Years of Chaos and the Return of Dionysius -- Chapter 6 - Timoleon Arrives in Sicily -- Chapter 7 - The Final Overthrow of Dionysius the Younger -- Chapter 8 - The Battle of Crimisus River -- Chapter 9 - Timoleon's Settlement of Syracuse -- Chapter 10 - The Rise of Agathocles -- Chapter 11 - Agathocles' Defeat at the Battle of Himera -- Chapter 12 - The Invasion of Africa and the Battle of Tunis -- Chapter 13 - Agathocles' Campaigns in Africa and the War in Sicily -- Chapter 14 - The End of the War in Africa -- Chapter 15 - The Last Years of Agathocles' Rule -- Chapter 16 - The Invitiation to King Pyrrhus -- Chapter 17 - Pyrrhus' Sicilian Campaigns -- Chapter 18 - The Rise of Hieron II -- Chapter 19 - The Outbreak of the First Punic War -- Chapter 20 - The Siege of Akragas -- Chapter 21 - The Roman Conquest of Sicily -- Chapter 22 - The Death of Hieron II -- Chapter 23 - Hieronymus and the War with Rome -- Chapter 24 - The Fall of Syracuse -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Plates -- Maps -- Chapter 1: Colonies and Conflict -- Chapter 2: Cities, Hoplites and Tyrants -- Chapter 3: The First Sicilian Tyrants -- Chapter 4: Gelon and the Battle of Himera -- Chapter 5: The Democratic Experiment -- Chapter 6: The Leontine War -- Chapter 7: The Athenian Decision to Invade Sicily -- Chapter 8: Nicias' First Attack on Syracuse -- Chapter 9: The Athenian Siege Begins -- Chapter 10: The Syracusan Counterattack -- Chapter 11: The Syracusan Victory -- Chapter 12: The Destruction of the Athenian Expedition -- Chapter 13: The Carthaginians Return -- Chapter 14: The First Carthaginian War -- Chapter 15: The Siege of Akragas -- Chapter 16: The Return of the Tyrants -- Chapter 17: The Battle of Gela -- Chapter 18: Dionysius' Conquest of Eastern Sicily -- Chapter 19: The Destruction of Motya -- Chapter 20: The Second Carthaginian War -- Chapter 21: Italian and other Diversions -- Chapter 22: Dionysius' Final Campaigns -- Chapter 23: Conclusions -- Notes and References -- Bibliography -- Index.