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Author: Claire Richter Sherman
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the portraits of King Charles V of France.
Author: Claire Richter Sherman
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines the portraits of King Charles V of France.
Author: Assaf Pinkus
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1351549723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEngaging with the imaginative, nonreligious response to Gothic sculpture in German-speaking lands and tracing high and late medieval notions of the ?living statue? and the simulacrum in religious, lay, and travel literature, this study explores the subjective and intuitive potential inherent in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century sculpture. It addresses a range of works, from the oeuvre of the so-called Naumburg Master through Freiburg-im-Breisgau to the imperial art of Vienna and Prague. As living simulacra, the sculptures offer themselves to the imaginative horizons of their viewers as factual presences that substitute for the real. In perceiving Gothic sculpture as a conscious alternative to the sacred imago, the book offers a new understanding of the function, production, and use of three-dimensional images in late medieval Germany. By blurring the boundaries between viewers and works of art, between the imaginary and the real, the sculptures invite the speculations of their viewers and in this way produce an unstable meaning, perpetually mutable and alive. The book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture - much of which has never been fully documented - and provides the first English-language survey of the historiography of these works.
Author: Daisy Delogu
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 080209807X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDelogu examines how biographical writings on kings contributed to nascent ideas of nationhood, exerted pressure upon traditional ideals of kingship, and ultimately redefined the theoretical and practical bases of medieval kingship.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1137088591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging analysis of medieval queenship is provided by these essays, written by North American and European historians who have mined a rich variety of diplomatic, literary, and archaeological sources. Far more than simple biographical sketches, this volume examines queenship across a broad geographical and chronological spectrum.
Author: Jeffrey Howard Denton
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780802082640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays from a range of disciplines examine different, but linked aspects of the social organization of Europe from the 13th to 16th centuries.
Author: Joel Kaye
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 531
ISBN-13: 1139867679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ideal of balance and its association with what is ordered, just, and healthful remained unchanged throughout the medieval period. The central place allotted to balance in the workings of nature and society also remained unchanged. What changed within the culture of scholasticism, between approximately 1280 and 1360, was the emergence of a greatly expanded sense of what balance is and can be. In this groundbreaking history of balance, Joel Kaye reveals that this new sense of balance and its potentialities became the basis of a new model of equilibrium, shaped and shared by the most acute and innovative thinkers of the period. Through a focus on four disciplines - scholastic economic thought, political thought, medical thought, and natural philosophy - Kaye's book reveals that this new model of equilibrium opened up striking new vistas of imaginative and speculative possibility, making possible a profound re-thinking of the world and its workings.
Author: Deborah McGrady
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2019-01-02
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1487518455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Writer’s Gift or the Patron’s Pleasure? introduces a new approach to literary patronage through a reassessment of the medieval paragon of literary sponsorship, Charles V of France. Traditionally celebrated for his book commissions that promoted the vernacular, Charles V also deserves credit for having profoundly altered the literary economy when bypassing the traditional system of acquiring books through gifting to favor the commission. When upturning literary dynamics by soliciting works to satisfy his stated desires, the king triggered a multi-generational literary debate concerned with the effect a work’s status as a solicited or unsolicited text had in determining the value and purpose of the literary enterprise. Treating first the king's commissioned writers and then canonical French late medieval authors, Deborah McGrady argues that continued discussion of these competing literary economies engendered the concept of the “writer’s gift,” which vernacular writers used to claim a distinctive role in society based on their triple gift of knowledge, wisdom, and literary talent.
Author: David S. Areford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-11-30
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 1351158465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval images, especially manuscript illuminations, have long been treated independently of the contexts in which they were created. These beautiful miniature paintings, frequently valued as keepers of documentary evidence or as curious artistic commodities, have only recently become the focus of art historians concerned with new questions related to artistic working methods, audience and the status of the visual in the Middle Ages and the modern era. Excavating the Medieval Image argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the illuminated manuscript becomes a kind of archaeological site, which must be carefully unearthed layer by layer. The fourteen essays gathered here are written by scholars of both medieval and Renaissance art history, and demonstrate varied methodological approaches that combine the pursuits of traditional connoisseurship and iconography with those of critical theory and historiography. In addition, the authors contribute more broadly to important interdisciplinary issues such as the study of gender, text and image, and the history of literacy and the book.
Author: Alexa Sand
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-03-31
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1107729378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the laity after the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215. The image of the praying book owner translated pre-existing representational strategies concerned with the authority and spiritual efficacy of pictures and books, such as the Holy Face and the donor image, into a more intimate and reflexive mode of address in Psalters and Books of Hours created for lay users. Alexa Sand demonstrates how this transformation had profound implications for devotional practices and for the performance of gender and class identity in the striving, aristocratic world of late medieval France and England.
