The Cross, the Image, and the Passion in Carolingian Thought and Art
Author: Celia Martin Chazelle
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13:
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The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era
Author: Celia Chazelle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780521801034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Carolingian 'Renaissance' of the late eighth and ninth centuries, in what is now France, western Germany and northern Italy, transformed medieval European culture. At the same time it engendered a need to ensure that clergy, monks and laity embraced orthodox Christian doctrine. This book offers a fresh perspective on the period by examining transformations in a major current of thought as revealed through literature and artistic imagery: the doctrine of the Passion and the crucified Christ. The evidence of a range of literary sources is surveyed - liturgical texts, poetry, hagiography, letters, homilies, exegetical and moral tractates - but special attention is given to writings from the discussions and debates concerning artistic images, Adoptionism, predestination and the Eucharist.
The Uta Codex: Art, Philosophy, and Reform in Eleventh-Century Germany
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Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780271043708
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image
Author: Barbara Baert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9047405749
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.
From Judgment to Passion
Author: Rachel Fulton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 706
ISBN-13: 9780231125505
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and why did the images of the crucified Christ and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled religious creativity as well such imitative extremes as celibacy and self-flagellation? To answer this question, Fulton ranges over developments in liturgical performance, private prayer, doctrine, and art.
The Poetry of Alcuin of York
Author: Joseph Pucci
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-09-26
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 100095420X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735–804), numbering some 339 individual pieces and nearly 7,000 lines. An introduction touches on Alcuin’s life, his writings (including doubtful works and pseudepigrapha), his Latinity, his place in the Latin literary tradition, and the manuscripts, textual history, and editions of his poetry. The translations follow Dümmler’s Latin text, with each poem controlled by a headnote that places the piece in its historical and literary contexts. A series of appendices offers translations of selected letters, a register of the poems by meter, a census of nearly 200 manuscripts with digital links, and a prolegomenon to a new edition. The Poetry of Alcuin of York is a stimulating resource for anyone working on later Latin poetry, and late ancient literature more broadly. The poems also offer fascinating insights into life and scholarship in Anglo-Saxon England and in the Carolingian empire in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, and so will also be of interest to students of medieval history.
Image and Relic
Author: Erik Thunø
Publisher: L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9788882652173
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevision of the author's thesis (Johns Hopkins University, 1999).
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia
Author: Felice Lifshitz
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0823256898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts associated with some of the best-known personalities of the European Middle Ages, including Boniface of Mainz and his “beloved,”abbess Leoba of Tauberbischofsheim. This is the first study of these “Anglo-Saxon missionaries to Germany” to delve into the details of their lives by studying the manuscripts that were produced in their scriptoria and used in their communities. The author explores how one group of religious women helped to shape the culture of medieval Europe through the texts they wrote and copied, as well as through their editorial interventions. Using compelling manuscript evidence, she argues that the content of the women’s books was overwhelmingly gender-egalitarian and frequently feminist (i.e., resistant to patriarchal ideas). This intriguing book provides unprecedented glimpses into the “feminist consciousness” of the women’s and mixed-sex communities that flourished in the early Middle Ages.
The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age
Author: Beatrice E. Kitzinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1108577016
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.
From Ireland Coming
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780691088259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLying at Europe's remote western edge, Ireland long has been seen as having an artistic heritage that owes little to influences beyond its borders. This publication, the first to focus on Irish art from the eighth century AD to the end of the sixteenth century, challenges the idea that the best-known Irish monuments of that period-the high crosses, the Book of Kells, the Tara Brooch, the round towers-reflect isolated, insular traditions. Seventeen essays examine the iconography, history, and structure of these familiar works, as well as a number of previously unpublished pieces, and demonstrate that they do have a place in the main currents of European art. While this book reveals unexpected links between Ireland, Late-Antique Italy, the Byzantine Empire, and the Anglo-Saxons, its center is always the artistic culture of Ireland itself. It includes new research on the Sheela-na-gigs, often thought to be merely erotic sculptures; on the larger cultural meanings of the Tuam Market Cross and its nineteenth-century re-erection; and on late-medieval Irish stone crosses and metalwork. The emphasis on later monuments makes this one of the first volumes to deal with Irish art after the Norman invasion. The contributors are Cormac Bourke, Mildred Budny, Tessa Garton, Peter Harbison, Jane Hawkes, Colum Hourihane, Catherine E. Karkov, Heather King, Susanne McNab, Raghnall Floinn, Emmanuelle Pirotte, Roger Stalley, Kees Veelenturf, Dorothy Hoogland Verkerk, Niamh Whitfield, Maggie McEnchroe Williams, and Susan Youngs.
