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Author: Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780472108152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major artistic study of a famous medieval masterpiece
Author: Frans Theuws
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-10-01
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9004477551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK13 papers by 16 leading archaeologists and historians of late antiquity and the early middle ages break new ground in their discussion, analysis and criticism of present interpretations of early medieval rituals and their material correlates. Some deal with rituals relating to death, life cycles and the circulation in other contexts of objects otherwise used in the burial ritual. Others are concerned with the symbolism and ideology of royal power, the formation of a political ideology east of the Rhine from the mid-5th century onwards, and penance rituals in relation to Carolingian episcopal discourse on ecclesiastical power and morale. All deal with the creation of new identities, cultures, norms and values, and their expression in new rituals and ideas from the period of the Great Migrations through the Later Roman Empire down to the society of Beowulf and the later Carolingians.
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 1315298368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened. This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.
Author: Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9004166696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.
Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 4064
ISBN-13: 0195395360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers unparalleled coverage of all aspects of art and architecture from medieval Western Europe, from the 6th century to the early 16th century. Drawing upon the expansive scholarship in the celebrated 'Grove Dictionary of Art' and adding hundreds of new entries, it offers students, researchers and the general public a reliable, up-to-date, and convenient resource covering this field of major importance in the development of Western history and international art and architecture.
Author: David Pratt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-05-31
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1139463551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive study of political thought at the court of King Alfred the Great (871–99). It explains the extraordinary burst of royal learned activity focused on inventive translations from Latin into Old English attributed to Alfred's own authorship. A full exploration of context establishes these texts as part of a single discourse which placed Alfred himself at the heart of all rightful power and authority. A major theme is the relevance of Frankish and other European experiences, as sources of expertise and shared concerns, and for important contrasts with Alfredian thought and behaviour. Part I assesses Alfred's rule against West Saxon structures, showing the centrality of the royal household in the operation of power. Part II offers an intimate analysis of the royal texts, developing far-reaching implications for Alfredian kingship, communication and court culture. Comparative in approach, the book places Alfred's reign at the forefront of wider European trends in aristocratic life.
Author: Diane J. Reilly
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-29
Total Pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9047409477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the political and theological writings of the eleventh-century churchmen Gerard of Cambrai and Richard of Saint-Vanne, this study argues that the Flemish Saint-Vaast Bible's illuminations defended the continued hegemony of the then embattled offices of King and Bishop.
Author: Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-08-30
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9004463321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.
Author: Paul Trio
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789058675194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses how secular authorities made use of churches and monasteries in the Low Countries, the German regions and the British Isles during the late medieval period.
Author: Herbert L. Kessler
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2000-09-15
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780812235609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow and when, Herbert L. Kessler asks, was the Jewish prohibition against graven images transformed into a Christian imperative to picture God's invisibility once God had taken human form in the body of Jesus Christ?
