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Die Karolingischen Miniaturen VIII - Nachtrage Und Gesamtregister (German, Hardcover): Florentine Mutherich Die Karolingischen Miniaturen VIII - Nachtrage Und Gesamtregister (German, Hardcover)
Florentine Mutherich
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Out of stock

English summary: This volume contains addenda and a central index to the series Die Karolingischen Miniaturen, published in seven volumes between 1930 and 2009. German description: Der Band beinhaltet Nachtrage zu der zwischen 1930 und 2009 in sieben Banden vorgelegten Reihe der Karolingischen Miniaturen, Handschriften, die in Band 1 (Die Schule von Tours) oder Band 4 (Einzelhandschriften aus Lotharingien) zu behandeln gewesen waren, bei deren Erscheinen aber noch nicht bekannt oder nicht als zugehorig erkannt waren. Zudem erschliesst ein Gesamtregister alle in den Banden 1-8 behandelten oder erwahnten Handschriften, einschliesslich einer Aktualisierung der in den alteren Banden mitgeteilten Bibliotheksstandorte und Signaturen, was den Band zu einem unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk zu den grossen Schulen der karolingischen Buchmalerei macht.

Das Altniederlandische Stifterbild - Emotionsstrategien Des Sehens Und Der Selbsterkenntnis (German, Hardcover): Johanna Scheel Das Altniederlandische Stifterbild - Emotionsstrategien Des Sehens Und Der Selbsterkenntnis (German, Hardcover)
Johanna Scheel
R2,300 R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Save R575 (25%) Out of stock
The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Hardcover): Penny Hebgin-Barnes The Medieval Stained Glass of Cheshire (Hardcover)
Penny Hebgin-Barnes
R4,220 Discovery Miles 42 200 Out of stock

This is a catalogue of the pre-Gothic Revival stained glass found at 50 sites in Cheshire. Many of these are churches, but there are also domestic residences and other buildings. Highlights include an important 14th-century regional workshop, probably based in Chester, whose output survives at 9 sites in the county; 16th-century armorials and donors; a fascinating window of 1581 at High Legh which demonstrates the Elizabethan religious settlement; a unique window commemorating the English Civil War; and a plethora of 17th-century quarries depicting a wide range of subjects such as English monarchs, classical sibyls, military drill and menial occupations. The county's outstanding collections of foreign panels are also catalogued.
The stained glass of the neighbouring county of Lancashire appears in CVMA, Great Britain, Summary Catalogue 8, The Medieval Stained Glass of Lancashire. The introduction discusses many aspects of the stained glass of both counties: documentary sources, donors and heraldry, condition, iconography, as well as examining the style and techniques used by the glass-painters. This catalogue will be essential for scholars and students of the history of medieval and early modern art, and for all those interested in the social and religious history of Tudor and Stuart Cheshire.

Introduction of Gothic Architecture into Italy by the French Cistercian Monks. (Paperback): Arthur L. Frothingham Introduction of Gothic Architecture into Italy by the French Cistercian Monks. (Paperback)
Arthur L. Frothingham
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Out of stock

This series of papers shows that a group of monuments erected by the French Cistercian monks, and here for the first time fully described and illustrated, were the earliest Italian buildings using transitional-Gothic architecture.

Pilgrimage Sculpture (Paperback): Arthur Kingsley Porter Pilgrimage Sculpture (Paperback)
Arthur Kingsley Porter
R932 Discovery Miles 9 320 Out of stock

Arthur Kingsley Porter here traces the roots of Renaissance sculpture to the smaller decorative sculptures found on the outside of churches and other buildings beginning around the turn of the first millennium A.D.

Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, XII, Nottinghamshire (Hardcover): Paul Everson, David Stocker Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, XII, Nottinghamshire (Hardcover)
Paul Everson, David Stocker
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Out of stock

Carved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and as small fragments - to be found in churches, in public spaces and in museum collections. This is the first book to provide an authoritative listing, description and illustration of all examples of this type of decorated stone sculpture in Nottinghamshire. Each example is illustrated in a substantial catalogue containing high quality photographs, maps and interpretative drawings. In the introductory chapters the authors explore the geological and historical background of the sculptures and provide an overview of the types of style and ornament. The new information revealed by the systematic study of these major survivals of Anglo-Saxon art and archaeology demonstrates the major contribution that this category of material can make to an obscure and under-investigated period in Midlands history. Nottinghamshire emerges with a distinctive identity in the pre-conquest period, having strong connections both with the Mercian state to its south and with the Northumbrians to the north.

Aphraates and the Jews - A Study of the Controversial Homilies of the Persian Sage in their Relation to Jewish Thought... Aphraates and the Jews - A Study of the Controversial Homilies of the Persian Sage in their Relation to Jewish Thought (Paperback)
Frank Stanton Burns Gavin
R1,150 Discovery Miles 11 500 Out of stock

In the first English attempt to address the Syriac homilies of Aphraates, Gavin sets a context for the material by considering the church and the sermons themselves. The topic of how the Jews are treated in the homilies is given special attention.

Medieval Sussex Pottery (Paperback, Uk Ed.): K.J. Barton Medieval Sussex Pottery (Paperback, Uk Ed.)
K.J. Barton
R618 R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Save R60 (10%) Out of stock

Medieval Sussex Pottery

Believing and Seeing - The Art of Gothic Cathedrals (Hardcover, New): Roland Recht Believing and Seeing - The Art of Gothic Cathedrals (Hardcover, New)
Roland Recht; Translated by Mary Whittall
R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Out of stock

Developments in medieval science that elevated sight above the other senses found religious expression in the Christian emphasis on miracles, relics, and elaborate structures. In his incisive survey of Gothic art and architecture, Roland Recht argues that this preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works.
In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildings throughout Europe to reveal how their grand designs supported this profusion of images that made visible the signs of scripture. Metalworkers, for example, fashioned intricate monstrances and reliquaries for the presentation of sacred articles, and technical advances in stained glass production allowed for more expressive renderings of holy objects. Sculptors, meanwhile, created increasingly naturalistic works and painters used multihued palettes to enhance their subjects' lifelike qualities. Reimagining these works as a link between devotional practices in the late Middle Ages and contemporaneous theories that deemed vision the basis of empirical truth, Recht provides students and scholars with a new and powerful lens through which to view Gothic art and architecture.

Sealed in Parchment - Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes (Hardcover, 2nd ed.):... Sealed in Parchment - Rereadings of Knighthood in the Illuminated Manuscripts of Chretien de Troyes (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Sandra Hindman
R2,453 Discovery Miles 24 530 Out of stock

Chretien de Troyes was France's great medieval poet--inventor of the genre of courtly romance and popularizer of the Arthurian legend. The forty-four surviving manuscripts of his work (ten of them illuminated) pose a number of questions about who used these books and in what way. In "Sealed in Parchment," Sandra Hindman scrutinizes both text and images to reveal what the manuscripts can tell us about medieval society and politics.

Bread, Wine and Money - Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Jane Welch Williams Bread, Wine and Money - Windows of the Trades at Chartres Cathedral (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Jane Welch Williams
R2,388 Discovery Miles 23 880 Out of stock

At Chartres Cathedral, for the first time in medieval art, the lowest register of stained-glass windows depicts working artisans and merchants instead of noble and clerical donors. Jane Welch Williams challenges the prevailing view that pious town tradesmen donated these windows. In "Bread, Wine, and Money," she uncovers a deep antagonism between the trades and the cathedral clergy in Chartres; the windows, she argues, portray not town tradesmen but trusted individuals that the fearful clergy had taken into the cloister as their own serfs.
Williams weaves a tight net of historical circumstances, iconographic traditions, exegetical implications, political motivations, and liturgical functions to explain the imagery in the windows of the trades. Her account of changing social relationships in thirteenth-century Chartres focuses on the bakers, tavern keepers, and money changers whose bread, wine, and money were used as means of exchange, tithing, and offering throughout medieval society. Drawing on a wide variety of original documents and scholarly work, this book makes important new contributions to our knowledge of one of the great monuments of Western culture.

Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art (Hardcover): Kurt Weitzmann Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art (Hardcover)
Kurt Weitzmann
R3,624 Discovery Miles 36 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of which the commentary of Pseudo-Nonnus--attached to several homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus--and the Cynegetka of Pseudo-Oppian are the most important. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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