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Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence - Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform... Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence - Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform (Hardcover, New edition)
Joanne Allen
R2,887 R2,680 Discovery Miles 26 800 Save R207 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery. In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.

Imagining Anglo-Saxon England - Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Hardcover): Catherine E. Karkov Imagining Anglo-Saxon England - Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Hardcover)
Catherine E. Karkov
R2,431 Discovery Miles 24 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing. This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century and in their modern scholarly and popular afterlives. It suggests that what came to be called "Anglo-Saxon England" has always been an imaginary place, an empty space into which ideas of what England was, or should have been, or should be, have been inserted from the arrival of peoples from the Continent in the fifth and sixth centuries to the arrival of the self-named "alt-right" in the twenty-first. It argues that the political and ideological violence that was a part of the origins of England as a place and the English as a people has never been fully acknowledged; instead, the island was reimagined as a chosen land home to a chosen people, the gens Anglorum. Unacknowledged violence, however, continued to haunt English history and culture. Through her examination here of the writings of Bede and King Alfred, the Franks Casket and the illuminated Wonders of the East, and the texts collected together to form the Beowulf manuscript, the author shows how this continues to haunt "Anglo-Saxon Studies" as a discipline and Anglo-Saxonism as an ideology, from the antiquarian studies of the sixteenth century through to the nationalistic and racist violence of today.

The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image (Hardcover): Jerry Root The Theophilus Legend in Medieval Text and Image (Hardcover)
Jerry Root
R2,298 Discovery Miles 22 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic medieval story, its widespread popularity attesting to its grip on the imagination. A pious clerk refuses a promotion, is demoted, becomes furious and makes a contract with the Devil. Later repentant, he seeks out a church and a statue of the Virgin; she appears to him, and he is transformed from apostate to saint. It is illustrated in a variety of media: texts, stained glass, sculpture, and manuscript illuminations. Through a wide range of manuscript illuminations and a selection of French texts, the book explores visual and textual representations of the legend, setting it in its social, cultural and material contexts, and showing how it explores medieval anxieties concerning salvation and identity. The author argues that the legend is a sustained meditation on the power of images, its popularity corresponding with the rise of their role in portraying medieval identity and salvation, and in acting as portals between the limits of the material and the possibilities of the spiritual world Jerry Root is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Utah.

Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art - Correspondence, 1920-1957 (Hardcover): Gabriella Bernardi, Spyros Koulouris Bernard Berenson and Byzantine Art - Correspondence, 1920-1957 (Hardcover)
Gabriella Bernardi, Spyros Koulouris
R3,733 Discovery Miles 37 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Shared Language - Vernacular Manuscriptsof the Middle Ages (Paperback): Laura Light, Christopher De Hamel Shared Language - Vernacular Manuscriptsof the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Laura Light, Christopher De Hamel
R906 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R199 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most people today think of the Middle Ages as a time when cloistered monks wrote and read only in now-obscure languages. Of course, Latin was the language of those who aspired to literacy, and it was the language of the Church. But what many do not realize is that by the thirteenth and fourteenth century (and certainly well before Columbus discovered America in 1492), numerous books became available in the everyday languages spoken "at the court, on the street, and in the bedroom." This catalogue focuses on just such manuscripts, written for people at diverse levels of society, not only the privileged aristocracy, but doctors, artisans, townspeople, women, the clergy, and the lay devout. The Middle Classes imitated the nobility in commissioning vernacular manuscripts. Texts of patriotic history and good manners and courtly romance entered manorial households. Literacy moved away from the Latin-based monopoly of the Church. It may be that the owners were actually reading texts themselves, whereas a great prince or king of an earlier generation would often have heard a story read aloud. By the fourteenth century the mercantile classes needed to read in order to conduct commerce, and it was usually in their own languages. At the end of the Middle Ages probably most people in towns had some experience of literacy. Conventional Latin texts give a picture of a quite narrow intellectual elite, but the vernacular encompassed everyone. For example, giving advice to widows, a translator puts Saint Jerome's famous letters into French in a unique copy probably for a high-born woman. She is pictured in the book. Toiling in the Italian metal industry in towns, metalworkers can follow instructions on minting gold and silver coins in their own language. The manuscript is on paper in simple, yet readable script. Fancifully dressed carnival revelers cavort through the streets of medieval Nuremberg throwing fi reworks amidst fl oats and even an occasional elephant; the German text celebrates the sponsoring families of the event. The Founder and President of Les Enluminures (and medievalist), Sandra Hindman reminisces "I have worked on vernacular manuscripts all my life and they are closest to my heart. Like the experience of reading a good book today, vernacular manuscripts off er an adventure into an unknown world that brings to life people, places, and events of long ago."

Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages (Paperback): Matthew Reeves Of Earth and Heaven: Art from the Middle Ages (Paperback)
Matthew Reeves
R788 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R159 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This publication brings together 27 objects that were made in Europe during the Middle Ages, between the 11th and the early 16th centuries. They represent some of the finest examples of sculpture, metalwork, painting, drawing, and stained glass still in private hands, and together offer a startling insight into the period's rich artistic achievements.

Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art - Devotional image and civic emblem (Paperback): Katherine T. Brown Mary of Mercy in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art - Devotional image and civic emblem (Paperback)
Katherine T. Brown
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mater Misericordiae-Mother of Mercy-emerged as one of the most prolific subjects in central Italian art from the late thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. With iconographic origins in Marian cult relics brought from Palestine to Constantinople in the fifth century, the amalgam of attributes coalesced in Armenian Cilicia then morphed as it spread to Cyprus. An early concept of Mary of Mercy-the Virgin standing with outstretched arms and a wide mantle under which kneel or stand devotees-entered the Italian peninsula at the ports of Bari and Venice during the Crusades, eventually converging in central Italy. The mendicant orders adopted the image as an easily recognizable symbol for mercy and aided in its diffusion. In this study, the author's primary goals are to explore the iconographic origins of the Madonna della Misericordia as a devotional image by identifying and analyzing key attributes; to consider circumstances for its eventual overlapping function as a secular symbol used by lay confraternities; and to discuss its diaspora throughout the Italian peninsula, Western Europe, and eastward into Russia and Ukraine. With over 100 illustrations, the book presents an array of works of art as examples, including altarpieces, frescoes, oil paintings, manuscript illuminations, metallurgy, glazed terracotta, stained glass, architectural relief sculpture, and processional banners.

Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover, New edition): Pamela Porter Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts (Hardcover, New edition)
Pamela Porter 1
R408 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The ways of war in the Middle Ages never cease to fascinate. There is a glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds which appeals to the modern imagination. Because medieval warfare had its colourful side it is easy to overlook the face that war was a very serious business in an age when brute force was the recognised way of settling a quarrel, and conflict formed a normal way of life at every level of society. This book illustrates the art of war with dozens of medieval images from books and manuscripts, and reveals a wealth of social and military background on heraldry, armour, knights and chivalry, castles, sieges, and the arrival of gunpowder. This new edition is completely revised with a selection of new illustrations from the British Library's medieval manuscripts.

Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261-1352 - Essays by Postgraduate Students at the Courtauld Institute of... Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261-1352 - Essays by Postgraduate Students at the Courtauld Institute of Art (Paperback)
Beth Williamson; Edited by Joanna Cannon
R1,268 Discovery Miles 12 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This was first published in 2000: Introduced by Joanna Cannon, this volume of essays by postgraduate students at the Courtauld Institute, University of London, explores some of the ways in which art was used to express, to celebrate, and to promote the political and religious aims and aspirations of those in power in the city states of central Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The contributions focus on four centres: Siena, Arezzo, Pisa and Orvieto, and range over a number of media: fresco, panel painting, sculpture, metalwork, and translucent enamel. Employing a variety of methods and approaches, these stimulating essays offer a fresh look at some of the key artistic projects of the period. The dates cited in the title, 1261 and 1352, refer to two well-known works, Coppo di Marcovaldo's Madonna del Bordone and the Guidoriccio Fresco in the Palazzo Pubblico of Siena, here newly assigned to this date. By concentrating on individual cases such as these, the essays provide rewardingly sustained consideration, at the same time raising crucial issues concerning the role of art in the public life of the period. These generously-illustrated studies introduce new material and advance new arguments, and are all based on original research. Clear and lively presentation ensures that they are also accessible to students and scholars from other disciplines. Art, Politics and Civic Religion in Central Italy, 1261-1352 is the first volume in the new series Courtauld Institute Research Papers. The series makes available original recently researched material on western art history from classical antiquity to the present day.

Architecture and Power in Early Central Europe (Hardcover, New edition): Marta Graczynska Architecture and Power in Early Central Europe (Hardcover, New edition)
Marta Graczynska
R3,070 Discovery Miles 30 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture - Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE... Between the Pagan Past and Christian Present in Byzantine Visual Culture - Statues in Constantinople, 4th-13th Centuries CE (Hardcover)
Paroma Chatterjee
R2,951 R2,242 Discovery Miles 22 420 Save R709 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Up to its pillage by the Crusaders in 1204, Constantinople teemed with magnificent statues of emperors, pagan gods, and mythical beasts. Yet the significance of this wealth of public sculpture has hardly been acknowledged beyond late antiquity. In this book, Paroma Chatterjee offers a new perspective on the topic, arguing that pagan statues were an integral part of Byzantine visual culture. Examining the evidence in patriographies, chronicles, novels, and epigrams, she demonstrates that the statues were admired for three specific qualities - longevity, mimesis, and prophecy; attributes that rendered them outside of imperial control and endowed them with an enduring charisma sometimes rivaling that of holy icons. Chatterjee's interpretations refine our conceptions of imperial imagery, the Hippodrome, the Macedonian Renaissance, a corpus of secular objects, and Orthodox icons. Her book offers novel insights into Iconoclasm and proposes a more truncated trajectory of the holy icon in medieval Orthodoxy than has been previously acknowledged.

Performing the Gospels in Byzantium - Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy (Hardcover): Roland Betancourt Performing the Gospels in Byzantium - Sight, Sound, and Space in the Divine Liturgy (Hardcover)
Roland Betancourt
R4,134 R3,100 Discovery Miles 31 000 Save R1,034 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Tracing the Gospel text from script to illustration to recitation, this study looks at how illuminated manuscripts operated within ritual and architecture. Focusing on a group of richly illuminated lectionaries from the late eleventh century, the book articulates how the process of textual recitation produced marginalia and miniatures that reflected and subverted the manner in which the Gospel was read and simultaneously imagined by readers and listeners alike. This unique approach to manuscript illumination points to images that slowly unfolded in the mind of its listeners as they imagined the text being recited, as meaning carefully changed and built as the text proceeded. By examining this process within specific acoustic architectural spaces and the sonic conditions of medieval chant, the volume brings together the concerns of sound studies, liturgical studies, and art history to demonstrate how images, texts, and recitations played with the environment of the Middle Byzantine church.

The Missing Pages - The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (Paperback): Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh The Missing Pages - The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice (Paperback)
Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh
R651 Discovery Miles 6 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty. The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom. Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art.

Art in England - The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 (Hardcover): Sara N. James Art in England - The Saxons to the Tudors: 600-1600 (Hardcover)
Sara N. James
R1,849 R1,641 Discovery Miles 16 410 Save R208 (11%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Art in England fills a void in the scholarship of both English and medieval art by offering the first single volume overview of artistic movements in Medieval and Early Renaissance England. Grounded in history and using the chronology of the reign of monarchs as a structure, it is contextual and comprehensive, revealing unobserved threads of continuity, patterns of intention and unique qualities that run through English art of the medieval millennium. By placing the English movement in a European context, this book brings to light many ingenious innovations that focused studies tend not to recognize and offers a fresh look at the movement as a whole. The media studied include architecture and related sculpture, both ecclesiastical and secular; tomb monuments; murals, panel paintings, altarpieces, and portraits; manuscript illuminations; textiles; and art by English artists and by foreign artists commissioned by English patrons.

Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories - Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley (Paperback): Danielle... Mapping New Territories in Art and Architectural Histories - Essays in Honour of Roger Stalley (Paperback)
Danielle O'Donovan, Niamh NicGhabhann
R4,655 Discovery Miles 46 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Court & Craft - A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq (Paperback): Rachel Ward Court & Craft - A Masterpiece from Northern Iraq (Paperback)
Rachel Ward
R917 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R200 (22%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A masterpiece of medieval Arab metalwork revealed, shedding light on courtly life in northern Iraq under the Mongol governorship. Accompanying a major scholarly exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this book explores one of the most beautiful and enigmatic objects in The Courtauld's collection: the so-called 'Courtauld wallet', a brass container richly inlaid with gold and silver, imitating a lady's textile or leather bag, and probably made in Mosul in northern Iraq around 1300. No other object of this kind is known. Decorated all round with courtly figures and on the top with an elaborate banqueting scene featuring an enthroned couple, it has long been recognised as a masterpiece of Arab metalwork. Yet, despite the superb quality of its design and craftsmanship and its status as a unique object, this exceptional metalwork bag has never been properly published. Thus it remains little known outside a small circle of specialists, and little understood even within that circle. Encompassing a variety of multidisciplinary essays by distinguished historians and art historians- on subjects ranging from music at the Mongol court, Mosul under Mongol governorship and Mongol marriage customs to the role of women under the Ilkhanids-this publication aims to explore the origins, function and iconography of this splendid luxury object as well as the cultural context in which it was made and used. It will bring together other images of enthroned Mongols with female consorts, as well as scenes of hunters, revellers and musicians in a variety of media, including illustrated manuscripts, ceramics, textile, and metalwork. By presenting the bag alongside carefully selected contemporary material, it will provide an insight into courtly life under the Mongols in the newly conquered areas of their empire, and will also provide an unrivalled opportunity to investigate the inlaid brass tradition in Mosul after the Mongol Conquest. Objects made before and after this seismic event will be reproduced side by side to demonstrate how the Mosul metalworkers adapted their work for their new patrons.

The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West - Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity (Hardcover): Umberto Bongianino The Manuscript Tradition of the Islamic West - Maghribi Round Scripts and the Andalusi Identity (Hardcover)
Umberto Bongianino
R3,143 Discovery Miles 31 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book traces the history of manuscript production in the Islamic West, between the 10th and the 12th centuries. It interrogates the material evidence that survives from this period, paying special attention to the origin and development of Maghrib? round scripts, the distinctive form of Arabic writing employed in al-Andalus (Muslim Iberia) and Northwest Africa.More than 200 dated manuscripts written in Maghrib? round scripts many of which have not previously been published and are of great historical significance are presented and discussed. This allows for a reconstruction of the activity of Maghrib? calligraphers, copyists, notaries and secretaries, and a better understanding of the development of their practices.A blend of art historical methods, palaeographic analyses and a thorough scrutiny of Arabic sources paints a comprehensive and lively picture of Maghrib? manuscript culture from its beginnings under the Umayyads of Cordova up to the heyday of the Almohad caliphate. This book lifts the veil on a glorious, yet neglected season in the history of Arabic calligraphy, shedding new light on a tradition that was crucial for the creation of the Andalusi identity and its spread throughout the medieval Mediterranean.

Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery - The Gambier Parry Collection (Hardcover): John Lowden Medieval and Later Ivories in the Courtauld Gallery - The Gambier Parry Collection (Hardcover)
John Lowden
R1,232 R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Save R285 (23%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1966 Mark Gambier Parry bequeathed to the Courtauld Gallery the art collection formed by his grandfather Thomas Gambier Parry, who died in 1888. In addition to important paintings, Renaissance glass and ceramics, and Islamic metalwork, this included 28 medieval and Renaissance ivories. Since 1967 about half of the ivories have been on permanent display at The Courtauld, yet they have remained largely unknown, even to experts. This catalogue is the first publication dedicated solely to the collection. There are examples of the highest quality of ivory carving, both secular and religious in content, and a number of the objects are of outstanding interest. They are a revealing tribute to the perceptive eye of Thomas Gambier Parry, a distinguished Victorian collector and Gothic Revival artist responsible for a number of richly painted church interiors in England, such as the Eastern part of the nave ceiling, and the octagon, at Ely Cathedral.The earliest objects in date, probably late 11th century, are the group of walrus ivory plaquettes set into the sides and lids of a casket, portraying the Apostles and Christ in Majesty surrounded by the symbols of the Evangelists. The style leaves little doubt that they should be associated with a group of portable altars at Kloster Melk in Austria. A gap of some two centuries separates the casket panels from the next important object - the central portion of an ivory triptych, containing a Deesis group of Christ enthroned between angels holding instruments of the Passion in the upper register, and the Virgin and Child between candle-bearing angels below. The style of the ivory relates it securely to the atelier of the Soissons Diptych in the Victoria & Albert Museum. The Gambier-Parry fragment employs bold cutting of the frame to accentuate the three-dimensional quantities of the relief. Somewhat later in date, towards the middle of the 14th century, is a complete diptych of the Crucifixion and Virgin with angels, the faces of which Gambier-Parry described as worthy of Luini. The extraordinary foreshortening of the swooning Virgin's head can happily be paralleled to a diptych in the Schoolmeesters Collection, Lie'ge, bythe aterlie aux visages caracte'rise's, as named by Raymond Koechlin. The Gambier- Parry diptych, must rank with the finest productions of the workshop.

Art And Architecture In Medieval France - Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, The Art Of The Church... Art And Architecture In Medieval France - Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, The Art Of The Church Treasuries (Paperback)
Whitney S. Stoddard
R2,060 Discovery Miles 20 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is an English-language study on the architecture and art of medieval France of the Romanesque and Gothic periods between 1000-1500. In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods and specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art and characterization of the Gothic cathedral, which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis.

The 'Small Landscape' Prints in Early Modern Netherlands (Hardcover): Alexandra Onuf The 'Small Landscape' Prints in Early Modern Netherlands (Hardcover)
Alexandra Onuf
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp in simple, unembellished compositions. At a time when vast panoramic and allegorical landscapes dominated the art market, the Small Landscapes represent a striking innovation. This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the significance of the Small Landscapes in early modern print culture. It charts a diachronic history of the series over the century it was in active circulation, from 1559 to the middle of the seventeenth century. Adopting the lifespan of the prints as the framework of the study, Alexandra Onuf analyzes the successive states of the plates and the changes to the series as a whole in order to reveal the shifting artistic and contextual valences of the images at their different moments and places of publication. This unique case study allows for a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries across multiple publishing houses, highlighting the seminal importance of print publishers in the creation and dissemination of visual imagery and cultural ideas. Looking at other visual materials and contemporary sources - including texts as diverse as humanist poetry and plays, agricultural manuals, polemical broadsheets, and peasant songs - Onuf situates the Small Landscapes within the larger cultural discourse on rural land and the meaning of the local in the turbulent early modern Netherlands. The study focuses new attention on the active and reciprocal intersections between printed pictures and broader cultural, economic and political phenomena.

Jean De Carpentin's Book of Hours (Hardcover): Alixe Bovey Jean De Carpentin's Book of Hours (Hardcover)
Alixe Bovey
R1,565 R1,192 Discovery Miles 11 920 Save R373 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Granville and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other works, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin's manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials, and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters, and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus. The manuscript's rich program of illumination includes 22 full-page miniatures, 42 historiated initials, and 64 borders incorporating biblical and apocryphal subjects as well as the Master's characteristically stocky peasants engaged in quotidian (and sometimes profane) activities. The Carpentin Hours is virtually unknown to scholarship. The present study is the first detailed assessment of this important manuscript, which is a magnificent demonstration of the Dresden Master's wit, invention, and technical virtuosity.

English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts (Hardcover): Zuleika Murat English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts (Hardcover)
Zuleika Murat; Contributions by Aleksandra Lipinska, Andrew Kirkman, Christina Welch, Claire Blakey, …
R2,454 Discovery Miles 24 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the iconoclasm that destroyed so much else from this period. They are a unique and valuable witness to the material culture of the Middle Ages. This volume incorporates a variety of new approaches to these artefacts, employing methodologies drawn from a number of different disciplines. Its chapters explore a range of key points connected to alabasters: their origins, their general history and their social, cultural, intellectual and devotional contexts. ZULEIKA MURAT is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the History of Medieval Art at the University of Padua. Contributors: Jennifer Alexander, Jon Bayliss, Claire Blakey, Stephanie De Roemer, Rachel King, AndrewKirkman, Aleksandra Lipinska, Zuleika Murat, Luca Palozzi, Sophie Phillips, Nigel Ramsay, Christina Welch, Philip Weller, Kim Woods, Michaela Zoeschg

The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England (Paperback): Abigail Wheatley The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England (Paperback)
Abigail Wheatley
R719 Discovery Miles 7 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A new way of looking at the medieval castle - as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art and literature. Medieval castles have traditionally been explained as feats of military engineering and tools of feudal control, but Abigail Wheatley takes a different approach, looking at a range of sources usually neglected in castle studies. Evidence from contemporary literature and art reveals the castle's place at the heart of medieval culture, as an architecture of ideas every bit as sophisticated as the church architecture of the period. This study offers a genuinely fresh perspective. Most castle scholars confine themselves to historical documents, but Wheatley examines literary and artistic evidence for its influence on and response to contemporary castle architecture. Sermons, sealsand ivory caskets, local legends and Roman ruins all have their part to play. What emerges is a fascinating web of cultural resonances: the castle is implicated in every aspect of medieval consciousness, from private religious contemplation to the creation of national mythologies. This book makes a compelling case for a new, interdisciplinary approach to castle studies. ABIGAIL WHEATLEY gained her PhD at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 2 (Hardcover): Andre Stufkens Maelwael Van Lymborch Studies 2 (Hardcover)
Andre Stufkens
R3,219 Discovery Miles 32 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787) (Paperback): Richard Price The Acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787) (Paperback)
Richard Price
R1,575 Discovery Miles 15 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established the cult of icons as a central element in the piety of the Orthodox churches, as it has remained ever since. In the West its decrees received a new emphasis in the Counter-Reformation, in the defence of the role of art in religion. It is a text of prime importance for the iconoclast controversy of eighth-century Byzantium, one of the most explored and contested topics in Byzantine history. But it has also a more general significance - in the history of culture and the history of art. This edition offers the first translation that is based on the new critical edition of this text in the Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum series, and the first full commentary of this work that has ever been written. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers from a variety of disciplines.

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