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This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of
Francesco de Mura (1696-1782), one of the greatest painters of the
Golden Age of Naples. De Mura's refined and elegant compositions,
with their exquisite light and coloring, heralded the rococo, and
his later style was a precursor of Neo-Classicism. His ceiling
frescoes at Monte Cassino, destoyed in World War II, rivalled those
of his celebrated Venetian contemporary, Giambattista Tiepolo
(1696-1770). Yet today, he lacks his proper place in the history of
art. This volume demonstrates why it is now time to reevaluate this
once-celebrated artist.
This volume focuses on the migration and acculturation of images in
Jewish culture and how that reflects intercultural exchange. Gender
aspects of Jewish art are also highlighted, as is the role of
images in interreligious encounters. Other topics covered include
the history, codicology, and iconography of a Haggadah produced in
the late fifteenth century.
The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often
been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but
unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against
the Sacred, Barbara Newman offers a new approach to the many ways
that sacred and secular interact in medieval literature, arguing
that (in contrast to our own cultural situation) the sacred was the
normative, unmarked default category against which the secular
always had to define itself and establish its niche. Newman refers
to this dialectical relationship as "crossover"-which is not a
genre in itself, but a mode of interaction, an openness to the
meeting or even merger of sacred and secular in a wide variety of
forms. Newman sketches a few of the principles that shape their
interaction: the hermeneutics of "both/and," the principle of
double judgment, the confluence of pagan material and Christian
meaning in Arthurian romance, the rule of convergent idealism in
hagiographic romance, and the double-edged sword in parody.
Medieval Crossover explores a wealth of case studies in French,
English, and Latin texts that concentrate on instances of paradox,
collision, and convergence. Newman convincingly and with great
clarity demonstrates the widespread applicability of the crossover
concept as an analytical tool, examining some very disparate works.
These include French and English romances about Lancelot and the
Grail; the mystical writing of Marguerite Porete (placed in the
context of lay spirituality, lyric traditions, and the Romance of
the Rose); multiple examples of parody (sexually obscene,
shockingly anti-Semitic, or cleverly litigious); and Rene of
Anjou's two allegorical dream visions. Some of these texts are
scarcely known to medievalists; others are rarely studied together.
Newman's originality in her choice of these primary works will
inspire new questions and set in motion new fields of exploration
for medievalists working in a large variety of disciplines,
including literature, religious studies, history, and cultural
studies.
"How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth
Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell
a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about
what they did specifically as men, or what these practices meant to
them in terms of masculinity. Yet no less than in our own time,
masculinity was a complicated construct in the Middle Ages. In Thou
Art the Man, Karras focuses on one figure, King David, who was
important in both Christian and Jewish medieval cultures, to show
how he epitomized many and sometimes contradictory aspects of
masculine identity. For late medieval Christians, he was one of the
Nine Worthies, held up as a model of valor and virtue; for medieval
Jews, he was the paradigmatic king, not just a remnant of the past,
but part of a living heritage. In both traditions he was warrior,
lover, and friend, founder of a dynasty and a sacred poet. But how
could an exemplar of virtue also be a murderer and adulterer? How
could a physical weakling be a great warrior? How could someone
whose claim to the throne was not dynastic be a key symbol of the
importance of dynasty? And how could someone who dances with slaves
be noble? Exploring the different configurations of David in
biblical and Talmudic commentaries, in Latin, Hebrew, and
vernacular literatures across Europe, in liturgy, and in the visual
arts, Thou Art the Man offers a rich case study of how ideas and
ideals of masculinity could bend to support a variety of purposes
within and across medieval cultures.
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Collecting Dust
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Ronald E. Wheeler, Jon A Weatherly
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