This book concerns objects that were "meaningful" jewels, a term we
choose to designate a wide range of precious wearable objects that
had particular meaning. An Anglo-Saxon glass pendant, a Spanish
"magic belt," a Mexican lantern pendant (once adorned with New
World feathers), and an Imperial Memento Mori Skull, these are just
a few of the remarkable objects included. These intimate meaningful
jewels are meant to be opened, touched, manipulated, pinned,
gathered and strung. In the same series of books on jewelry
inaugurated in 2007 with Toward an Art History of Medieval Rings
(repr. 2014), the present volume divides the jewels into six
sections (such as "Ways and Means of Prayer," "Hidden and
Revealed," "Kissed and Touched") that creatively explore the
complex meanings these objects held for their owners. Cynthia Hahn,
internationally known for her explorative ground-breaking studies
of the reliquary arts, has written the stimulating essays and
accompanying entries in the body of the book. She has collaborated
here with Beatriz Chadour-Sampson, who, with her great mastery of
the history of jewelry, has contributed a scholarly catalogue that
authenticates, describes, and situates each object. Together the
essays, entries, and catalogue create a context that helps us see
this jewelry in a new way and adds new research that establishes
the historical and artistic importance of a relatively
little-studied group of "meaningful jewels." In the words of
Cynthia Hahn, "Jewels, and that word here includes jewelry, are
literally the foundation of art in the Middle Ages. It is surely
not irrelevant that these things are so beautiful." Sandra Hindman,
Founder and President of Les Enluminures states "I have bought
these pieces one by one over a period of fi fteen years (and put
them aside with this project in mind), and to my knowledge no such
collection has been assembled, studied, and exhibited in modern
times". She goes on to say, "Not at all unlike the medieval
manuscripts I also present, they are some of the most intimate of
art objects from the Middle Ages."
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