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Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Genealogy and the Politics of Representation in the High and Late Middle Ages (Hardcover)
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Images and image cycles with genealogical content were everywhere
in the high and later Middle Ages. They represent families related
by blood as well as successive office holders and appear as family
trees and lineages of single figures in manuscripts, on walls and
in stained glass, and in sculpture and metalwork. Yet art
historians have hardly remarked on the frequency of these images.
Considering the physical contexts and functions of these works
alongside the goals of their patrons, this volume examines groups
of figural genealogies ranging across northern Europe and dating
from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. Joan A.
Holladay considers how they were used to legitimize rulers and
support their political and territorial goals, to reinforce
archbishops' rights to crown kings, to cement relationships between
families of founders and their monastic foundations, and to
commemorate the dead. The flexibility and legibility of this genre
was key to its widespread use.
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