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Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde (Hardcover)
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Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde (Hardcover)
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More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of
Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in poetry,
prose, and drama were widespread in western European vernacular
languages. Visual portrayals of the story appear not only in
manuscripts and printed books but in individual pictures and
pictorial narratives, and on an amazing array of objects including
stained glass, wall paintings, tiles, tapestries, ivory boxes,
combs, mirrors, shoes, and misericords. The pan-European and
cross-media nature of the surviving medieval evidence is not
adequately reflected in current Tristan scholarship, which largely
follows disciplinary and linguistic lines. The contributors to
Visuality and Materiality in the Story of Tristan and Isolde seek
to address this problem by opening a cross-disciplinary dialogue
and by proposing a new set of intellectual coordinates-the concepts
of materiality and visuality-without losing sight of the historical
specificity or the aesthetic character of individual works of art
and literature. Their theoretical paradigm allows them to survey
the richness of the surviving evidence from a variety of
disciplinary approaches, while offering new perspectives on the
nature of representation in medieval culture. Enriched by numerous
illustrations, this volume is an important examination of the story
of Tristan and Isolde in the European context of its visual and
textual transmission.
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