Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400
|
Buy Now
Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture - Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220 (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R1,289
Discovery Miles 12 890
You Save: R460
(26%)
|
|
Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture - Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220 (Hardcover)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
A study of the representation of education in material culture, at
a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of
Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar,
rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy
present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving
process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a
popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in
manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as
on the facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with
many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the
hardships of student poverty and the temptations of drink and women
to be found in the cities where teachers were increasingly
establishing themselves. Thisbook considers how and why education
was explored in the art and architecture of the twelfth century.
Through analysis of imagery in a wide range of media, it examines
how teachers and students sought to use images to enhance their
reputations and the status of their studies. It also investigates
how the ideal models often set out in imagery compared with
contemporary practice in an era that saw significant changes,
beginning with a shift away from monastic education and culminating
in the appearance of the first universities. LAURA CLEAVER is
Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies, Institute of English
Studies, University of London.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.