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Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350 (Hardcover)
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Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350 (Hardcover)
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
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An exploration of how power and political society were imagined,
represented and reflected on in medieval English art Images and
imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and
culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book
provides a full assessment of the subject. Starting with an
examination of the writings of late twelfth-century
courtier-clerics, and their new vision of English political life as
a heightened religious drama, it argues that visual images were key
to the development and expression of medieval English political
ideas andarguments. It discusses the vivid pictorial metaphors used
in contemporary political treatises, and highlights their
interaction with public decorative schemas in English great
churches, private devotional imagery, seal iconography,
illustrations of English history and a range of other visual
sources. Meanwhile, through an exploration of events such as the
Thomas Becket conflict, the making of Magna Carta, the Barons' War
and the deposition of Edward II, it provides new perspectives on
the political role of art, especially in reshaping basic
assumptions and expectations about government and political society
in medieval England. LAURA SLATER is a Fulford Junior
ResearchFellow at Somerville College, University of Oxford.
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