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Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West - New Perspectives on Post-Roman Art (Hardcover)
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Image and Ornament in the Early Medieval West - New Perspectives on Post-Roman Art (Hardcover)
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Scholarship often treats the post-Roman art produced in central and
north-western Europe as representative of the pagan identities of
the new 'Germanic' rulers of the early medieval world. In this
book, Matthias Friedrich offers a critical reevaluation of the
ethnic and religious categories of art that still inform our
understanding of early medieval art and archaeology. He scrutinises
early medieval visual culture by combining archaeological
approaches with art historical methods based on contemporary
theory. Friedrich examines the transformation of Roman imperial
images, together with the contemporary, highly ornamented material
culture that is epitomized by 'animal art.' Through a rigorous
analysis of a range of objects, he demonstrates how these pathways
produced an aesthetic that promoted variety (varietas), a
cross-cultural concept that bridged the various ethnic and
religious identities of post-Roman Europe and the Mediterranean
worlds.
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