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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.
An examination of written and other responses to conflict in a
variety of forms and genres, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth
century. War and violence took many forms in medieval and early
modern Europe, from political and territorial conflict to judicial
and social spectacle; from religious persecution and crusade to
self-mortification and martyrdom; from comedic brutality to civil
and domestic aggression. Various cultural frameworks conditioned
both the acceptance of these forms of violence, and the protest
that they met with: the elusive concept of chivalry, Christianity
and just wartheory, political ambition and the machinery of
propaganda, literary genres and the expectations they generated and
challenged. The essays here, from the disciplines of history, art
history and literature, explore how violence and conflict were
documented, depicted, narrated and debated during this period. They
consider manuals created for and addressed directly to kings and
aristocratic patrons; romances whose affective treatments of
violence invitedprofoundly empathetic, even troublingly
pleasurable, responses; diaries and "autobiographies" compiled on
the field and redacted for publication and self-promotion. The
ethics and aesthetics of representation, as much as the violence
being represented, emerge as a profound and constant theme for
writers and artists grappling with this most fundamental and
difficult topic of human experience. JOANNA BELLIS is the Fitzjames
Research Fellow in Oldand Middle English at Merton College, Oxford;
LAURA SLATER holds a Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Paul Mellon
Centre for Studies in British Art in London. Contributors: Anne
Baden-Daintree, Anne Curry, David Grummitt, Richard W. Kaeuper,
Andrew Lynch, Christina Normore, Laura Slater, Sara V. Torres,
Matthew Woodcock,
This is a stylistic and informative guide to beauty from the golden
age of Hollywood glamour. The book teaches readers how to recreate
a wide variety of iconic looks - from the pencil-thin, arched
eyebrows and kohl-rimmed eyes made famous by silent-film starlet
Clara Bow, to Rita Hayworth's luxuriant locks and Marilyn Monroe's
'blonde all over' glow.
'Vintage Secrets' reveals exactly what went into creating the looks
made famous by the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe and
Grace Kelly, detailing the eating habits, exercise routines and
style tips that helped usher in a golden age of silver-screen
sophistication.
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