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More than Meets the Eye - Irony, Paradox & Metaphor in the History of Art: The Mellon Lectures (Hardcover): Irving Lavin More than Meets the Eye - Irony, Paradox & Metaphor in the History of Art: The Mellon Lectures (Hardcover)
Irving Lavin; Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R1,926 Discovery Miles 19 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Paperback): Irving Lavin The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Paperback)
Irving Lavin; Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Hardcover): Irving Lavin The Art of Commemoration in the Renaissance - The Slade Lectures (Hardcover)
Irving Lavin; Edited by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Il 60 - Essays Honouring Irving Lavin on His Sixtieth Birthday (Paperback, illustrated edition): Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Il 60 - Essays Honouring Irving Lavin on His Sixtieth Birthday (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R685 Discovery Miles 6 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Aymeri of Narbonne" tells the story of Aymeri, son of one of Charlemagne's paladins, who alone accepts the great emperor's challenge to reconquer Narbonne in Languedoc from the Saracens. Epic siege and battle, betrayal, and acts of individual heroism evoke all the elements of the great age of French chanson de geste epitomized in the Song of Roland. Unlike Roland and many of its imitators - tales that breathe the air of military culture and the crusade - Aymeri of Narbonne takes a step forward, toward the age of the Romance, with a second plot that is no less important than great battles and Christian-Moslem conflict. Aymeri is advised by his court that he must seek and marry a noble princess. His quest eventually takes him across the Alps to Pavia, there to meet and woo Hermenjart, princess of Lombardy. On the way, the heroic epic takes a detour into the realm of self-discovery and social satire: of Italian merchants and German knights, and French obtuseness to the rules of courtly behavior and of civil life. But the real focus of the tale soon turns to the lovely - and courageous - Hermenjart. No passive object of desire or chivalric quest, the princess of Pavia becomes a character every bit as dynamic as her male suitor and his companions. Forthright about the status and prospects of a woman in "chivalrous" France, she long refuses many suitors and only welcomes Aymeri's advances when she is convinced of his sincere respect and love - and her own status. The couple goes on to high adventure and a long, triumphant life. This first English translation, by Michael A.H. Newth, employs a strict but natural verse. His introduction gives the tale its historical context and offers a solid review of its antecedents, authorship, genre and poetics. Newth also addresses the Crusade and Christian-Moslem relations, the problem of the "other" in medieval literature, gender roles and the continuing relevance of the chansons. Includes introduction, notes, bibliography.

Piero Della Francesca - The Flagellation (Paperback, New edition): Marilyn Aronberg Lavin Piero Della Francesca - The Flagellation (Paperback, New edition)
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposition as well as being an exciting exercise of scholarship. Informed with the intellectual rigour of Scholastic exegesis, it deserves to be placed with the classic readings of fifteenth and sixteenth century works by Erwin Panofsky and Edgar Wind."--"Spectator
"[Lavin] leaves the picture more wondrous than before, a simultaneous triumph of the theological and biographical, as well as pictorial, imagination."--Rackstraw Downes, "New York Times Book Review

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