Illuminating The Middle Ages
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Illuminating The Middle Ages
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Author : Laura Cleaver
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Illuminating The Middle Ages written by Laura Cleaver and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with History categories.
The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books.
The Age Of Illumination
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Author : Scott Rank
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-02-07
The Age Of Illumination written by Scott Rank and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-07 with categories.
The Middle Ages are widely considered to be a thousand-year period of superstition, ignorance, and belief in a flat earth, punctuated by witch burnings and violent crusades to the Middle East. But the medieval period, more than any other time in history, laid the foundations for the modern world. The work of scholars, architects, statesmen and craftsmen led to rise of towns, the earliest bureaucratic states, the culmination of Romanesque and the beginnings of Gothic art, the recovery of Greek science and philosophy, and the beginnings of the first universities.This book is a chronological and thematic exploration of the history of the Middle Ages, starting with the Roman Empire's collapse in the fifth century and marches through Charlemagne's reign, the breakup of his empire, the Black Plague, the fall of Constantinople, and everything in between. It explores social aspects of the Middle Ages that are still largely misunderstood (for example, no educated person believed the earth was flat). There was also a surprisingly high level of medieval technology--mechanical clocks, horse stirrups, and even primitive human flight emerges at this time. Most surprisingly, there was a lack of witch burnings, which were not popularized until the Thirty Years War in the Renaissance Period.The Middle Ages were not a time to suffer through until the Renaissance returned Europe to a path of intellectual and cultural ascendance. Rather, they illuminated the darkness following the collapse of Rome and guided the path to the world we inhabit today.
Illuminating Jesus In The Middle Ages
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-24
Illuminating Jesus In The Middle Ages written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-24 with History categories.
In Illuminating Jesus in the Middle Ages, editor Jane Beal and other contributing scholars analyse the reception history of Jesus in medieval cultures (6th–15th c.), considering a wide variety of Christological images and ideas and their influence.
Toward A Global Middle Ages
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Author : Bryan C. Keene
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Toward A Global Middle Ages written by Bryan C. Keene and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Art categories.
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
Illuminating Women In The Medieval World
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Author : Christine Sciacca
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2017-06-06
Illuminating Women In The Medieval World written by Christine Sciacca and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-06 with Art categories.
When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood were multifaceted, and women’s roles were varied and nuanced. Female stereotypes existed in the medieval world, but so too did women of power and influence. The pages of illuminated manuscripts reveal to us the many facets of medieval womanhood and slices of medieval life—from preoccupations with biblical heroines and saints to courtship, childbirth, and motherhood. While men dominated artistic production, this volume demonstrates the ways in which female artists, authors, and patrons were instrumental in the creation of illuminated manuscripts. Featuring over one hundred illuminations depicting medieval women from England to Ethiopia, this book provides a lively and accessible introduction to the lives of women in the medieval world.
Handbook Of The Art Of Illumination As Practised During The Middle Ages
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Author : Henry Shaw
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
Handbook Of The Art Of Illumination As Practised During The Middle Ages written by Henry Shaw and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Lighting categories.
Illuminating The Word In The Early Middle Ages
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Author : Lawrence Nees
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-30
Illuminating The Word In The Early Middle Ages written by Lawrence Nees and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-30 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This richly illustrated study shows how modern systems of textual presentation grew from techniques developed in the medieval period.
Illuminated Books Of The Middle Ages
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Author : Robert G. Calkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Illuminated Books Of The Middle Ages written by Robert G. Calkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval categories.
Illuminating The Roman D Alexandre
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Author : Mark Cruse
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date : 2011
Illuminating The Roman D Alexandre written by Mark Cruse and has been published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Art categories.
Survey of one of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts reveals much of its contemporary cultural, literary and social milieu. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264 is one of the most famous and most sumptuous illuminated manuscripts of the entire Middle Ages. Completed in 1344 in Tournai, in what is now Belgium, the manuscript preserves the fullest version of the interpolated Old French Roman d'Alexandre (Romance of Alexander the Great), and some of the most vivid illustrations of any medieval romance, ranking amongst the greatest achievements of the illuminator's art, its borders in particular offering a panorama of medieval society and imagination. A celebration of courtliness, a commemoration of urban chivalry, a mirror for the prince instructing in the arts of rule, and a meditation on crusade, it manifests the extraordinary richness and creativity of late medieval manuscript culture. This study examines the manuscript as a monumental expression of the beliefs and social practices of its day, placing it in its historical and artistic context; it also analyzes its later reception in England, where the addition of a Middle English Alexander poem and of Marco Polo's Voyages reflects changing concepts of language, historiography, and geography. Mark Cruse is Assistant Professor of French, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University.
Illuminating Metalwork
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Author : Joseph Salvatore Ackley
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Illuminating Metalwork written by Joseph Salvatore Ackley and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.