San Vincenzo Maggiore And Its Workshops
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San Vincenzo Maggiore And Its Workshops
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Author : Richard Hodges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
San Vincenzo Maggiore And Its Workshops written by Richard Hodges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Castel San Vincenzo (Italy) categories.
The San Vincenzo Project began in 1980 as a collaboration with the Soprintendenza Archaeologica del Molise. Its initial focus was the small frescoed crypt of 'San Lorenzo' (later known as the Crypt Church), which was in urgent need of conservation. Over the following eighteen years, a large multidisciplinary project was undertaken involving archaeologists, historians and art historians. This consisted of major open-area excavations of the early medieval monastery, of which the celebrated crypt proved to be a modest funerary oratory at the northern limits of the site. The project also involved a study of settlement history in the Upper Volturno valley. This book presents the finds of this excavation.
Light In The Dark Ages
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Author : Richard Hodges
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1997
Light In The Dark Ages written by Richard Hodges and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Beginning in 1981, Richard Hodges supervised the excavation of the Benedictine monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the great centers of Dark Age Europe, situated in spectacular mountain country in central Italy. The existence of the monastery had long been known from a twelfth-century illuminated manuscript and the excavations threw vivid light on its epic history. This richly illustrated book tells of the discoveries made by Hodges's team, with the Samnite and Roman origins of the site charted in detail, and the magnificence of the monastery's early medieval period fully elaborated. Built around a modest eighth-century monastery, the ninth-century monastic city was grandiose, remarkable for its architecture and the wealth of its artistic culture. Hodges documents the excavations of the great ninth-century abbey church of San Vincenzo Maggiore, part of the cloisters, the distinguished guests? palace, the workshops, cemeteries, and many smaller buildings. San Vincenzo, with its rich decor and opulent material culture, is revealed as a model Carolingian monastery, a unique monument to the Carolingian Renaissance in Europe. Light in the Dark Ages traces the history of San Vincenzo from the monastery's spectacular rise as a result of Charlemagne's patronage to its cataclysmic sack by Arab marauders in 881, demonstrating the relation between the treasures unearthed and their political context.
Lombard Legacy
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Author : John Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Pindar Press
Release Date : 2018-12-31
Lombard Legacy written by John Mitchell and has been published by Pindar Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-31 with Art categories.
Using the great south-Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno, one of the best preserved monasteries of the earliest Middle Ages, as a case-study and heuristic paradigm, John Mitchell has engaged in a wide-ranging examination of the ways in which visual culture was developed and deployed by ambitious states and institutions in early medieval Europe. The present volume includes studies on the cultural dynamics of Italy and its contribution to the visual complexion of Europe in the period, as well as essays on many aspects of the artistic culture of San Vincenzo, including a series of papers on the display of script in the physical fabric of the monastery and the prominent role it played in its self-image.
Encounters Excavations And Argosies
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Author : John Moreland
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2017-10-09
Encounters Excavations And Argosies written by John Moreland and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-09 with Social Science categories.
Richard Hodges, one of Europe’s preeminent archaeologists, has, throughout his career, transformed the way we understand the early Middle Ages; this volume pays tribute to him with a series of reflections on some of the themes and issues which have been central to his work over the last forty years.
Iconophilia
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Author : Francesca Dell'Acqua
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-07
Iconophilia written by Francesca Dell'Acqua and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-07 with History categories.
Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images – conventionally addressed as ‘Byzantine iconoclasm’ – engaged monks, emperors, and popes in the Mediterranean area and on the European continent. The importance of this debate cannot be overstated; it challenged the relation between image, text, and belief. A series of popes staunchly in favour of sacred images acted consistently during this period in displaying a remarkable iconophilia or ‘love for images’. Their multifaceted reaction involved not only council resolutions and diplomatic exchanges, but also public religious festivals, liturgy, preaching, and visual arts – the mass-media of the time. Embracing these tools, the popes especially promoted themes related to the Incarnation of God – which justified the production and veneration of sacred images – and extolled the role and the figure of the Virgin Mary. Despite their profound influence over Byzantine and western cultures of later centuries, the political, theological, and artistic interactions between the East and the West during this period have not yet been investigated in studies combining textual and material evidence. By drawing evidence from texts and material culture – some of which have yet to be discussed against the background of the iconoclastic controversy – and by considering the role of oral exchange, Iconophilia assesses the impact of the debate on sacred images and of coeval theological controversies in Rome and central Italy. By looking at intersecting textual, liturgical, and pictorial images which had at their core the Incarnate God and his human mother Mary, the book demonstrates that between c.680–880, by unremittingly maintaining the importance of the visual for nurturing beliefs and mediating personal and communal salvation, the popes ensured that the status of sacred images would remain unchallenged, at least until the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.
The Medieval Military Engineer
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Author : Peter Fraser Purton
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2018
The Medieval Military Engineer written by Peter Fraser Purton and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with HISTORY categories.
Sheds light on the skills and techniques of the medieval military engineer, over a thousand year sweep.
Transmissions And Translations In Medieval Literary And Material Culture
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-12-20
Transmissions And Translations In Medieval Literary And Material Culture 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 2021-12-20 with History categories.
This collection explores multiple artefactual, visual, textual and conceptual adaptations, developments and exchanges across the medieval world in the context of their contemporary and subsequent re-appropriations.
Rome Across Time And Space
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Author : Claudia Bolgia
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Rome Across Time And Space written by Claudia Bolgia 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 2011-04-07 with History categories.
An exploration of the significance of medieval Rome, both as a physical city and an idea with immense cultural capital.
The Basilica Of Abbot Joshua At San Vincenzo Al Volturno
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Author : Richard Hodges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Basilica Of Abbot Joshua At San Vincenzo Al Volturno written by Richard Hodges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Archaeology and history categories.
Architecture And Interpretation
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Author : Jill A. Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2012
Architecture And Interpretation written by Jill A. Franklin and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Architecture categories.
Essays centred on the methods, pleasures, and pitfalls of architectural interpretation. Architecture affects us on a number of levels. It can control our movements, change our experience of our own scale, create a particular sense of place, focus memory, and act as a statement of power and taste, to name but a few. Yet the ways in which these effects are brought about are not yet well understood. The aim of this book is to move the discussion forward, to encourage and broaden debate about the ways in which architecture is interpreted, with aview to raising levels of intellectual engagement with the issues in terms of the theory and practice of architectural history. The range of material covered extends from houses constructed from mammoth bones around 15,000 years ago in the present-day Ukraine to a surfer's memorial in Carpinteria, California; other subjects include the young Michelangelo seeking to transcend genre boundaries; medieval masons' tombs; and the mythographies of early modern Netherlandish towns. Taking as their point of departure the ways in which architecture has been, is, and can be written about and otherwise represented, the editors' substantial Introduction provides an historiographical framework for, and draws out the themes and ideas presented in, the individual contributors' essays. Contributors: Christine Stevenson, T. A. Heslop, John Mitchell, Malcolm Thurlby, Richard Fawcett, Jill A. Franklin, StephenHeywood, Roger Stalley, Veronica Sekules, John Onians, Frank Woodman, Paul Crossley, David Hemsoll, Kerry Downes, Richard Plant, Jenifer Ní Ghrádraigh, Lindy Grant, Elisabeth de Bièvre, Stefan Muthesius, Robert Hillenbrand, AndrewM. Shanken, Peter Guillery.