Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries In England 1066 1320
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Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries In England 1066 1320
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Author : Lesley Milner
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-05-30
Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries In England 1066 1320 written by Lesley Milner and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with History categories.
The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to convey the message of its status and function. A book devoted to these medieval museums which housed such precious materials is long overdue. Ironically, the interest in the objects that they conserved has often resulted in ecclesiastical treasure being removed to new museums, leaving their former places of protection in need of protection themselves.
Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries In England 1066 1320
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Author : Lesley Milner
language : en
Publisher: Brill
Release Date : 2024-05-30
Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries In England 1066 1320 written by Lesley Milner and has been published by Brill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-30 with Art categories.
Sacred treasuries formed part of every medieval cathedral or church housing contents that were endowed with profound spiritual significance but were also of immense value in worldly terms. In many ways, these were the predecessors of both modern museums and modern banks.
Investigations In Medieval Stained Glass
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Investigations In Medieval Stained Glass 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 2019-06-07 with History categories.
Mindful of already existing publications, the editors determined to foreground scholarly expertise and approaches to stained glass, as well as up-to-date bibliographies.
Visual Culture And Politics In The Baltic Sea Region 1100 1250
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Author : Kersti Markus
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Visual Culture And Politics In The Baltic Sea Region 1100 1250 written by Kersti Markus and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with History categories.
In Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, Kersti Markus examines how visual rhetoric was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the region during the Baltic crusades.
Blood Royal
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Author : Robert Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-09
Blood Royal written by Robert Bartlett 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 2020-07-09 with History categories.
An engaging history of royal and imperial families and dynastic power, enriched by a body of surprising and memorable source material.
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.
The Cambridge History Of Ireland Volume 1 600 1550
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Author : Brendan Smith
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-31
The Cambridge History Of Ireland Volume 1 600 1550 written by Brendan Smith 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 2018-03-31 with History categories.
The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in The Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are leading experts in their fields, and present their original interpretations in a fresh and accessible manner. New perspectives are offered on the politics, artistic culture, religious beliefs and practices, social organisation and economic activity that prevailed on the island in these centuries. At each turn the question is asked: to what extent were these developments unique to Ireland? The openness of Ireland to outside influences, and its capacity to influence the world beyond its shores, are recurring themes. Underpinning the book is a comparative, outward-looking approach that sees Ireland as an integral but exceptional component of medieval Christian Europe.
Social Life In England Through The Centuries
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Author : H. R. Wilton Hall
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Social Life In England Through The Centuries written by H. R. Wilton Hall and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with England categories.
A little boy, who had been born in a log-cabin in the backwoods of Canada, was taken by his father, when he was about eight years old, to the nearest settlement, for the first time in his life. The little fellow had never till then seen any other house than that in which he had been born, for the settlement was many miles away. "Father," he said, "what makes all the houses come together?" Now that sounds a very strange and foolish question to ask; but it is by no means as foolish a question as it seems. Here, in England, there are towns and villages dotted about all over the country. Some of them are near the sea, on some big bay or inlet; others stand a little farther inland, on the banks of tidal rivers; others are far away from the sea, in sheltered valleys or on the sunny slopes of hills; some stand in the midst of broad fertile plains, while others are on the verge of bleak lonely moorlands. What has made all the houses in these towns and villages come together in these particular spots? There must be a reason in every case why a particular spot should have been chosen in the first instance. In trying to find an answer to this question with reference to any town or village in our country we have to go back, far back, into the past. We may have to go back to ages long before there was any written history. As we go back step by step into the past we learn much of the people who have lived before us—of their ways and their doings, and of the part they played in the life and work of the country. The little Canadian boy's question can be asked about every town and village in the land. There are no two places exactly alike; each one has its own history, which, however simple it may be, is quite worth knowing. The busy manufacturing town, with its tens and hundreds of thousands of people, where all is movement and bustle, has its history; and the lonely country village, where everybody knows everybody else, has often a history even more interesting than that of the big town—if we only knew what to look for, and where to look for it. One summer day, years ago, a party of tourists was climbing Helvellyn. One of the party was an elderly gentleman, who was particularly active, and anxious to get to the top. After several hours' stiff climbing the party reached the summit; and there, spread out before them, was a lovely view of hills and dales, of mountains and lakes. Most of the party gazed upon this fair scene in quiet enjoyment; but our old gentleman, as soon as he had recovered his breath, and mopped his red face with his pocket-handkerchief, gave one look round, and then said in a grieved tone: "Is that all? Nothing to see! Wish I hadn't come."
Edward The Second
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Author : Christopher Marlowe
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
Edward The Second written by Christopher Marlowe and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-15 with Fiction categories.
Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe’s historical sources, texts bearing on the play’s complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton’s epic rendition of Edward the Second’s reign.
The Comic History Of England
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Author : Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
The Comic History Of England written by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with England categories.
A'Beckett and Leech were original contributors to "Punch, or the London Charivari" magazine, established 1841. It became the famous "Punch" magazine and remained in publication to 2002. A'Beckett also wrote editorials for a similar concept magazine, "Figaro in London" that ceased publication in 1839. "In commencing this work, the object of the Author was, as he stated in the Prospectus, to blend amusement with instruction, by serving up, in as palatable a shape as he could, the facts of English History. He pledged himself not to sacrifice the substance to the seasoning; and though he has certainly been a little free in the use of his sauce, he hopes that he has not produced a mere hash on the present occasion. His object has been to furnish something which may be allowed to take its place as a standing at the library table, and which, though light, may not be found devoid of nutriment."--Preface.