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Marvellous and the Monstrous in the Sculpture of Twelfth-Century Europe
Av Kirk Ambrose
Häftad, 2017
309 kr
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Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings.Representations of monsters and the monstrous are common in medieval art and architecture, from the grotesques in the borders of illuminated manuscripts to …
Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800-c.1500
Av Philippa Turner, Jane Hawkes
Inbunden, 2020
460 kr
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New readings demonstrate the centrality of the rood to the visual, material and devotional cultures of the Middle Ages, its richness and complexity.The rood was central to medieval Christianity and its visual culture: Christ's death on the cross was understood as the means by which humankind was …
Art of Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2016
347 kr
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A fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, focusing on art as an aesthetic vehicle and art as an active political force.Two particular perspectives inform this wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of the art produced in England, or by English artists, between c. 600 and c.1100, in a …
Early Medieval Stone Monuments
Materiality, Biography, Landscape
Av Howard Williams, Joanne Kirton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1333 kr
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New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages.Often fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the texts a …
Royal Abbey of Reading
Av Ron Baxter
Inbunden, 2016
737 kr
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First full-length survey of Reading Abbey, one of the most important ecclesiastical buildings of the Middle Ages.Reading Abbey was built by King Henry I to be a great architectural statement and his own mausoleum, as well as a place of resort and a staging point for royal itineraries for progresses …
Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture
Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
Inbunden, 2016
604 kr
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A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth.On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of …
Late Medieval Italian Art and its Contexts
Essays in Honour of Professor Joanna Cannon
Av Donal Cooper, Beth Williamson
Inbunden, 2022
1731 kr
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Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work.The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and teaching have …
English Medieval Shrines
Av John Crook
Häftad, 2016
409 kr
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Survey of the growth and development of the magnificent shrines which reached their apogee during the middle ages.The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating manifestations of medieval piety. It was intensely physical; saints were believed to be present in the bodily remains that they had …
Graphic Devices and the Early Decorated Book
Av Michelle Brown, Ildar Garipzanov m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
737 kr
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Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts.In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a modern …
Motherhood and Meaning in Medieval Sculpture
Representations from France, c.1100-1500
Inbunden, 2017
604 kr
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An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture.What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been shaped by …
Church Monuments in South Wales, c.1200-1547
Inbunden, 2017
587 kr
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The first full-scale study of the medieval funerary monuments of South Wales.South Wales is an area blessed with an eclectic, but largely unknown, monumental heritage, ranging from plain cross slabs to richly carved effigial monuments on canopied tomb-chests. As a group, these monuments closely …
Stone Fidelity
Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
Inbunden, 2020
869 kr
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Pioneering investigation of the popular "double tomb" effigies in the Middle Ages.2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 16002021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book PrizeMedieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, …
Tomb and Temple
Re-imagining the Sacred Buildings of Jerusalem
Av Robin, Griffith-Jones, Robin Griffith-Jones m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1731 kr
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Essays exploring the influence of the sacred buildings of Jerusalem on architecture worldwide.Jerusalem - earthly and heavenly, past, present and future - has always informed the Christian imagination: it is the intersection of the divine and human worlds, of time and eternity. Since the fourth …
Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350
Av Laura Slater
Inbunden, 2018
604 kr
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An exploration of how power and political society were imagined, represented and reflected on in medieval English artImages 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. …
English Alabaster Carvings and their Cultural Contexts
Inbunden, 2019
737 kr
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New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages.English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many survived the …
Insular Iconographies
Essays in Honour of Jane Hawkes
Av Meg Boulton, Michael Bintley
Inbunden, 2019
460 kr
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Essays on aspects of iconography as manifested in the material culture of medieval England.Professor Jane Hawkes has devoted her career to the study of medieval stone, exploring its iconographies, symbolic significances and scholarly contexts, and shedding light on the obscure and understudied …
Critical Companion to English Mappae Mundi of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Av Dan, Terkla, Daniel Terkla m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
869 kr
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First full collection on the seven most significant English mappae mundi from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.Mappae mundi (maps of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place within it. They are a fusion of …
Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Image, Relic and Material Culture
Inbunden, 2020
460 kr
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Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the …
Designing Norman Sicily
Material Culture and Society
Av Emily A Winkler, Liam Fitzgerald m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1068 kr
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Essays showing how the stuff of Norman Sicily, its mosaics, frescoes, art and architecture, was used to construct its history.Material culture played a crucial role in developing the cultural narrative of Norman Sicily. The essays in this book consider how images, designs, artifacts, structures and …
Imagining Anglo-Saxon England
Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia
Inbunden, 2020
1346 kr
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A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century …
Ashburnham Pentateuch and its Contexts
The Trinity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2022
1279 kr
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A fresh interpretation of an enigmatic illumination and its contexts.The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance, which has puzzled and intrigued scholars since the nineteenth century. Its first image, which depicts the Genesis creation narrative, is itself a …
Stone Fidelity
Marriage and Emotion in Medieval Tomb Sculpture
Häftad, 2022
409 kr
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Pioneering investigation of the popular "double tomb" effigies in the Middle Ages.2022 Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period before 16002021 International Center of Medieval Art Annual Book PrizeMedieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, …
Imagining Anglo-Saxon England
Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia
Häftad, 2022
369 kr
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A fresh approach to the construction of "Anglo-Saxon England" and its depiction in art and writing.This book explores the ways in which early medieval England was envisioned as an ideal, a placeless, and a conflicted geography in works of art and literature from the eighth to the eleventh century …
Late Medieval Lodging Ranges
The Architecture of Identity, Power and Space
Av Sarah Kerr
Inbunden, 2023
869 kr
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This book draws on architectural and archaeological analysis to consider the form, function, use and meaning of late medieval lodging ranges.While we know a great deal about most elements of the late medieval great house, we understand very little about their lodging ranges, and even less on their …
Images of Thomas Becket in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The Uses and Reception of a Celebrity Saint
Av Alyce A Jordan, Kay Brainerd Slocum
Inbunden, 2025
1681 kr
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Explores the commemoration and memorialisation of the Canterbury martyr in visual and material culture.In life, and especially in death, Thomas Becket was nothing short of a medieval celebrity, whose significance spanned the European high Middle Ages in to the sixteenth-century. Henry VIII's …
Early Medieval Sculpture in Stone
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
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Multidisciplinary scholarship showcasing innovative methods for working with sculptural material - with essays ranging from Merovingian funerary art to Old English and Scandinavian runic inscriptions.The stone sculptures surviving across Europe from the early medieval period are an exceptional …
Painted Histories of the Welles-Ros Bible (Paris, BnF Fr.1)
Scripture Transformed in Fourteenth-Century England
Inbunden, 2025
1731 kr
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A lavishly illustrated study of the Welles-Ros Bible, exploring its provenance, ownership, design and production.At some point between c.1366 and 1373, the noblewoman Maud de Ros, widow of the Lincolnshire baron John de Welles, commissioned what is now the earliest surviving entire translated Bible …
Art and Artifice in Twelfth-Century Iberia
Av Rose Walker
Inbunden, 2025
1333 kr
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"This innovative, wide-ranging and erudite book illuminates the sophistication of artistic exchange at this time and place." Costanza Beltrami, Stockholm University. Sculptors and painters produced exceptional, and sometimes eccentric works of art in the middle decades of the twelfth century in …
Drawings in Books in Medieval Britain from the Ninth Century to the Reformation
Inbunden, 2026
2129 kr
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The first broad and long study of a major aspect of British medieval art, examining the historical relationships between medieval drawings and books.The art of drawing and its products had a determining relationship to the visual arts of the Middle Ages. They also had other purposes, which if …
English Medieval Misericords
The Margins of Meaning
Häftad, 2013
309 kr
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A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and motifs.Misericord carvings present a fascinating corpus of medieval art which, in turn, complements our knowledge of life and belief in the late middle …
