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Political Message of the Shrine of St. Heribert of Cologne
Church and Empire after the Investiture Contest
Inbunden, 2022
1896 kr
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This is the first ever book in English solely devoted to one of the most important reliquary shrines of the Mosan Rhineland, the Heribert Shrine. Carolyn M. Carty investigates how liturgy, history, politics, and geography all converge to influence the creation and the message of a work of art in …
Byzantine Silk in the World
Av Jennifer Ball, Thelma K. Thomas
Inbunden, 2026
2377 kr
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This is an art historical study of Byzantine silk from the sixth through to the eleventh century when the production of silk emerged as an imperial industry and became central to Byzantine courtly life and imperial diplomacy. Focusing on four focal pieces that are well known in scholarship, we lay …
Visual Histories from Medieval Iberia
Arts and Ambivalence
Inbunden, 2024
2235 kr
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This volume challenges popular assumptions and academic pieties regarding religion and identity on the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Its studies of individual works of art and architecture uncoil complex histories from this religiously plural peninsula, intertwining social, …
Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
Inbunden, 2024
2235 kr
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Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process of reform. There has been a tendency to assume that these reforms would …
Social Lives of Medieval Rings
Inbunden, 2025
2377 kr
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The essays in this volume focus on rings as small objects that have touched upon people, places, and events; rings have also featured in scholastic debates and form our modern museum collections. Contributors collectively argue that a closer look at these diminutive artifacts—both precious and …
Materialities of Disease Across the Medieval World
Images, Objects, and Remains
Av Lori Jones
Inbunden, 2025
2801 kr
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This interdisciplinary volume offers new ways to think about how disease and death, and healing and health, were considered, experienced, displayed, and portrayed across the global medieval world. Reaching across conventional disciplinary, historiographical, and geographical boundaries, …
Bucolic Mode in Byzantine Art
Sound, Weather, Imperium
Inbunden, 2025
1952 kr
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Bucolic imagery—of shepherds with flocks in idyllic surroundings—has barely been studied in Byzantine art history. These images elude our usual analytical categories of imperial, sacred, and secular art, and challenge our assumptions about visual narrative. This book demonstrates that a “bucolic …
Imperial and Royal Child Brides in Byzantium and Beyond
Inbunden, 2025
2377 kr
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This book focuses on the Byzantine court in Constantinople and the young females (aged fourteen or younger) who married into the royal and imperial households of Byzantium and medieval Europe to eventually become queens or empresses. Some married within their own culture, while many travelled …
Persuasive Agency of Objects and Practices in Alfred the Great’s Reform Program
Häftad, 2025
548 kr
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Alfred the Great's early English kingdom was the only one to resist Viking conquest. His reform program strengthened the kingdom and enabled it to hold fast against the Vikings. But texts are largely silent on the process of reform. There has been a tendency to assume that these reforms would …
Social Lives of Medieval Rings
Häftad, 2026
548 kr
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The essays in this volume focus on rings as small objects that have touched upon people, places, and events; rings have also featured in scholastic debates and form our modern museum collections. Contributors collectively argue that a closer look at these diminutive artifacts—both precious and …
Bucolic Mode in Byzantine Art
Sound, Weather, Imperium
Häftad, 2026
548 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Bucolic imagery—of shepherds with flocks in idyllic surroundings—has barely been studied in Byzantine art history. These images elude our usual analytical categories of imperial, sacred, and secular art, and challenge our assumptions about visual narrative. This book demonstrates that a “bucolic …
