Artifacts From Medieval Europe

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781610696210

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Artifacts from Medieval Europe by James B. Tschen-Emmons Pdf

Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the cultural significance of the artifact depicted. Artifacts are divided into such thematic categories as domestic life, religion, and transportation. Considered collectively, the various artifacts provide a composite look at daily life in the Middle Ages. Unlike medieval history encyclopedias that feature brief reference entries, this book uses artifacts to examine major aspects of daily life. Each artifact entry features an introduction, a description, an examination of its contextual significance, and a list of further resources. This approach trains students how to best analyze primary sources. General readers with an interest in history will also benefit from this approach to learning that enables a more complete appreciation of past events and circumstances.

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9798216049777

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Artifacts from Medieval Europe by James B. Tschen-Emmons Pdf

Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the cultural significance of the artifact depicted. Artifacts are divided into such thematic categories as domestic life, religion, and transportation. Considered collectively, the various artifacts provide a composite look at daily life in the Middle Ages. Unlike medieval history encyclopedias that feature brief reference entries, this book uses artifacts to examine major aspects of daily life. Each artifact entry features an introduction, a description, an examination of its contextual significance, and a list of further resources. This approach trains students how to best analyze primary sources. General readers with an interest in history will also benefit from this approach to learning that enables a more complete appreciation of past events and circumstances.

Author : Lawrence Nees
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842439

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Early Medieval Art by Lawrence Nees Pdf

Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781610696227

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Artifacts from Medieval Europe by James B. Tschen-Emmons Pdf

Using artifacts as primary sources, this book enables students to comprehensively assess and analyze historic evidence in the context of the medieval period. This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in Artifacts from Medieval Europe explains and expands upon the cultural significance of the artifact depicted. Artifacts are divided into such thematic categories as domestic life, religion, and transportation. Considered collectively, the various artifacts provide a composite look at daily life in the Middle Ages. Unlike medieval history encyclopedias that feature brief reference entries, this book uses artifacts to examine major aspects of daily life. Each artifact entry features an introduction, a description, an examination of its contextual significance, and a list of further resources. This approach trains students how to best analyze primary sources. General readers with an interest in history will also benefit from this approach to learning that enables a more complete appreciation of past events and circumstances.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870994470

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Europe in the Middle Ages by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

This volume offers a broad selection of the arts of the medieval world, all drawn from the rich collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is one of a series that covers practically all the world's cultures from the earliest times to the present. In total, some 1500 objects drawn from every department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are reproduced, most in full color and many with details and multiple views. -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Deborah Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501730283

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Fifty Early Medieval Things by Deborah Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti Pdf

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects—artifacts, structures, and archaeological features—created between the fourth and eleventh centuries, an ostensibly "Dark Age" whose cultural richness and complexity is often underappreciated. Each thing introduces important themes in the social, political, cultural, religious, and economic history of the postclassical era. Some of the things, like a simple ard (plow) unearthed in Germany, illustrate changing cultural and technological horizons in the immediate aftermath of Rome's collapse; others, like the Arabic coin found in a Viking burial mound, indicate the interconnectedness of cultures in this period. Objects such as the Book of Kells and the palace-city of Anjar in present-day Jordan represent significant artistic and cultural achievements; more quotidian items (a bone comb, an oil lamp, a handful of chestnuts) belong to the material culture of everyday life. In their thing-by-thing descriptions, the authors connect each object to both specific local conditions and to the broader influences that shaped the first millennium AD, and also explore their use in modern scholarly interpretations, with suggestions for further reading. Lavishly illustrated and engagingly written, Fifty Early Medieval Things demonstrates how to read objects in ways that make the distant past understandable and approachable.

Author : Lucia Travaini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000519846

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The Thirty Pieces of Silver by Lucia Travaini Pdf

The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetary transaction in history: the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. According to medieval legend, these coins had existed since the time of Abraham’s father and had been used in many transactions recorded in the Bible. This book documents fifty specimens of coins which were venerated as holy relics in medieval and modern churches and monasteries of Europe, from Valencia to Uppsala. Most of these relics are ancient Greek silver coins in origin mounted in precious reliquaries or used for the distribution of their wax imprints believed to have healing powers. Drawing from a wide range of historical sources, from hagiography to numismatics, this book will appeal to students and academics researching Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern History, Theology, as well as all those interested in the function of relics throughout Christendom. The Thirty Pieces of Silver is a study that invites meditation on the highly symbolic and powerful role of money through coins which were the price, value, and measure of Christ and which, despite being the most abject objects, managed to become relics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780870990960

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The Secular Spirit by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elina Gertsman,Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150386

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The Middle Ages in 50 Objects by Elina Gertsman,Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath

Author : Livia Stoenescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Christian art and symbolism
ISBN : 2503583989

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The Interaction of Art and Relics in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art by Livia Stoenescu Pdf

The collection of essays gathered in this volume investigates the interaction between art and relics as a distinct historical relevance for devotional art of Early Modernity and the Renaissance. Recent studies in the material culture of artifacts from these periods have drawn increasing attention to a sense of material tangibility derived from relics. Putting that conclusion into perspective, this edited collection focuses on the aesthetic meaning generated by a specific material culture of sanctity - one in which artists based their practice upon the nature, variety, and history of relics. Works of art that contained relics shared in the aura of the relics, defining themselves as non-substitutable signs, or signs that preserved the physical relationship to the immutable nature and origin of relics. As studied in this volume, funerary monuments, chapel decorations, altarpieces, liturgical objects, and sacred sites yielded an unordinary aesthetic meaning, one that captured and at the same time transmitted the histories linked to a relic. Each chapter emphasizes the specific history contained within works of art premised upon relics and thus forever embedded in the relics' status as sacred originals..

Author : Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Drawing, Medieval
ISBN : 9781588393180

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Pen and Parchment by Melanie Holcomb,Lisa Bessette Pdf

Discusses the techniques, uses, and aesthetics of medieval drawings; and reproduces work from more than fifty manuscripts produced between the ninth and early fourteenth century.

Author : Cord J. Whitaker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812251586

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Black Metaphors by Cord J. Whitaker Pdf

In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and theological moves through which blackness and whiteness became metaphors for sin and purity in the English and European Middle Ages—metaphors that guided the development of notions of race in the centuries that followed. From a modern perspective, moments like the sultan's transformation present blackness and whiteness as opposites in which each condition is forever marked as a negative or positive attribute; medieval readers were instead encouraged to remember that things that are ostensibly and strikingly different are not so separate after all, but mutually construct one another. Indeed, Whitaker observes, for medieval scholars and writers, blackness and whiteness, and the sin and salvation they represent, were held in tension, forming a unified whole. Whitaker asks not so much whether race mattered to the Middle Ages as how the Middle Ages matters to the study of race in our fraught times. Looking to the treatment of color and difference in works of rhetoric such as John of Garland's Synonyma, as well as in a range of vernacular theological and imaginative texts, including Robert Manning's Handlyng Synne, and such lesser known romances as The Turke and Sir Gawain, he illuminates the process by which one interpretation among many became established as the truth, and demonstrates how modern movements—from Black Lives Matter to the alt-right—are animated by the medieval origins of the black-white divide.

Author : Alyce A. Jordan,Janet T. Marquardt
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443803984

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Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages by Alyce A. Jordan,Janet T. Marquardt Pdf

Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts of the Middle Ages have served to articulate contemporary aspirations and anxieties. The essays in this interdisciplinary collection examine the afterlife of medieval works through their preservation, restoration, appropriation, and commodification in America, Great Britain, and across Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. From the evocation of metaphors and tropes, to monumental projects of restoration and recreation—medieval visual culture has had a tremendous purchase in the construction of political, religious, and cultural practices of the Modern era. The authors assembled here engage a diverse spectrum of works, from Irish ruins and a former Florentine prison to French churches and American department stores, and an equally diverse array of media ranging from architecture and manuscripts to embroidery, monumental sculpture, and metalwork. With applications not only to the study of art and architecture, but also encompassing such varied fields as commerce, city planning, education, literature, collecting and exhibition design, this copiously illustrated anthology comprises a significant contribution to the study of medieval art and medievalism.

Author : Zoë Opačić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124127668

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Prague and Bohemia by Zoë Opačić Pdf

"This volume explores one of the most creative periods in Central European history. At its core is the medieval city of Prague, which became the seat of the Luxembourg dynasty in the 14th century and was fashioned as the political and cultural capital of the Holy Roman Empire. That dramatic change in the fortunes of Prague and Bohemia - from Romanesque roots to Late Gothic heyday and the religious uncertainties of the Hussite era - is examined through fifteen essays written by scholars from Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, Poland, Switzerland and the USA. An important place is given to the re-evaluation of Czech medieval heritage in the 19th century, much of it shaped by Josef Mocker's tireless and often controversial campaign to restore and document Gothic monuments. The volume offers important new insights into key buildings such as Prague Cathedral and Karlstein Castle. By bringing together their expertise in architecture, archaeology, painting, stained glass, manuscript illumination, textiles, sigillography and epigraphy, the authors also present a rich and complex picture of connections and influences stretching across the region from the small town of Kosice in the east, to major centres such as Vienna, Cracow and Nuremberg, as far as the royal seats of Paris and London at the western extremities of Europe. Much of that vibrant cultural exchange took place in the climate of economic prosperity that attracted itinerant artists and supported prolific workshops, but some of the most astonishing examples of it came about amidst intense dynastic rivalry and religious strife. This collection is also a lasting record of the British Archaeological Association's conference held in Prague in 2006, the first such meeting east of the Rhine in its long and distinguished history." --Book Jacket.

Author : Michael Byron Norris,Rebecca Arkenberg
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588390837

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Medieval Art by Michael Byron Norris,Rebecca Arkenberg Pdf

This educational resource packet covers more than 1200 years of medieval art from western Europe and Byzantium, as represented by objects in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among the contents of this resource are: an overview of medieval art and the period; a collection of aspects of medieval life, including knighthood, monasticism, pilgrimage, and pleasures and pastimes; information on materials and techniques medieval artists used; maps; a timeline; a bibliography; and a selection of useful resources, including a list of significant collections of medieval art in the U.S. and Canada and a guide to relevant Web sites. Tote box includes a binder book containing background information, lesson plans, timeline, glossary, bibliography, suggested additional resources, and 35 slides, as well as two posters and a 2 CD-ROMs.