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"Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts "

Author : Renana Bartal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565875

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"Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts " by Renana Bartal Pdf

Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts is the first in-depth study of three textually and iconographically diverse Apocalypses illustrated in England in the first half of the fourteenth century by a single group of artists. It offers a close look at a group of illuminators previously on the fringe of art historical scholarship, challenging the commonly-held perception of them as mere craftsmen at a time when both audiences and methods of production were becoming increasingly varied. Analyzing the manuscripts? codicological features, visual and textual programmes, and social contexts, it explores the mechanisms of a fourteenth-century commercial workshop and traces the customization of these books of the same genre to the needs and expectations of varied readers, revealing the crucial influence of their female audience. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of English medieval art, medieval manuscripts, and the medieval Apocalypse, as well as medievalists interested in late medieval spirituality and theology, medieval religious and intellectual culture, book patronage and ownership, and female patronage and ownership.

"Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts "

Author : Renana Bartal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351565868

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"Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts " by Renana Bartal Pdf

Gender, Piety, and Production in Fourteenth-Century English Apocalypse Manuscripts is the first in-depth study of three textually and iconographically diverse Apocalypses illustrated in England in the first half of the fourteenth century by a single group of artists. It offers a close look at a group of illuminators previously on the fringe of art historical scholarship, challenging the commonly-held perception of them as mere craftsmen at a time when both audiences and methods of production were becoming increasingly varied. Analyzing the manuscripts? codicological features, visual and textual programmes, and social contexts, it explores the mechanisms of a fourteenth-century commercial workshop and traces the customization of these books of the same genre to the needs and expectations of varied readers, revealing the crucial influence of their female audience. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of English medieval art, medieval manuscripts, and the medieval Apocalypse, as well as medievalists interested in late medieval spirituality and theology, medieval religious and intellectual culture, book patronage and ownership, and female patronage and ownership.

The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality

Author : Eric Knibbs,Jessica A. Boon,Erica Gelser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030149659

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The End of the World in Medieval Thought and Spirituality by Eric Knibbs,Jessica A. Boon,Erica Gelser Pdf

This essay collection studies the Apocalypse and the end of the world, as these themes occupied the minds of biblical scholars, theologians, and ordinary people in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and Early Modernity. It opens with an innovative series of studies on “Gendering the Apocalypse,” devoted to the texts and contexts of the apocalyptic through the lens of gender. A second section of essays studies the more traditional problem of “Apocalyptic Theory and Exegesis,” with a focus on authors such as Augustine of Hippo and Joachim of Fiore. A final series of essays extends the thematic scope to “The Eschaton in Political, Liturgical, and Literary Contexts.” In these essays, scholars of history, theology, and literature create a dialogue that considers how fear of the end of the world, among the most pervasive emotions in human experience, underlies a great part of Western cultural production.

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500

Author : Renana Bartal,Neta Bodner,Bianca Kuhnel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351809283

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Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500 by Renana Bartal,Neta Bodner,Bianca Kuhnel Pdf

Natural Materials of the Holy Land and the Visual Translation of Place, 500-1500, focuses on the unique ways that natural materials carry the spirit of place. Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Academic discourse has indiscriminately grouped material tokens from holy places and their containers with architectural and topographical emulations, two-dimensional images and bodily relics. However, unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials do not describe or interpret the Holy Land; they are part of it. Tangible and timeless, they realize the meaning of their place of origin in new locations. What makes earth, stones or bottled water transported from holy sites sacred? How do they become pars pro toto, signifying the whole from which they were taken? This book will examine natural media used for translating loca sancta, the processes of their sanctification and how, although inherently abstract, they become charged with meaning. It will address their metamorphosis, natural or induced; how they change the environment to which they are transported; their capacity to translate a static and distant site elsewhere; the effect of their relocation on users/viewers; and how their containers and staging are used to communicate their substance.

A Companion to Medieval Art

Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119077725

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A Companion to Medieval Art by Conrad Rudolph Pdf

A fully updated and comprehensive companion to Romanesque and Gothic art history This definitive reference brings together cutting-edge scholarship devoted to the Romanesque and Gothic traditions in Northern Europe and provides a clear analytical survey of what is happening in this major area of Western art history. The volume comprises original theoretical, historical, and historiographic essays written by renowned and emergent scholars who discuss the vibrancy of medieval art from both thematic and sub-disciplinary perspectives. Part of the Blackwell Companions to Art History, A Companion to Medieval Art, Second Edition features an international and ambitious range of contributions covering reception, formalism, Gregory the Great, pilgrimage art, gender, patronage, marginalized images, the concept of spolia, manuscript illumination, stained glass, Cistercian architecture, art of the crusader states, and more. Newly revised edition of a highly successful companion, including 11 new articles Comprehensive coverage ranging from vision, materiality, and the artist through to architecture, sculpture, and painting Contains full-color illustrations throughout, plus notes on the book’s many distinguished contributors A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Second Edition is an exciting and varied study that provides essential reading for students and teachers of Medieval art.

Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-century England

Author : Kathryn Ann Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Angleterre - Vie religieuse
ISBN : 0712348301

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Art, Identity and Devotion in Fourteenth-century England by Kathryn Ann Smith Pdf

"Through detailed analysis of the manuscripts' visual and textual programmes, and by embedding the books within a rich interpretive context constructed from religious and secular literature, sermons, and a broad range of artistic and historical evidence, the author examines the ways in which the three books of hours mediated the devotional experience of their owners and constructed and confirmed their sense of personal, familial, local and social identity. The study explores the potential functions of illustrated books of hours - as vehicles for penitent self-examination, familial and dynastic commemoration and legitimation, and instruction of one's children - and reveals how the manuscripts' contents and design accommodated these functions. This book offers new insights into the issues of female patronage and book ownership, lay literacy, and the roles and uses of imagery in later medieval religion."--BOOK JACKET.

Medieval Women and Their Objects

Author : Jennifer Adams,Nancy Bradbury
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472902569

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Medieval Women and Their Objects by Jennifer Adams,Nancy Bradbury Pdf

The essays gathered in this volume present multifaceted considerations of the intersection of objects and gender within the cultural contexts of late medieval France and England. Some take a material view of objects, showing buildings, books, and pictures as sites of gender negotiation and resistance and as extensions of women’s bodies. Others reconsider the concept of objectification in the lives of fictional and historical medieval women by looking closely at their relation to gendered material objects, taken literally as women’s possessions and as figurative manifestations of their desires. The opening section looks at how medieval authors imagined fictional and legendary women using particular objects in ways that reinforce or challenge gender roles. These women bring objects into the orbit of gender identity, employing and relating to them in a literal sense, while also taking advantage of their symbolic meanings. The second section focuses on the use of texts both as objects in their own right and as mechanisms by which other objects are defined. The possessors of objects in these essays lived in the world, their lives documented by historical records, yet like their fictional and legendary counterparts, they too used objects for instrumental ends and with symbolic resonances. The final section considers the objectification of medieval women’s bodies as well as its limits. While this at times seems to allow for a trade in women, authorial attempts to give definitive shapes and boundaries to women’s bodies either complicate the gender boundaries they try to contain or reduce gender to an ideological abstraction. This volume contributes to the ongoing effort to calibrate female agency in the late Middle Ages, honoring the groundbreaking work of Carolyn P. Collette.

Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art

Author : Alexa Sand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107032224

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Vision, Devotion, and Self-Representation in Late Medieval Art by Alexa Sand Pdf

This book focuses on one of the most attractive yet poorly understood features of late-medieval manuscript illumination: the portrait of the book owner at prayer within the pages of her own prayer-book. Beguiling because they appear to offer a direct view into the lives of medieval individuals - especially women - these are in fact religiously loaded images. They concern themselves with the relationship between visible images, visionary experience, and God's omnipresent vision, and thus strike at the very core of medieval Christian concerns about salvation and the efficacy of prayer.

The Meditationes Vitae Christi Reconsidered

Author : Holly Flora,Peter Toth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
ISBN : 2503595057

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The Meditationes Vitae Christi Reconsidered by Holly Flora,Peter Toth Pdf

Drawing on diverse literary traditions, the author of the fourteenth-century Meditationes Vitae Christi transformed the Gospel accounts into an emotionally charged and vivid narrative that became one of the most popular texts of the late Middle Ages. Over the past few years, new theories about the authorship, date, and original language of the text have emerged, raising new questions about this text and its impact on late medieval art and spirituality. The essays in this interdisciplinary volume examine multiple aspects of the Meditationes history, from its possible authorship to its manuscript traditions to its reflections in art.

Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance

Author : Jason König,Greg Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107038233

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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Jason König,Greg Woolf Pdf

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclpaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Cai++.

Apocalypse Illuminated

Author : Richard Kenneth Emmerson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Apocalypse in art
ISBN : 0271078650

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Apocalypse Illuminated by Richard Kenneth Emmerson Pdf

"Studies the illustration of Revelation in manuscripts from the ninth to the fifteenth century. Examines how twenty-five of the most important illustrated Apocalypses illustrate the biblical text and interpret it for diverse audiences"--Résumé de l'auteur.

The Journey of a Book

Author : Elizabeth Keen
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781921313073

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The Journey of a Book by Elizabeth Keen Pdf

De proprietatibus rerum, ‘On the properties of things’, has long been referred to by scholars as a medieval encyclopedia, but evidence suggests that it has been many things to many people. The sheer number of extant manuscript copies and printed editions, along with translations, adaptations, and mentions in poems and sermons, testify to its continuous significance for Europeans of all estates and different walks of life, from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. While first compiled soon after the time of St Francis by a humble continental friar to meet the needs of his expanding religious brotherhood, by 1600 English men of letters had claimed Bartholomew as a noble compatriot and national treasure. What was it about the work that propelled it through a progression of medieval cultures and into an exalted position in the world of English letters? This reception history traces evidence for the journey of ‘Properties’ over four centuries of social, political and religious change.

Between Jerusalem and Europe

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004298187

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Between Jerusalem and Europe by Anonim Pdf

Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel analyses how Jerusalem is translated into the visual and material culture of Europe, and in what ways European encounters with the city have shaped its holy sites.

Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419093

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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment by Ahmet T. Kuru Pdf

Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004408333

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Remembering the Medieval Present: Generative Uses of England’s Pre-Conquest Past, 10th to 15th Centuries by Anonim Pdf

By tapping into the vast reservoir of undertreated early English documents and texts, the collected studies explore how individuals living in the late tenth through fifteenth centuries engaged with the authorizing culture of the Anglo-Saxons.