Medievalism On The Margins

Author : Michael Camille
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781780232508

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Image on the Edge by Michael Camille Pdf

What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.

Author : Karl Fugelso,Vincent Ferre,Alicia C. Montoya
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844068

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Medievalism on the Margins by Karl Fugelso,Vincent Ferre,Alicia C. Montoya Pdf

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.

Author : Margot McIlwain Nishimura
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892369825

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Images in the Margins by Margot McIlwain Nishimura Pdf

Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience. It accompanies an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 1 through November 8, 2009.

Author : W. Nikola-Lisa
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0618496424

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Magic in the Margins by W. Nikola-Lisa Pdf

A young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.

Author : Bronislaw Geremek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521026121

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The Margins of Society in Late Medieval Paris by Bronislaw Geremek Pdf

This book discusses the 'marginal' people of late medieval Paris, the large and shifting group of men and women who existed on the margins of conventional organized society. Professor Geremek examines the various groups which made up the marginal world - beggars, prostitutes, procuresses and pimps, petty criminals, casual workers and the unemployed - their haunts in and around Paris, their way of life, and their relation to 'normal' society. Professor Geremek has made with this book a major contribution to the study of late medieval society which illuminates the little-known area of the medieval underworld in a fascinating and very accessible manner. Translated by Jean Birrell from the French edition of 1976, this edition includes a new introduction by Jean-Claude Schmitt, which offers a frank appraisal of the author's life and career to date.

Author : Ann E. Zimo,Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher,Kathryn Reyerson,Debra Blumenthal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000034844

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Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality by Ann E. Zimo,Tiffany D. Vann Sprecher,Kathryn Reyerson,Debra Blumenthal Pdf

Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be qualified as "marginal," it is important to interrogate where the margins lay and what it means that the majority of people occupied them. In addition, we scholars need to reexamine our use of a term that seems to have such broad applicability to ensure that we avoid imposing marginality on groups in the Middle Ages that the era itself may not have considered as such. In the medieval era, when belonging to a community was vitally important, people who lived on the margins of society could be particularly vulnerable. And yet, as scholars have shown, we ought not forget that this heightened vulnerability sometimes prompted so-called marginals to form their own communities, as a way of redefining the center and placing themselves within it. The present volume explores the concept of marginality, to whom the moniker has been applied, to whom it might usefully be applied, and how we might more meaningfully define marginality based on historical sources rather than modern assumptions. Although the volume’s geographic focus is Europe, the chapters look further afield to North Africa, the Sahara, and the Levant acknowledging that at no time, and certainly not in the Middle Ages, was Europe cut off from other parts of the globe.

Author : Karl Fugelso
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1843844656

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Ecomedievalism by Karl Fugelso Pdf

Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages, with a particular concentration on environmental matters.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004364950

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Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain by Anonim Pdf

The twelve essays in Crossing Borders: Boundaries and Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Britain examine marches and margins as jurisdictional, legal, and social expressions of power, building upon the scholarship of Professor Cynthia J. Neville.

Author : Sarah Larratt Keefer,Rolf Hendrik Bremmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122464469

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Signs on the Edge by Sarah Larratt Keefer,Rolf Hendrik Bremmer Pdf

"Determining a difference between the spatially-'outermost' and the spatially-'innermost', and evaluating uses to which these spaces may be put within the visual arts are learned processes. They resemble the cognitive mapping that children use when developing skills for understanding alphabets and scripts that need to be read top to bottom, right to left or left to right. Each case requires learning strategies in order to navigate the geography of the writing or drawing space of a planar surface." "Enduring skills of this kind came from the Mediterranean basin through the spread of Roman civilization and subsequent Christian education to Ireland and Britain, and to the continental cultures of the Germanic peoples after the fourth century. This volume considers the ways that these heirs of Mediterranean aesthetics invested their native cconcepts of space, design and relative value with new meanings as they applied them within their own unique programmes of visual art and book production."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John Lydgate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:300078331

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The Life of Our Lady by John Lydgate Pdf

Author : Michael Goodich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047094431

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Other Middle Ages by Michael Goodich Pdf

Seldom heard from in modern times, those on the margins of medieval Europe have much to tell about the society that defined them. Revealing more than just a fascinating cast of characters, this book gives insight into those figures who made medieval society uneasy.

Author : Mariken Teeuwen,Irene van Renswoude
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Annotating, Book
ISBN : 250356948X

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The Annotated Book in the Early Middle Ages by Mariken Teeuwen,Irene van Renswoude Pdf

Annotations in modern books are a phenomenon that often causes disapproval: we are not supposed to draw, doodle, underline, or highlight in our books. In many medieval manuscripts, however, the pages are filled with annotations around the text and in-between the lines. In some cases, a 'white space' around the text is even laid out to contain extra text, pricked and ruled for the purpose. Just as footnotes are an approved and standard part of the modern academic book, so the flyleaves, margins, and interlinear spaces of many medieval manuscripts are an invitation to add extra text. This volume focuses on annotation in the early medieval period. In treating manuscripts as mirrors of the medieval minds who created them - reflecting their interests, their choices, their practices - the essays explore a number of key topics. Are there certain genres in which the making of annotations seems to be more appropriate or common than in others? Are there genres in which annotating is 'not done'? Are there certain monastic centres in which annotating practices flourish, and from which they spread? The volume thus investigates whether early medieval annotators used specific techniques, perhaps identifiable with their scribal communities or schools. It explores what annotators actually sought to accomplish with their annotations, and how the techniques of annotating developed over time and per region.

Author : Eugene Smelyansky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487533342

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The Intolerant Middle Ages by Eugene Smelyansky Pdf

In this collection of primary sources, Eugene Smelyansky highlights instances of persecution and violence, as well as those relatively rare but significant episodes of toleration, that impacted a broad spectrum of people who existed at the margins of medieval society: heretics, Jews and Muslims, the poor, the displaced and disabled, women, and those deemed sexually deviant. The volume also presents a more geographically diverse Middle Ages by including sources from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Mediterranean. Each document is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by questions for discussion, making The Intolerant Middle Ages an excellent entrance into the lives and struggles of medieval minorities.

Author : Asa Mittman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135501044

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Maps and Monsters in Medieval England by Asa Mittman Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Alixe Bovey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802085121

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Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts by Alixe Bovey Pdf

Images of monstrosities pervade art and culture in the Middle Ages, and for medieval people they must have been a tantalizing suggestion of unknown worlds and unthinkable dangers.