The Gothic Visionary Perspective

Author : Barbara Nolan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400870554

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The Gothic Visionary Perspective by Barbara Nolan Pdf

Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In these essays, she explores some of the most important moments in this Gothic visionary perspective. The author first follows the history of Apocalypse commentaries from Bede to Alexander of Bremen, focusing particularly on twelfth-century interpretation of Revelation as a spiritual guidebook for the contemporary Christian. She shows that innovative interpretations in these texts have parallels in the cathedral art of St.-Denis and Chartres, the illuminations for later medieval illustrated Apocalypses, and the invention of new "anagogical" literary modes. Professor Nolan's close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation. Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest even as Piers marks a final moment in its history. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Conrad Rudolph
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119077749

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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.

Author : Margaret Toscano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317122715

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Hell and its Afterlife by Margaret Toscano Pdf

The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture. While the idea of an infernal region of punishment was largely developed in the context of early Jewish and Christian religious culture, it remains a central belief for some Christians in the modern world. Hell's reception (its 'afterlife') in the modern world has extended hell's meaning beyond the religious realm; hell has become a pervasive image and metaphor in political rhetoric, in popular culture, and in the media. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields to contribute to a wider understanding of this fascinating and important cultural idea, this book will appeal to readers from historical, religious, literary and cultural perspectives.

Author : Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520320901

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Loyola's Acts by Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : Sarah Stanbury
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580444200

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Pearl by Sarah Stanbury Pdf

Pearl resists identification by author, date, occasion, or place of composition; still it is almost unanimously hailed as one of the masterpieces of our literature, so skilled is its author, so eloquent its language. It is a story, according to Sarah Stanbury, "of crossing-over, the stepping out from the ordinary life into a parallel universe where things operate by different natural laws: down the rabbit hole, through the wardrobe or looking glass, across the ocean to be shipwrecked on Prospero's island, or more recently, across a bridge to the island of Willow Springs in Gloria Naylor's haunting novel, Mama Day, where the crossing-over moves into a place of memory and hope, the nostalgic space of home as well as Beulah or Eden, the earthly paradise."

Author : Ann Raftery Meyer
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0859917967

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Medieval Allegory and the Building of the New Jerusalem by Ann Raftery Meyer Pdf

The chantry movement in late medieval England is situated in this context, and leads to a demonstration of the movement's associations with the highly-wrought poem Pearl and its companion poems; the book analyses Pearl as medieval architecture, offering fresh perspectives on its elaborate construction and historical context."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Paul Youngquist
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271039619

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Madness and Blake's Myth by Paul Youngquist Pdf

Author : Kathryn Lynch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766418

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The High Medieval Dream Vision by Kathryn Lynch Pdf

In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.

Author : Jeremy Lowe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135873202

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Desiring Truth by Jeremy Lowe Pdf

First published in 2005. Volumes in the Medieval History and Culture series include studies on individual works and authors of Latin and vernacular literatures, historical personalities and events, theological and philosophical issues, and new critical approaches to medieval literature and culture. Momentous changes have occurred in Medieval Studies in the past thirty years, in teaching as well as in scholarship. The Medieval History and Culture series enhances research in the held by providing an outlet for monographs by scholars in the early stages of their careers on all topics related to the broad scope of Medieval Studies, while at the same time pointing to and highlighting new directions that will shape and define scholarly discourse in the future. This volume explores a methology for articulating this relationship that fourteenth-century texts invite us to participate in the production of meaning: judgment, the willed act of moral engagement, and therefore the process, a living, evolving relationship, an open circuit between text and respondent.

Author : Joseph Salvatore Ackley,Shannon L. Wearing
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110637083

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Illuminating Metalwork by Joseph Salvatore Ackley,Shannon L. Wearing Pdf

The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.

Author : Gwenfair Walters Adams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047419259

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Visions in Late Medieval England by Gwenfair Walters Adams Pdf

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Author : Sarah Spence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572797

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Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century by Sarah Spence Pdf

Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century analyses key twelfth-century Latin and vernacular texts which articulate a subjective, often autobiographical, stance. The contention is that the self forged in medieval literature could not have come into existence without both the gap between Latinity and the vernacular and a shift in perspective towards a visual and spatial orientation. This results in a self which is not an agent that will act on the outside world like the Renaissance self, but, rather, one which inhabits a potential, middle ground, or 'space of agency', explained here partly in terms of object-relations theory.

Author : Colleen McDannell,Bernhard Lang
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300091079

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Heaven by Colleen McDannell,Bernhard Lang Pdf

In so doing, they shed new light on both the private and public dimensions of western culture. This second edition includes a substantial new preface relating the book to changing views of life after death in the new century."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Karolyn Kinane,Michael A. Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786453597

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End of Days by Karolyn Kinane,Michael A. Ryan Pdf

The idea of the complete annihilation of all life is a powerful and culturally universal concept. As human societies around the globe have produced creation myths, so too have they created narratives concerning the apocalyptic destruction of their worlds. This book explores the idea of the apocalypse and its reception within culture and society, bringing together 17 essays that explore both the influence and innovation of apocalyptic ideas from classical Greek and Roman writings to the foreign policies of today's United States.

Author : Veronica Sekules
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842412

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Medieval Art by Veronica Sekules Pdf

This refreshing new look at Medieval art conveys a very real sense of the impact of art on everyday life in Europe from 1000 to 1500. It examines the importance of art in the expression and spread of knowledge and ideas, including notions of the heroism and justice of war, and the dominant view of Christianity. Taking its starting point from issues of contemporary relevance, such as the environment, the identity of the artist, and the position of women, the book also highlights the attitudes and events specific to the sophisticated visual culture of the Middle Ages, and goes on to link this period to the Renaissance. The fascinating question of whether commercial and social activities between countries encouraged similar artistic taste and patronage, or contributed to the defining of cultural difference in Europe, is fully explored.