The Medieval Book

Author : Elizabeth Morrison
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : ART
ISBN : 9781606065907

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Book of Beasts by Elizabeth Morrison Pdf

A celebration of the visual contributions of the bestiary--one of the most popular types of illuminated books during the Middle Ages--and an exploration of its lasting legacy. Brimming with lively animals both real and fantastic, the bestiary was one of the great illuminated manuscript traditions of the Middle Ages. Encompassing imaginary creatures such as the unicorn, siren, and griffin; exotic beasts including the tiger, elephant, and ape; as well as animals native to Europe like the beaver, dog, and hedgehog, the bestiary is a vibrant testimony to the medieval understanding of animals and their role in the world. So iconic were the stories and images of the bestiary that its beasts essentially escaped from the pages, appearing in a wide variety of manuscripts and other objects, including tapestries, ivories, metalwork, and sculpture. With over 270 color illustrations and contributions by twenty-five leading scholars, this gorgeous volume explores the bestiary and its widespread influence on medieval art and culture as well as on modern and contemporary artists like Pablo Picasso and Damien Hirst. Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center May 14 to August 18, 2019.

Author : James H. Marrow,Richard A. Linenthal,William Noel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : 9061943701

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The Medieval Book by James H. Marrow,Richard A. Linenthal,William Noel Pdf

This book was presented on the occasion of Christopher de Hamel's sixtieth birthday, and celebrates his many accomplishments during his years at Sotheby's and more recently as the Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian of the Parker Library at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Christopher de Hamel has described more medieval manuscripts than any other living scholar, and the sale catalogues that have come from his hands set new standards of quality and stimulated new generations of collectors, both institutional and private. This book is a tribute to his learning, his industry, imagination, spirit and good fellowship and his capacity to inspire others. Among the contributors are collectors, colleagues, librarians, curators, students of book history and scholars. The contributions are divided under the rubrics Books, The Book Trade and Collectors and Collecting, composing a varied collection of 40 highly interesting articles, including an introduction on Christopher de Hamel and a bibliography of his writings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004379435

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The Materiality of Text – Placement, Perception, and Presence of Inscribed Texts in Classical Antiquity by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores the significance of the physical materials and contexts of inscribed texts in Greek and Roman antiquity and their performative roles in ancient society from an anthropological and historical perspective (7th century B.C.E. to 4th century C.E.).

Author : Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107066199

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The Medieval Manuscript Book by Michael Johnston,Michael Van Dussen Pdf

This book situates the medieval manuscript within its cultural contexts, with chapters by experts in bibliographical and theoretical approaches to manuscript study.

Author : Pavlina Cermanova,Vaclav Zurek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 2503594638

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Books of Knowledge in Late Medieval Europe by Pavlina Cermanova,Vaclav Zurek Pdf

This book provides a series of studies concerning unique medieval texts that can be defined as 'books of knowledge', such as medieval chronicles, bestiaries, or catechetic handbooks. Thus far, scholarship of intellectual history has focused on concepts of knowledge to describe a specific community, or to delimit intellectuals in society. However, the specific textual tool for the transmission of knowledge has been missing. Besides oral tradition, books and other written texts were the only sources of knowledge, and they were thus invaluable in efforts to receive or transfer knowledge. That is one reason why texts that proclaim to introduce a specific field of expertise or promise to present a summary of wisdom were so popular. These texts discussed cosmology, theology, philosophy, the natural sciences, history, and other fields. They often did so in an accessible way to maintain the potential to also attract a non-specialised public. The basic form was usually a narrative, chronologically or thematically structured, and clearly ordered to appeal to readers. Books of this kind could be disseminated in dozens or even hundreds of copies, and were often available (by translation or adaptation) in various languages, including the vernacular. In exploring these widely-disseminated and highly popular texts that offered a precise segment of knowledge that could be accessed by readers outside the intellectual and social elite, this volume intends to introduce books of knowledge as a new category within the study of medieval literacy.

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271089010

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The Absent Image by Elina Gertsman Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.

Author : Peter Ganz,Peter F. Ganz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Books
ISBN : 2503780032

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The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture by Peter Ganz,Peter F. Ganz Pdf

Author : Margit J. Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Bookbinding, Medieval
ISBN : 1584563680

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The Medieval Girdle Book by Margit J. Smith Pdf

Between the 14th and 16th centuries a little-known book format, now called the girdle book, was used throughout various European countries. 'The girdle book' is distinguished by a cover that extends beyond the limits of the book itself and may end in a knot, hook or ring, or may be left ungathered. By this extension the book was hung from the belt with its head down, so when swung up it could be read without detaching it from the belt.0Today there are only twenty-six known examples identified and documented in collections worldwide. In 'The Medieval Girdle Book', the author provides a comprehensive look at these extremely rare books. A study of this scope, which contributes significantly to the information available has been lacking until now and makes this the first thorough treatment of all so far known girdle books. 0The author has examined each book in detail, documented its historical context, provenance, owner(s) or institutions associated with it, and described each from the bookbinder's perspective, including the materials and processes of their construction. Contrary to previous assumptions that only clerics and the religious used girdle books, 'The Medieval Girdle Book' shows they also contain legal, medical, and philosophical contents.

Author : David John Athole Ross
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, French
ISBN : 2503581056

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Illustrated Medieval Alexander-books in French Verse by David John Athole Ross Pdf

"The core of this book on the French verse Alexander in France and Italy was written by eminent Alexander specialist David J.A. Ross, who left an incomplete typescript at his death. In its emphasis on illustration, this book offers new perspectives on the reception of one of the most popular medieval heroes. Ross's analysis of the illustrations proves that despite some convergent patterns there is no iconographic programme that coordinates the three major verse traditions as there is for the versions in prose. Nevertheless, the verse versions continued to be copied and illustrated long after the emergence of prose. The editors have expanded Ross's text, as he wished, to include a comparative analysis of the iconography and they have situated each manuscript as far as possible in its cultural context, demonstrating that the producers of the verse Alexander were also responsible for writing and illustrating a large number of other vernacular and liturgical books in Northern France, Paris, the South, and Italy. This volume is a sequel to Ross's Studies in the Alexander Romance and his Illustrated medieval Alexander-books in Germany and the Netherlands, and makes available an extensive corpus of high-quality images of this great hero."--

Author : Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Medieval Academy of America
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802068537

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The Medieval Book by Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,Medieval Academy of America Pdf

Originally published by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1988.

Author : Barbara A. Shailor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Books
ISBN : OCLC:1011716473

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The Medieval Book by Barbara A. Shailor Pdf

Author : Peter Linehan,Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136500053

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The Medieval World by Peter Linehan,Janet L. Nelson Pdf

This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Thirty-eight scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Chapters are thematically linked in four sections: identities beliefs, social values and symbolic order power and power-structures elites, organizations and groups. Packed full of original scholarship, The Medieval World is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

Author : Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven, Conn..
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313559525

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The Medieval Book by Barbara A. Shailor,Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. New Haven, Conn.. Pdf

Author : Ruth A. Johnston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313364631

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All Things Medieval [2 volumes] by Ruth A. Johnston Pdf

This insightful survey of the "things" of medieval Europe allows modern readers to understand what they looked like, what they were made of, how they were created, and how they were used. All Things Medieval: An Encyclopedia of the Medieval World covers the widest definition of "medieval Europe" possible, not by covering history in the traditional, textbook manner of listing wars, leaders, and significant historic events, but by presenting detailed alphabetical entries that describe the artifacts of medieval Europe. By examining the hidden material culture and by presenting information about topics that few books cover—pottery, locks and keys, shoes, weaving looms, barrels, toys, pets, ink, kitchen utensils, and much more—readers get invaluable insights into the nature of life during that time period and area. The heartland European regions such as England, France, Italy, and Germany are covered extensively, and information regarding the objects of regions such as Byzantium, Muslim Spain, and Scandinavia are also included. For each topic of material culture, the entry considers the full scope of the medieval period—roughly 500–1450—to give the reader a historical perspective of related traditions or inventions and describes the craftsmen and tools that produced it.

Author : Carol Lansing,Edward D. English
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118425121

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A Companion to the Medieval World by Carol Lansing,Edward D. English Pdf

Drawing on the expertise of 26 distinguished scholars, this important volume covers the major issues in the study of medieval Europe, highlighting the significant impact the time period had on cultural forms and institutions central to European identity. Examines changing approaches to the study of medieval Europe, its periodization, and central themes Includes coverage of important questions such as identity and the self, sexuality and gender, emotionality and ethnicity, as well as more traditional topics such as economic and demographic expansion; kingship; and the rise of the West Explores Europe’s understanding of the wider world to place the study of the medieval society in a global context