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Author : Elina Gertsman,Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107150386
The holy and the faithful -- The sinful and the spectral -- Daily life and its fictions -- Death and its aftermath
Author : Deborah Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501730283
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 : Ittai Weinryb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107123618
This is a path-breaking contribution to the study of medieval metalwork and to the broader re-evaluation of medieval art.
Author : Bryan C. Keene
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606065983
This important and overdue book examines illuminated manuscripts and other book arts of the Global Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts and illustrated or decorated books—like today’s museums—preserve a rich array of information about how premodern peoples conceived of and perceived the world, its many cultures, and everyone’s place in it. Often a Eurocentric field of study, manuscripts are prisms through which we can glimpse the interconnected global history of humanity. Toward a Global Middle Ages is the first publication to examine decorated books produced across the globe during the period traditionally known as medieval. Through essays and case studies, the volume’s multidisciplinary contributors expand the historiography, chronology, and geography of manuscript studies to embrace a diversity of objects, individuals, narratives, and materials from Africa, Asia, Australasia, and the Americas—an approach that both engages with and contributes to the emerging field of scholarly inquiry known as the Global Middle Ages. Featuring more than 160 color illustrations, this wide-ranging and provocative collection is intended for all who are interested in engaging in a dialogue about how books and other textual objects contributed to world-making strategies from about 400 to 1600.
Author : Wendy A. Stein
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781588395979
The intensely expressive art of the Middle Ages was created to awe, educate and connect the viewer to heaven. Its power reverberates to this day, even among the secular. But experiencing the full meaning and purpose of medieval art requires an understanding of its narrative content. This volume introduces the subjects and stories most frequently depicted in medieval art, many of them drawn from the Bible and other religious literature. Included among the thirty-eight representative works are brilliant altarpieces, stained-glass windows, intricate tapestries, carved wood sculptures, delicate ivories, and captivating manuscript illuminations, all drawn from the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum, one of the world's most comprehensive collections of medieval art. Iconic masterworks such as the Merode Altarpiece, the Unicorn Tapestries, and the Belles Heures of the duc de Berry are featured along with less familiar work. Descriptions of the individual pieces highlight the context in which they were made, conveying their visual and technical nuances as well as their broader symbolic meaning. With its accessible informative discussions and superb full-color illustrations, How to Read Medieval Art explores the iconographic themes of the period, making them clearly recognizable and opening vistas onto history and literature, faith and devotion.
Author : Deborah Mauskopf Deliyannis,Hendrik Dey,Paolo Squatriti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138960985
Fifty Early Medieval Things explores objects and places for what they really are: the fabric of the world, the raw materials of life and history. This book begins with an extensive introduction to the historiography, an assessment of the methodological and epistemological implications of studying material culture and an exploration of the diverse facets of the human experience that the study of the material world can help to illuminate. Followed by fifty short chapters, each focused on a specific object and a glossary of key terms and concepts, "Fifty Early Medieval Things "invites students of early medieval history and material culture to engage with objects in new and exciting ways.
Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442606029
Covering over one thousand years of history and containing primary source material from the European, Byzantine, and Islamic worlds, Barbara H. Rosenwein's Reading the Middle Ages, Second Edition once again brings the Middle Ages to life. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition contains 40 new readings, including 13 translations commissioned especially for this book, and a stunning new 10-plate color insert entitled "Containing the Holy" that brings together materials from the Western, Byzantine, and Islamic religious traditions. Ancillary materials, including study questions, can be found on the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).
Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1442636238
"In this bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a dynamic narrative that is complemented by exquisite illustrations and maps. In the new edition, Rosenwein makes significant additions to the Islamic and Mediterranean material as well as to the coverage of Eurasian connections. The maps now show topographical differences as well as changes over time, eighteen new plates highlight the art and architecture of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and genealogies and the plans for a mosque are now included. New essays have also been added in order to introduce readers to the analysis of material culture."--
Author : Kathryn Gerry,Ayla Lepine,Stephen Perkinson
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1785511890
"Medieval art. Wyvern Collection of Medieval and Early Renaissance art, at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Examples of metalwork, ceramic, ivory, stone and wood sculpture, panel paintings and illuminated manuscripts from across Europe and Christian community of Ethiopia"--
Author : François-Xavier Fauvelle
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691217147
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in the globalized world of the Middle Ages. Drawing on fragmented written sources as well as his many years of experience as an archaeologist, the author reconstructs an African past that is too often denied its place in history. He looks at ruined cities found in the mangrove, exquisite pieces of art, rare artifacts like the golden rhinoceros of Mapungubwe, ancient maps, and accounts left by geographers and travelers
Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789048542673
Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of image from what it purports to represent, abstraction as a vehicle for signification, and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological.
Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442606173
Barbara H. Rosenwein's bestselling survey text continues to stand out by integrating the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a lively narrative that is complemented beautifully by full-color plates, maps, and genealogies. The fourth edition begins with an essay entitled "Why the Middle Ages Matter Today," and the book now covers East Central Europe in some depth. New plates and maps have been added along with a new "Seeing the Middle Ages" feature. The sections for further reading have been updated, and ancillary materials, including study questions, can be found on the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).
Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9798216049777
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 : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842439
Earliest Christian art - Saints and holy places - Holy images - Artistic production for the wealthy - Icons & iconography.
Author : Eleanor Janega
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781785785924
A unique, illustrated book that will change the way you see medieval history The Middle Ages: A Graphic History busts the myth of the 'Dark Ages', shedding light on the medieval period's present-day relevance in a unique illustrated style. This history takes us through the rise and fall of empires, papacies, caliphates and kingdoms; through the violence and death of the Crusades, Viking raids, the Hundred Years War and the Plague; to the curious practices of monks, martyrs and iconoclasts. We'll see how the foundations of the modern West were established, influencing our art, cultures, religious practices and ways of thinking. And we'll explore the lives of those seen as 'Other' - women, Jews, homosexuals, lepers, sex workers and heretics. Join historian Eleanor Janega and illustrator Neil Max Emmanuel on a romp across continents and kingdoms as we discover the Middle Ages to be a time of huge change, inquiry and development - not unlike our own.