Download or read book The Winter Missal of Arnold of Rummen written by Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hundred Years’ War, the Plague, the van Artevelde uprising, conflict between a count and an aspiring count, Corpus Christi and the Eucharist––these are the context for the enigmatic manuscript studied in this book. Above all, this missal from Ghent is outstanding for its rich and inventive penwork flourishing, given life by the prayer-pulses of the text and enriched by cycles of development. The lowly two-line initial emerges as the primary locus of creative interaction between painting and flourishing. Illumination, produced by a priest and a layman, is notable for its theological richness and is enlivened by distinctive gorgons.
Download or read book Flanders in a European Perspective written by Maurits Smeyers and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1995)
Download or read book Medieval Mastery written by Adelaide Louise Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Art from the Court of Burgundy written by Cleveland Museum of Art and published by Cleveland Museum of Art. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title concerns a patronage in whose service painters, sculptors, and goldsmiths could exercise their talents to the full.
Download or read book Bearings and Distances written by Glenn Arbery and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearings and Distances by Glenn Arbery, is a novel of comic ironies and tragic recurrences set in the "post-racial" moment of the American experiment. In the summer after Barack Obama's election, Hermia Watson, a scholar of black history, lures the famous (and famously irresponsible) Professor Braxton Forrest back to his hometown in Georgia, using his two daughters as unwitting hostages. Returning alone while his pious wife continues touring Italy, Forrest arrives to the tremblings of his abandoned past and a confrontation with the Furies he thought modernity had left behind. In the course of a few days, Hermia realizes what violent revelations she has begun to unleash about her former lover, her mother, and her own identity-but it is too late to stop what is coming to light. Arbery revisits the obsessions of the 20th century Southern renaissance in a work that satirizes misconceptions and shallow pieties but takes seriously the wisdom of the Southern literary tradition-and its classical antecedents.
Download or read book The Winter Missal of Arnold of Rummen written by Carolyn Coker Joslin Watson and published by . This book was released on 2024-11-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the illumination and extraordinary penwork flourishing in this mid-fourteenth-century missal. It characterizes the artist-flourishers, identifies Ghent as the locus of the decorative campaigns, and places the manuscript in the momentous events in that city.
Download or read book The Egerton Genesis written by Mary Coker Joslin and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Egerton Genesis is a pictorial narrative of the biblical Genesis, supplemented by legendary material. It was commissioned in the fourteenth century for the entertainment of a middle-class patron and his friends.
Download or read book Illuminating the Middle Ages written by Laura Cleaver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-eight essays in this collection showcase cutting-edge research in manuscript studies, encompassing material from late antiquity to the Renaissance. The volume celebrates the exceptional contribution of John Lowden to the study of medieval books. The authors explore some of the themes and questions raised in John’s work, tackling issues of meaning, making, patronage, the book as an object, relationships between text and image, and the transmission of ideas. They combine John’s commitment to the close scrutiny of manuscripts with an interrogation of what the books meant in their own time and what they mean to us now.
Download or read book Die lesende Frau written by Gabriela Signori and published by Harrassowitz. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus dem Inhalt (15 Beitrage): AntikeJ. Fabricius, Kleobulines Schwestern. Bilder lesender und schreibender Frauen im HellenismusC. Kunst, Lesende Frauen. Zur kulturellen Semantik des Lesens im antiken RomMittelalterK. Bodarwe, Lesende Frauen im fruhen MittelalterC.J. Mews, Women Readers in the Age of HeloiseK. Schreiner, Die lesende und schreibende Maria als Symbolgestalt religioser FrauenbildungA. Bollmann, Lesekult und Leseskepsis in den Frauengemeinschaften der Devotio modernaFruhe NeuzeitA. Fluchter, Gelehrte Empfindsamkeit. Sophie LaRoche schreibt sich einen Weg zwischen den GeschlechternA. Messerli, Gebildet, nicht gelehrt. Weibliche Schreib- und Lesepraktiken in den Diskursen vom 18. zum 19. JahrhundertNeuzeitG. Muller-Oberhauser, Lesende Madchen und Frauen im Viktorianischen England: Lesebiographische (Re-)KonstruktionenU. Renner-Henke, Bildlekture - Lekturebild. Zu Pablo Picassos "Deux personnages"E. Schutt-Kehm, Buchgenuss mit Herz und Kopf. Die lesende Frau als Exlibris-Motiv um 1900 bis 1945
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Download or read book Ravenna written by Judith Herrin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting history of the city that led the West out of the ruins of the Roman Empire At the end of the fourth century, as the power of Rome faded and Constantinople became the seat of empire, a new capital city was rising in the West. Here, in Ravenna on the coast of Italy, Arian Goths and Catholic Romans competed to produce an unrivaled concentration of buildings and astonishing mosaics. For three centuries, the city attracted scholars, lawyers, craftsmen, and religious luminaries, becoming a true cultural and political capital. Bringing this extraordinary history marvelously to life, Judith Herrin rewrites the history of East and West in the Mediterranean world before the rise of Islam and shows how, thanks to Byzantine influence, Ravenna played a crucial role in the development of medieval Christendom. Drawing on deep, original research, Herrin tells the personal stories of Ravenna while setting them in a sweeping synthesis of Mediterranean and Christian history. She narrates the lives of the Empress Galla Placidia and the Gothic king Theoderic and describes the achievements of an amazing cosmographer and a doctor who revived Greek medical knowledge in Italy, demolishing the idea that the West just descended into the medieval "Dark Ages." Beautifully illustrated and drawing on the latest archaeological findings, this monumental book provides a bold new interpretation of Ravenna's lasting influence on the culture of Europe and the West.
Download or read book What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria written by Mostafa el- Abbadi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at presenting a new discussion of primary sources by renowned scholars of the long disputed question of "What Happened to the Ancient Library of Alexandria"? The treatment includes a brilliant presentation of cultural Alexandrian life in late antiquity.
Download or read book The Burgundians written by Bart Van Loo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.
Download or read book The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence s Comedies 800 1200 written by Beatrice Radden Keefe and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.
Download or read book Philippa of Hainault written by Kathryn Warner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philippa of Hainault: Mother of the English Nation. The first biography of a remarkable and influential English queen.
Download or read book The Habsburgs written by Martyn Rady and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling" (Wall Street Journal)--the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries. In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it built--and then lost--over nearly a millennium. From modest origins, the Habsburgs gained control of the Holy Roman Empire in the fifteenth century. Then, in a few decades, their possessions rapidly expanded to take in a large part of Europe, stretching from Hungary to Spain, and parts of the New World and the Far East. The Habsburgs dominated Central Europe through the First World War. Historians often depict the Habsburgs as leaders of a ramshackle empire. But Rady reveals their enduring power, driven by the belief that they were destined to rule the world as defenders of the Roman Catholic Church, guarantors of peace, and patrons of learning. This is the remarkable history of a dynasty that forever changed Europe and the world.
