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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 2
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
xiii, 179 p. : ill.
Description
Drawing on philosophical and theological writings produced in eleventh-century Byzantium, this book offers a reading of the icon and Byzantine aesthetics that expands our understanding of these topics.
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 1
Publication Date
2007
Physical Desc
xxiv, 245 p., [36] p. of plates : ill.
Description
Assembled on the occasion of Gary Dickson's retirement from the University of Edinburgh following a distinguished career as an internationally acclaimed scholar of medieval social and religious history, this volume contains contributions by both established and newer scholars inspired by Dickson's particular interests in medieval popular religion, including 'religious enthusiasm'. Together, the essays comprise a comprehensive and rich investigation...
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 3
Publication Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxix, 295 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill.
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Twelfth-century individuals negotiated personal relationships along a continuum connecting rather than polarizing immediacy and mediated representation. Their markers of individuation, signs of identity and media of communication thus evidence practical engagement with contemporary medieval sign theory and perceptions of reality. In this study, the relevance of modern theory for the interpretation of medieval artifacts is shown to depend upon the...
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 5
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
xxxii, 213 p. : ill.
Description
These studies explore aspects of Julian Gardner's wide range of interests and approaches, ranging from Parisian metalwork to the Wilton diptych, Franciscan iconography, the tomb of a leading theologian and several studies of the art of Rome and Northern Italy.
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 9
Publication Date
2013
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 p. : ill.
Description
In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues that late medieval artists, writers, and patrons creatively adapted conventional death iconography in ways that ultimately affirm theiir artistic, social and political identities.
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume Volume 11
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (373 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs.
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Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Description
Byzantium/Modernism examines the cross-temporal interchange between Byzantium and modernism and articulates how and why Byzantine art and image theory can contribute to our understanding of modern and contemporary visual culture.
8) Imagining the text: ekphrasis and envisioning courtly identity in Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois
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Publication Date
2016.
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1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs.
Description
James Brown examines ekphrasis-the verbal representation of a visual representation-in Wirnt von Gravenberg's thirteenth-century Arthurian romance Wigalois, one of the most popular and enduring stories in the Middle High German literary tradition. Through close reading of the text and examining illustrated Wigalois manuscripts, early print editions, and frescoes, Brown explores how ekphrasis structures the narrative, harmonizes potential conflicts...
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Visualising the Middle Ages volume 13
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (727 pages)
Description
"Mudejarismo and Moorish Revival in Europe examines key aspects related to the reception of Ibero-Islamic architecture in medieval Iberia and 19th-century Europe. It challenges prevalent readings of architecture and interiors whose creation was the result of cultural encounters. As Mudéjar and neo-Moorish architecture are closely connected to the Islamic world, concepts of identity, nationalism, religious and ethnic belonging, as well as Orientalism...


