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Author | : Lister M. Matheson |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1573567809 |
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From Thomas Becket to Charlemagne, from Leif Erickson to Count Dracula, this series of biographical essays separates truth from legend as it explores the lives of some of the most accomplished and influential figures of medieval history. Drawing on the latest research, Icons of the Middle Ages: Rulers, Writers, Rebels, and Saints examines the lives of some of the most remarkable personalities of the Medieval Era—powerful, ruthless, compassionate, brilliant people who remain widely influential today. Each portrait in this extraordinary gallery sets its subject in the context of their world, revealing what we really know about their lives, their iconic status in their own times, and their lasting legacies in our time. Readers will encounter fascinating individuals devoted to the pursuit of power (Richard III), to freedom (Robert the Bruce), to philosophy and religion (Maimonides; Thomas More), and to the arts (Dante; Hildegard of Bingen). Additional chapters explore life in the medieval castle and the advent of siege warfare—two defining developments in the Middle Ages.
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Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : M. Williams |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2012-12-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137057262 |
Download Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : 9780313340802 |
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Author | : Bissera V. Pentcheva |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2020-11-23 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1000207366 |
Download Icons of Sound Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture, and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range, from the fifth to the fifteenth century, and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University, Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy, the acoustics of architectural spaces, and their visual aesthetics. Together, the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history, sound studies, musicology, and medieval studies.
Author | : John Henry Haaren |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2021-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
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Download Famous Men of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
As the title suggests this book contains stories about many of the most prominent people of the Middle Ages, including Joan of Arc. The writer's style is clear and easy to read and the range of persons included is impressive.
Author | : Paroma Chatterjee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107782961 |
Download The Living Icon in Byzantium and Italy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the magnified portrait of a saint framed by scenes from his or her life. The vita icon was used for depicting the most popular figures in the Orthodox calendar and, in the Latin West, was deployed most vigorously in the service of Francis of Assisi. This book offers a compelling account of how this type of image embodied and challenged the prevailing structures of vision, representation and sanctity in Byzantium and among the Franciscans in Italy between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Paroma Chatterjee uncovers the complexities of the philosophical and theological issues that had long engaged both the medieval East and West, such as the fraught relations between words and images, relics and icons, a representation and its subject, and the very nature of holy presence.
Author | : Eleanor Janega |
Publisher | : Icon Books |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2021-06-03 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1785785923 |
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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.
Author | : Bryan C. Keene |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 160606598X |
Download Toward a Global Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 | : Janetta Rebold Benton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780500203507 |
Download Art of the Middle Ages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Presents a chronological introduction to Medieval art, including stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, mural and panel paintings, metalwork, tapestries, sculpture, and architecture.