Product Description: In Imago Mortis: Mediating Images of Death in Late Medieval Culture, Ashby Kinch argues for the affirmative quality of late medieval death art and literature, providing a new, interdisciplinary approach to a well-known body of material...read more

Product Description: This book provides a fully contextualised overview on aspects of visual culture, and how this was the product of patronage, politics, and religion in some European countries between the 13th and 17th centuries. The research that is showcased here offers new perspectives on the conception, production and reception of artworks as a means of projecting core values, ideals, and traditions of individuals, groups, and communities...read more

Product Description: The Eye on Art series is intended to assist readers in understanding the various roles of art in society; each volume offers an in-depth exploration of a major artistic movement, medium, figure, or profession.; This new title in Lucent's Eye on Art series describes the major artistic and architectural works of Europe's medieval era...read more

Product Description: Medieval Art and Architecture after the Middle Ages explores the endurance of and nostalgia for medieval monuments through their reception in later periods, specifically illuminating the myriad ways in which tangible and imaginary artifacts of the Middle Ages have served to articulate contemporary aspirations and anxieties...read more

Product Description: J.J.G. Alexander, An English Twelfth-Century Manuscript of Hugh of St. Victor and Examples of Italian Fitfteenth-Century Illumination in the Lilly Library, Bloomington, Indiana - J. Barclay-Lloyd, Creating a Medieval Interior in Melbourne: the Stained Glass Windows of St...read more

Product Description: Arch-mediator between the divine and the mundane, the angel is an enduring figure in the Western world. It has been interpreted as an externalization of repressed fantasies, a projection of the self as other, and a metaphor for modern estrangement...read more

Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical, liturgical, and political writings on the other. In so doing, he ultimately demonstrated the intrinsic connections among visual culture, theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecclesiastic doctrine and practice. Although he used the word only once in his own writings, at the very end of his career, Deshman was truly an interdisciplinary scholar of the first order.... The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997 (four posthumously) in six different journals and four edited books. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replaced in the scholarly literature.

Product Description: Truus van Bueren, Care for the Here and the Hereafter: a Multitude of Possibilities; Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., Triumph over Plague: Culture and Memory after the Black Death; Truus van Bueren and Otto Gerhard Oexle, Das Imaginarium der Sukzession: Uber Sukzessionsbilder und ihren Kontext; Brigitte Bgild Johannsen, Genealogical Representation in Gendered Perspective: on a Lost Royal Mausoleum from Early Sixteenth-Century Denmark; Jeroen Stumpel, The Case of the Missing Cross: Thoughts on the Context and Meaning of the Nassau Monuments in Breda; Volker Schier, Memorials Sung and Unsung: Liturgical Remembrance and its History; Corine Schleif, Forgotten Roles of Women as Donors: Sister Katerina Lemmel's Negotiated Exchanges in the Care for the Here and the Hereafter; Bram van den Hoven van Genderen, Utrecht Canons, Death and Funeral Regulations; Llewellyn C...read more

Surveys a thousand years of European paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and architecture, describes their social and historical background, and discusses aesthetic themes and symbols

Examines the development and techniques of the art and architecture in the Romanesque and Gothic styles in Western Europe during the medieval period