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Author : Francis Wormald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199210428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings: Studies in English and continental art of the later Middle Ages written by Francis Wormald and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Wormald
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199210596
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Francis Wormald, Collected Writings written by Francis Wormald and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Wormald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings: Studies in English and continental art of the later Middle Ages written by Francis Wormald and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For the whole of the Middle Ages' says Francis Wormald, 'the British Isles stood on the edge of a great ocean, on the furthest tip of the world as it were, and like some lonely beach many and interesting things arrived on its shores.' It is the interaction of English and Continental medieval art, and the diversity and significance of mainland European influences on the development of English style that provide the main theme of the papers gathered in this volume. Although the topics covered include some discussions of the great Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque illuminated manuscripts on which Wormald is still considered the authority, the emphasis of the collection is, however, on his work in later medieval art - in manuscripts, seals, paintings and carvings. The editors have brought all bibliographic references up to date, citing the most recent scholarship in each particular subject. This two-volume publication collects from many different sources an important group of writings by Francis Wormald (1904-1972), whose great contribution to medieval studies owes its originality and distinction to the unrivalled understanding of manuscripts, of all kinds and of all periods.
Author : Francis Wormald
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Collected Writings: Studies in Medieval art from the sixth to the twelfth centuries written by Francis Wormald and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects from many different sources an important group of writings by Francis Wormald (1904-1972), a scholar and teacher whose great contribution to medieval studies owes its originality and distinction to the unrivalled understanding of manuscripts, or all kinds and of all periods. The eleven works in the present collection relate to Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages and include Wormald's important of the Gospels of St Augustine and the Utrecht Psalter. The remainder deal with Anglo-Saxon art, especially in manuscripts, of the tenth and eleventh centuries and its influence on later English art. Thye include most of the writings which established Wormald's reputation as a leading authority on the period, with the original English text of an essay previously published only in French. A preface and bibliographical notes by J.J.G. Alexander introduce the collection and acquaint the reader with significant later publications.
Author : Jill Fitzgerald
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526129116
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Rebel angels written by Jill Fitzgerald and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over six hundred years before John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social world to the world of popular spiritual ritual and belief. The story of the fall of the angels in Anglo-Saxon England is the story of a successfully transmitted exegetical teaching turned rich literary tradition. It can be traced through a range of genres – sermons, saints’ lives, royal charters, riddles, devotional and biblical poetry – each one offering a distinct window into the ancient myth’s place within the Anglo-Saxon literary and cultural imagination.
Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719041525
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (415 download)
Download or read book An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England written by Chris Given-Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Middle Ages (c.1200-1500) was an age of transition. The major events of this period - the Black Death, the Hundred Years War, the rise of Parliament, the depositions of five English kings between 1327 and 1483 - are examined in detail in this book.
Author : Charles Tracy
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 178297783X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Britain's Medieval Episcopal Thrones written by Charles Tracy and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major investigation of a subject of seminal importance in the study of church history and archaeology. The two stone thrones, at Wells and Durham, the three timber monuments, at Exeter, St Davids and Hereford, and the mid-14th-century bishop's chair at Lincoln, all come under a searching empirical enquiry. The Exeter throne is the largest and most impressive in Europe. It is a distinguished innovatory example of the English Decorated style, with antecedents passing back to the court of Edward I. It exemplifies most of the historical and formal strands that suffuse the entire book – visual appearance, distinctiveness within the building, prestige, construction, stylistic context, finance, and the patronage and personal role of the bishop himself; as well as the subtler issues of the personal and collective politics of bishop and chapter, the monument's liturgical applications, its relationship with the cathedral's relics, its symbolism and what it tells us about the aspirations of the institution within the existing ecclesiastical hierarchy. The thrones also reveal much about the personal circumstances of an individual bishop, and where he stood on the scale of a good diocesan on the one hand, and ambitious politician on the other, as exemplified at Exeter and Durham. The text is by the art historian, Dr Charles Tracy, a seasoned expert on church furniture both in Britain and on the continent of Europe. The chapter on the stone thrones was prepared by Andrew Budge who is currently preparing a Ph.D thesis on 'English Chantry Churches' at Birkbeck College. The polychromy authority, Eddie Sinclair, spent many hours on the scaffold to bring forward her remarkable report on the Exeter throne. Her full report is to be published online.The Exeter throne is also interpreted by the established timber conservation practitioner, Hugh Harrison, and the St Davids throne by the experienced draughtsman, Peter Ferguson. In an age of the CAD, his meticulous measured drawings of the Exeter and St Davids monuments are one of the most remarkable features of book. The architect, Paul Woodfield prepared the drawings for the Lincoln chair.
Author : Wendy Scase
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845865
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book New Medieval Literatures 21 written by Wendy Scase and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021-03-19 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Medieval Literatures is an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with a wide range of subject matter, from as far back as Livy (d.c.AD 12/18) to Erwin Panofsky (d. 1968). They demonstrate that medieval textual cultures is a radically negotiable category and that medieval understandings of the past were equally diverse and unstable.They reflect on relationships between history, texts, and truth from a range of perspectives, from Foucault to "truthiness", a twenty-first-century media coinage. Materiality and the technical crafts with which humans engage withthe natural world are recurrent themes, opening up new insights on mysticism, knighthood, and manuscript production and reception. Analysis of manuscript illuminations offers new understandings of identity and diversity, while a survey of every thirteenth-century manuscript that contains English currently in Oxford libraries yields a challenging new history of script. Particular texts discussed include Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal, Richard Rolle's Incendium amoris and Melos amoris, and the Middle English verse romances Lybeaus Desconus, The Erle of Tolous, Amis and Amiloun, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Author : Richard Marks
Publisher : Pindar Press
ISBN 13 : 1915837219
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (158 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Art and Imagery of the Middle Ages written by Richard Marks and published by Pindar Press. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Steane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134641591
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy written by John Steane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-05-20 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy looks at the period between the reign of William the Conqueror and that of Henry VIII, bringing together physical evidence for the kings and their courts. John Steane looks at the symbols of power and regalia including crowns, seals and thrones. He considers Royal patronage, architecture and ideas on burials and tombs to unravel the details of their daily lives supported with many illustrations.
Author : Glyn Coppack
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789253152
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Mount Grace Priory: Excavations of 1957–1992 written by Glyn Coppack and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owned by the National Trust and managed by English Heritage, Mount Grace Priory in North Yorkshire, established in 1398 and suppressed in 1539, was one of only nine successful Carthusian monasteries in England and one of the best-preserved medieval houses of that order in Europe. First excavated by Sir William St John Hope in 1896-1900 and in state guardianship since 1955 it is acknowledged as a type site for late-medieval Carthusian monasteries. The modern study of Mount Grace began in 1957 when Hope’s interpretation of the monks’ cells about the great cloister was found to be simplistic. This was followed between 1968 and 1974 by the excavation of individual monks’ cells in the west range of the great cloister and two cells in the north range, together with their gardens, areas not excavated by Hope. The examination of the monks’ cells was completed in 1985 by the excavation of the central cell of the north cloister range, together with its garden and the cloister alley outside the cell. The cultural material recovered from these cells indicated the ‘trade’ each monk practiced, predominantly the copying and binding of books. Because each cell was enclosed by high walls, the pottery and metalwork recovered could be identified to an individual monk. In 1987 English Heritage commissioned the re-excavation of two areas that had been examined by Hope, the water tower in the great cloister and the prior’s cell, refectory and kitchen in the south cloister range and the guest house in the west range of the inner court. The contrast between this semi-public area of the monastery and the monks’ cells was dramatic. Coupled with this excavation was a reappraisal of the architectural development of the monastery and reconstruction of lost structures such as the cloister alley walls and the central water tower.
Author : Christopher Kleinhenz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299164348
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (643 download)
Download or read book Fearful Hope written by Christopher Kleinhenz and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from conference "Waiting in Fearful Hope"--Madison, Wis., 21-24 September 1997.
Author : Laura Cleaver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004422331
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
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.
Author : Robert Walter Hans Peter Scheller
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053561300
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Exemplum written by Robert Walter Hans Peter Scheller and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages, artistic ideas were transmitted from one region to another and passed on from one generation to the next, in the form of drawings. This kind of handmade reproduction, 'exemplum' in Latin, was used to record the form and content of works of art. Some of those drawings have survived in 'model books'. The author presents a fascinating account of many and various aspects of these drawings with special emphasis on how they contribute to our understanding of the genesis of medieval works of art. Exemplum will be a standard work of reference for many years to come
Author : Juliana Dresvina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443844284
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles written by Juliana Dresvina and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each of them specialists in the field, this study spans full across the compass of medieval and early modern Europe, from England and Scandinavia, to Byzantium and the Crusader Kingdoms; embraces a variety of media and methods; and touches evidence from diverse branches of learning such as language and literature, history and art, to name just a few. This is an important collection which will be of the highest utility for students and scholars of language, literature, and history for many years to come.
Author : Meredith Parsons Lillich
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037776
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Gothic Stained Glass of Reims Cathedral written by Meredith Parsons Lillich and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the stained-glass windows in the Gothic cathedral of Reims within the context of the evolution of the French monarchy and medieval art"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Elizabeth Salter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521343755
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (213 download)
Download or read book English and International written by Elizabeth Salter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-08-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Salter's principal works and essays are collected here in one volume.
