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Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome

Author : KristinB. Aavitsland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351563149
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome written by KristinB. Aavitsland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph on the Vita Humana cycle at Tre Fontane, this book includes an overview of the medieval history of the Roman Cistercian abbey and its architecture, as well as a consideration of the political and cultural standing of the abbey both within Papal Rome and within the Cistercian order. Furthermore, it considers the commission of the fresco cycle, the circumstances of its making, and its position within the art historical context of the Roman Duecento. Examining the unusual blend of images in the Vita Humana cycle, this study offers a more nuanced picture of the iconographic repertoire of medieval art. Since the discovery of the frescoes in the 1960s, the iconographic programme of the cycle has remained mysterious, and an adequate analysis of the Vita Humana cycle as a whole has so far been lacking. Kristin B. Aavitsland covers this gap in the scholarship on Roman art circa 1300, and also presents the first interpretative discussion of the frescoes that is up-to-date with the architectural investigations undertaken in the monastery around 2000. Aavitsland proposes a rationale behind the conception of the fresco cycle, thereby providing a key for understanding its iconography and shedding new light on thirteenth-century Cistercian culture.

Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome

Author : Kristin B. Aavitsland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781351563123
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome written by Kristin B. Aavitsland and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experiencing Medieval Art

Author : Herbert L. Kessler
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442600713
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Book Synopsis Experiencing Medieval Art by : Herbert L. Kessler

Download or read book Experiencing Medieval Art written by Herbert L. Kessler and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned art historian Herbert L. Kessler authors a love song to medieval art inviting students, teachers, and professional medievalists to experience the wondrous, complex art of the Middle Ages.

The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages

Author : Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409456759
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages by : Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens

Download or read book The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages written by Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This book shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship.

Rivalrous Masculinities

Author : Ann Marie Rasmussen
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268105596
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis Rivalrous Masculinities by : Ann Marie Rasmussen

Download or read book Rivalrous Masculinities written by Ann Marie Rasmussen and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the work of both leading and emerging scholars in the field of medieval gender studies, the essays in Rivalrous Masculinities advance our understanding of medieval masculinity as a pluralized category and as an intersectional category of gender. The essays in this volume are distinguished by a conceptual focus that goes beyo nd heteronormativity and by their attention to constructions of medieval masculinity in the context of femininity, class, religion, and place. Some widen the field of medieval gender studies inquiry to include explorations of medieval friendship as a framework or culture of arousal and deep emotionality that produced multiple, complex ways of living intensely with respect to gender and sexuality, without reducing all forms of intimacy to implicit sexuality. Some examine intersections of identity, explicating change and difference in conventional modes of gender with regards to regional culture, religion, race, or class. In order to ground this intersectional and interdisciplinary approach with the appropriate disciplinary expertise, the essays in this volume represent a broad cross-section of disciplines: art history, religious studies, history, and French, Italian, German, Yiddish, Middle English, and Old English literature. Together, they open up new intellectual vistas for future research in the field of medieval gender studies. Contributors include: Ann Marie Rasmussen, Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing, J. Christian Straubhaar-Jones, Astrid Lembke, Darrin Cox, F. Regina Psaki, Corinne Wieben, Ruth Mazo Karras, Diane Wolfthal, Karma Lochrie, and Andreas Krass.

The Saturated Sensorium

Author : Henning Laugerud
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
ISBN 13 : 8771249613
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Saturated Sensorium written by Henning Laugerud and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Saturated Sensorium is a book about the senses and their media in the Middle Ages: a book about what it meant to sense and perceive something. The book highlights the integrated and unified nature of medieval senses and media. It discusses the inter- and multi-mediality of cultic and cultural artefacts as well as the sensorial and inter-sensorial dimensions of a wide array of cultural concepts and practices within medieval religion, art, archaeology, architecture, literature, music, food, social life, ritual, devotion, cognition, and memory. These domains of sensory and media history are dealt with, not as isolated anthology articles in only loose connection with one another, but as coordinate and comparative chapters of a coherent book each covering a principal branch of the cultural history of the medieval senses. Across a number of academic disciplines, specialists address the interdisciplinary and compound character of visus (sight), auditus (hearing), tactus (touch), olfactus (smell) and gustus (taste), showing that there was far more to the senses and to sense experience than these five classical Aristotelian categories might suggest. A plentiful variety of sensory modes interacted, crossed, and permeated each other in mutually entangled and braided ways. The saturated sensorium nurtured the sacred and secular practices of mediation, representation, and consumption; the embodied and mental concepts of sanctity, memory, and imagery; the physical and spiritual spaces of environment, cult, and burial; the material and visual culture of sacraments, sensation, and incarnation.

Transcendence and Sensoriness

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004291695
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Transcendence and Sensoriness written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Transcendence and Sensoriness, scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts through case studies considered in a broad theological framework of religious aesthetics of the arts.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code

Author : Kristin B. Aavitsland
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110636271
Total Pages : 805 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Jerusalem Code written by Kristin B. Aavitsland and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 805 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code to Christian cultures in Scandinavia. The first volume is dealing with the different notions of Jerusalem in the Middle Ages. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism

Author : Bernice M. Kaczynski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191003956
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism by : Bernice M. Kaczynski

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism written by Bernice M. Kaczynski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook takes as its subject the complex phenomenon of Christian monasticism. It addresses, for the first time in one volume, the multiple strands of Christian monastic practice. Forty-four essays consider historical and thematic aspects of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican traditions, as well as contemporary 'new monasticism'. The essays in the book span a period of nearly two thousand years—from late ancient times, through the medieval and early modern eras, on to the present day. Taken together, they offer, not a narrative survey, but rather a map of the vast terrain. The intention of the Handbook is to provide a balance of some essential historical coverage with a representative sample of current thinking on monasticism. It presents the work of both academic and monastic authors, and the essays are best understood as a series of loosely-linked episodes, forming a long chain of enquiry, and allowing for various points of view. The authors are a diverse and international group, who bring a wide range of critical perspectives to bear on pertinent themes and issues. They indicate developing trends in their areas of specialisation. The individual contributions, and the volume as a whole, set out an agenda for the future direction of monastic studies. In today's world, where there is increasing interest in all world monasticisms, where scholars are adopting more capacious, global approaches to their investigations, and where monks and nuns are casting a fresh eye on their ancient traditions, this publication is especially timely.

Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe

Author : Angeliki Lymberopoulou
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409420385
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe by : Angeliki Lymberopoulou

Download or read book Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe written by Angeliki Lymberopoulou and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe discusses the cultural and artistic interaction between the Byzantine east and western Europe, from the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 to the flourishing of post-Byzantine artistic workshops on Venetian Crete during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the formation of icon collections in Renaissance Italy. The contributors examine the routes by which artistic interaction may have taken place, and explore the reception of Byzantine art in western Europe, analysing why artists and patrons were interested in ideas from the other side of the cultural and religious divide. The book offers new perspectives and insights and re-positions late- and post- Byzantine art in a broader European cultural context.

Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960

Author : Reidar Aasgaard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351865919
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Nordic Childhoods 1700–1960 written by Reidar Aasgaard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume strengthens interest and research in the fields of both Childhood Studies and Nordic Studies by exploring conceptions of children and childhood in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). Although some books have been written about the history of childhood in these countries, few are multidisciplinary, focus on this region as a whole, or are available in English. This volume contains essays by scholars from the fields of literature, history, theology, religious studies, intellectual history, cultural studies, Scandinavian studies, education, music, and art history. Contributors study the history of childhood in a wide variety of sources, such as folk and fairy tales, legal codes, religious texts, essays on education, letters, sermons, speeches, hymns, paintings, novels, and school essays written by children themselves. They also examine texts intended specifically for children, including text books, catechisms, newspapers, songbooks, and children’s literature. By bringing together scholars from multiple disciplines who raise distinctive questions about childhood and take into account a wide range of sources, the book offers a fresh and substantive contribution to the history of childhood in the Nordic countries between 1700 and 1960. The volume also helps readers trace the historical roots of the internationally recognized practices and policies regarding child welfare within the Nordic countries today and prompts readers from any country to reflect on their own conceptions of and commitments to children.

Rome

Author : Andrew Leach
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509514996
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Rome written by Andrew Leach and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Leach’s Rome is the first book in Polity’s exciting new ‘Cities in World History’ series, which aims to provide the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world’s greatest cities. Most city guides are good on practical details but very thin when it comes to recounting the histories of cities and contextualizing the buildings and sites for which they are famous. These new books from Polity bridge the gulf between guide and history by offering concise and accessible accounts written by some of the world’s leading historians. Rome has a history unmatched in richness by any city on the globe. It looms large in the word’s cultural imagination, and for millennia it has been a meeting point of great cultures, a place where myth mixes freely with history, leaving neither unscathed. In this compact history, Leach demonstrates what most visitors to the Eternal City will instinctively understand: that the buildings, streets, monuments and gardens of this ancient city give the visitor moments of direct communion with its past. He reveals the long, twisting history of Rome through its ruins, art works and monuments, its metro stations and modern apartment blocks. Each chapter takes the reader on a physical journey invoking Rome in different moments of its life. Engaging historical narrative is supplemented with maps and photos, making Rome an indispensable companion for those who want to dig below the city’s surface.

Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art

Author : Gabriel Pihas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000613410
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Nature and Imagination in Ancient and Early Modern Roman Art written by Gabriel Pihas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power. Rome’s unique art history reveals a different side of the battle between ancients and moderns than that usually raised as an issue in the history of science and philosophy. The book traces the idea of a cosmos in pre-modern art in Rome, from the reception of Greek art in the Roman republic to the construction of the Pantheon, to early Christian art and architecture. It then sketches the disappearance of the presupposition of a cosmos in the High Renaissance and Baroque periods, as creativity became a new ideal. Through discussions of the art and architecture that defines proto-modern Rome— from Michelangelo’s terribilita’ in the Sistine Chapel, Caravaggio’s realism, Baroque illusionism, the infinities of Borromini’s architecture, to the Grand Tour’s representations of ruins— through an interpretation of such major issues and works, this book shows how modern art liberates us while leaving us feeling estranged from our grounding in the natural world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, architectural history, classics, philosophy, and early modern history and culture.

Imagination and Environmental Political Thought

Author : Joshua J. Bowman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498559034
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Imagination and Environmental Political Thought written by Joshua J. Bowman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and evaluates Henry David Thoreau’s political thought through the lens of a theory of imagination and considers his legacy for later environmental thought. This book will interest anyone curious about Thoreau’s relationship to environmentalism and the intersection of environmental humanities and politics.

Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004395717
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Investigations in Medieval Stained Glass written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindful of already existing publications, the editors determined to foreground scholarly expertise and approaches to stained glass, as well as up-to-date bibliographies.

Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral

Author : Donna L. Sadler
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409432432
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral written by Donna L. Sadler and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral bestows long overdue scholarly attention on the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse façade at Reims Cathedral, the coronation cathedral of French kings. Donna Sadler reveals how the imagery on the reverse façade not only conforms to a system of memory and mode of medieval narratology, but also articulates a dominant ideological position regarding the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers.

Historical Imagination

Author : Paul Fairfield
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538156547
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Imagination written by Paul Fairfield and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Imagination defends a phenomenological and hermeneutical account of historical knowledge. The book’s central questions are what is historical imagination, what is the relation between the imaginative and the empirical, in what sense is historical knowledge always already imaginative, how does such knowledge serve us, and what is the relation of historical understanding and self-understanding? Paul Fairfield revisits some familiar hermeneutical themes and endeavors to develop these further while examining two important periods in which historical reassessments or re-imaginings of the past occurred on a large scale. The conception of historical imagination that emerges seeks to advance beyond the debate between empiricists and postmodern constructivists while focusing on narrative as well as a more encompassing interpretation of who an historical people were, how things stood with them, and how this comes to be known. Fairfield supplements the philosophical argument with an historical examination of how and why during late antiquity, early Christian thinkers began to reimagine their Greek and Roman past, followed by how and why renaissance and later enlightenment figures reimagined their ancient and medieval past.