The book explores the manuscripts written, read, and studied by Franciscan friars from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries in Northern Italy, and specifically Padua, assessing four key aspects: ideal, space, form and readership. The ideal is studied through the regulations…
"Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manus…
"Thoroughly interdisciplinary in approach, this volume examines how concepts such as the exercising of power, the distribution of justice, and transgression against the law were treated in both textual and pictorial terms in works produced and circulated in medieval French manus…
Drawing on the wealth of medical illustration to be found in medieval manuscripts, the author traces the history of medieval medicine, the artistic traditions which shaped its depiction, and beliefs of both medical and artistic practitioners.
The Early Christian Iconography of Divine Inspiration: Novel Approaches to an Old Pictorial Theme -- Inspiration and the Bible in the Post-Iconoclastic Era -- Inspiration Continued: The Writings of the Church Fathers -- Divine Inspiration beyond the Fathers -- Inspired Icons -- …
Europäische Bild- und Buchkultur im 13. Jahrhundert
by Beier, Christine, Schuller-Juckes, Michaela, Schwarz, Michael Viktor, Hranitzky, Katharina, Kubina, Evelyn Theresia, Buran, Dušan, Jakobi-Mirwald, Christine, Ganz, David, Alai, Beatrice, Binski, Paul, Panayotova, Stella, Michael, Michael
"Starting with the premise that the history of a medieval subject cannot be properly written 'without recourse to the materials it produced, ' Lesley Smith's Masters of the Sacred Page provides an illuminating study of theology in the Middle Ages. She focuses on the dramatic tra…
The Album of the World Emperor examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603-17) by his courtier Kalender Pasa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most import…
