The Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age

ISBN-13: 9781108428811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 322 str.

Beatrice Kitzinger

Opis

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

Recenzje

'This active component of the iconography is well articulated throughout Kitzinger's scholarly volume.' Eric Ramírez-Weaver, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies

Spis treści

Part I. The Cross and the Work of Art: Introduction: temporality, utilitas, and the signum crucis; 1. Making the multitemporal cross; Part II. The Cross and the Gospels: 2. Otfrid of Weissenburg's Book of the Gospels; 3. Cross-image and Gospel Book; 4. The angers gospels: sign and story; Conclusion: the fact of manufacture.