Kategoria BISAC: Art >> History - Medieval

The "Things of Greater Importance" provides a close look into the social and cultural context of medieval art, primarily as expressed in Bernard of Clairvaux's Apologia, the central document in the greatest artistic controversy to occur in the West prior to the Reformation and the most important source we have for understanding medieval attitudes toward art. Bernard wrote the Apologia during the medieval efflorescence of monumental sculpture and stained glass, of advanced architecture, of pilgrimage art, of high Romanesque, and of the origins of Gothic...

As mendicants became progressively institutionalized and sought legitimacy, friars adopted the architectural structures of monasticism: chapter...

This new addition to the Daily Life through Artifacts series provides not only the full benefit of a reference work with its comprehensive explanations and primary sources, but also supplies images of the objects, bringing a particular aspect of the medieval world to life. Each entry in "Artifacts from Medieval Europe" explains and expands upon the cultural significance of the artifact depicted. Artifacts are divided into such thematic categories as domestic life, religion, and transportation. Considered collectively, the various artifacts provide a composite look at daily life in the...

Illuminators and Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England is a richly illustrated study of one of the treasures of the British Library, MS Egerton 3277, a psalter and book of hours made for Humphrey de Bohun (d. 1373), the vastly wealthy earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, who employed two or more illuminators to work on the manuscript in his own castle at Pleshey, Essex. The interaction between the Bohun patron and the Bohun artists is a major focus of the book.

Along with a detailed commentary on the manuscript s more than three hundred pictorial subjects from the books...

Although the concept of patronage has long been central to medieval studies, it is still not well understood. In order to identify the person or institution responsible for the work, scholars have attempted to impose principles across a broad range of works to which they may or may not apply. In many cases this has prevented a full understanding of the work. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, the key to understanding patronage is to realize that a variety of contexts and situations may exist that prevent one definition from being imposed. The concept of patronage relates to issues...

A complete illuminated manuscript in 64 full color plates

Johannes von Tepl (c.1350-c.1415) composed Der Ackermann aus Bohmen (The Plowman from Bohemia) around 1401. It is considered one of the most important works of late medieval German literature. The poem's 34 short chapters are a dialogue between a plowman, whose beloved wife has recently died, and Death. In odd-numbered chapters the grieving plowman accuses Death for his loss, and in even-numbered chapters Death responds to the plowman's emotions with cold cynical logic. In the penultimate chapter God appears and...

A complete illuminated manuscript in 34 full page color plates

The Royal Choirbook is a collection of six motets produced in 1516 for Henry VIII, King of England, and his wife, Catherine of Aragon. The manuscript is believed to have been commissioned and designed by Petrus de Opitiis, an Italian merchant, and his son Benedictus, the King's new privy chamber organist. The motets, composed by Benedictus and one Magister Sampson, believed to be a composer from the Netherlands, are preceded by an elegiac poem and richly illustrated frontispiece honoring Henry VIII and the union...

A complete alchemy manuscript in 36 full page color plates

Ars Notoria Sive Flores Aurei (The Art of Magic or Golden Flowers) is attributed to Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15-100), a Greek neo-Pythagorean ascetic and philosopher from the town of Tyana in Cappadocia in Asia Minor. It is a practical text in which direct knowledge is sought by means of incantation. Its numerous prayers include long series of invented and exotic names as well as instructions for their use. The present manuscript, created in France c. 1225, is held by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,...