Medieval Art

ISBN: 9780521848923
Published by : Cambridge University Press
This catalogue provides scholars and researchers easy access to the University Library's illuminated manuscripts, evaluating the importance of many of them for the very first time. It contains descriptions of famous manuscripts, for example the... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780714128221
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
And so we afterwards took up his bones which are more valuable than precious stones and finer than refined gold ...This title presents an account of the martyrdom of Polycarp, c. AD 156. From the earliest period of Christian worship striking co... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781851242986
Published by : Bodleian Library
Lavishly illustrated, this book showcases 60 of the finest Bibles in the collections of the Bodleian Library. Following a general introduction, the Bibles are presented in chronological chapters giving a short introduction for each period. Ever... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781904832904
Published by : D Giles Limited
This enormous, beautifully illustrated, and surprisingly reasonable book uses manuscript illuminations, panel painting, tapestry and sculpture to trace changing fashions across the Later Middle Ages. Examining the role of social customs and po... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780253356413
Published by : Indiana University Press
This study addresses one of the most beautifully decorated 15th-century copies of the New Statues of England , uncovering how the manuscript's unique interweaving of legal, religious, and literary discourses frames the reader's perception of t... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781409400653
Published by : Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of Saint... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407307442
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This study examines the use of ceramic building materials in transitional architecture of the 9th-11th centuries in southeast England and northwest France, discussing parallels, and in particular asking whether the materials used were Roman spo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781843836827
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The cult of saints is one of the most fascinating manifestations of medieval piety. It was intensely physical; saints were believed to be present in the bodily remains that they had left on earth. Medieval shrines were created in order to prot... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781907730078
Published by : Paul Watkins
The contributors to this volume draw on the disciplines of architectural and art and social history, archaeology and landscape analysis to explore the character and significance of the medieval great house in England, Scotland and Wales. Among ... .... Learn More