Art & Architecture
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Art and Political Thought in Medieval England, c.1150-1350 [Hardback]
Laura Slater (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273331
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture
Volume: v. 14
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Images and imagery played a major role in medieval political thought and culture, but their influence has rarely been explored. This book provides a full assessment of the subject. Starting with an examination of the writings of late twelfth-centu... .... Learn More -
Commemoration in Medieval Cambridge [Hardback]
John S. Lee (Editor); Christian Steer (Editor)
£60.00ISBN: 9781783273348
Published by : Boydell & Brewer
Series: History of the University of Cambridge
Volume: v. 8
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The people of medieval Cambridge chose to be remembered after their deaths in a variety of ways - through prayers, Masses and charitable acts, and by tomb monuments, liturgical furnishings and other gifts. The colleges of the university, alongside... .... Learn More -
Pleasure and Politics at the Court of France: The Artistic Patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) [Hardback]
T. Hamilton (Author)
£94.00ISBN: 9781905375684
Published by : Brepols
Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Volume: 64
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For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights - recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous late thirteenth-century manuscripts extant - as well as for her numerou... .... Learn More -
Medieval Image-Concepts and the Meaning of Visual Programs [Hardback]
Beat Brenk (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781899828739
Published by : Pindar Press
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This is the second volume of Professor Brenk's studies on late-Antique and medieval art; the first volume, on The Christianization of the Late Roman World , is featured earlier.<CR><CR> This volume presents a selection... .... Learn More
Late Gothic Painting in the Crown of Aragon and the Hispanic Kingdoms [Hardback]
Alberto Velasco (Editor); Francesc Fité (Editor)
£171.00ISBN: 9789004363359
Published by : Brill
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This book aims to analyze the genesis and evolution of late Gothic painting in the Crown of Aragon and the rest of the Hispanic kingdoms, examining this phenomenon in relation to the whole context of Europe in the second half of the fifteenth cent... .... Learn More
The Wyvern Collection: Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Metalwork [Hardback]
Paul Williamson (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9780500021774
Published by : Thames and Hudson
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Illuminated History Books in the Anglo-Norman World, 1066-1272 [Hardback]
Laura Cleaver (Author)
£65.00ISBN: 9780198802624
Published by : Oxford University Press
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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, texts about the recent and more distant past were produced in remarkable numbers in the lands controlled by the kings of England. This may be seen, in part, as a response to changing social and politica... .... Learn More
The Power of Textiles: Tapestries of the Burgundian Dominions (1363-1477) [Paperback]
Katherine Wilson (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9782503533933
Published by : Brepols
Series: Burgundica
Volume: 26
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Textiles were used as markers of distinction throughout the Middle Ages and their production was of great economic importance to emerging and established polities. This book explores tapestry in one of the greatest textile producing regions, the B... .... Learn More
The Idea of the Gothic Cathedral: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Meanings of the Medieval Edifice in the Modern Period [Hardback]
Stephanie Glaser (Editor)
£85.00ISBN: 9782503568133
Published by : Brepols
Series: Ritus Et Artes
Volume: 9
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The essays in this book focus on various social, political, cultural, and aesthetic meanings ascribed to Gothic cathedrals in Europe in the post-medieval period.
Central to many medieval ritual traditions both sacred and secular... .... Learn More
Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West [Hardback]
Brigitte Bedos-Rezak (Editor); Martha Dana Rust (Editor)
£154.00ISBN: 9789004288690
Published by : Brill
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In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma... .... Learn More
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