Author: V. A. KolvePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804713498
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative
Author: V. A. KolvePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804713498
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
A Stanford University Press classic.
The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature
Author: Nathaniel B. SmithPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This collection brings together twelve selected papers given at the Second Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Because the courtly ethos is the central phenomenon marking medieval vernacular literature, it provides a theme that serves as an ideological guide through the later Middle Ages and on into the Renaissance and as a framework for the essays collected in this volume.
Building the Text
Author: David CowlingPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198159599
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Descriptions of imaginary buildings abound in late medieval and early modern texts in France. This book examines the reasons for their popularity and analyzes the way in which metaphors of the building were used by writers as a tools of persuasion. One such writer was Jean Lemaire (c.1473-after 1515) who used architectural metaphor both to praise his patrons and to advertise his own talents, while drawing on and transforming a tradition of writing popularized by his rh toriqueur predecessors.
Tristan and Isolde
Author: Joan Tasker GrimbertPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136745580
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
First Published in 2002.
Giotto and His Publics
Author: Julian GardnerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674060970
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This probing analysis of three works by Giotto and the patrons who commissioned them goes far beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of Western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers, illuminating the complex interplay between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty. Political strife and religious faction lacerated fourteenth-century Italy. Giotto’s commissions are best understood against the background of this social turmoil. They reflected the demands of his patrons, the requirements of the Franciscan Order, and the restlessly inventive genius of the painter. Julian Gardner examines this important period of Giotto’s path-breaking career through works originally created for Franciscan churches: Stigmatization of Saint Francis from San Francesco at Pisa, now in the Louvre, the Bardi Chapel cycle of the Life of St. Francis in Santa Croce at Florence, and the frescoes of the crossing vault above the tomb of Saint Francis in the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi. These murals were executed during a twenty-year period when internal tensions divided the friars themselves and when the Order was confronted by a radical change of papal policy toward its defining vow of poverty. The Order had amassed great wealth and built ostentatious churches, alienating many Franciscans in the process and incurring the hostility of other Orders. Many elements in Giotto’s frescoes, including references to St. Peter, Florentine politics, and church architecture, were included to satisfy patrons, redefine the figure of Francis, and celebrate the dominant group within the Franciscan brotherhood.
The Culture of Latin Greece
Author: Vladimir AgrigoroaeiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004524223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 763
Book Description
The author and six historical characters of his own choosing tell tales and guide you through the artistic and literary maze of Latin-occupied Greece. They show you patterns, influences, and dissimilar evolutions in what appears to be a 13th-14th century cultural conundrum.
Images in the Margins of Gothic Manuscripts
Author: Lilian M. C. RandallPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520376048
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Author: Afterlives of the Roman Poets
Author: Nora GoldschmidtPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107180252
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
This innovative book reconceptualises Roman poetry and its reception through the lens of fictional biography ('biofiction').
The Medieval Alexander Legend and Romance Epic
Author: Peter NoblePublisher: Krause Publications
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description