Author: Rodney M. ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Manuscripts from St. Albans Abbey 1066 - 1235. 2. Plates
Author: Rodney M. ThomsonManuscripts from St Albans Abbey
Author: Manuscripts from St. Albans Abbey, 1066-1235: Text
Author: Rodney M. ThomsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859910859
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The manuscripts produced and kept at the great English Benedictine house of St Albans between the Norman conquest and the floruit of its notable historian Matthew Paris, about the middle of the thirteenth century, are of remarkable quality. Students of monastic art and culture have often commented on St Albans' patronage of fine books during the twelfth century and later, but there has not until now been a comprehensive and detailed study of how this patronage was organised. This study focuses on the sixty-five manuscripts produced both at and for the abbey during the period, but it also takes into account manuscripts owned by the abbey's dependant cells, and those which it seems to have produced for other patrons - the latter including famous examples of Romanesque manuscript illumination. The development of "house styles" in script and decoration is traced, and so are the travels of the professional artists responsible for the adornment of de luxe books ordered by this and other houses in England and overseas; and last but not least, the St Albans books are related to the abbey's intellectual and religious life, and to the monastic contribution to the twelfth century renaissance. RODNEY M. THOMSON is Emeritus Professor of History, University of Tasmania.
Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Lincoln Cathedral Chapter Library
Author: Rodney M. ThomsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780859912785
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This catalogue describes MSS 1-247 and 298 in the Chapter Library of Lincoln Cathedral, plus ten former Lincoln MSS now elsewhere. About half of the MSS were part of the cathedral's medieval Library; nearly all the rest came therebefore the late seventeenth century. Among the MSS, which date from the eighth to the early sixteenth century, are biblical commentaries and sermons, works of pastoral theology and an important corpus of Middle English texts, including the famous Thornton Romances. A group of MSS written at the Cathedral c.1100 is notable for its distinctive decoration. The Catalogue is preceded by a history of the Cathedral Library, based on the rich documentaryevidence, which includes two medieval catalogues. The plates illustrate bindings, ownership marks, important decoration and noteworthy script, including samples from all signed and dated books.
Norwegian Stave Church Sculpture: pt. 1. Studies. Pt. 2. Plates (1 v.)
Author: Erla Bergendahl HohlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church decoration and ornament
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Part 1: Studies. Part 2: Plates. Stavkirkene er nordmenns enestående bidrag til den europeiske byggkunst, i følge professor i kunsthistrie Erla Bergendahl Hohler. I 25 år har hun arbeidet med å skape oversikt og system i kunnskapen om stavkirkenes frodige portaler. Bare 30 avde 1000 stavkirkene som opprinnelig fantes i Norge er bevart. Dette andre bindet om norske stavkirkeportaler inneholder forfatterens refleksjoner overopprinnelsen til mønstrene på et utvalg kirkeportaler, deres datering og denhåndverksmessige tradisjon innenfor denne spesielle formen for middelalderkunst. Gjennomillustrert med bilder i svart/hvitt. Med bibliografi om emnet og stikkordregister. Engelsk tekst. Bind 1 ble tilbudt i vår katalog i uke 5.
Bury St. Edmunds
Author: Antonia GransdenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351572881
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
This book focuses on art, palaeography, bindings and the monastic library. It is based on lectures given at the Association's Annual Conference, the 20th in the present series, which was held at Bury St Edmunds, from 16 to 20 April 1994: three specially commissioned articles are also included.
Plates
Author: Rodney M. ThomsonReading Proclus and the Book of Causes Volume 1
Author: Dragos CalmaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004395113
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
Reading Proclus and the Book of Causes, published in three volumes, is a fresh, comprehensive understanding of Proclus’ legacy in the Hellenic, Byzantine, Islamic, Latin and Hebrew traditions. The history of the Book of Causes, an Islamic adaptation of mainly Proclus’ Elements of Theology and Plotinus' Enneads, is reconsidered on the basis of newly discovered manuscripts. This first volume enriches our understanding of the diverse reception of Proclus’ Elements of Theology and of the Book of Causes in the Western tradition where universities and religious schools offered unparalleled conditions of diffusion. The volume sheds light on overlooked authors, texts, literary genres and libraries from all major European universities from the 12th to the 16th centuries.
The Pictorial Arts of the West, 800-1200
Author: Charles Reginald DodwellPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.
The Use of Hereford
Author: William SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317012720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1053
Book Description
The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England before their abolition and replacement by the Book of Common Prayer in 1549. Unlike the widespread Use of Sarum, the Use of Hereford was confined principally to its diocese, which helped to maintain its individuality until the Reformation. This study seeks to catalogue and evaluate all the known surviving sources of the Use of Hereford, with particular reference to the missals and gradual, which so far have received little attention. In addition to these a variety of other material has been examined, including a number of little-known or unknown important fragments of early Hereford service-books dismembered at the Reformation and now hidden away as binding or other scrap in libraries and record offices. This is the fullest examination of Hereford liturgical sources ever undertaken and may stimulate similar and much-needed studies of other diocesan uses, in particular Sarum and York. As well as describing in detail the various manuscript sources, the rare single edition printed Hereford texts, the missals and breviaries, are also discussed. Unlike books of the Sarum and York rites, these ’one-offs’ were never revised and reissued. In addition to the examination of these sources, William Smith discusses the possible origins of the rite and provides an analysis of the Hereford liturgical calendar, of the festa, including those of the cathedral’s patron St Ethelbert and the no less famous St Thomas Cantilupe, that helped to make Hereford use so distinctive.