Author: Virginia Wylie EgbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
On the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris
Author: Virginia Wylie EgbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Medieval French Bridges
Author: Marjorie Nice BoyerPublisher: Medieval Academy of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Paris
Author: Alexandra GajewskiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000904601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces – royal, monastic and secular – that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris’s chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis, built 1140–44, and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian Order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also, the book investigates the relationships between manuscript illuminators in the 14th century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages.
On the Bridges of Mediaeval Paris
Author: Virginia Wylie EgbertPublisher:
ISBN: 9780691039060
Category : Bibliothèque nationale (France). Manuscript (fr.2090-2092)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A 14th-century illuminated manuscript, The Life of St. Denis, in the Bibliothèque Nationale, contains thirty remarkable illustrations of contemporary life as it flourished on the Seine and on the Paris bridges. Virginia Wylie Egbert is the first to focus attention on the bridge scenes in the lower third of the illuminations and to relate them in a systematic way to the social life of the period. In an effort to determine how realistic the bridge scenes are in their portrayal of everyday life, the author has gone to mediaeval writings and documents. Her telling quotations range from peddler's street cries to a description of attempts to reduce pollution in the streets of Paris. In her introduction, Mrs. Egbert gives an account of the manuscript and discusses its style and relationship to a small group of other manuscripts.
Paris in the Middle Ages
Author: Simone RouxPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812241592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Centering on the streets of this metropolis, Simone Roux peers into the secret lives of people within their homes and the public world of affairs and entertainments, populating the book with laborers, shop keepers, magistrates, thieves, and strollers.
Paris
Author: Alexandra GajewskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9781003405153
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City considers the various forces - royal, monastic and secular - that shaped the art, architecture and topography of Paris between c. 1100 and c. 1500, a period in which Paris became one of the foremost metropolises in the West. The individual contributions, written by an international group of scholars, cover the subject from many different angles. They encompass wide-ranging case studies that address architecture, manuscript illumination and stained glass, as well as questions of liturgy, religion and social life. Topics include the early medieval churches that preceded the current cathedral church of Notre-Dame and cultural production in the Paris area in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, as well as Paris's chapels and bridges. There is new evidence for the source of the c. 1240 design for a celebrated window in the Sainte-Chapelle, an evaluation of the liturgical arrangements in the new shrine-choir of Saint-Denis, built 1140-44, and a valuable assessment of the properties held by the Cistercian Order in Paris in the Middle Ages. Also, the bookinvestigates the relationships between manuscript illuminators in the 14th century and representations of Paris in manuscripts and other media up to the late 15th century. Paris: The Powers that Shaped the Medieval City updates and enlarges our knowledge of this key city in the Middle Ages.
The Bridges of Medieval England
Author: David HarrisonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191556793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Medieval bridges are startling achievements of design and engineering comparable with the great cathedrals of the period, and are also proof of the great importance of road transport in the middle ages and of the size and sophistication of the medieval economy. David Harrison rewrites their history from early Anglo-Saxon England right up to the Industrial Revolution, providing new insights into many aspects of the subject. Looking at the role of bridges in the creation of a new road system, which was significantly different from its Roman predecessor and which largely survived until the twentieth century, he examines their design. Often built in the most difficult circumstances: broad flood plains, deep tidal waters, and steep upland valleys, they withstood all but the most catastrophic floods. He also investigates the immense efforts put into their construction and upkeep, ranging from the mobilization of large work forces by the old English state to the role of resident hermits and the charitable donations which produced bridge trusts with huge incomes. The evidence presented in The Bridges of Medieval England shows that the network of bridges, which had been in place since the thirteenth century, was capable of serving the needs of the economy on the eve of the Industrial Revolution. This has profound implications for our understanding of pre-industrial society, challenging accepted accounts of the development of medieval trade and communications, and bringing to the fore the continuities from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the eighteenth century. This book is essential reading for those interested in architecture, engineering, transport, and economics, and any historian sceptical about the achievements of medieval England.
Public Access to Art in Paris: A Documentary History from the Middle Ages to 1800
Author: Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271044347
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
We Are Bridges
Author: Cassandra LanePublisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1952177936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
"In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors’ story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women’s storytelling leaps forward within these pages—into fresh, daring, and excitingly new territory." —Bridgett M. Davis, author of The World According to Fannie Davis When Cassandra Lane finds herself pregnant at thirty-five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant exploration of memory to prepare for her entry into motherhood. She moves between the twentieth-century rural South and present-day Los Angeles, reimagining the intimate life of her great-grandparents Mary Magdelene Magee and Burt Bridges, and Burt's lynching at the hands of vengeful white men in his southern town. We Are Bridges turns to creative nonfiction to reclaim a family history from violent erasure so that a mother can gift her child with an ancestral blueprint for their future. Haunting and poetic, this debut traces the strange fruit borne from the roots of personal loss in one Black family—and considers how to take back one’s American story.
Bridges in Paris
Author: Source WikipediaPublisher: University-Press.org
ISBN: 9781230647906
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Bridges over the River Seine in Paris, Pont Neuf, Pont Notre-Dame, List of bridges in Paris, Pont Saint-Michel, Petit Pont, Pont des Arts, Pont Alexandre III, Pont Royal, Pont d'Iena, Pont de la Concorde, Pont Mirabeau, Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir, Viaduc d'Austerlitz, Passerelle Leopold-Sedar-Senghor, Passerelle Debilly, Pont du Garigliano, Pont des Invalides, Pont d'Arcole, Pont de l'Alma, Pont Charles-de-Gaulle, Pont Louis-Philippe, Pont du Carrousel, Pont de Sully, Pont Marie, Pont de la Tournelle, Pont de l'Archeveche, Pont de Bercy, Pont au Double, Pont de Bir-Hakeim, Pont National, Pont aval, Pont d'Austerlitz, Pont au Change, Pont de Tolbiac, Pont Saint-Louis, Pont amont, Pont de Grenelle, Pont Rouelle. Excerpt: The Pont Neuf (French pronunciation: , New Bridge) is, despite its name, the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. Its name, which was given to distinguish it from older bridges that were lined on both sides with houses, has remained. Standing by the western point of the Ile de la Cite, the island in the middle of the river that was the heart of medieval Paris, it connects the Rive Gauche of Paris with the Rive Droite. The bridge is composed of two separate spans, one of five arches joining the left bank to the Ile de la Cite, another of seven joining the island to the right bank. Old engraved maps of Paris show how, when the bridge was built, it just grazed the downstream tip of the Ile de la Cite; since then, the natural sandbar building of a mid-river island, aided by stone-faced embankments called quais, has extended the island. Today the island is the Square du Vert-Galant, a park named in honour of Henry IV, nicknamed the "Green Gallant." As early as 1550, Henry II was asked to build a bridge here because the existing Pont Notre-Dame was overloaded, but...