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Author: Leslie D. Ross Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 247
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Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.
Author: Greg Buzwell Publisher: Medieval Manuscripts S ISBN: 9780712348706 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 64
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The role of the saint was a central one in medieval society. This richly illustrated book discusses the medieval saint, taking the reader from the canonisation process through to the significance imparted upon saints, and offers an insight into the lives of some of the saints who have particular relevance to the British Isles. Famous figures such as St Francis of Assisi are examined alongside more obscure names such as St Wilgefortis, who, it was believed, would relieve a woman of her unwanted husband. A section is also devoted to the importance of relics - how corporal relics were not merely seen as the saint's remains but continued to be an essential part of the saint's person and would be part of the glorified body following the Last Judgement - and the nature of pilgrimages and shrines. The abundant depictions of these saints in medieval manuscripts are testament to their importance in medieval culture, and the symbolism inherent in these depictions is explained.
Author: Hanneke van Asperen Publisher: ISBN: 9782503580203 Category : Languages : en Pages : 432
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Late medieval books served as treasure chests for all kinds of religious keepsakes, notably small metal badges. Devotees sewed these religious badges and pilgrimage souvenirs to the parchment of their treasured devotional books and manuscript illuminators depicted silver and gilt badges in the margins as if they are sewn to the pages. Medieval manuscripts are often admired for their aesthetic qualities, but many of them also served a practical use as instruments for the physical and mental wellbeing of the owners and their families. Manuscripts and incunabula containing metal badges illustrate how the owners used their books, which texts they favored, but also who collected badges and why. The depicted badges that only appear in richly illuminated and expensive manuscripts expand the knowledge of these metal objects that have been passed down in small numbers only. The painted motifs that have a more decorative and structuring role in the book fulfilled different functions than the original badges. 'Silver Saints' discusses the religious life of lay people in the late Middle Ages and the meaning of badges in books, both the painted motifs in beautifully decorated manuscripts and many traces of original badges.
Author: Leslie D. Ross Publisher: ISBN: Category : Christian saints in art Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.
Author: Thomas Andrew DuBois Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 080209130X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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Sanctity in the North features English translations of texts from Latin or vernacular Nordic languages, in many cases for the first time. The accompanying essays complement the translations and reflect the contributors' own disciplinary groundings in folklore, philology, medieval, and religious studies.
Author: John Scahill Publisher: DS Brewer ISBN: 9781843840596 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 230
Book Description
Annotated bibliography covering two centuries of scholarly criticism on the extensive corpus of medieval saints' legends. with the assistance of Margaret RogersonSaints' legends are being increasingly recognised as one of the most important genres of the middle ages, and attract much critical attention. This volume surveys the scholarly literatureof the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on the extensive Middle English corpus. It also provides a conspectus of the genre's history in the Middle English period, and its place in the development of the modern discipline of Middle English, while both the introduction and the annotations give attention to the problematic boundaries between genres and to the issues involved in separating out texts from their manuscript contexts. General studies of the corpus as a whole are covered, as well as discussions and editions of individual legends, of the various extended cycles of legends, and of sermon collections that include hagiographic legends and exempla; the volume has been structured so as to provide an overview of the research on major works [for example the South English Legendary and St Erkenwald], and authors such as Osbern Bokenham, John Capgrave, William Caxton and John Mirk. It includesan Index of Scholars and Critics keyed to the Bibliography, an Index of Middle English Texts that covers all works, of whatever genre, mentioned in the annotations, and an Index of Manuscripts that gathers the references to the over 170 manuscripts cited.
Author: Mary-Ann Stouck Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442600942 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 192
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"Mary-Ann Stouck's short reader stands apart in offering an abbreviated but judicious selection of saints' lives perfectly suited as a brief introduction. It fills a particular need with an elegant sufficiency." - Cynthia J. Hahn, Hunter College and the Graduate Center-CUNY
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