Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art

Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist
Herausgeber: Walker, Alicia; Luyster, Amanda

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Essays in this collection analyse the convergence between "sacred" and "secular" in medieval works of art and architecture, questioning the adequacy of those categories to describe medieval attitudes. "Sacred" and "secular" are shown to reflect largely modern cultural frameworks, which can be useful as scholarly tools, but which risk imposing false dichotomies. This volume complicates and enriches our understanding of social realities across a broad spectrum of medieval worlds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781138274983
• ISBN-10: 1138274984
• Artikelnr.: 57043246

Autorenporträt

Alicia Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Amanda Luyster is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the College of the Holy Cross.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: Mapping the heavens and treading the earth:
negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art, Alicia Walker and Amanda
Luyster; Chivalric narratives and devotional experience in the Taymouth
Hours, Kathryn A. Smith; Merging heavenly court and earthly council in
trecento Venice, Caroline A. Wamsler; Divine images and earthly authority
at the Chora parekklesion in Constantinople, Galina Tirnanic; Classical
constellations in Carolingian codices: investigating the celestial imagery
of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 3307, Eric RamÃrez-Weaver; Spaces of
convergence: Christian monasteries and Umayyad architecture in Greater
Syria, Lara Tohme; Challenging the sacred landscape of Byzantine
Cappadocia, Veronica Kalas; Pilgrimage for pleasure: time and space in
late-medieval Japanese painting, Samuel Crowell Morse; Select bibliography;
Index.