Elina Gertsman, Barbara H Rosenwein

The Middle Ages in 50 Objects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This extraordinary selection of objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds illuminates the rich cultures of medieval history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 194mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 767g
• ISBN-13: 9781107150386
• ISBN-10: 1107150388
• Artikelnr.: 49783226

Autorenporträt

Elina Gertsman is Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010) and Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and editor of several books, including Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008) and Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (2013). Most recently, with Stephen Fliegel, she published a catalogue that accompanies the focus exhibition they co-curated at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Holy and the Faithful: 1. Jonah Cast Up
c.280-290
marble; 2. Altar Front
c.540-600
marble; 3. Pilgrim's Flask with Saint Menas
6th-7th century
terracotta; 4. Calyx (Chalice)
900s-1000s
blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper mounts; 5. Christ's Mission to the Apostles
c.970-980
ivory; 6. Feline Incense Burner
1100s
copper alloy
cast and chased; 7. Leaf from a Qur'an
1100s
opaque watercolor
ink
and gold on paper; 8. Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
c. 1190
gilt silver
champlevé enamel
oak; 9. Virgin and Child
late 13th century; wood (oak) with polychromy and gilding; 10. Christ and Saint John the Evangelist
early 14th century
polychromed and gilded oak; 11. The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity
c.1400
oil on panel; 12. Christ Carrying the Cross
1400s
painted and gilded alabaster; 13. Leaf from an Antiphonary: Initial H with the Nativity
c.1480
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; Part II. The Sinful and the Spectral: 14. Adam and Eve
late 400s-early 500s
marble and stone tesserae; 15. Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking
6th Century
undyed linen and dyed wool; 16. Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion
1050-1100
walrus ivory; 17. Dragon's Head
1100-1150
walrus ivory; 18. Bowl with Engraved Figures of Vices
1150-1200
bronze; 19. Engaged Capital with a Lion and a Basilisk
1175-1200
marble; 20. Leaf from a Cocharelli Treatise on the Vices: Acedia and Her Court
c.1330
ink
tempera
and gold on vellum; 21. Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation
1359-1360
tempera and gold on parchment; 22. The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve
c.1400
tempera and gold on wood panel; 23. Grotesques from the Hours of Charles the Noble
c.1404
ink
tempera
and gold on vellum; 24. The Virgin Mary Overcoming a Devil
ca.1473
hand-colored woodcut; 25. Demon in Chains
c.1453
opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Part III. Daily Life and Its Fictions: 26. S-Shaped Fibula
500s
silver with garnets; 27. Button
500s
rock crystal
garnet
granulated gold; 28. Solidus with Busts of Constans II and Constantine IV (obverse)
659-661
gold; 29. Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual
c.830-860
gold and silver ink on purple parchment; 30. Jug
900s
gold with repoussé and chased and engraved decoration; 31. Lion Aquamanile
1200-1250
copper alloy; 32. Luster Wall Tile with a Couple
1266
fritware with luster-painted design; 33. Leaf Excised from Henry of Segusio's 'Summa Aurea': Table of Consanguinity
c. 1280
ink
tempera
and gold on parchment; 34. Albarello with Two Hares
14th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); 35. Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
1325-1350
 ivory; 36. Table Fountain
c.1320-1340
gilt-silver and translucent enamels; 37. Barbute
1350-1420
iron; 38. Time
from Chateau de Chaumont Set
1512-1515
silk and wool; Part IV. Death and Its Aftermath: 39. Columbarium Tomb Plaque with the Monogram of Christ
500-800
terracotta; 40. Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax)
600s
iron
copper
and gold foil; 41. Inscribed Tombstone of Shaikh al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan
1110
limestone; 42. Condemnation and Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
c.1180
gilded copper
champlevé enamel; 43. Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion
c.1300-1330
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; 44. Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
c. 1350-1375
ivory; 45. Death of the Virgin
c.1400
tempera and oil with gold on panel; 46. Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold
1404-1410
alabaster; 47. The Last Judgment: Leaf from a Book of Hours
1430s
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; 48. Initial T from a Choral Book with Isaac and Esau
c.1460-1470
ink
tempera
and gold on parchment; 49. A Bridal Couple
c.1470
oil on panel; 50. Dance of Death: The Pope
cut c.1526-27
woodcut.