Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts
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Medieval Images, Icons, and Illustrated English Literary Texts
From the Ruthwell Cross to the Ellesmere Chaucer
Hilmo, Maidie
Taylor & Francis Ltd
01/2004
344
Dura
Inglês
9780754631781
15 a 20 dias
After many centuries of depicting God in a range of religious manuscripts and images, the practice stopped around the time of the 15th century. Why this sudden hesitation about using images of God? The author attempts to answer this puzzling question.
Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.
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After many centuries of depicting God in a range of religious manuscripts and images, the practice stopped around the time of the 15th century. Why this sudden hesitation about using images of God? The author attempts to answer this puzzling question.
Contents: Preface; Epigraph; Introduction, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton; Reading medieval images; Visual and verbal manifestations of the dual nature of Christ on the Ruthwell Cross; The wisdom and power of the creative word: images for meditation and transformation of self and society in late Anglo-Saxon England; The revival of the vernacular and the illustrated Caligula, Auchinleck and Vernon manuscripts; Creating a visual narrative of the spiritual journey to the New Jerusalem in the Pearl manuscript; Framing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the aristocratic readers of the Ellesmere manuscript; Bibliography; Indexes.
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