The Medieval Cult of Saints: Formations and Transformations - Hardcover

Abou-El-Haj, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521393167 ISBN 13: 9780521393164

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

This book sets new questions and offers innovative models for exploring the economic and artistic formations and reformations of the cult of saints in Medieval Europe together with its underlying social and political dynamic.

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"Abou-El-Haj's work is a reminder to those of us whose focus is the text of hagiographies that often an equally important historical argument is being made by the art." American Historical Review "Abou-El_Haj's work is a reminder to those of us whose focus is the text of hagiographies that often an equally important historical argument is being made by the art." Thomas J. Heffernan, American Historical Review "The chief value of this remarkable book is twofold: first, it contains valuable sources for the historian interested in economic, social, and artistic matters in Europe in the central Middle Ages; secondly, it is a fine example of method in the use of pictorial biography to help analyze historical conditions surrounding a cult. It would be churlish to ask for more." Benedicta Ward, Speculum

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This book sets new questions and offers innovative models for exploring the economic and artistic formations and reformations of the cult of saints in Medieval Europe together with its underlying social and political dynamic. The author examines a spectrum of cultural practices through more than thirty illustrated cycles of saints' lives in a range of media, published together for the first time: painted manuscripts; silver, gold, and ivory reliquaries; bronze doors; and stained glass. These are set against the history of one monastery, Saint-Amand d'Elnone, where three distinct illustrated versions of its saint's life survive from a hundred-year period, each adapted to a phase within the changing political and economic fortunes of the abbey.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521393167
• ISBN 13: 9780521393164
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 476