Romanesque Sculpture in Italy (1954) is an analysis of the resurgence of sculpture in Italy. The variety of the political, economic and racial conditions which existed towards the end of the eleventh century led to a corresponding diversity in the r...Daugiau...
This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the instruments of the Passion, in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition...Daugiau...
This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz Jamess interests....Daugiau...
This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents. The chapters offer innovative insights...Daugiau...
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past....Daugiau...
Experiencing the Last Judgement moves beyond a purely didactic understanding of the Byzantine image of the Last Judgement, as a visual eschatological text to be read and learned from, and proposes instead an appreciation of each unique image as a dy...Daugiau...
Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects....Daugiau...
Global Byzantium is, in part, a recasting and expansion of the old Byzantium and its neighbours theme with, however, a methodological twist away from the resolutely political and toward the cultural and economic....Daugiau...
This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted gateways of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy....Daugiau...
This book introduces a new perspective on Claudio Monteverdis Orfeo (1607), a work widely regarded as the first great opera, by exploring the influence of the Mantuan Accademia deglia Invaghiti, the group which hosted the operas performance, and...Daugiau...
As the first comprehensive analysis of the full lifespan and ongoing significance of the Small Landscape prints, this unique case study offers a new perspective on the trajectory of print publishing over the course of the late sixteenth and early se...Daugiau...
Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to explicitly ask how merchants invoked saints, and why. The essays in this collection, written from diverse angles, range across later medieval weste...Daugiau...
This volume offers a unique collection of essays analysing the artistic achievements of Mediterranean centres linked to the Byzantine Empire between 1261 and the decades after 1453....Daugiau...
Icons of Sound: Voice, Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by soun...Daugiau...
The focus of this volume is the identification of visions, messages, and meanings in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences perceived by their original audience and modern scholars. It addresses how far interpretation...Daugiau...
The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the wide scope of Annemarie Weyl Carrs interests and the equally wide impact of her career. They are linked by Carrs expansive body of work, which ties together issues of patronage, production and in...Daugiau...
The essays collected in this book were delivered at the XLII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held in London in 2009 to accompany the exhibition Byzantium 330-1453, at the Royal Academy. The exhibition was one of the most ambitious and complex...Daugiau...
The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostile actions towards images, has occurred in many different cultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilation of images is often motivated by a blend of political and religious ideas and b...Daugiau...
Examining various encounters with the holy in the medieval Mediterranean through the lens of the human body and perceptible dimensions of sacred space, the chapters in this volume discuss the complex dynamics of perception employed when experiencing...Daugiau...
