Art and Worship in the Insular World

Art and Worship in the Insular World
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2021-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004467513

The book examines the lived experience of worship in early medieval England and Ireland, ranging from public experience of church and stone sculptures, to monastic life, to personal contemplation of, and meditation on, manuscript illuminations and other devotional objects.

Medieval Humour

Medieval Humour
Author: Kleio Pethainou
Publisher: Trivent Publishing
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2023-03-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 6156405712

Simultaneously pervasive and evasive, rebellious and oppressive, transgressive and socially specific, humour is a vast and interdisciplinary field of research. Seeking to rethink this quintessentially human expression, this volume is bringing together established and emerging directions of medieval humour research. Each contribution explores different artistic expressions, receptions and functions of humour and identifies a series of problems in researching humour historically. Medieval Humour: Expressions, Receptions and Functions dissects humour in art and thought, literature and drama, society and culture, contributing to a deeper understanding of our cultural past.

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17

Medieval Clothing and Textiles 17
Author: Cordelia Warr
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2023-07-04
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1783275987

The essays here take us from the twelfth century, with an exploration of an inventory of Mediterranean textiles from an Ifriqiyan Church, into an examination and reconstruction of an extant thirteenth-century sleeve in France which provides a rare and early example of medieval quilted armour, and finally on to late medieval Sweden and the reconstruction of gilt-leather intarsia coverlets. A study of construction techniques and the evolution of form of gable and French hoods in the late medieval and the early modern periods follows; and the volume alos includes a study of how underwear for depicted in Renaissance paintings and manuscript illuminations serves as a marker of class.

Textiles of Medieval Iberia

Textiles of Medieval Iberia
Author: Gale R. Owen-Crocker
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2022-09-27
Genre:
ISBN: 1783277017

An examination of the fabrics, garments and cloth of the Iberian Middle Ages, bringing out in particular the international context.

Cartographies of Exclusion

Cartographies of Exclusion
Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2024-06-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0271097868

From the battles over Jerusalem to the emergence of the “Holy Land,” from legally mandated ghettos to the Edict of Expulsion, geography has long been a component of Christian-Jewish relations. Attending to world maps drawn by medieval Christian mapmakers, Cartographies of Exclusion brings us to the literal drawing board of “Christendom” and shows the creation, in real time, of a mythic state intended to dehumanize the non-Christian people it ultimately sought to displace. In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism. Grounding his arguments in the history of anti-Jewish sentiment and actions rampant in twelfth- and thirteenth-century England, Mittman shows how English world maps of the period successfully Othered Jewish people by means of four primary strategies: conflating Jews with other groups; spreading libels about Jewish bodies, beliefs, and practices; associating Jews with Satan; and, most importantly, cartographically “mislocating” Jews in time and space. On maps, Jews were banished to locations and historical moments with no actual connection to Jewish populations or histories. Medieval Christian anti-Semitism is the foundation upon which modern anti-Semitism rests, and the medieval mapping of Jews was crucial to that foundation. Mittman’s thinking offers essential insights for any scholar interested in the interface of cartography, politics, and religion in premodern Europe.

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Arthur-Bunyan

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics: Arthur-Bunyan
Author: James Hastings
Publisher:
Total Pages: 932
Release: 1910
Genre: Ethics
ISBN:

Scope: theology, philosophy, ethics of various religions and ethical systems and relevant portions of anthropology, mythology, folklore, biology, psychology, economics and sociology.

Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem

Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem
Author: Lawrence Nees
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-09-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004302077

Through its material remains, Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem analyzes several overlooked aspects of the earliest decades of Islamic presence in Jerusalem, during the seventh century CE. Focusing on the Haram al-Sharif, also known as the Temple Mount, Lawrence Nees provides the first sustained study of the Dome of the Chain, a remarkable eleven-sided building standing beside the slightly later Dome of the Rock, and the first study of the meaning of the columns and column capitals with figures of eagles in the Dome of the Rock. He also provides a new interpretation of the earliest mosque in Jerusalem, the Haram as a whole, with the sacred Rock at its center.

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Essays on Medieval Europe in Honor of Daniel F. Callahan

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Essays on Medieval Europe in Honor of Daniel F. Callahan
Author: Michael Frassetto
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2014-04-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004274162

Where Heaven and Earth Meet is a Festschrift in honor of Daniel F. Callahan, Professor of History at the University of Delaware. It is an interdisciplinary collection that celebrates and advances research in his principal scholarly interests. One central focus is on the writings of Ademar of Chabannes and what they reveal about heresy, music, warfare, and the Peace of God in the early Middle Ages. Another is on Western religious history (ecclesiastical houses, hagiography, and papal writings), and the collection is rounded out by studies of early Islamic Jerusalem as well as Arabic numismatics. Contributing authors include Professor Callahan’s former classmates, graduate students, colleagues and admirers of his research. The collection will be of interest to researchers in art history, history, musicology, and religion. Contributors are: Bernard S. Bachrach, Daniel F. Callahan, Lawrence G. Duggan, Michael Frassetto, Matthew Gabriele, James Grier, John D. Hosler, Anna Trumbore Jones, Lawrence Nees, Richard R. Ring, Jane T. Schulenburg