Buchbesprechung Audrey L Meaney Anglo Saxon Amulets And Curing Stones Oxford 1981
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Seeking Transparency
| Author | : Zainab Bahrani |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9783786128434 |
"This collection of essays reveals the global and cross-cultural histories of rock-crystal production in and even beyond the lands of the Mediterranean Sea. It investigates many objects and varied aspects of rock crystal such as: the physical nature and legendary as well as actual origins of the material; its manufacturing techniques and affiliations to other luxurious objects, such as cut glass and carved precious stones; legends and traditions associated with its aesthetic qualities; as well as issues concerning its varied functions and historiography." --
Strange Beauty
| Author | : Cynthia Jean Hahn |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 318 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0271050780 |
"A study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism"--Provided by publisher.
Apocalypse as Utopian Expectation (800-1500)
| Author | : Derk Visser |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789004106215 |
This study identifies Berengaudus of Ferrieres as a Carolingian whose Apocalypse commentary accentuated the utopianism of early Medieval exegetes. It suggests that the commentary's popularity may provide a new reading for the eschatological Romanesque iconography of Western France as well as for Van Eyck's "Adoration of the Lamb."
Glass of the Sultans
| Author | : Stefano Carboni |
| Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Glassware |
| ISBN | : 0870999869 |
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition that brings together more than 150 glass objects representing twelve centuries of Islamic glassmaking. Included are the principal types of pre-industrial glass from Egypt, the Middle East, and India in a comprehensive array of shapes, colors, and techniques such as glassblowing, the use of molds, the manipulation of molten glass with tools, and the application of molten glass to complete or decorate an object. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
The Throne of Adulis
| Author | : G.W. Bowersock |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199739323 |
Leading historian G.W. Bowersock provides a narrative account of a fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history — the holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs in the sixth century AD.
Amber and the Ancient World
| Author | : Faya Causey |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1606060821 |
"Amber has fascinated mankind since the Palaeolithic era. This book examines the myths and legends woven around amber - its employment in magic and medicine, its transport and carving, and its incorporation into jewellery, amulets, and other objects of prestige"--Publisher's description.
The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
| Author | : Mary Carruthers |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2013-04-25 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 019959032X |
Uses lexical analyses of key terms employed by medieval people to valuate their own aesthetic feelings to show how flux and change, and the creative tension of antithetical physical qualities from which all things were thought to be made (cold, hot, dry, wet), govern the pleasures medieval artists sought to produce.
The Book Of Minerals
| Author | : Albertus Magnus |
| Publisher | : Dalcassian Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 1967-01-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
