Art and Nature in the Middle Ages
Title | Art and Nature in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Musée de Cluny |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 137 |
Release | 2016-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300227051 |
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Art and Nature in the Middle Ages, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Musaee de Cluny in Paris, and presented in Dallas from December 4, 2016, to March 19, 2017."
Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages
Title | Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Umberto Eco |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780300093049 |
In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. "[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco's] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject." --Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping." --Washington Post Book World "A lively introduction to the subject." --Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine "If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco's short volume." --D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages
Title | An Environmental History of the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | John Aberth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 346 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0415779456 |
The Middle Ages was a critical and formative time for Western approaches to our natural surroundings. An Environmental History of the Middle Ages is a unique and unprecedented cultural survey of attitudes towards the environment during this period. Exploring the entire medieval period from 500 to 1500, and ranging across the whole of Europe, from England and Spain to the Baltic and Eastern Europe, John Aberth focuses his study on three key areas: the natural elements of air, water, and earth; the forest; and wild and domestic animals. Through this multi-faceted lens, An Environmental History of the Middle Ages sheds fascinating new light on the medieval environmental mindset. It will be essential reading for students, scholars and all those interested in the Middle Ages
Art & Nature
Title | Art & Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Cleaver |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Architecture, Medieval |
ISBN |
A collection of papers by Research students and emerging scholars presented at Leeds International Medieval Congress in 2008.
Treasure, Memory, Nature
Title | Treasure, Memory, Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Cordez |
Publisher | Harvey Miller |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781912554614 |
This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder.00Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively.00Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and museum practices.0Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris.
Medieval Robots
Title | Medieval Robots PDF eBook |
Author | E. R. Truitt |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2015-06-11 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0812246977 |
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
The Medieval World of Nature
Title | The Medieval World of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Joyce E. Salisbury |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 2019-06-26 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0429584237 |
Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that the pragmatic medieval view of the natural world of animals and plants, existed simply to serve medieval society. It discusses the medieval concept of animals as food, labour, and sport and addresses how the biblical charge of assuming dominion over animals and plants, was rooted in the medieval sensibility of control. The book also looks at the idea of plants and animals as not only pragmatic, but as allegories within the medieval world, utilizing animals to draw morality tales, which were viewed with as much importance as scientific information. This book provides a unique and interesting look at the everyday medieval world.