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Author:   Amanda Luyster ,  Amanda Luyster
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781138274983

ISBN 10:   1138274984
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   14 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Mapping the heavens and treading the earth: negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art, Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster; Chivalric narratives and devotional experience in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. Smith; Merging heavenly court and earthly council in trecento Venice, Caroline A. Wamsler; Divine images and earthly authority at the Chora parekklesion in Constantinople, Galina Tirnanic; Classical constellations in Carolingian codices: investigating the celestial imagery of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 3307, Eric Ramírez-Weaver; Spaces of convergence: Christian monasteries and Umayyad architecture in Greater Syria, Lara Tohme; Challenging the sacred landscape of Byzantine Cappadocia, Veronica Kalas; Pilgrimage for pleasure: time and space in late-medieval Japanese painting, Samuel Crowell Morse; Select bibliography; Index.

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'Overall, the editors have produced a noteworthy collection both in its structure and scope, supported by a lavish and relevant iconographic corpus. I enjoyed reading all of the essays, and I appreciated the editorial description of the central issue and framing of new critical approaches. I also liked the fact that Walker and Luyster point out the work-in-progress quality of their anthology. Far from simply providing new terms to supplant the old dichotomous opposition between sacred and secular, their reading essentially highlights the limits of too strict a distinction while at the same time acknowledging the existence and even the relevance of the two categories (1-2). And the essays included in the collection reiterate this critical stance since they all, in very different ways, are not limited to an essential, trite dismantlement but engage in a much more difficult task: the conscious reconstruction of more fluid, morphemic terms to designate differing trends in objects which were not simply the result of the skillful handling of chisels and brushes, but derived from a multitude of social, historical, political, economic, literary, geographic and artistic trends.' The Medieval Review

"'Overall, the editors have produced a noteworthy collection both in its structure and scope, supported by a lavish and relevant iconographic corpus. I enjoyed reading all of the essays, and I appreciated the editorial description of the central issue and framing of new critical approaches. I also liked the fact that Walker and Luyster point out the ""work-in-progress"" quality of their anthology. Far from simply providing new terms to supplant the old dichotomous opposition between sacred and secular, their reading essentially highlights the limits of too strict a distinction while at the same time acknowledging the existence and even the relevance of the two categories (1-2). And the essays included in the collection reiterate this critical stance since they all, in very different ways, are not limited to an essential, trite dismantlement but engage in a much more difficult task: the conscious reconstruction of more fluid, morphemic terms to designate differing trends in objects which were not simply the result of the skillful handling of chisels and brushes, but derived from a multitude of social, historical, political, economic, literary, geographic and artistic trends.' The Medieval Review"

Author Information

Alicia Walker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis. Amanda Luyster is a Lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the College of the Holy Cross.

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