Elina Gertsman

Middle Ages in 50 Objects (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108340816
• Artikelnr.: 56531620

Autorenporträt

Elina Gertsman is Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010) and Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and editor of several books, including Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008) and Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (2013). Most recently, with Stephen Fliegel, she published a catalogue that accompanies the focus exhibition they co-curated at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Myth and Mystique: Cleveland's Gothic Table Fountain (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Holy and the Faithful: 1. Jonah Cast Up
c.280-290
marble; 2. Altar Front
c.540-600
marble; 3. Pilgrim's Flask with Saint Menas
6th-7th century
terracotta; 4. Calyx (Chalice)
900s-1000s
blood jasper (heliotrope) with gilt-copper mounts; 5. Christ's Mission to the Apostles
c.970-980
ivory; 6. Feline Incense Burner
1100s
copper alloy
cast and chased; 7. Leaf from a Qur'an
1100s
opaque watercolor
ink
and gold on paper; 8. Arm Reliquary of the Apostles
c. 1190
gilt silver
champlevé enamel
oak; 9. Virgin and Child
late 13th century; wood (oak) with polychromy and gilding; 10. Christ and Saint John the Evangelist
early 14th century
polychromed and gilded oak; 11. The Coronation of the Virgin with the Trinity
c.1400
oil on panel; 12. Christ Carrying the Cross
1400s
painted and gilded alabaster; 13. Leaf from an Antiphonary: Initial H with the Nativity
c.1480
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; Part II. The Sinful and the Spectral: 14. Adam and Eve
late 400s-early 500s
marble and stone tesserae; 15. Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking
6th Century
undyed linen and dyed wool; 16. Plaque from a Portable Altar Showing the Crucifixion
1050-1100
walrus ivory; 17. Dragon's Head
1100-1150
walrus ivory; 18. Bowl with Engraved Figures of Vices
1150-1200
bronze; 19. Engaged Capital with a Lion and a Basilisk
1175-1200
marble; 20. Leaf from a Cocharelli Treatise on the Vices: Acedia and Her Court
c.1330
ink
tempera
and gold on vellum; 21. Miniature from a Mariegola: The Flagellation
1359-1360
tempera and gold on parchment; 22. The Madonna of Humility with the Temptation of Eve
c.1400
tempera and gold on wood panel; 23. Grotesques from the Hours of Charles the Noble
c.1404
ink
tempera
and gold on vellum; 24. The Virgin Mary Overcoming a Devil
ca.1473
hand-colored woodcut; 25. Demon in Chains
c.1453
opaque watercolor and gold on paper; Part III. Daily Life and Its Fictions: 26. S-Shaped Fibula
500s
silver with garnets; 27. Button
500s
rock crystal
garnet
granulated gold; 28. Solidus with Busts of Constans II and Constantine IV (obverse)
659-661
gold; 29. Bifolium Excised from a Carolingian Gradual
c.830-860
gold and silver ink on purple parchment; 30. Jug
900s
gold with repoussé and chased and engraved decoration; 31. Lion Aquamanile
1200-1250
copper alloy; 32. Luster Wall Tile with a Couple
1266
fritware with luster-painted design; 33. Leaf Excised from Henry of Segusio's 'Summa Aurea': Table of Consanguinity
c. 1280
ink
tempera
and gold on parchment; 34. Albarello with Two Hares
14th century
tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); 35. Mirror Case with a Couple Playing Chess
1325-1350
 ivory; 36. Table Fountain
c.1320-1340
gilt-silver and translucent enamels; 37. Barbute
1350-1420
iron; 38. Time
from Chateau de Chaumont Set
1512-1515
silk and wool; Part IV. Death and Its Aftermath: 39. Columbarium Tomb Plaque with the Monogram of Christ
500-800
terracotta; 40. Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax)
600s
iron
copper
and gold foil; 41. Inscribed Tombstone of Shaikh al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn al-Hasan
1110
limestone; 42. Condemnation and Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence
c.1180
gilded copper
champlevé enamel; 43. Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion
c.1300-1330
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; 44. Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ
c. 1350-1375
ivory; 45. Death of the Virgin
c.1400
tempera and oil with gold on panel; 46. Mourner from the Tomb of Philip the Bold
1404-1410
alabaster; 47. The Last Judgment: Leaf from a Book of Hours
1430s
ink
tempera and gold on vellum; 48. Initial T from a Choral Book with Isaac and Esau
c.1460-1470
ink
tempera
and gold on parchment; 49. A Bridal Couple
c.1470
oil on panel; 50. Dance of Death: The Pope
cut c.1526-27
woodcut.