Research Catalog

Title

Negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art : Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist / edited by Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Walker, Alicia
• Luyster, Amanda.
• Walker, Alicia.
• College Art Association of America. Conference (94th : 2006 : Boston, Mass.)

Description

[xvii], 219 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), plan, facsims.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Art, Medieval > Themes, motives
• Holy, The, in art
• Polarity in art
• Art and society > History > To 1500

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Essays originally presented at a College Art Association meeting in Boston, MA, February 2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-211) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 / Carolina A. Wamsler -- Divine images and earthly authority at the Chora parekklesion in Constantinople / Galina Tirnanić -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780754663270 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0754663272 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008044323

OCLC

426917383

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library