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The tree : symbol, allegory, and mnemonic device in medieval art and thought ; [... based on papers delivered at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds ... (7 - 10 July 2008)]
"Using a range of methodological strategies and examining material from different media, ranging from illuminated manuscripts to wall painting, stained glass windows, and monumental sculpture, the articles in this volume show how different arboreal structures were conceived, employed, and appro...
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Document Type: | Conference Proceeding Book |
Language: | English |
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Turnhout
: Brepols
, 2014
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Series: | International medieval research
20 |
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Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension Rezension |
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The tree Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: Pippa Salonius / Andrea Worm (eds.), The tree. Symbol, allegory, and mnemonic device in medieval art and thought] |
Author Notes: | ed. by Pippa Salonius and Andrea Worm |
Summary: | "Using a range of methodological strategies and examining material from different media, ranging from illuminated manuscripts to wall painting, stained glass windows, and monumental sculpture, the articles in this volume show how different arboreal structures were conceived, employed, and appropriated by their specific contexts, how they functioned in their original framework, and how they were perceived by their audience."--Back cover Stirps Jesse in capite ecclesiae : iconographic and liturgical readings of the Tree of Jesse in stained-glass windows / Marie-Pierre Gelin -- Arbor autem humanum genus significat : trees of genealogy and sacred history in the twelfth century / Andrea Worm -- Arbor genealogiae : manifestations of the tree in French royal genealogies / Marigold Anne Norbye -- The medieval tree of porphyry : an organic structure of logic / Annemieke R. Verboon -- Visualizing salvation : the role of arboreal imagery in the Speculum humanae salvationis (Kremsmünster, Library of the Convent, Cod. 243) / Susanne Wittekind -- Two trees in paradise? A case study on the iconography of the Tree of Knowledge and the Tree of Life in Italian Romanesque sculpture / Ute Dercks -- The tree as narrative, formal, and allegorical index in representations of the Noli me tangere / Barbara Baert and Liesbet Kusters -- Quasi lignum vitae : the Tree of Life as an image of Mendicant identity / Ulrike Ilg -- Arbor Jesse, Lignum vitae : the Tree of Jesse, the Tree of Life, and the Mendicants in late Medieval Orvieto / Pippa Salonius |
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Item Description: | The articles are based on papers delivered at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, which addressed the thematic strand "The Natural World" (7 - 10 July 2008) |
Physical Description: | XVI, 255 S. zahlr. Ill. |
ISBN: | 9782503548395 |