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Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
Laura Cleaver
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Description for Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
Hardback. A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. Num Pages: 248 pages, 66 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 251 x 19. Weight in Grams: 760.
A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as on the facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of ... Read more
A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as on the facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783270859
SKU
V9781783270859
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Ref
99-50
About Laura Cleaver
Laura Cleaver is Senior Lecturer in Manuscript Studies at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her research focuses on manuscripts made in England and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and on the sale of pre-modern manuscripts in the early twentieth century.
Reviews for Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220
A very welcome book in several respects . . . As an introduction to an intriguing world of learned imagery and visualisation of abstract thought, the book is . . . a most welcome addition to the growing body of research into the medieval schools.
H-SOZ-KULT
The delightful attention that Cleaver gives throughout this book to the humor ... Read more
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The delightful attention that Cleaver gives throughout this book to the humor ... Read more