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Laura Weigert - French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater - 9781107040472 - V9781107040472
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French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater

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Description for French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater hardcover. This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Num Pages: 305 pages, 143 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; ACK; AN; HBJD; HBLC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 253 x 177. .
This book revives what was unique, strange and exciting about the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes. Laura Weigert brings together a wealth of visual artifacts and practices to explore this tradition of late medieval performance located not in 'theaters' but in churches, courts, and city streets and squares. By stressing the theatricality rather than the realism of fifteenth-century visual culture and the spectacular rather than the devotional nature of its effects, she offers a new way of thinking about late medieval representation and spectatorship. She shows how images that ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
305
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107040472
SKU
V9781107040472
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99-12

About Laura Weigert
Laura Weigert is Associate Professor of Art History at Rutgers University, New Jersey. She is the recipient of grants from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Humboldt Foundation, and she was a Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and a Felix Gilbert Member at the ... Read more

Reviews for French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater
'A particular strength of this book is the attention paid to language. Throughout, Weigert offers illuminating analyses of words such as mystere, personnage, scena, theatrum, and vif (het levende/dlevende in Middle Dutch), which had broad semantic fields and for which there exist no direct equivalents in modern English. ... Readers interested in late medieval and early modern art history, history, ... Read more

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