Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other ...
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Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period. Both Western and Byzantine material is included. Beginning with the earliest pictures of and stories about saints, the book traces the evolution of hagiographic imagery primarily in manuscript contexts. Because of its cross-disciplinary nature, it will be of interest to audiences interested in Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western medieval culture: religion, society, politics, and art. No other book to date is organized similarly in providing detailed descriptions for the identification of medieval manuscripts with hagiographic texts and illustrations.
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VG (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Pages are otherwise very clean and clear. ) Green cloth with gilt lettering. xix, [3], 207 pp. Illustrated with bw reproductions. Contents include: Ch. 1. Origins: The Growth and Development of Hagiographic Imagery--Ch. 2. Medieval Hagiographic Manuscript Types and Contexts: An Overview--Ch. 3. Illustrations in Calendars and Martyrologies: All Saints--Ch. 4. Illustrated Biography: Libelli Manuscripts--Ch. 5. Passionary Illustrations--Ch. 6. Hagiographic Illustration in the Byzantine World: Menologia and Synaxaries--Ch. 7. Hagiographic Illustration in Non-Hagiographic Manuscripts--Ch. 8. Image Recycling in Hagiographic Illustration.
Add this copy of Text, Image, Message: Saints in Medieval Manuscript to cart. $101.99, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 1994 by Praeger.
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