Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics
Art, Architecture, Literature, Music
Series: The New Middle Ages;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2010
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 17 November 2010
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230618985
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages309 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations XI, 309 p. 0
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Long description:
These essays recover the lively discussions on the topics of 'magnificence' and 'the sublime' in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following, and apply them to the Middle Ages to draw exciting new conlcusions.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction; C.S.Jaeger 'Opus es magnificum': The Image of God and the Aesthetics of Grace; M.Rossi Monti Singers and the Grandeur of Worship in the West, 400-800; C.Page 'Incessu humilem, successu excelsam': Augustine, Sermo humilis and Scriptural; D.Shanzer Magnificence in Miniature: The Case of Early Medieval Manuscripts; A.Cohen Cantor's King: The Magnification of Robert II; M.Fassler Reflections on the Wonderful Height and Size of Gothic Great Churches; P.Binski Richard of St. Victor and the Medieval Sublime; C.S.Jaeger 'Error Left Me and Fear Came in its Place': Giants and the Sublime in Dante and Medieval Literature; E.Stoppino The Magnificent Builder in Late Medieval Italy; A.Marina Sound and the City: Listening to Magnificence in Medieval Paris; E.Dillon How Magnificent was Medieval Art?; B.Williamson
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