An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis

Author : Melinda Nielsen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004499075
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Speculum Humanae Salvationis written by Melinda Nielsen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speculum Humanae Salvationis was one of the most popular works of medieval scriptural exegesis. It appears here for the first time in a full transcription and English translation, including an apparatus of biblical references and notes on the visual iconography.

Author : Adrian Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780520051942
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Medieval Mirror written by Adrian Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and included reproductions of all 116 woodcuts of the blockbooks, accompanied by a description of the typography and production and an interpretation of each scene. The Speculum Humanae Salvationis or "Mirror of Human Salvation," is the only medieval work that exists in illuminated manuscripts, in blockbook editions of the mid-fifteenth century, and in sixteen later incunabula. The authors have provided lavishly illustrated accounts of the manuscripts and included reproductions of all 116 woodcuts of the blockbooks, accompanied by a description of the typography and production and an interpretation of each scene.

Author : Kimberly J. Vrudny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Friars, Scribes, and Corpses written by Kimberly J. Vrudny and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speculum humanae salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation), a medieval book recounting in forty-five chapters the story of human redemption within the larger context of the Virgin Mary's life, was something of a best seller in the Middle Ages, surviving in over 400 copies. Because the author wrote anonymously, however, little about the book's initial context is known despite a century's-long effort to uncover the author's identity. Friars, Scribes, and Corpses investigates a Marian confraternal setting for the Speculum's emergence, and newly proposes consideration of Nicola da Milano as the poem's author. Its central chapters show how the scribes who copied the Speculum preserved the author's rhetorical considerations that served so well the purposes of Marian confraternal preaching, including elements that suit memory training techniques used in the Middle Ages, such as building an architectural structure in one's mind, tagging memories with emotion, and internalizing the transformative nature of spiritual lessons. The final chapter asserts that the poem's lessons would have been particularly desired in the context of plague, when the number of corpses threatened to destroy people's faith in a merciful God. Friars, Scribes, and Corpses challenges assumptions about the Speculum, as well as the dominantly held view that there was an overwhelming emphasis on death in the late medieval period. Rather, this book demonstrates that there was a competing emphasis on life as glimpsed in the glass of the Speculum.

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108340814
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Ages in 50 Objects written by Elina Gertsman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary array of images included in this volume reveals the full and rich history of the Middle Ages. Exploring material objects from the European, Byzantine and Islamic worlds, the book casts a new light on the cultures that formed them, each culture illuminated by its treasures. The objects are divided among four topics: The Holy and the Faithful; The Sinful and the Spectral; Daily Life and Its Fictions, and Death and Its Aftermath. Each section is organized chronologically, and every object is accompanied by a penetrating essay that focuses on its visual and cultural significance within the wider context in which the object was made and used. Spot maps add yet another way to visualize and consider the significance of the objects and the history that they reveal. Lavishly illustrated, this is an appealing and original guide to the cultural history of the Middle Ages.

Author : Ruth W. Mellinkoff
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579100880
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Horned Moses in Medieval Art and Thought written by Ruth W. Mellinkoff and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1997-09-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study touching not only upon medieval art, but also upon such disciplines as medieval history, history of the Church, Latin and vernacular literature both religious and secular, medieval drama, mythology, and folklore. Mellinkoff's goal is to provide an iconographical interpretation of horned Moses in as deep a sense as possible.

Author : Susan L. Green
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351187619
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree of Jesse Iconography in Northern Europe in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries written by Susan L. Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first detailed investigation to focus on the late medieval use of Tree of Jesse imagery, traditionally a representation of the genealogical tree of Christ. In northern Europe, from the mid-fifteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, it could be found across a wide range of media. Yet, as this book vividly illustrates, it had evolved beyond a simple genealogy into something more complex, which could be modified to satisfy specific religious requirements. It was also able to function on a more temporal level, reflecting not only a clerical preoccupation with a sense of communal identity, but a more general interest in displaying a family’s heritage, continuity and/or social status. It is this dynamic and polyvalent element that makes the subject so fascinating.

Author : Bert Cardon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manuscripts of the Speculum Humanae Salvationis in the Southern Netherlands (c.1410-c.1470) written by Bert Cardon and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Peeters 1996)

Author : Shirley N. Blum
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520337484
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Netherlandish Triptychs written by Shirley N. Blum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Author : Albert C. Labriola
Publisher : Duquesne
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirror of Salvation written by Albert C. Labriola and published by Duquesne. This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Because the blockbook was intended as a resource and reference work for sermons and religious instruction in the late Middle Ages, it exemplifies the level of understanding of Scripture and mythology imparted to the common folk."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Joseph Cundall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.TB/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Brief History of Wood-engraving from Its Invention written by Joseph Cundall and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: