Medieval Aesthetics

Author : S. Jaeger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780230618985
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics written by S. Jaeger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : C. Barrett
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110808226
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Aesthetics written by C. Barrett and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three volume set is a comprehensive account of the development of European aesthetics from the time of the ancient Greeks to the 1700s. This second volume focuses on eastern and western aesthetics in the Middle Ages.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300093049
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages written by Umberto Eco and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic ideas. Juxtaposing theology and science, poetry and mysticism, Eco explores the relationship that existed between the aesthetic theories and the artistic experience and practice of medieval culture. "[A] delightful study. . . . [Eco's] remarkably lucid and readable essay is full of contemporary relevance and informed by the energies of a man in love with his subject." --Robert Taylor, Boston Globe "The book lays out so many exciting ideas and interesting facts that readers will find it gripping." --Washington Post Book World "A lively introduction to the subject." --Michael Camille, The Burlington Magazine "If you want to become acquainted with medieval aesthetics, you will not find a more scrupulously researched, better written (or better translated), intelligent and illuminating introduction than Eco's short volume." --D. C. Barrett, Art Monthly

Author : Domenico Ingenito
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004435905
Total Pages : 717 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beholding Beauty written by Domenico Ingenito and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, Domenico Ingenito explores the unstudied connections between eroticism, spirituality, and politics in the lyric poetry of 13th-century literary master Sa‘di Shirazi.

Author : Mary Carruthers
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191654566
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages written by Mary Carruthers and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology. The book will appeal to all lovers of medieval arts, literature, architecture, music, and painting, as well as serious students of religion and the language of beauty.

Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674006768
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas written by Umberto Eco and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-known Italian semiotician and novelist Umberto Eco discloses for the first time to English-speaking readers the unsuspected richness, breadth, complexity, and originality of the aesthetic theories advanced by the influential medieval thinker Thomas Aquinas, heretofore known principally as a scholastic theologian. Inheriting his basic ideas and conceptions of art and beauty from the classical world, Aquinas transformed or modified these ideas in the light of Christian theology and of developments in metaphysics and optics during the thirteenth century. Setting the stage with an account of the vivid aesthetic and artistic sensibility that flourished in medieval times, Eco examines Aquinas's conception of transcendental beauty, his theory of aesthetic perception or visio, and his account of the three conditions of beauty--integrity, proportion, and clarity--that, centuries later, emerged again in the writings of the young James Joyce. He examines the concrete application of these theories in Aquinas's reflections on God, mankind, music, poetry, and scripture. He discusses Aquinas's views on art and compares his poetics with Dante's. In a final chapter added to the second Italian edition, Eco examines how Aquinas's aesthetics came to be absorbed and superseded in late medieval times and draws instructive parallels between Thomistic methodology and contemporary structuralism. As the only book-length treatment of Aquinas's aesthetics available in English, this volume should interest philosophers, medievalists, historians, critics, and anyone involved in poetics, aesthetics, or the history of ideas.

Author : Katharine W. Jager
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030183343
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages written by Katharine W. Jager and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vernacular Aesthetics in the Later Middle Ages explores the formal composition, public performance, and popular reception of vernacular poetry, music, and prose within late medieval French and English cultures. This collection of essays considers the extra-literary and extra-textual methods by which vernacular forms and genres were obtained and examines the roles that performance and orality play in the reception and dissemination of those genres, arguing that late medieval vernacular forms can be used to delineate the interests and perspectives of the subaltern. Via an interdisciplinary approach, contributors use theories of multimodality, translation, manuscript studies, sound studies, gender studies, and activist New Formalism to address how and for whom popular, vernacular medieval forms were made.

Author : James F. Knapp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487501919
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Romance written by James F. Knapp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds

Author : Stephen Davies
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444310429
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Aesthetics written by Stephen Davies and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art Unique to this edition are six overview essays on the history of aesthetics in the West from antiquity to modern times

Author : Władysław Tatarkiewicz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Aesthetics: Medieval aesthetics written by Władysław Tatarkiewicz and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: