Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851157115
Category : Reference
Languages : fr
Pages : 344

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Classic study of the rise and flowering of heraldry 12-13c, with Arthurian references.

Author: Sara Morrison
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317050746
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.

Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Gerard Joseph Brault
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Charles Boutell
Publisher:
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Category : Badges
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Author: Charles Boutell
Publisher:
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Category : Devices (Heraldry).
Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Author: Gerard J. Brault
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: K. Starkey
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113705655X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts. The term 'visual culture' has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and other contemporary representational forms and functions. But this emphasis on visuality is not only a modern phenomenon. Discourses on visual processes pervade the works of medieval secular poets, theologians, and scholastics alike. The Middle Ages was a highly visual society in which images, objects, and performance played a dominant communicative and representational role in both secular and religious areas of society. The essays in this volume, which present various perspectives on medieval visual culture, provide a critical historical basis for the study of visuality and visual processes.

Author: Charles Boutell
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752583959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Author: Keith Busby
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317656857
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Originally published in 1996, the articles in this book are revised, expanded papers from a session at the 17th International Congress of the Arthurian Society held in 1993. The chapters cover Arthurian studies’ directions at the time, showcasing analysis of varied aspects of visual representation and relation to literary themes. Close attention to the historical context is a key feature of this work, investigating the linkage between texts and images in the Middle Ages and beyond.