Author: Patricia Basing
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 9781561310029
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book for readers who are interested in the art and the social history of the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of that period are a primary source of information about the way in which men and women went about the everyday business of living-working on the land, engaging in trade and commerce, devoting themselves to crafts and manufactures, or carrying on the range of activities that we now regard as the professions. Many of the scenes reproduced in this superbly illustrated account are simply works of art in their own right; others are taken from manuscripts that are famous for the very high quality of their illumination. Patricia Basing provides a rich commentary, full of interesting observations, that relates each picture its historical context, explores the connections between the illustrations and text, and gives an account of the general background of manuscript production in medieval times.
Trades and Crafts in Medieval Manuscripts
Author: Patricia Basing
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 9781561310029
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book for readers who are interested in the art and the social history of the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of that period are a primary source of information about the way in which men and women went about the everyday business of living-working on the land, engaging in trade and commerce, devoting themselves to crafts and manufactures, or carrying on the range of activities that we now regard as the professions. Many of the scenes reproduced in this superbly illustrated account are simply works of art in their own right; others are taken from manuscripts that are famous for the very high quality of their illumination. Patricia Basing provides a rich commentary, full of interesting observations, that relates each picture its historical context, explores the connections between the illustrations and text, and gives an account of the general background of manuscript production in medieval times.
Publisher: New Amsterdam Books
ISBN: 9781561310029
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book for readers who are interested in the art and the social history of the Middle Ages. Illuminated manuscripts of that period are a primary source of information about the way in which men and women went about the everyday business of living-working on the land, engaging in trade and commerce, devoting themselves to crafts and manufactures, or carrying on the range of activities that we now regard as the professions. Many of the scenes reproduced in this superbly illustrated account are simply works of art in their own right; others are taken from manuscripts that are famous for the very high quality of their illumination. Patricia Basing provides a rich commentary, full of interesting observations, that relates each picture its historical context, explores the connections between the illustrations and text, and gives an account of the general background of manuscript production in medieval times.
Medieval Times
Author: Linda Milliken
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564720498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Arts, Crats, Cooking and Historical Aids.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781564720498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Arts, Crats, Cooking and Historical Aids.
The Medieval Craft of Memory
Author: Mary Carruthers
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image. The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music. The mixing of visual and verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures: pictures contained visual puns, words were often verbal paintings, and both were used equally as tools for making thoughts. The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812293428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
In antiquity and the Middle Ages, memory was a craft, and certain actions and tools were thought to be necessary for its creation and recollection. Until now, however, many of the most important visual and textual sources on the topic have remained untranslated or otherwise difficult to consult. Mary Carruthers and Jan M. Ziolkowski bring together the texts and visual images from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries that are central to an understanding of memory and memory technique. These sources are now made available for a wider audience of students of medieval and early modern history and culture and readers with an interest in memory, mnemonics, and the synergy of text and image. The art of memory was most importantly associated in the Middle Ages with composition, and those who practiced the craft used it to make new prayers, sermons, pictures, and music. The mixing of visual and verbal media was commonplace throughout medieval cultures: pictures contained visual puns, words were often verbal paintings, and both were used equally as tools for making thoughts. The ability to create pictures in one's own mind was essential to medieval cognitive technique and imagination, and the intensely pictorial and affective qualities of medieval art and literature were generative, creative devices in themselves.
The Crafts and Culture of a Medieval Guild
Author: Joann Jovinelly
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404207578
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Includes instructions for making jewelry, stone carving designs, a peasant's hat, shoes, armor, pottery, etc. from available materials.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404207578
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Includes instructions for making jewelry, stone carving designs, a peasant's hat, shoes, armor, pottery, etc. from available materials.
Clothes and Crafts in the Middle Ages
Author: Imogen Dawson
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836827361
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Describes clothes and crafts throughout the Middle Ages in Europe while also discussing the everyday life of the people, their technological skills, and social and economic systems.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
ISBN: 9780836827361
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Describes clothes and crafts throughout the Middle Ages in Europe while also discussing the everyday life of the people, their technological skills, and social and economic systems.
Medieval Crafts
Author: John Cherry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714105659
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Kaldender.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714105659
Category : Art, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Kaldender.
Once Upon a Medieval Craft
Author: Annalees Lim
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541568281
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Transform your home into a medieval kingdom with these terrific craft ideas. Step-by-step instructions direct readers in making a knight's helmet and shield, a fool's mask, a tabletop catapult, and more in this fun illustrated guide. Over 20 fun activities inside!
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
ISBN: 1541568281
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Transform your home into a medieval kingdom with these terrific craft ideas. Step-by-step instructions direct readers in making a knight's helmet and shield, a fool's mask, a tabletop catapult, and more in this fun illustrated guide. Over 20 fun activities inside!
The Middle Ages Unlocked
Author: Gillian Polack
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A unique guide to all aspects of life in the Middle Ages.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445645890
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
A unique guide to all aspects of life in the Middle Ages.
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Author: Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455103
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage. As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455103
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage. As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Everyday Products in the Middle Ages
Author: Gitte Hansen
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782978089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologists most important concern: the people of the past.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782978089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The medieval marketplace is a familiar setting in popular and academic accounts of the Middle Ages, but we actually know very little about the people involved in the transactions that took place there, how their lives were influenced by those transactions, or about the complex networks of individuals whose actions allowed raw materials to be extracted, hewn into objects, stored and ultimately shipped for market. Twenty diverse case studies combine leading edge techniques and novel theoretical approaches to illuminate the identities and lives of these much overlooked ordinary people, painting of a number of detailed portraits to explore the worlds of actors involved in the lives of everyday products - objects of bone, leather, stone, ceramics, and base metal - and their production and use in medieval northern Europe. In so doing, this book seeks to draw attention away from the emergent trend to return to systems and global models, and restore to centre stage what should be the archaeologists most important concern: the people of the past.