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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.…

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. In this book, Beatrice E. Kitzinger explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, demonstrating how images were used to assert the value and efficacy of art works. She focuses on the cross, Christianity's central sign, which simultaneously commemorates sacred history, functions in the present, and prepares for the end of time. It is well recognized that the visual attributes of the cross were designed to communicate its theology relative to history and eschatology; Kitzinger argues that early medieval artists also developed a formal language to articulate its efficacious powers in the present day. Defined through form and text as the sign of the present, the image of the cross articulated the instrumentality of religious objects and built spaces. Whereas medieval and modern scholars have pondered the theological problems posed by representation, Kitzinger here proposes a visual argument that affirms the self-reflexive value of art works in the early medieval West. Introducing little-known sources, she re-evaluates both the image of the cross and the project of book-making in an expanded field of Carolingian painting.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Power, Patronage, and Production complements and extends the project of Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500, held at The Morgan Library & Museum from October 2021 to January 2022, the first exhibition in the United States to chart the history of manuscript illumination within the bounds of the Holy Roman Empire from the Carolingian period to the eve of the Reformation. The volume gathers scholars from Europe and North America, bringing historical and art-historical perspectives to case studies that explore a key period in book history, while shining a light on understudied material. The essays demonstrate the eclecticism and variety of genre, media, subject matter, and social contexts that characterize the corpus of medieval manuscripts from Central Europe. From prestigious commissions linked to the imperial court or produced at imperial monasteries, to works made for the newly empowered urban patriciate of the late Middle Ages, the books studied here reveal the changing role of the codex in medieval and early modern culture. These shifting patterns of patronage in turn reflect the diverse functions of illuminated manuscripts, which in the period served variously as objects of collective ritual, vehicles of gift exchange, projections of political propaganda, instruments of edification and entertainment, and focal points of individual prayer. In highlighting the range and depth of this corpus, the fifteen contributions to this volume make clear how integral such material has proved to the formation of American collections of medieval manuscripts, contributing both to our picture of visual cultures of the past and the ways they come down to us. The collection histories these studies illuminate, together with their focus on material that previous scholarship has overlooked, form a signal part of the book's achievement. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Power, Patronage, and Production complements and extends the project of Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500, held at The Morgan Library & Museum from October 2021 to January 2022, the first exhibition in the United States to chart the history of manuscript illumination within the bounds of the Holy Roman Empire from the Carolingian period to the eve of the Reformation. The volume gathers scholars from Europe and North America, bringing historical and art-historical perspectives to case studies that explore a key period in book history, while shining a light on understudied material. The essays demonstrate the eclecticism and variety of genre, media, subject matter, and social contexts that characterize the corpus of medieval manuscripts from Central Europe. From prestigious commissions linked to the imperial court or produced at imperial monasteries, to works made for the newly empowered urban patriciate of the late Middle Ages, the books studied here reveal the changing role of the codex in medieval and early modern culture. These shifting patterns of patronage in turn reflect the diverse functions of illuminated manuscripts, which in the period served variously as objects of collective ritual, vehicles of gift exchange, projections of political propaganda, instruments of edification and entertainment, and focal points of individual prayer. In highlighting the range and depth of this corpus, the fifteen contributions to this volume make clear how integral such material has proved to the formation of American collections of medieval manuscripts, contributing both to our picture of visual cultures of the past and the ways they come down to us. The collection histories these studies illuminate, together with their focus on material that previous scholarship has overlooked, form a signal part of the book's achievement. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Power, Patronage, and Production complements and extends the project of Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, 800-1500, held at The Morgan Library & Museum from October 2021 to January 2022, the first exhibition in the United States to chart the history of manuscript illumination within the bounds of the Holy Roman Empire from the Carolingian period to the eve of the Reformation. The volume gathers scholars from Europe and North America, bringing historical and art-historical perspectives to case studies that explore a key period in book history, while shining a light on understudied material. The essays demonstrate the eclecticism and variety of genre, media, subject matter, and social contexts that characterize the corpus of medieval manuscripts from Central Europe. From prestigious commissions linked to the imperial court or produced at imperial monasteries, to works made for the newly empowered urban patriciate of the late Middle Ages, the books studied here reveal the changing role of the codex in medieval and early modern culture. These shifting patterns of patronage in turn reflect the diverse functions of illuminated manuscripts, which in the period served variously as objects of collective ritual, vehicles of gift exchange, projections of political propaganda, instruments of edification and entertainment, and focal points of individual prayer. In highlighting the range and depth of this corpus, the fifteen contributions to this volume make clear how integral such material has proved to the formation of American collections of medieval manuscripts, contributing both to our picture of visual cultures of the past and the ways they come down to us. The collection histories these studies illuminate, together with their focus on material that previous scholarship has overlooked, form a signal part of the book's achievement. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Hardback, Pages: xxvi + 378, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:232 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442420. Summary The arts of the book from central Europe often provide a mirror both for imperial aspirations as well as for the complex pluralities of societies on the ground. The essays in this collection explore material written in Czech, German, Hebrew, and Latin, made for both religious and non-religious contexts in the ninth, twelfth, and fifteenth centuries, highlighting the range and depth of the Central European corpus as well as how integral such material has been to the formation of medieval holdings in America. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Contributors Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Beatrice Kitzinger, and Joshua O'Driscoll Central European Illuminated Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in American Collections: An Introduction Patronage Lenses 1 Heidi C. Gearhart Anonymity Rules? An Unknown Abbot in the Martyrology and Rule of Gladbach (Morgan Library and Museum, MS M.563) 2 Shirin Fozi The Helmarshausen Psalter in Baltimore: Thinking Beyond Henry the Lion 3 Andrea Worm Devotion and Reflection in the Claricia Psalter (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, W.26) Interregional Networks, Intellectual Networks 4 Arthur Westwell The Local Lives of a Liturgical Manuscript: St-Amand and Chelles in the History of the Franco-Saxon Sacramentary in The Morgan Library and Museum 5 Francesca Pistone Astronomy, Book Painting, and the Intellectual Network between Lake Constance and the Loire 6 Martin Roland Illuminated Charters in Public Space: A Case Study and Perspectives 7 Marina Bernasconi Reusser From Engelberg, Switzerland to Conception, Missouri: Fragments as Vehicles of History and Culture Vernacular Experiments 8 Nina Rowe Nero's Pregnancy and the Body Politic in Late Medieval Regensburg 9 Anna Boreczky King Apollonius of Tyre in Augsburg and Ulm: Early Modern Illustrations of a Late Antique Tale and the Use of Reused Images 10 Laura Ackerman Smoller The Illustrated Book as Textual Commentary: Sebastian Brant's Edition of the Revelations of Pseudo-Methodius Spotlight I. The Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady 11 Jan Dienstbier The Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady and the Advent of the Late Gothic Style in Prague: Reevaluating "Valentin Noh" 12 Jessica L. Savage Queen of Hearts: Patronage and Personalization in the 1466 Prayer Book of George of Pod?brady Spotlight II.The Washington Giant Bible 13 John Jefferson The Fruit of Reform: How the Bursfelde Movement Yielded One of the Most Sumptuous German Bibles of the Fifteenth Century 14 Christoph Winterer The "Giant Bible" in Washington, DC: Perspectives from Art History and History of the Book Spotlight III. Central Europe as Ashkenaz 15 Adam S. Cohen And Sharon Liberman Mintz Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Ashkenaz to America Notes Index of Manuscripts Index of Incunabula, Early Printed Books, Broadsides, and Single-Leaf Woodcuts General Index 0 g.…