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A short history of the Renaissance in Northern Europe
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ISBN: 9781780763842 9781780763859 9781350145634 9781350145610 1780763859 1780763840 Year: 2020 Publisher: London, UK Bloomsbury Academic

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The idea of a rebirth in the art and civilization of the western world during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries has proved an enduring one. Italy has long been seen as its home: the source of both its origins and its finest cultural expressions. Yet in the north, the bright Mediterranean dawn of Boccaccio and Michelangelo was echoed by the artistic genius of Memling and the brilliant humanistic insights of Erasmus. This lively new history argues that the rediscovery of the antique worlds of Greece and Rome between 1400 and 1540 is only one part of the story. Though Italy was the natural heir to the Roman era, northern Europe developed a realism and illusionistic naturalism in painting which owed little, if anything, to the south. Some of Jan van Eyck's and Rogier van de Weyden's portraits have never been surpassed. These painters were profoundly influential, not only on their northern followers like Hans Holbein the Younger, but on Italian artists as well. Netherlandish painting was universally admired by fifteenth-century Italians, while the musical creativity of the Low Countries was also much prized in Italian cities and courts. Expertly traversing religion, art, history and culture, Malcolm Vale suggests that the region that produced Luther and Durer owed as much to its own past heritage as to new ideas from Italy. His book will change our perceptions of this flowering of European art and culture.


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Everyday objects : medieval and early modern material culture and its meanings
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ISBN: 9780754666370 9781315255798 9781351938105 0754666379 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,


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The agency of things in Medieval and Early modern art : materials, power and manipulation
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ISBN: 9781138054226 9781315166940 1138054224 Year: 2018 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor and Francis,

The craft of thought : meditation, rhetoric, and the making of images, 400-1200
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ISBN: 0521582326 0521795419 9780521795418 9780521582322 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, her new book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture. In a process akin to today's 'creative' thinking, or 'cognition', this discipline recognises the essential roles of imagination and emotion in meditation. Deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials, this study emphasises meditation as an act of literary composition or invention, the techniques of which notably involved both words and making mental 'pictures' for thinking and composing.

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Christian spirituality --- anno 400-499 --- anno 500-1199 --- Meditation. --- -Geheugen. Herinnering --- Civilization, medieval --- Méditation --- -Imagery, Mental --- 159.953 --- 316.772.22 --- 930.85.42 --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Meditation --- -Rhetoric --- -Thought and thinking --- -Civilization, Medieval --- -930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- 159.953 Geheugen. Herinnering --- Geheugen. Herinnering --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Imagination --- Visualization --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Mind --- Thinking --- Thoughts --- Educational psychology --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Intellect --- Logic --- Perception --- Psycholinguistics --- Self --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Mental prayer --- Prayer, Mental --- Prayer --- Spiritual life --- Contemplation --- 316.772.22 Audio-visuele, visuele communicatie. Beeldcommunicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- Audio-visuele, visuele communicatie. Beeldcommunicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- History --- Psychological aspects --- Rhetoric --- Thought and thinking --- History. --- Christianity --- Imagery (Psychology). --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- Psychological aspects. --- Monastic and religious life. --- Rhetoric. --- Vie religieuse et monastique --- Rhétorique --- Imagerie (Psychologie) --- Civilisation médiévale --- Aspect psychologique --- 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen --- Art --- Literature --- Meditation - Christianity - History --- Thought and thinking - History --- Civilization, medieval - Psychological aspects --- -History


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The Oxford illustrated history of the Renaissance
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ISBN: 019871615X 9780198716150 9780198862666 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford (GB) : Oxford University Press,

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The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include?0Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have changed considerably in recent decades. The glories of Florence and the art of Raphael and Michelangelo remain an important element of the Renaissance story, but they are now only a part of a much wider story which looks beyond an exclusive focus on high culture, beyond the Italian peninsula, and beyond the fifteenth century. 0The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance tells the cultural history of this broader and longer Renaissance: from seminal figures such as Dante and Giotto in thirteenth-century Italy, to the waning of Spain's 'golden age' in the 1630s, and the closure of the English theatres in 1642, the date generally taken to mark the end of the English literary Renaissance.0Geographically, the story ranges from Spanish America to Renaissance Europe's encounter with the Ottomans-and far beyond, to the more distant cultures of China and Japan. And thematically, under Gordon Campbell's expert editorial guidance, the volume covers the whole gamut of Renaissance civilization, with chapters on humanism and the classical tradition; war and the state; religion; art and architecture; the performing arts; literature; craft and technology; science and medicine; and travel0and cultural exchange.


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Literature and the Renaissance garden from Elizabeth I to Charles II : England's Paradise
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ISBN: 9781409436744 9781409436751 1409436756 1409436748 1317104358 9781317104353 1280690097 9781280690099 9786613667038 661366703X 131710434X 9781315592664 9781317104339 9781317104346 9781138257825 1315592665 Year: 2012 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, U.K. ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub.,

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Spanning the period from Elizabeth I's reign to Charles II's restoration, this study argues the garden is a primary site evincing a progressive narrative of change, a narrative that looks to the Edenic as obtainable ideal in court politics, economic prosperity and national identity in early modern England. The book offers an original take on gardens by including medical and colonial discourse and by considering the perspective of ecocriticism.


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Monstres, démons et merveilles à la fin du Moyen Age
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ISBN: 2228273503 9782228273503 Year: 1980 Publisher: Paris : Payot,

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Le monstre médiéval apparaît à travers l'oeuvre des peintres et graveurs de la fin du Moyen Age comme une création très mystérieuse : notre époque, pour tenter d'en retrouver le sens, lui prête des intentions subversives, des origines pathologiques, une inspiration redevable aux hallucinogènes, etc. (toutes "grilles" qu'on a voulu appliquer à Jérôme Bosch par exemple). Ces essais d'explication, pour la plupart, n'entrent pas réellement dans l'univers médiéval. Ce livre se propose de cerner le monstre et la notion de monstre par une exploration aussi respectueuse que possible des données propres au Moyen Age : structures de l'univers, paysage de mentalités, pensée mystique et mythique. La Tradition gréco-romaine (et son héritage oriental), la Tradition des "divins docteurs" médiévaux s'entremêlent pour maintenir et enrichir l'existence des monstres. Le XVe siècle, dans une hantise accrue et aiguë du diabolique, engendre une nouvelle génération monstrueuse qui, cependant, coexiste avec les précédentes et entretient des rapports étroits avec elles. L'auteur chasse le monstre à travers des textes littéraires et para-littéraires (descriptions du monde et récits de voyage en particulier) du XIIIe au XVe siècle en vue de restituer le regard du passé sur ses propres créations, tout en s'accordant la liberté d'user des ressources du XXe siècle pour jeter des ponts entre cette époque et la nôtre. Une iconographie abondante et en grande partie inédite illustre le propos.


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The Year 1200.
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ISBN: 0870990926 9780870990007 9780870990021 0870990004 0870990012 0870990020 0870990039 9780870990922 Year: 1970 Volume: 1-2 Publisher: [New York] : Metropolitan Museum of Art; distributed by New York Graphic Society,

Ethnologies en miroir : la France et les pays de langue allemande
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ISBN: 0521303699 2735102068 0521386586 2735103463 2735118843 9782735102068 9782735103461 9780521386586 9780521303699 Year: 1987 Volume: 14 Publisher: Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,

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Pourquoi en France a-t-on donné la priorité à l'étude de la parenté, et dans les pays de langue allemande à celle de la narration populaire ? Quels rapports entretiennent l'ethnologie française avec l'histoire et celle de langue allemande avec le politique ? De quelle manière étudie-t-on, ici et là, les faits symboliques et religieux, et qu'entend-on par symbolismes populaires ? Quels objets de recherche, quels problèmes sollicitent aujourd'hui les ethnologues ? Ce sont là quelqu'unes des interrogations auxquelles on a cherché à répondre dans ce face à face. Les quatorze essais présentés ici dégagent en miroir l'originalité, et les divergences, de ces deux écoles majeures de l'ethnologie de l'Europe. Les auteurs passent en revue les objets d'étude, les méthodes, les principales orientations théoriques, l'histoire mais aussi l'avenir de cette discipline désignée, selon le lieu et le moment, par les termes d'etimologie, Volkskunde, folklore ou arts et traditions populaires. Mais, par delà le tableau des originalités et différences dans l'ethnologie de ces deux aires linguistiques, cet ouvrage ouvre une brèche dans le mur d'ignorance réciproque qui sépare les ethnologues de l'une et l'autre langue : tâche primordiale si l'on veut comprendre le champ des civilisations européennes.

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