History of Art: Byzantine & Medieval Art c 500 CE to c 1400

The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In...

The Virgin and Child Hodegetria was a widely venerated Byzantine image depicting the Virgin holding and pointing to her son as the way to salvation...

This is the first book to explore the emergence and function of a novel pictorial format in the Middle Ages, the vita icon, which displayed the mag...

This book explores the range of images in Byzantine art known as donor portraits. It concentrates on the distinctive, supplicatory contact shown be...

When we sing lines in which a fifteenth-century musician uses ethereal polyphony to complain mundanely about money or hoarseness, more than half a ...

New approaches to what is arguably the most famous artefact from the Middle Ages. In the past two decades, scholarly assessment of the Bayeux Tape...

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A grou...

This volume examines the painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and architecture produced in nine important court cities of Italy during the course ...

Street corners, guild halls, government offices, and confraternity centers contained paintings that made the city of Florence a visual jewel at pre...

In this book, Liz James offers a comprehensive history of wall mosaics produced in the European and Islamic middle ages. Taking into account a wide...

This groundbreaking volume brings together scholars of the art and archaeology of late antiquity (c. 2001000), across cultures and regions reaching...

An investigation of the depiction of the story of Theophilus in both its original texts, and images. The legend of Theophilus stages an iconic med...

Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of ic...

Richly-illustrated consideration of the meaning of the carvings of non-human beings, from centaurs to eagles, found in ecclesiastical settings. Re...

The first major illustrated study of this unique medieval art form for almost half a century, surveying the images and iconography that made the me...

An examination of the passion and crucifixion of Christ as depicted in the visual and religious culture of Anglo-Norman England. The twelfth centu...

Survey of the growth and development of the magnificent shrines which reached their apogee during the middle ages. The cult of saints is one of th...

A comprehensive survey of the intriguing misericord carvings, setting them in their religious context and looking at their different themes and mot...

A new way of looking at the medieval castle - as a cultural reflection of the society that produced it, seen through art and literature. Medieval ...

Two volume set The Second Council of Nicaea (787) decreed that religious images were to set up in churches and venerated. It thereby established th...