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

Kurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of wh...

More than any other secular story of the Middle Ages, the tale of Tristan and Isolde fascinated its audience. Adaptations in poetry, prose, and dra...

A richly informed volume that deserves the attention of all scholars interested in this remarkable figure. - SEHEPUNKTE First modern study devote...

Mit diesem CVMA-Band sind die mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien Thüringens flächendeckend erfasst. Waren die historischen Verglasungen von Erfurt und...

In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Writ...

To write about works that cannot be sensually perceived involves considerable strain. Absent the object, art historians must stretch their methods ...

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist,...

How grace shaped the Renaissance in ItalyGrace emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian...

Some of the great and lasting achievements of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are the architectural wonders of soaring cathedrals, grand castle...

Die vorliegende Publikation schließt ein Forschungsprojekt ab, in dem erstmalig sämtliche illustrierten, astronomischen und astrologischen Handschr...

A fresh approach to the construction of Anglo-Saxon England and its depiction in art and writing. This book explores the ways in which early medie...

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Winner of the 2023 Otto Gründler Book Prize from Western Michigan Uni...

In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church w...

Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the de...

This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajector...

This attractive booklet is a guide to two walks around the historic town of Sandwich, once one of the great ports of medieval England. As a Cinqu...

Das Buch komplettiert die Reihe der zu den mittelalterlichen Glasmalereien des nördlichen Sachsen-Anhalt erschienenen Bände des Corpus Vitrearum. G...

From fairy-tale castles and baronial halls to dungeons, torture and horror, the Gothic style has been incredibly influential. Indeed the cultural h...

In 1799, one of the most important hoards of gold from the European early Middle Ages was discovered near the village of Nagyszentmiklós (then in t...

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...