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...