Title: Studies in the iconography of the virtues and vices in the Middle Ages /
Authors: O'Reilly, Jennifer,
Date: 1988
Publisher: Garland Pub.,
Physical description: xxii, 465 pages, 84 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: N
Contents: The psychomachia : origins and content -- The psychomachia and the iconography of the virtues and vices -- The didactic context -- The cardinal virtues -- The gift virtues -- The devotional and penitential context of the later middle ages -- The devotional and penitential context continued -- Trees of virtues and vices, life and death.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Nottingham, 1972.
Subject headings (LCSH): Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500--Themes, motives.; Vices in art.; Virtues in art.