Portrayed on the Heart
Subtitle: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780520223202
Subjects: Early Church; European history: c 500 to c 1500; History of religion; Illustration; Literary studies: general; Saints & hagiography; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval; History; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Photo Essays; Europe; History - Medieval; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Art / General; Christian saints in art; General; Medieval; Christian hagiography; Illumination of books and manu; To 1500
First sentence: A BRIEF SKETCH of the historical contexts of reading, hearing, and looking at hagiography between the sixth and the thirteenth century will serve here as a prologue to our own efforts as readers and viewers.
Description: "This book explores the illustrated saints' Lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and analyzes their pictorial and narrative structure.

Hahn's book is a virtual compendium of images - many rarely published - as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the roles of various types of saints, the nature of their audiences, and the historical moment when individual works were produced."--BOOK JACKET.