Negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art
Subtitle: Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist
By: [edited by] Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster.
Contributors: Walker, Alicia.; Luyster, Amanda.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780754663270
Subjects: Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives; Holy, The, in art; Polarity in art; Art and society -- History -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Mapping the heavens and treading the earth : negotiating sacred and secular in medieval art / Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster; title: Chivalric narratives and devotional experience in the Taymouth Hours / Kathryn A. Smith; title: Merging heavenly court and earthly Council in Trecento Venice / Carolina A. Wamsler; title: Divine images and earthly authority at the Chora Parekklesion in Constantinople / Galina Tirnani; title: Classical constellations in Carolingian codices : investigating the celestial imagery of Madrid, Biblioteca nacional, MS 3307 / Eric Ramírez Weaver; title: Spaces of convergence : Christian monasteries and Umayyad architecture in greater Syria / Lara Tohme; title: Challenging the sacred landscape of Byzantine Cappadocia / Veronica Kalas; title: Pilgrimage for pleasure : time and space in late medieval Japanese painting / Samuel Crowell Morse.