Negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art : Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Walker, Alicia, 1972-, Luyster, Amanda
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Subjects:	Art, Medieval > Themes, motives. Holy, The, in art. Polarity in art. Art and society > History > To 1500.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : mapping the heavens and treading the earth : negotiating secular and sacred in medieval art / Alicia Walker and Amanda Luyster
Chivalric narratives and devotional experience in the Taymouth Hours / Kathryn A. Smith
Merging heavenly court and earthly Council in trecento Venice / Carolina A. Wamsler
Divine images and earthly authority at the Chora parekklesion in Constantinople / Galina Tirnanić
Classical constellations in Carolingian codices : investigating the celestial imagery of Madrid, Biblioteca Nacional, MS 3307 / Eric Ramírez-Weaver
Spaces of convergence : Christian monasteries and Umayyad architecture in Greater Syria / Lara Tohme
Challenging the sacred landscape of Byzantine Cappadocia / Veronica Kalas
Pilgrimage for pleasure : time and space in late medieval Japanese painting / Samuel Crowell Morse.