Right and left in early Christian and Medieval art /

"Robert Couzin's Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminence of the r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Couzin, Robert (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Series:	Art and material culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; v. 16.
Subjects:	Left and right (Symbolism) Christian art and symbolism > To 500. Christian art and symbolism > Medieval, 500-1500. Left- and right-handedness > Religious aspects > Christianity. Christian art and symbolism. Christian art and symbolism > Medieval. To 1500

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Summary:	"Robert Couzin's Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminence of the right and lapses or intentional departures from that norm in medieval imagery are relevant to such major themes as iconography, visuality, reception, narrative, form, gender, production, and patronage. The author's investigation of right and left in visual culture is informed by modern experimental research on laterality and contextualized within prevailing theological doctrines and socio-cultural practices. Illustrations in the text are complemented by hundreds more made available on Brill's Arkyves platform"--
Physical Description:	xxviii, 299 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9789004448254 900444825X
ISSN:	2212-4187 ;