The experience of beauty in the middle ages /
"This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the f...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
©2013.
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| Series: | Oxford-Warburg studies.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology."-- |
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| Item Description: | Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 1, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-226) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780191654565 0191654566 9780199590322 019959032X 9780191804540 0191804541 |