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Author: Eleanor Shipley Duckett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780472061570
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age
Author: Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2012-02-25
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 0812202961
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus commenced the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council of Nicaea. In 815, a second great wave of iconoclasm was set off, only to end in 842 when the icons were restored to the churches of the East and the iconoclasts excommunicated. The iconoclast controversies have long been understood as marking major fissures between the Western and Eastern churches. Thomas F. X. Noble reveals that the lines of division were not so clear. It is traditionally maintained that the Carolingians in the 790s did not understand the basic issues involved in the Byzantine dispute. Noble contends that there was, in fact, a significant Carolingian controversy about visual art and, if its ties to Byzantine iconoclasm were tenuous, they were also complex and deeply rooted in central concerns of the Carolingian court. Furthermore, he asserts that the Carolingians made distinctive and original contributions to the whole debate over religious art. Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians is the first book to provide a comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm. By comparing art-texts with laws, letters, poems, and other sources, Noble reveals the power and magnitude of the key discourses of the Carolingian world during its most dynamic and creative decades.
Author: Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781843830597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal lists that are so much a feature of late Anglo-Saxon culture. As such they are an important part of the way in which the kings and queens of early medieval England created both their history and their kingdom."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Bernhard Walter Scholz
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780472061860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire
Author: Roger Packman Hinks
Publisher: [Ann Arbor, Mich.] : University of Michigan Press
Published: 1962
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pierre Riché
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780812213423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translated from the 1983 French edition, traces the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolingian dynasty, and shows how it molded the shape of a post-Roman Europe that is still with us today. An introduction to the subject for undergraduate or general readers. The largely French and German bibliography has been replaced with a short list of recommended English works. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Charles Reginald Dodwell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780300064933
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.
