The Medieval Calendar Year
Author: Bridget Ann Henisch
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780271019031
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Henisch, an independent scholar, focuses on High Middle Ages renditions of the "Labors of the Months", a pictorial calendar convention that depicted the traditional cycle of the year revolving around seasonal activities on the land. She examines how artists chose to depict the cycle and the ways in which the conventions and assumptions of art styled the reality of agricultural drudgery into far prettier images. Fine color and b&w illustrations from manuscripts, particularly the Book of Hours.