The visual object of desire in late medieval England:

"Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroid...

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1. Verfasser: Stanbury, Sarah (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Philadelphia Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2008
Schriftenreihe:The Middle Ages Series
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Zusammenfassung:"Little remains of the rich visual culture of late medieval English piety. The century and a half leading up to the Reformation had seen an unparalleled growth of devotional arts, as chapels, parish churches, and cathedrals came to be filled with images in stone, wood, alabaster, glass, embroidery, and paint of newly personalized saints, angels, and the Holy Family. But much of this fell victim to the Royal Injunctions of September 1538, when parish officials were ordered to remove images from their churches." "In this highly insightful book Sarah Stanbury explores the lost traffic in images in late medieval England and its impact on contemporary authors and artists. For Chaucer, Nicholas Love, Margery Kempe, the image debate provides an urgent language for exploring the demands of a material devotional culture - though these writers by no means agree on the ethics of those demands. As Stanbury contends, England in the late Middle Ages was keenly attuned to and troubled by its "culture of the spectacle," whether this spectacle took the form of a newly-made queen in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale or of the animate Christ in Norwich Cathedral's Despenser Retable. In picturing images and icons, these texts were responding to reformist controversies as well as to the social and economic demands of things themselves, the provocative objects that made up the fabric of ritual life."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-278) and index
Beschreibung:290 S. Ill. 24 cm
ISBN:9780812240382
0812240383

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