Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages

Zusatztext The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages is a jumble of interesting and perceptive insights into the conceptual underpinnings of medieval art, architecture, and literature. Informationen zum Autor Mary Carruthers studies memory training and rhetorical practices of the Middle Ages, in universities and monasteries, clerical and court cultures, focussing in particular on compositional and performative practice in the arts of the twelfth through the mid-fifteenth centuries in Europe. Her work has been fruitful to scholars in a number of other disciplines besides literature, including cultural history, comparative religion, the history of psychology and education, art and architecture history, and musicology. She received her BA from Wellesley College and her PhD from Yale University, both in English language and literature, though her work now is mainly with Latin materials. She retired from New York University in 2011. In Oxford she has been George Eastman Visiting Professor and Fellow of All Souls College. She is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Klappentext 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.It offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life. Zusammenfassung 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.It offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Making Sense; 1 Artful Play; 2 Sensory Complexion and Style; 3 Taking the Bitter with the Sweet; 4 Taste and Good Taste; 5 Varietas; 6 Ordinary Beauty ...

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• Authors: Mary Carruthers, Mary (Remarque Professor of Literature Carruthers, Carruthers Mary
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2013
• EAN: 9780199590322
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959032-2
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies; Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; HISTORY / World, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, General & world history, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Philosophy: aesthetics, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, General and world history, c 500 to c 1000 CE, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval