Cross, the Gospels, and the Work of Art in the Carolingian Age

The book explores the power of representation in the Carolingian period, arguing that people used images to assert the value of artworks.

List of contents

Part I. The Cross and the Work of Art: Introduction: temporality, utilitas, and the signum crucis; 1. Making the multitemporal cross; Part II. The Cross and the Gospels: 2. Otfrid of Weissenburg's Book of the Gospels; 3. Cross-image and Gospel Book; 4. The angers gospels: sign and story; Conclusion: the fact of manufacture.

About the author

Beatrice E. Kitzinger is assistant professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, New Jersey. Her scholarly work has been supported by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Stanford University, where she was an Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellow.

Summary

The book contributes to medieval studies, introducing new material for art history, religious studies, and manuscript studies in particular. The concern with definitions of ritual and time speaks to work by historians, and art-historical studies based especially in the Renaissance.

Product details

• Authors: Beatrice Kitzinger, Beatrice (Princeton University Kitzinger, Beatrice E Kitzinger, Beatrice E. Kitzinger, Beatrice E. (Princeton University Kitzinger, KITZINGER BEATRICE
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781108428811
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42881-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, European History, English, ART / General, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 500 to c 1000 CE, History and Archaeology, European history: medieval period, middle ages, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, Medieval style