The Mineral and the Visual - Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture

Examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in jeweled crowns, illustrated lapidaries, and illustrated travel accounts in the European Middle Ages.

About the author

Brigitte Buettner is Louise I. Doyle ’34 Professor of Art at Smith College. She is the author of Boccaccio’s “Des cleres et nobles femmes”: Systems of Signification in an Illuminated Manuscript.

Summary

Examines the social roles, cultural meanings, and active agency of precious stones in jeweled crowns, illustrated lapidaries, and illustrated travel accounts in the European Middle Ages.

Product details

• Authors: Brigitte Buettner, Brigitte (Smith College) Buettner, Buettner Brigitte
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2022
• EAN: 9780271092508
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09250-8
• Dimensions: 203 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1247 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Magick Studies, HISTORY / Europe / Western, ART / European, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, ART / History / European / Medieval