Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art

Robert Couzin's Right and Left in Early Christian and Medieval Art is the first in-depth study of handedness, position, and direction in the visual culture of Europe and Byzantium from the fourth to the fourteenth century. Heretofore largely unnoticed or ignored, the pre-eminence of the right and lapses or intentional departures from that norm in medieval imagery are relevant to such major themes as iconography, visuality, reception, narrative, form, gender, production, and patronage. The author's investigation of right and left in visual culture is informed by modern experimental research on laterality and contextualized within prevailing theological doctrines and socio-cultural practices.

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About the author

Robert Couzin, Ph.D. (University of Toronto, 2013), is a second-career scholar of early Christian and medieval art history. He has published on a wide range of topics, from sarcophagi to the historiography of Latin neologisms.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Couzin
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2021
• EAN: 9789004448254
• ISBN: 978-90-04-44825-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 788 g
• Series: Art and Material Culture in Me
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages