Title:
Perspectives on medieval art : learning through looking / edited by Ena Giurescu Heller and Patricia C. Pongracz ; with an essay by Thomas Cahill and contributions by Dirk Breiding ... [et al.].
Author:
Heller, Ena Giurescu.
Pongracz, Patricia.
Museum of Biblical Art.
Fordham University. Center on Religion and Culture.
Publication Information:
New York : Museum of Biblical Art ; London : In association with D. Giles, 2010.
Call Number:
CB351 .P423 2010
Abstract:
"Perspectives on Medieval Art: Learning through Looking examines medieval culture from a number of different viewpoints to reveal how the art of the Middle Ages can provide a unique insight into the wider issues of medieval politics and culture. The essays also address the teaching of medieval art and architecture as well as examining society's longing for ecclesiastical drama. Contributions from leading theologians and historians variously study life and art in the Middle Ages, why the medieval period matters today and how medieval art speaks to a 21st-century audience. Scholars from different disciplines, including Thomas Cahill and Kathryn Kueny, consider individual works of art simultaneously and examine how medieval art is taught in divinity schools, university and college classrooms and museums."--Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9781904832690
9780977783953
Physical Description:
224 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), music ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Selection of papers presented at the symposium Seeing the Medieval: Realms of Faith/Visions for Today, held May 30-31, 2008, organized by Fordham Center on Religion and Culture and the Museum of Biblical Art.
Contents:
Why the medieval matters / The Middle Ages in life and art / Teaching medieval art in museums and on the Web. From the lecture hall to museum gallery: teaching medieval art using primary objects / Teaching medieval architecture at the Cloisters / Cataloguing medieval manuscript fragments: a window on the scholar's workshop, with an emphasis on electronic resources / Reading medieval liturgical objects: perspectives from different fields of study. The living past: form and meaning in a late medieval Eucharistic chalice from the Walters Art Museum / Liturgical instruments and the placing of presence / What the Eucharist dove teaches: Protestant theology students and medieval liturgy / A theological reading of medieval Eucharistic vessels as emblems of embrace / Broadening the perspective. Arms and armor: a farewell to persistent myths and misconceptions / The cure of perfection: women's obstetrics in early and medieval Islam
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