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A History of Pregnancy in Christianity

From Original Sin to Contemporary Abortion Debates

By: Anne Stensvold

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A History of Pregnancy in Christianity

From Original Sin to Contemporary Abortion Debates

By: Anne Stensvold

This book examines changing views of procreation and fetal development throughout the history of the Christian tradition. This is the first comprehensive study of cultural perceptions of pregnancy, an area of scholarship that been understudied in the past. Pregnancy holds a central place in Christian ritual, iconography, and theology, including the dogma of the incarnation and the cult of Virgin Mary. This book provides a broad introduction to the attitudes and ideas within Western Christian communities by focusing on four periods of transition: Antiquity, the Enlightenment, modernity, and the present day. It lays the groundwork for further study of the interactions between biological models, cultural preconceptions, and religious beliefs.

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Routledge

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1135106479

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Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy

By: Anne Dunlop

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Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy

By: Anne Dunlop

The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies developed to propagate mendicant cults. But how should the two phenomena be related? How much were these orders actively responsible for artistic change, and how much did they simply benefit from it? To explore these questions, Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy looks at art in the formative period of the Augustinian Hermits, an order with a particularly difficult relation to art. As a first detailed study of visual culture in the Augustinian order, this book will be a basic resource, making available previously inaccessible material, discussing both well-known and more neglected artworks, and engaging with fundamental methodological questions for pre-modern art and church history, from the creation of religious iconographies to the role of gender in art.

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412

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Routledge

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1351957163

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9781351957168

Imagining the Past in France

History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

By: Elizabeth Morrison,Anne D. Hedeman,J. Paul Getty Museum

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Imagining the Past in France

History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

By: Elizabeth Morrison,Anne D. Hedeman,J. Paul Getty Museum

This exquisite volume beautifully reproduces and insightfully examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts.

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Getty Publications

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1606060287

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Creating Cistercian Nuns

The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne

By: Anne E. Lester

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Creating Cistercian Nuns

The Women's Religious Movement and Its Reform in Thirteenth-Century Champagne

By: Anne E. Lester

In Creating Cistercian Nuns, Anne E. Lester addresses a central issue in the history of the medieval church: the role of women in the rise of the religious reform movement of the thirteenth century. Focusing on the county of Champagne in France, Lester reconstructs the history of the women’s religious movement and its institutionalization within the Cistercian order. The common picture of the early Cistercian order is that it was unreceptive to religious women. Male Cistercian leaders often avoided institutional oversight of communities of nuns, preferring instead to cultivate informal relationships of spiritual advice and guidance with religious women. As a result, scholars believed that women who wished to live a life of service and poverty were more likely to join one of the other reforming orders rather than the Cistercians. As Lester shows, however, this picture is deeply flawed. Between 1220 and 1240 the Cistercian order incorporated small independent communities of religious women in unprecedented numbers. Moreover, the order not only accommodated women but also responded to their interpretations of apostolic piety, even as it defined and determined what constituted Cistercian nuns in terms of dress, privileges, and liturgical practice. Lester reconstructs the lived experiences of these women, integrating their ideals and practices into the broader religious and social developments of the thirteenth century—including the crusade movement, penitential piety, the care of lepers, and the reform agenda of the Fourth Lateran Council. The book closes by addressing the reasons for the subsequent decline of Cistercian convents in the fourteenth century. Based on extensive analysis of unpublished archives, Creating Cistercian Nuns will force scholars to revise their understanding of the women’s religious movement as it unfolded during the thirteenth century.

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Cornell University Press

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0801462967

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9780801462962

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

By: Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin

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Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

By: Chloë N. Duckworth,Anne E. Sassin

The myriad ways in which colour and light have been adapted and applied in the art, architecture, and material culture of past societies is the focus of this interdisciplinary volume. Light and colour’s iconographic, economic, and socio-cultural implications are considered by established and emerging scholars including art historians, archaeologists, and conservators, who address the variety of human experience of these sensory phenomena. In today’s world it is the norm for humans to be surrounded by strong, artificial colours, and even to see colour as perhaps an inessential or surface property of the objects around us. Similarly, electric lighting has provided the power and ability to illuminate and manipulate environments in increasingly unprecedented ways. In the context of such a saturated experience, it becomes difficult to identify what is universal, and what is culturally specific about the human experience of light and colour. Failing to do so, however, hinders the capacity to approach how they were experienced by people of centuries past. By means of case studies spanning a broad historical and geographical context and covering such diverse themes as architecture, cave art, the invention of metallurgy, and medieval manuscript illumination, the contributors to this volume provide an up-to-date discussion of these themes from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective. The papers range in scope from the meaning of colour in European prehistoric art to the technical art of the glazed tiles of the Shah mosque in Isfahan. Their aim is to explore a multifarious range of evidence and to evaluate and illuminate what is a truly enigmatic topic in the history of art and visual culture.

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Routledge

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1351682962

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9781351682961

Fundamentals of Art History

By: Anne D'Alleva,Michael Cothren

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Fundamentals of Art History

By: Anne D'Alleva,Michael Cothren

This invaluable guide enables students to get the most from their art history course. Written in an accessible style, the book introduces two basic art historical methods - formal analysis and contextual analysis. In this new edition revising author Michael Cothren has extended the discussion on iconography and iconology, as well as adding discussions on the effects of the market and museums on art. Greater emphasis is placed on the global and multicultural aspects of art creation and analysis with new images and more case studies. There is more step-by-step guidance on how to use these methods to prepare for exams and write papers.

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Laurence King Publishing

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1529423198

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9781529423198

Picture Ecology

Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

By: Alan C. Braddock

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Picture Ecology

Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

By: Alan C. Braddock

Seeking a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, this compendium offers a diverse range of art-historical criticism formulated within an ecological context. Picture Ecology brings together scholars whose contributions extend chronologically and geographically from 11th-century Chinese painting to contemporary photography of California wildfires. The book's 17 interdisciplinary essays provide a dynamic, cross-cultural approach to an increasingly vital area of study, emphasizing the environmental dimensions inherent in the content and materials of aesthetic objects. Picture Ecology provides valuable new approaches for considering works of art, in ways that are timely, intellectually stimulating, and universally significant.

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Princeton University Press

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0691236011

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9780691236018

Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister

Cloister Imagery & Religious Life in Medieval Spain

By: Pamela Anne Patton

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Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister

Cloister Imagery & Religious Life in Medieval Spain

By: Pamela Anne Patton

Praised as paradisiacal or denounced as impious fantasy, the sculpture of Romanesque cloisters played a powerful role in medieval monastic life. This book demonstrates how sculpture in the cloister, the physical and spiritual heart of the religious foundation, could be shrewdly configured to articulate the most influential ideals and experiences of its individual community. Taking as its focus the visually rich, highly organized narrative programs of three twelfth-century Spanish cloisters, this book reveals the power of such imagery to reflect and reinforce the social and spiritual preoccupations of its age.

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Peter Lang

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0820472689

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9780820472683

Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy

Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant

By: Anne Derbes

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Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy

Narrative Painting, Franciscan Ideologies, and the Levant

By: Anne Derbes

This study examines the narrative paintings of the Passion of Christ created in Italy during the thirteenth century. Demonstrating the radical changes that occurred in the depiction of the Passion cycle during the Duecento, a period that has traditionally been dismissed as artistically stagnant, Anne Derbes analyzes the relationship between these new images and similar renderings found in Byzantine sources. She argues that the Franciscan order, which was active in the Levant by the 1230s, was largely responsible for introducing these images into Italy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521639263

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9780521639262

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy

Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua

By: Anne Derbes

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Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy

Fina Buzzacarini and the Baptistery of Padua

By: Anne Derbes

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy is the first English-language study of the baptistery of Padua and its extraordinarily rich fresco program, which opens with Genesis and closes with the Apocalypse. Remarkably, when the building was refashioned and frescoed by Giusto de' Menabuoi in the 1370s, it was a woman, Fina Buzzacarini, who funded the enterprise. In late medieval Italy, baptisteries were potent symbols of civic identity, solidarity, and pride, and towns spent lavishly on them - but no other baptistery was so radically reworked at the behest of a woman. Remarkably, too, though the building continued to function as Padua's baptismal church, the renovations transformed it into the mausoleum of Fina Buzzacarini and her family. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, using close visual analysis to argue that to a surprising degree, Fina exerted control over the images. The author argues too that ritual is equally important in understanding the frescoes: that in multiple ways that have rarely been considered, the images respond to and participate in the ritual enacted in this sacred space. The prayers intoned at the font, the actions of the officiant, the hymns chanted in procession and inside the baptistery, and even details of the rite all find visual echoes on the baptistery's walls. Ultimately, gender and ritual intersect in the multilayered frescoes of the Padua baptistery.

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250357968X

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Book's by Anne Derbes

A History of Pregnancy in Christianity

A History of Pregnancy in Christianity

Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy

Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy

Imagining the Past in France

Imagining the Past in France

Creating Cistercian Nuns

Creating Cistercian Nuns

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

Colour and Light in Ancient and Medieval Art

Fundamentals of Art History

Fundamentals of Art History

Picture Ecology

Picture Ecology

Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister

Pictorial Narrative in the Romanesque Cloister

Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy

Picturing the Passion in Late Medieval Italy

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy

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