[PDF.78se] Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400 - circa 1204

Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400 - circa 1204

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 | #4158257 in Books |  Penn State Press |  2012-07-27 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  10.00 x1.11 x9.00l,3.05 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF RELIQUARIES|By TERRANCE D. MERX|This has got to be the most comprehensive study of relics & reliquaries ever! This is NOT a coffee table picture book,but an in-depth study of the art, psychology and manufacture of reliquaries and the meanings behind them. Excellent treatise, but is more for the intellectual and student than for casual entertainment.| |Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of representation that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sour

Reliquaries, one of the central art forms of the Middle Ages, have recently been the object of much interest among historians and artists. Until now, however, they have had no treatment in English that considers their history, origins and place within religious practice, or above all, their beauty and aesthetic value. In Strange Beauty, Cynthia Hahn treats issues that cut across the class of medieval reliquaries as a whole. She is particularly concerned with ...

You easily download any file type for your device.Strange Beauty: Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400 - circa 1204   |  Cynthia Hahn. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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