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The medieval Haggadah : art, narrative, and religious imagination / Marc Michael Epstein.
Fine Arts Library ND3380.4.H33 E68 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Epstein, Marc Michael, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haggadah--Illustrations.
- Haggadah.
- Jewish illumination of books and manuscripts.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.
- Genre:
- Illustrated works.
- Pictures.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- A note on the manuscripts
- introduction. Jewish visual culture as memory's mirror
- The Birds' Haggadah
- Birds' Head revisited
- Socioreligious stratification
- Narrative sequence
- Eucharistic polemics
- Metahistorical connections
- Eschatological hopes
- The Golden Haggadah
- Silence is golden
- Women hidden in plain sight
- The Rylands and "Brother" Haggadot
- Siblings : identical or fraternal?
- Iconography in dialogue
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300156669
- 0300156669
- OCLC:
- 670481425
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