Studies in late medieval wall paintings, manuscript illuminations, and texts / Clifford Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Clifford, author.

Contributor:

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mural painting and decoration, Medieval.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500.

Christian art and symbolism.

Christian art and symbolism--Medieval.

Physical Description:

ix, 138 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]

Summary:

This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for "simple souls" in the Carthusian Nicholas Love's Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Emphasis is on such aspects as memory, participative theology, devotional images, meditative practice, and techniques of constructing patterns of sacred imagery.

Contents:

The Coventry Holy Trinity Doom painting: anticipating the end-time

Image, text, and devotion in Carthusian wall painting, manuscript illumination and narrative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-130) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783319474755

3319474758

OCLC:

958460803