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Light as experience and imagination from medieval to modern times / David S. Herrstrom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herrstrom, David Sten, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hope.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (389 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver, British Columbia ; Madison, Wisconsin : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- This scholarly work focuses on encounters with light, telling the story of "seduction" from the Middle Ages through our times, as revealed in works of literature and art, including architecture and film. Rather than the historical investigation of light's "essential" nature, its subject is our relationship with light.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Houses of Light
- Instrumental Light
- Untwisting the Shining Robe of Day
- Sublime Light
- Fields of Light
- Eloquences of Light
- The "Thingness" of Light
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Preceded by: Light as experience and imagination from Palelolithic to Roman times / David S. Herrstrom. [2017].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Herrstrom, David S. Light As Experience and Imagination from Medieval to Modern Times
- ISBN:
- 9781683933649
- 1683933648
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