Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, c.1100-1220: 8 - Rilegato

Cleaver, Laura

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ISBN 10: 1783270853 ISBN 13: 9781783270859

Casa editrice: Boydell Press, 2016

Riassunto

On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as on the facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of student poverty and the temptations of drink and women to be found in the cities where teachers were increasingly establishing themselves.
This book considers how and why education was explored in the art and architecture of the twelfth century. Through analysis of imagery in a wide range of media, it examines how teachers and students sought to use images to enhance their reputations and the status of their studies. It also investigates how the ideal models often set out in imagery compared with contemporary practice in an era that saw significant changes, beginning with a shift away from monastic education and culminating in the appearance of the first universities.

Laura Cleaver is Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art at Trinity College Dublin.

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A very welcome book in several respects.. As an introduction to an intriguing world of learned imagery and visualisation of abstract thought, the book is.a most welcome addition to the growing body of research into the medieval schools. H-SOZ-KULT

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Having earned her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London she is now the Ussher Lecturer in Medieval Art, Trinity College Dublin

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• Editore: Boydell Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1783270853
• ISBN 13: 9781783270859
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248