Image on the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Image on the Edge write by Michael Camille. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Image on the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive, and amazing the art of the time could be.
Magic in the Margins
Magic in the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic in the Margins write by W. Nikola-Lisa. This book was released on 2007. Magic in the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A young apprentice learns to tap his own wellspring of creativity with the help of the magical margins of an illuminated manuscript in this story about patience, talent, and imagination. Full color.
Images in the Margins
Images in the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Images in the Margins write by Margot McIlwain Nishimura. This book was released on 2009. Images in the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Images in the Margins is the third in the popular Medieval Imagination series of small, affordable books drawing on manuscript illumination in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum and the British Library. Each volume focuses on a particular theme and provides an accessible, delightful introduction to the imagination of the medieval world. An astonishing mix of mundane, playful, absurd, and monstrous beings are found in the borders of English, French, and Italian manuscripts from the Gothic era. Unpredictable, topical, often irreverent, like the New Yorker cartoons of today, marginalia were a source of satire, serious social observation, and amusement for medieval readers. Through enlarged, full-color details and a lively narrative, this volume brings these intimately scaled, fascinating images to a wider audience. It accompanies an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 1 through November 8, 2009.
Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality
Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality write by Ann E. Zimo. This book was released on 2020-03-02. Rethinking Medieval Margins and Marginality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Marginality assumes a variety of forms in current discussions of the Middle Ages. Modern scholars have considered a seemingly innumerable list of people to have been marginalized in the European Middle Ages: the poor, criminals, unorthodox religious, the disabled, the mentally ill, women, so-called infidels, and the list goes on. If so many inhabitants of medieval Europe can be qualified as "marginal," it is important to interrogate where the margins lay and what it means that the majority of people occupied them. In addition, we scholars need to reexamine our use of a term that seems to have such broad applicability to ensure that we avoid imposing marginality on groups in the Middle Ages that the era itself may not have considered as such. In the medieval era, when belonging to a community was vitally important, people who lived on the margins of society could be particularly vulnerable. And yet, as scholars have shown, we ought not forget that this heightened vulnerability sometimes prompted so-called marginals to form their own communities, as a way of redefining the center and placing themselves within it. The present volume explores the concept of marginality, to whom the moniker has been applied, to whom it might usefully be applied, and how we might more meaningfully define marginality based on historical sources rather than modern assumptions. Although the volume’s geographic focus is Europe, the chapters look further afield to North Africa, the Sahara, and the Levant acknowledging that at no time, and certainly not in the Middle Ages, was Europe cut off from other parts of the globe.
Medievalism on the Margins
Medievalism on the Margins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medievalism on the Margins write by Karl Fugelso. This book was released on 2015. Medievalism on the Margins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the middle ages.
