The Illuminated Chronicle - 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 The Illuminated Chronicle write by János M. Bak. This book was released on 2018-07-01. The Illuminated Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary's medieval historical tradition, going back to the eleventh century and including the mythical past of its people. The pictures in this manuscript—formerly known as the Vienna Chronicle—are not merely occasional illustrations added to some exemplars, but text and image are closely connected and mutually related to each other, to qualify it as a proper “illuminated chronicle”. The artistic value of the miniatures is quite high, and the characters are drawn with detail and with a knowledge of anatomy. Forty-two of the miniatures are included in the present volume. A full color facsimile will be accessible online. The 147 pictures are an invaluable source of information on late medieval cultural history, costume, and court life. In a historiographical context, The Illuminated Chronicle is an attempt at the popularization of the national history and a systematic appeal to circles beyond the old monastic-clerical audience. The Illuminated Chronicle (Chronica de gestis Hungarorum e codice picto saec. xiv.) is the ninth volume in the Central European Medieval Texts, a Latin–English bilingual series.
The Book of the Illuminated Chronicle
The Book of the Illuminated Chronicle - 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 The Book of the Illuminated Chronicle write by József Hapák. This book was released on 2009. The Book of the Illuminated Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle - 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 Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle write by János M. Bak. This book was released on 2018-07-01. Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume of studies is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. 9 on the Illuminated Chronicle (formerly called the Vienna Chronicle), written in the fourteenth century, which represents the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. The volume of the text and its annotations did not allow including the detailed scholarly introduction into the same volume as is the custom with the other CEMT items. The essays in the book analyze the text and the illuminations of the Illuminated Chronicle in literaryhistorical, art historical and heraldic context. The relevant literature that goes back to more than 200 years is also summarized. Additional studies address issues connected with the narrative. Since the chronicle starts with the history of the Huns, imaginary ancestors of the Hungarians, the Attila tradition in Hungarian history writing is discussed. Extensive coverage is offered on the dynastic struggles of the eleventh century, placing them into the context of amicitia and deditio. The image of King St. Ladislas I as the "ideal king" is reviewed, a topic that received conspicuously detailed coverage in the chronicle. Finally, the fate of the fourteenthcentury chronicle texts during the subsequent centuries is examined, their appearance in legal texts, and their reception abroad.
The Illuminated World Chronicle
The Illuminated World Chronicle - 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 The Illuminated World Chronicle write by Nina Rowe. This book was released on 2020-11-24. The Illuminated World Chronicle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A look into an enchanting, underexplored genre of illustrated manuscripts that reveals new insights into urban life in the Middle Ages In this innovative study, Nina Rowe examines a curious genre of illustrated book that gained popularity among the newly emergent middle class of late medieval cities. These illuminated World Chronicles, produced in the Bavarian and Austrian regions from around 1330 to 1430, were the popular histories of their day, telling tales from the Bible, ancient mythology, and the lives of emperors in animated, vernacular verse, enhanced by dynamic images. Rowe’s appraisal of these understudied books presents a rich world of storytelling modes, offering unprecedented insight into the non-noble social strata in a transformative epoch. Through a multidisciplinary approach, Rowe also shows how illuminated World Chronicles challenge the commonly held view of the Middle Ages as socially stagnant and homogeneously pious. Beautifully illustrated and backed by abundant and accessible analyses of social, economic, and political conditions, this book highlights the engaging character of secular literature during the late medieval era and the relationship of illustrated books to a socially diverse and vibrant urban sphere.
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts - 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 A History of Illuminated Manuscripts write by Christopher De Hamel. This book was released on 1994. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Illuminated manuscripts are perhaps the most beautiful treasures to survive from the middle ages. This authoritative volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the medieval world of books, their production and their consumption. The text divides this world into different groups of readers and writers: missionaries, emperors, monks, students, aristocrats, priests, collectors and the general public. De Hamel is both informative and immensely readable, and the sumptuous illustrations render this book too good to be missed."--From Amazon.com
