Insights and Interpretations: Studies in Celebration of the Eighty-fifth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art (Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers)
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Colum Hourihane (Contributor)
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Established in 1917, the Index of Christian Art, located at Princeton University, is now the largest archive of medieval art in existence and the most specialized resource for the iconographer. Throughout its eighty-five years, it has justly been recognized as one of the most learned institutions for the study of the art and culture of the medieval world. The essays in this book, all by staff or scholars of the archive, highlight some of the current research in the archive and the scholarship for which it has been widely renowned. The studies cover art from the Late Antique period to the end of the fifteenth century and include most of the media represented in the archive, from manuscripts to sculpture to glass. From reinterpreting previous scholarship to making new insights into the medieval mind, they explore such themes as Jephtha's Daughter; Mary Magdalene; Saints Blaise, Paul, Joseph, and Elisabeth of Hungary; and topics including women in the Bibles moralisees, Late German sermons, the iconographic program at Bourges Cathedral, Franciscan devotional art, and a late medieval Islamic manuscript.
This volume presents some of the most exciting and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of these subjects, from the home of medieval iconography in Princeton. The contributors are Adelaide Bennett, Lois Drewer, Ivan Great, Judith Golden, Gerald Guest, Margaret Jennings, Margaret Lindsey, Mika Natif, Lynn Ransom, Pamela Sheingorn, and A. E. Wright.
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- Contributor: Colum Hourihane
- Imprint: Princeton University Press
- ISBN13: 9780691099903
- Number of Pages: 256
- Packaged Dimensions: 216x279mm
- Packaged Weight: 1247
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Release Date: 2002-08-21
- Series: Index of Christian Art Occasional Papers
- Binding: Hardback
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