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The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages

The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages - Oxford-Warburg Studies

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Publisher's Synopsis

This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology. The book will appeal to all lovers of medieval arts, literature, architecture, music, and painting, as well as serious students of religion and the language of beauty.

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Oxford University Press

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Book information

ISBN: 9780199590322
Publisher: OUP OXFORD
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 701.170902
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 246
Weight: 442g
Height: 224mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 20mm