Literature & art in the Middle Ages

University of Miami Press

1970

xxii, 362 p. illus.

Includes bibliographical references

9780870241529

Part I: Introductory survey. A general aesthetic theory for all the arts? -- The discussion of works of literature and of art: Discursive enquiry ; Comparison: mediation ; Essays in synthesis -- Works of literature and of art: The works ; The makers of the works: authors, artists ; Scholars and branches of scholarship -- Interim questions -- Medieval style: literature: Why pictures? a digression on illustrated histories of literature ; Architecture as the norm? ; 'Gothic' ; The determination of style in medieval literature -- The determination of style in medieval art -- The commissioned work of art -- E.R. Curtius on art history -- Methods of study -- Part II: Word, image, tradition, selected studies. I. Image and meaning: a semantic enquiry. The word -- The motif -- The image -- A lexicon of images? -- The exemplar (drawing pattern) -- The exemplar and motif -- Appendix: Deferred notes ; Majestas domini and the symbols of the four evangelists, Caesar and David, ambivalent images -- II. Four essays of further introduction. Medieval descriptions of church interiors -- Pictoral tapestries (Tristan and Isolde) -- Muspilli -- Religious drama and representational art -- III. Fortune. Fortune's wheel: the medieval image of dynastic history: Otfrid of Weissenburg ; Medieval genres of historiography: 'after Augustine,' 'after Boethius' ; History and story ; Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae ; Fortune in De consolatione philosophiae ; Fortune in medieval romance -- Other pictures of fortune -- Historical cases: The fortune of Tancred (and the Hohenstaufens) ; Gustavus Adolphus ; Retrospect: Belisarius -- Appendix A: Supplementary notes on fortune in medieval literature -- Appendix B: Iconographical survey and bibliographical guide: General ; Antiquity ; The Christian middle ages ; From the middle ages to the renaissance ; Renaissance ; Miscellaneous addenda -- IV. The Crucifixion. Historical picture and hieratic image -- historia and history -- The 'reality' of Christian art: The crucifixion jacente cruce ; The crucifixion erecto cruce ; Provisional conclusions -- History and historia -- the modern dilemma (Justus Lipsius) -- historia and theological exegesis -- Prefigured historia (typology): Typology in the art of the high middle ages ; Typology in the Biblia pauperum (fourteenth century) -- The origins of late medieval realism -- Harp and bow -- V. The art historian's source books -- VI. A guide to medieval art for students of literature: Art history ; Iconography ; Miscellaneous notes

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