Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, C.1100-1220
(Part of the Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture Series)
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A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth. On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1783270853
ISBN13:9781783270859
Release Date:February 2016
Publisher:Boydell Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.7" x 9.7"
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