Artifacts And Illuminations
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The Celtic Art of Illumination
Author: Pasquale De Marco
language: en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date: 2025-07-13
Embark on a captivating journey into the world of Celtic illumination, where intricate designs, vibrant colors, and profound symbolism converge to create a visual feast for the senses. This comprehensive book delves into the rich history, techniques, and enduring legacy of this ancient art form, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural and spiritual significance. With captivating storytelling and meticulous research, the book unveils the secrets behind the illuminated manuscripts that have captivated generations. Discover the meticulous craftsmanship, the sacred texts they adorned, and the role they played in preserving knowledge and illuminating the word of God. Explore the evolution of Celtic illumination from its early origins to its flourishing in the medieval period, tracing its influence on art, literature, and spirituality across the centuries. Through stunning visuals and in-depth analysis, the book deciphers the hidden meanings embedded within the intricate knotwork, animal motifs, and human figures that grace the pages of these illuminated manuscripts. Unravel the symbolism of the Celtic trinity, the enduring allure of the Book of Kells, and the resurgence of Celtic art in the modern world. Moreover, the book provides a practical guide for aspiring artists and enthusiasts, offering step-by-step instructions on how to create your own Celtic-inspired artwork. Learn the techniques of manuscript illumination, the art of calligraphy, and the use of traditional pigments and materials. Discover how to incorporate Celtic motifs into your own creative projects, whether it's painting, jewelry making, or textile design. Immerse yourself in the beauty and mystery of Celtic illumination, and gain a deeper understanding of its historical, cultural, and spiritual significance. This book is an essential resource for art historians, Celtic enthusiasts, and anyone seeking to explore the rich tapestry of this ancient art form. If you like this book, write a review!
Reimagining Environmental History
Author: Christian Knoeller
language: en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date: 2017-10-11
Christian Knoeller presents a radical reinterpretation of environmental history set in the heartland of America. In an excellent model of narrative-based scholarship, this book dynamically reimagines American environmentalism across generations of writers, artists, and scientists. Knoeller starts out with Audubon, and cites Thoreau’s journals in the 1850s as he assesses an early 17th century account of New England’s natural resources by William Wood, showing the epic decline in game and bird populations in Concord. This reading of environmental history is replicated throughout with a gallery of novelists, poets, essayists, and other commentators as they explore ecological memory and environmental destruction. In apt discussions of Matthiessen, Lopez, Wendell Berry, William Stafford and many others, Knoeller offers vibrant insights into literary history. He also cites his own memoir of perpetual development on his family’s farm in Indiana, enriching the scholarship and making an urgent plea for the healing aesthetics of the imagination. Reading across centuries and genres, Knoeller gives us a vibrant new appraisal of Midwestern/North American interior literary traditions and makes clear how vital environmental writing is to this region. To date, no one has written such an eloquent and comprehensive cross-genre analysis of Midwestern environmental literature.
Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600
Author: Jutta Eming
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2021-12-06
The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue’s Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt’s Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.