Biblical Imagery In Medieval England, 700-1550; Author: Kauffmann, M.; Hardcover

Author: Kauffmann, M.
Hardcover
Brepols Publishers
ISBN: 1872501044

Within a broadly chronological framework, the treatment is thematic from the earliest carved stone crosses, through Anglo-Saxon Old Testament cycles and high medieval Psalters to the painted and carved imagery in the fifteenth-century parish church. Each section is firmly grounded in its historical context and the images are examined for their relationship with the biblical text and forthe ways in which they served their patrons and viewers. For each period and each type of artefact, the viewer or patron is identified, often with surprising results, and his - or more often her - needs discussed. Illuminated manuscripts are the main survivors and their readership was, until the late Middle Ages, essentially clerical or aristocratic. But the same images on a monumental scale on wa