Format:
xxi, 386 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln
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Illustrationen, genealogische Tafeln, Pläne, Diagramm
ISBN:
9781108470186
Content:
"Images and image cycles with genealogical content were everywhere in the high and later Middle Ages. They represent families related by blood as well as successive office holders and appear as family trees and lineages of single figures in manuscripts, on walls and in stained glass, and in sculpture and metalwork. Yet art historians have hardly remarked on the frequency of these images. Considering the physical contexts and functions of these works alongside the goals of their patrons, this volume examines groups of figural genealogies ranging across northern Europe and dating from the mid-twelfth to the mid-fourteenth century. Joan A. Holladay considers how they were used to legitimize rulers and support their political and territorial goals, to reinforce archbishops' rights to crown kings, to cement relationships between families of founders and their monastic foundations, and to commemorate the dead. The flexibility and legibility of this genre was key to its widespread use"...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Europa
;
Dynastie
;
Genealogie
;
Stammbaum
;
Geschichte 1150-1350
;
Bildliche Darstellung
;
Dynastie
;
Herrschaft
;
Nachfolge
;
Repräsentation
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1150-1350
;
Herrscher
;
Macht
;
Repräsentation
;
Geschichte 1150-1350
;
Europa
;
Dynastie
;
Familie
;
Beziehung
;
Genealogie
;
Repräsentation
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1150-1350
;
Deutschland
;
Frankreich
;
Krönung
;
Grabplastik
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