Testimony Narrative and Image Studies in Medieval and Franciscan History Hagiography and Art in Memory of Rosalind B Brooke Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 16 March 2022

This volume brings together major scholars in medieval Franciscan history, hagiography and art to commemorate Dr Rosalind B. Brooke’s (1925-2014) life and scholarly achievement, especially in the study of

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 08 August 2023

An indispensable guide to the earliest contemporary account of the Franciscan Order in England.Known as Friars Minor, Franciscans or Greyfriars, the followers of St Francis of Assisi pioneered a

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 03 July 2023

This volume is a collection of essays written in honor of David Burr, emeritus professor at the Polytechnic University of Virginia (Blacksburg): a scholar who has spent a career researching

• Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
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• Release Date : 09 January 2024

Drawing upon a surprising wealth of evidence found in surviving manuscripts, this book restores friars to their rightful place in the history of English health care.Friars are often overlooked

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 30 November 2006

An important reappraisal of the image of St Francis as it was recorded in literature, documents, architecture and art. Highly illustrated throughout, including colour and black and white plates, and

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 19 April 2022

These essays address how narratives unfolded in time and space when a body or object moved through premodern architectural or natural environments. Such narratives encompass interpretations of topography, change in

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 17 March 2014

Explores the development and diffusion of the vita image which emerged in Byzantium in the twelfth century and spread to Italy and beyond.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 01 September 2015

These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 07 February 2013

This volume depicts the intricate cultural, religious and intellectual kaleidoscope of interactions between angels, demons and the heterogeneous populations of Spanish America including New Spain (Mexico), New Granada (Colombia) and

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 03 February 2011

Medical writing tells us a great deal about how the language of science has developed in constructing and communicating knowledge in English. This volume provides a new perspective on the