The Ages of Man (eBook)

Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle

Elizabeth L. Sears (Autor)

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2019
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19810-1 (ISBN)

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Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented by the figure of a man (or, rarely, a woman) who revealed his age through size, posture, gesture, and attribute. But in selectiing the number of ages to be depicted--three, four, five, six, seven, ten, or twelve--and in determining the contexts in which the cycles should appear, painters and sculptors were heirs to longstanding intellectual tradtions.Ideas promulgated by ancient and medieval natural historians, physicians, and astrologers, and by biblical exegetes and popular moralists, receive detailed treatment in this wide-ranging study. Professor Sears traces the diffusion of well-established schemes of age division from the seclusion of the early medieval schools into wider circles in the later Middle Ages and examines the increasing use of the theme as a structure of edifying discourse, both in art and literature.Elizabeth Sears is Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Aeneid • Ages of Man • Alfred of Sareshel • Allegory • Analogy • annals • Anthropomorphism • aphorism • Astrology • Biblical Magi • book of hours • Byrhtferth • Calcidius • Church Fathers • Church of the Eremitani • Classical element • Computus • Consummation • convivio • deity • Descriptive Catalogue (1809) • dieu • Different Seasons • Diodorus Siculus • Dionysius of Fourna • Dracontius • Eadmer • Early Middle Ages • Epistle • erudition • Erwin Panofsky • etymology • Famulus • Foligno • fourth age • Genre • Gerard of Cremona • God • God The Father • Handbook • Herman of Carinthia • High Middle Ages • Hippocratic Corpus • Honorius Augustodunensis • Humour • Iconography • Illustration • In scale • Isagoge • Isidore of Seville • Late Antiquity • Liber Floridus • Macrobius • macrocosm and microcosm • Martianus Capella • Mendicant orders • Middle Ages • Miscellany • month • M. R. James • narrative • Numerology • Old Testament • Oribasius • Peter Abelard • Philosophy • phlegm • Pierre Bersuire • Poetry • Posidonius • Prudentius • Pythagoreanism • Quadrivium • quatrain • SCHOLASTICISM • Septenary (Theosophy) • Six Ages of the World • Stavelot Bible • Symbole • Terce • Tertullian • Tetrabiblos • Tetractys • The First Man • The Months • The Righteous Men • The Three Ages of Man (Titian) • The Various • Thought • Three-age system • treatise • Trivium • Ulrich • Unit of time • V. • Victorinus of Pettau • William de Brailes • William of Conches • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19810-1 / 0691198101
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19810-1 / 9780691198101