Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination

Dominique DeLuca (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
9789004547155 (ISBN)

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Illuminating shadows in medieval art. This book examines the visual presence of shadows in medieval manuscripts alongside textual descriptions of shadows in scientific, literary, and religious literature to investigate how medieval viewers understood and interacted with these shades of meaning.

Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images.

This book examines references to shadows in science, religion, and folklore of the Middle Ages. Through the lens of fifteenth-century manuscript painting, it investigates visual, metaphorical, and supernatural shadows in art to discover what shadows meant to the medieval viewer.

Dominique DeLuca, Ph.D. (2020, Case Western Reserve University), is a Lecturer of Art History at The University of Vermont. She has published contributions on medieval art in edited volumes and museum catalogues.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Permissions

1 An Introduction to Medieval Shadows

2 The Medieval Language of Shadows

3 Shadows as Extensions of People and Power

4 Shadows as Liminal Borders and Gateways

5 Supernatural Shadows

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ; 25
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	512 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9789004547155 / 9789004547155
Zustand	Neuware