Overview

Robert Deshman wove together a dense and tightly structured nexus of Early Christian, Carolingian, Anglo-Saxon, and Ottonian manuscript illuminations, ivories, textiles, mosaics, and wall paintings on the one hand, and contemporary exegetical, liturgical, and political writings on the other. In so doing, he ultimately demonstrated the intrinsic connections among visual culture, theology, philosophy, political theory, and ecclesiastic doctrine and practice. Although he used the word only once in his own writings, at the very end of his career, Deshman was truly an interdisciplinary scholar of the first order. The thirteen articles collected in this volume were published between 1971 and 1997 (four posthumously) in six different journals and four edited books. Reprinting them is meant not only to make the articles more accessible but also to present a cohesive body of work (primarily on Anglo-Saxon art) that as a whole has yet to be surpassed or methodologically replaced in the scholarly literature.

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Author:   Adam S Cohen ,  Adam S Cohen
Publisher:   Medieval Institute Publications
Imprint:   Medieval Institute Publications
Weight:   0.118kg
ISBN:  

9781580441223

ISBN 10:   158044122
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   31 December 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Herbert L. Kessler Introduction by Adam S. Cohen List of IllustrationsAbbreviations 1. Anglo-Saxon Art: So What's New? 2. Anglo-Saxon Art After Alfred 3. The Galba Psalter: Pictures, Texts, and Context in an Early Medieval Prayerbook 4. The Leofric Missal and Tenth-Century English Art 5. The Imagery of the Living Ecclesia and the English Monastic Reform 6. Saint Swithun in Early Medieval Art 7. Benedictus Monarcha et Monachus : Early Medieval Ruler Theology and the Anglo-Saxon Reform 8. Christus Rex et Magi Reges : Kingship and Christology in Ottonian and Anglo-Saxon Art 9. Otto III and the Warmund Sacramentary: A Study in Political Theology 10. Antiquity and Empire in the Throne of Charles the Bald 11. The Exalted Servant: The Ruler Theology of the Prayerbook of Charles the Bald 12. Servants of the Mother of God in Byzantine and Medieval Art 13. Another Look at the Disappearing Christ: Corporeal and Spiritual Vision in Early Medieval Images Bibliography Index of Biblical Citations Manuscript Index General Index

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Adam S. Cohen is a faculty member of the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto

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