Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination

Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript IlluminationAre 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,

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Research on medieval and early modern travel literature has made great progress

The overall distribution has contracted since the beginning of European seettlement

A groundbreaking reframing of religious pilgrimage

Each one of these cases represents a gross miscarriage of justice

and maintaining a cloistered area where guests are not permitted

all of whom are understood to be endless mimetic doubles of one another

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kulturellen und religiösen Aspekte in Bezug auf Krankheitsentstehung

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