Biggam, Carole P.
(ed.)
Wolf, Kirsten
(ed.)
Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: The Cultural Histories Series
Número de páginas: 272 págs. 24.4 x 16.9 cm
Fecha de edición: 02-05-2024
EAN: 9781350459946
ISBN: 978-1-350-45994-6
Precio (sin IVA): 34,75 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 36,14 €
This book covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to architecture and interiors, and from enamelled and jewelled metalwork to colored glass and the exquisite decoration of artefacts. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and social status in medieval clothes. Color names were created in various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances, epics, and plays. And, whilst medieval philosophers began to explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color symbolism for both virtues and vices.