Editorial: Brepols Publishers
Colección: Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages ; 20
Número de páginas: 272 págs. 28.0 x 22.5 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-03-2024
EAN: 9782503607689
ISBN: 978-2-503-60768-9
Precio (sin IVA): 165,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 171,60 €
The visual landscape north of the Alps between the 14th and 16th centuries was shaped by colossal representations of epic and mythological giants, reincarnated and cast as Christian heroes. In contexts religious or lay, private or public, giants dominated urban spaces but also rural ones. This book explores the role and function of the vision and the experience of the gigantic. Executed “out of scale” and communicating ideas about excess, giants were experienced as physically and ethically abject and, at the same time, as magnificent, apotropaic, and redemptive; as such they came to embody the very notion of the medieval sublime.