The experience of beauty in the middle ages / Mary Carruthers.

By:

Carruthers, Mary J. (Mary Jean), 1941-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191654565
0191654566
9780199590322
019959032X
9780191804540
0191804541

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Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:

701.170902 23

LOC classification:

N66 .C37 2013

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Contents:

Introduction : making sense -- Artful play -- Sensory complexion and style -- Taking the bitter with the sweet -- Taste and good taste -- Varietas -- Ordinary beauty.

Summary: "This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology."-- From publisher's description

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-226) and indexes.

Introduction : making sense -- Artful play -- Sensory complexion and style -- Taking the bitter with the sweet -- Taste and good taste -- Varietas -- Ordinary beauty.

"This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. Written for a general educated audience as well as students and scholars in the field, it offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology."-- From publisher's description

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