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Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, C.1100-1220

Education in Twelfth-Century Art and Architecture: Images of Learning in Europe, C.1100-1220

Cleaver, Laura

Hardcover

Series: Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture, Book 8

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryEuropean Art

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ISBN10: 1783270853
ISBN13: 9781783270859
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Feb 18 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
A study of the representation of education in material culture, at a period of considerable change and growth.

On the facade of Chartres cathedral serene personifications of the arts of grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy present passers-by with a vision of education as an improving process leading to greater knowledge of God. The arts proved a popular subject in medieval imagery, and were included in manuscripts, stained-glass and luxury metalwork objects as well as on the facades of churches. These idealized figures contrast with many textual accounts of education, in which authors recorded the hardships of student poverty and the temptations of drink and women to be found in the cities where teachers were increasingly establishing themselves.

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