Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective

Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective

Bacci, Michele
Studer-Karlen, Manuela
Grigoryan, Gohar

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History

Art HistoryMedieval & Renaissance History

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1915487080
ISBN13: 9781915487087
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: Oct 5 2023
Pages: 351
Weight: 1.74
Language: English
This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history, political theory, and Reprasentationsgeschichte. More specifically, it investigates the multiple ways in which the ruler's physical appearance was apprehended and invested with visual, metaphorical, and emotional associations, as well as the dynamics whereby such mise-en-scene devices either were inspired by or worked as sources of inspiration for textual and pictorial representations of royalty. The outcome is a multifaced analysis of the multiple, imaginative, and terribly ambiguous ways in which, in past societies, the notion of a God-driven, eternal, and transpersonal royal power came to be associated with the material bodies of kings and queens, and of the impressive efforts made, in different cultures, to elude the conundrum of the latter's weakness, transitoriness, and individual distinctiveness.

Also from

Bacci, Michele

View All

Also in

Art History

View All