This work investigates the theoretical and personal understanding of death, and its implicit relationship with birth, as perceived in medieval society. It studies the work of one specific illuminator, reniet, whose pictures embody medieval attitudes towards death.
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This work investigates the theoretical and personal understanding of death, and its implicit relationship with birth, as perceived in medieval society. It studies the work of one specific illuminator, reniet, whose pictures embody medieval attitudes towards death.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Size: 8x1x10; Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm and square, strong joints. Complete with original dustjacket, not showing any tears or chips. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps, just a small previous owner's bookplate at the paste-down. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.
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HARDCOVER Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Oversized.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Small quarto, cloth in dust jacket, near fine, owner's name written neatly on half title. 286 pp, illustrated, some in color.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Hardcover, in dust jacket. Clean, tight and unmarked. Very neat--a sound and handsome copy. Illustrated.
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VG (Drop of paint on lower corner of boards; light edgewear to boards; interior is clean; binding is solid. ) in Good+ (Light edgewear; paint drip on lower corner of cover; retail sticker on the back; light toning, scuffing and smudging. ) jacket. Black cloth boards with color illustrated dust jacket, x, 286 pp, richly illustrated in color and bw. Michael Camille's 'little history of death' as well as exhuming the life and work of a single medieval artist whose speciality was the representation of suffering, old age, death and corporeal decay, explores the macabre obsessions that permeated late medieval culture and the more general relationship between mortality and image-making. How did the artist figure the inevitable and how was the fact of death, emblematized in the painted corpse, made to work as a social sign of cadaverous presence in the absence of life. Camille argues that the medieval world perceived death as larger than life, that death was implicit at birth and stretched beyond the end of life to the resurrection of the body at the last Judgement. Each of Camille's chapters, framed by an imagined account of the illuminator's last hours and illustrated with examples of his art follows this inexorable path of death. Camille describes the theological origins of death and its physical beginnings at birth. He shows how representations of death shaped medieval notions of the historical past. In this period, people were constantly preparing themselves for death, as shown by Remiet's striking image of the figures of Death waiting at the end of the pilgrimage of human life. Remiet's frequent depiction of the rotting corpse reveals his society's dreaded anticipation of the end of time when, reawakened in the flesh, each individual would face the threat of an eternal and terrifying second death.