Image on the Edge The Margins of Medieval Art

Name: Image on the Edge The Margins of Medieval Art
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ISBN: 9780948462283

ISBN-10: 0948462280

ISBN-13: 9780948462283

Edition: 1992

Authors: Michael Camille

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What do they all mean – the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protruding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 8/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Making Margins



In the Margins of the Monastery



In the Margins of the Cathedral



In the Margins of the Court



In the Margins of the City



The End of the Edge


References


Bibliography


List of Illustrations