Shades of Meaning: Shadows in Medieval Manuscript Illumination

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-54715-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

Reihe: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Are there shadows in medieval art? Studies on the role of shadows in art history have either glanced over or ignored the medieval period, yet people of the Middle Ages certainly saw and thought about shadows and recorded their ideas about these phenomena in texts and images.

This book examines references to shadows in science, religion, and folklore of the Middle Ages. Through the lens of fifteenth-century manuscript painting, it investigates visual, metaphorical, and supernatural shadows in art to discover what shadows meant to the medieval viewer.

Autoren/Hrsg.

DeLuca, Dominique

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Byzantinisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Permissions

1 An Introduction to Medieval Shadows

2 The Medieval Language of Shadows

3 Shadows as Extensions of People and Power

4 Shadows as Liminal Borders and Gateways

5 Supernatural Shadows

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dominique DeLuca, Ph.D. (2020, Case Western Reserve University), is a Lecturer of Art History at The University of Vermont. She has published contributions on medieval art in edited volumes and museum catalogues.