Education in twelfth-century art and architecture : images of learning in Europe, c.1100-1220 /

"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 med...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cleaver, Laura (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, [2016]
Series:Boydell studies in medieval art and architecture.
Subjects:
500-1500
Education, Medieval, in art.
Education, Medieval > Europe > History.
Learning and scholarship > Europe > History > Medieval, 500-1500.
Scholars in art.
Éducation médiévale dans l'art.
Savoir et érudition > Europe > Histoire > 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Savants dans l'art.
ART > History > General.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Education, Medieval
Education, Medieval, in art
Learning and scholarship > Medieval
Scholars in art
Europe
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The liberal arts : making education visible
  • Learning to read in texts and images
  • Telling tales : art for the illiterate
  • Learning to speak : the art of logic
  • The image of the master
  • The art of music
  • Arithmetic and geometry in the classroom and beyond
  • Looking at the heavens : astronomy in images
  • Conclusion.

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