Overview
- Focuses on the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
- Discusses Carthusian studies: fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry
- Explores the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany and meditation for “simple souls," rather than for a monastic audience
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About this book
This volume is an interdisciplinary consideration of late medieval art and texts, falling into two parts: first, the iconography and context of the great Doom wall painting over the tower arch at Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, and second, Carthusian studies treating fragmentary wall paintings in the Carthusian monastery near Coventry; the devotional images in the Carthusian Miscellany; and meditation for “simple souls” in the Carthusian Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. Emphasis is on such aspects as memory, participative theology, devotional images, meditative practice, and techniques of constructing patterns of sacred imagery.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Clifford Davidson is Professor of English and Medieval Studies Emeritus at Western Michigan University. He has written voluminously on medieval drama, iconography and the visual arts, and medieval and early modern literature. He was director for a quarter century of the Early Drama, Art, and Music project in the Medieval Institute. His most recent book is Corpus Christi Plays at York: A Context for Religious Drama and, in collaborations with Martin Walsh and Ton Broos, an edition of Mary of Nemmegen, with the original Dutch play upon which it was based.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Studies in Late Medieval Wall Paintings, Manuscript Illuminations, and Texts
Authors: Clifford Davidson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47476-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47475-5Published: 28 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83745-1Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47476-2Published: 19 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 138
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aesthetics, Fine Arts, Comparative Religion