Seeable Signs: the iconography of the Seven Sacraments, 1350-1544
Seven-sacrament art - the representation of all seven sacraments - first appeared in Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th century, but by the middle of the 15th it had become widely popular. - - In this interdisciplinary study Ann Eljenholm Nichols provides an analysis of the iconography of...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk
Boydell Press
1994
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| Reviews: | Seeable signs. The iconography of the seven sacraments, 1350-1544. By Ann Eljenholm Nichols. Pp. xxii + 412 incl. 5 figs+ 97 plates. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994. £49.50. 0 85115 342 9 (1995) (Tanner, Norman)
[Rezension von: Nichols, Ann Eljenholm, Seeable Signs: The Iconography of the Seven Sacraments 1350-1544] (1995) (Lehmberg, Stanford) |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sacrament
/ Iconography
/ History 1350-1544
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| Further subjects: | B
Sacraments in art
B Christian art and symbolism (Europe) Medieval, 500-1500 B Christian art and symbolism (England) Medieval, 500-1500 |
| Summary: | Seven-sacrament art - the representation of all seven sacraments - first appeared in Europe as an occasional subject in the 14th century, but by the middle of the 15th it had become widely popular. - - In this interdisciplinary study Ann Eljenholm Nichols provides an analysis of the iconography of the sacraments, focusing in particular on the imaged baptismal fonts in East Anglia, the single best corpus of extant seven-sacrament art. Nichols argues that after 1450 English work diverges radically from the international iconography of the sacraments; the explanation for this distinctive insular tradition, she believes, is to be found in the peculiar religious climate created by the Lollard rejection of the sacramental system, a rejection vigorously pursued in East Anglia. - - The need to counter-attack, to make the sacred signs seeable, accounts for the theological character of the font iconography. - - Her careful use of literary evidence - theological, didactic and liturgical - to illuminate the rich representation oft he seven sacraments in illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, stone carving, wall paintings and bench ends makes an important contribution to the cul-tural and social history of medieval England. - - Ann Eljenholm Nichols is Professor, Department of English, Winona State University. (East Anglia) |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [354]-388) and index |
| ISBN: | 0851153429 |