Über fünfzig Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der entsprechenden mittelalterlichen Bischofsreihe und zum ersten Mal in der Reihe der Germania Sacra überhaupt liegen nunmehr die frühneuzeitlichen Bischofsbiographien der Diözese Bamberg vor.
It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives.
It has long been an accepted assumption that the abstracted mode of visual representation that emerged in late antiquity reflected a collective shift from the outer-directed and 'material' world-view of classical antiquity to an inner-directed, 'spiritual' mentality informed by Christianity: the purpose of this volume is to offer a more nuanced and diverse image of the nature and meanings of abstraction and symbolism in late antique and early medieval art, beyond normative intepretation models, and from a number of different methodological and interpretative perspectives.
Writing Plague: Language and Violence from the Black Death to COVID-19 brings a holistic and comparative perspective to "e;plague writing"e; from the later Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
