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16%OFFMarcia Kupfer - The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town - 9780271023038 - V9780271023038
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The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town

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Description for The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 107 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3H; ACK; AFC; HRCV; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 261 x 26. Weight in Grams: 858.

Many historians of medieval art now look beyond soaring cathedrals to study the relationship of architecture and image-making to life in medieval society. In The Art of Healing, Marcia Kupfer explores the interplay between church decoration and ritual practice in caring for the sick. Her inquiry bridges cultural anthropology and the social history of medicine even as it also expands our understanding of how clergy employed mural painting to cure body and soul.

Looking closely at paintings from ca. 1200 in the church of Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, a castle town in Central France, Kupfer traces their links to burial practices, the veneration of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
University Park, United States
ISBN
9780271023038
SKU
V9780271023038
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About Marcia Kupfer
Marcia Kupfer is Associate Director for Washington Humanities Program at Johns Hopkins University. Kupfer is also an independent scholar who has taught medieval art at several American universities and in 1999 was professeur invité at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She is the author of Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative ... Read more

Reviews for The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town
“This work represents a new benchmark in contextualizing a major Romanesque monument within the complex fabric of a society that created and transformed it according to changing needs over time. The author is to be commended for being simultaneously attentive to the visual and experiential aspects of the monument, on the one hand, and the nuts and bolts of archaeology ... Read more

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