Elements of Art Historiography in Medieval Texts Aalders, D.

Title: Elements of Art Historiography in Medieval TextsAuthor: Grinten, Evert FransPublisher: SpringerBinding: PaperbackPages: 152Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34dProduct Weight: 0.36 lbs.Language: EnglishISBN: 9789401501408The attitude of medieval men of letters towards plastic arts, architecture and applied art has so far been studied from a primarily aesthetic point of view. The cause of this may be found, I offer no opinion on it, in the conceptions of the authors who have been publishing on this during the last seventy-five years or in the fact that most medieval texts that until recently were available in editions, were for the greater part works of a theological, mystical or l encyclopaedic-theoretical kind. Anyhow, it is an estab- lished fact that these studies were brought to bear on the texts of a limited number of well-known medieval writers, such as: Augustine, Isidore of Sevilla, Strabo, Scotus Erigena, Alcuin, Hugh and Richard of S. Victor, Honore of Autun, Bonav