Authority of Images / Images of Authority: Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World

Authors

Karen Fresco, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Files

Document Type

Monograph

Description

Focusing on language's political power, these essays discuss how representation, through language norms, plays and court spectacles, manipulations and adaptations of texts and images, both constitutes and reflects a cultural milieu. The volume brings together various disciplinary approaches, offering a complex appreciation of these questions. While a core of the essays focuses on France, the contributions engage a broad range of geographical contexts, from Byzantium to eastern Germany and England from the early centuries of the Common Era to the seventeenth century, revealing the prevalence and persistence of the key interconnected issues of images and authority. Contributors: Carla Bozzolo; Philippe Caron; Robert L. A. Clark; Paul Cohen; Thomas Conley; Jean-Philippe Genet; Douglas Kibbee; Gillette Labory; Nicole Pons; Mara R. Wade.

Publication Date

5-1-2016

Publisher

Medieval Institute Publications

City

Kalamazoo

ISBN

9781580442206

Keywords

Language and Representation, Performance

Disciplines

Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture | Medieval History | Medieval Studies

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Citation for Published Book

Fresco, Karen. Authority of Images/ Images of Authority: Shaping Political and Cultural Identities in the Pre-Modern World. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2016.