The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World
By Malcolm Jones
The History Press
ISBN: 978 1 80399 800 8
Art and artefacts from the Middle Ages offer a vivid window into the values, fears, and imaginations of medieval society. This updated edition explores how these objects reflect beliefs and folklore—both devout and delightfully strange.
Excerpt:
Rather than write what would, in effect, be a completely new book, I have chosen to add the new material to the end of each chapter. This new text attempts to update recent research and adds occasional new motifs which have since come to my notice. It cannot, of course, be a synthesis of the last two decades’ work in medieval studies as they pertain to art history; it must inevitably be only an idiosyncratic update referring only to those books, articles and discoveries that I have happened to notice in areas of interest to me – but peppered with a few new hobbyhorses of my own.
Who is this book for?
This wide-ranging book, first published in 2002 and now expanded by around a hundred pages, is organised into a series of concise sections. It covers an array of topics—art, literature, animals, love and sexuality, fables, monsters, and popular religion. Readers with even the broadest interests will find plenty of engaging and often amusing insights into medieval life.
The Author
Malcolm Jones, a retired lecturer from the University of Sheffield, and a leading expert on art and folklore in the Middle Ages.
The Secret Middle Ages: Discovering the Real Medieval World
By Malcolm Jones
The History Press
ISBN: 978 1 80399 800 8
Art and artefacts from the Middle Ages offer a vivid window into the values, fears, and imaginations of medieval society. This updated edition explores how these objects reflect beliefs and folklore—both devout and delightfully strange.
Excerpt:
Rather than write what would, in effect, be a completely new book, I have chosen to add the new material to the end of each chapter. This new text attempts to update recent research and adds occasional new motifs which have since come to my notice. It cannot, of course, be a synthesis of the last two decades’ work in medieval studies as they pertain to art history; it must inevitably be only an idiosyncratic update referring only to those books, articles and discoveries that I have happened to notice in areas of interest to me – but peppered with a few new hobbyhorses of my own.
Who is this book for?
This wide-ranging book, first published in 2002 and now expanded by around a hundred pages, is organised into a series of concise sections. It covers an array of topics—art, literature, animals, love and sexuality, fables, monsters, and popular religion. Readers with even the broadest interests will find plenty of engaging and often amusing insights into medieval life.
The Author
Malcolm Jones, a retired lecturer from the University of Sheffield, and a leading expert on art and folklore in the Middle Ages.
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