The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages
Abstract
Abstract This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, the love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts. This book offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life, made up of play and laughter as well as serious work. Medieval stylistic values of variety, sweetness, good taste, and ordinary beauty are grounded in classical and medieval biological theories of change and flux in the human body, not only in symbolism and theology.
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Mary Carruthers (2013). The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press eBooks. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199590322.001.0001
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author = {Carruthers, Mary},
year = {2013},
publisher = {Oxford University Press eBooks},
doi = {10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199590322.001.0001}
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