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Mirror of the Medieval World
Language: en
Pages: 294
Authors: Barbara Drake Boehm
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999 - Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The publication of this comprehensive catalogue celebrates the distinguished career of William D. Wixom at the Metropolitan. Highlighted in these pages are more
The Mirror of the Medieval
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: K. Patrick Fazioli
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

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Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the “Middle Ages” has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination. Wheth
A Distant Mirror
Language: en
Pages: 738
Authors: Barbara W. Tuchman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987-07-12 - Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks

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A “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author
Mirror in Parchment
Language: en
Pages: 420
Authors: Michael Camille
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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What is the status of visual evidence in history? Can we actually see the past through images? Where are the traces of previous lives deposited? Michael Camille
The Medieval World of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Joyce E. Salisbury
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-26 - Publisher: Routledge

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Originally published in 1993, The Medieval World of Nature looks at how the natural world was viewed by medieval society. The book presents the argument that th