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- catalog abstract ""This book explores the illustrated saints' Lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and analyzes their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahn's book is a virtual compendium of images - many rarely published - as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the roles of various types of saints, the nature of their audiences, and the historical moment when individual works were produced."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Narrative effect in pictorial lives of saints from the tenth through the thirteenth century".
- catalog contributor b12172960.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""This book explores the illustrated saints' Lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts, many of which are reproduced here, and analyzes their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahn's book is a virtual compendium of images - many rarely published - as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the roles of various types of saints, the nature of their audiences, and the historical moment when individual works were produced."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Historical Setting: The Production of Saints' Lives -- 2. Word and Image: Narrative Problems in Pictorial Hagiography -- 3. Martyrs' Passions: Bearing Witness -- 4. The Virgin as Corpus: Bodily Offering -- 5. The Lives of Confessors: Bishops -- 6. The Lives of Confessors: Monks and Abbots -- 7. Lay and Royal Saints: Kings and Nobles -- 8. The Lives of Confessors: Nuns and Queens -- 9. The End of the Monastic Tradition and a New Beginning: Matthew Paris -- Epilogue: Narrative Innovation -- App. List of Manuscripts Cited.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 442 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0520223209 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
- catalog subject "760/.044863 21".
- catalog subject "BX4662 .H34 2001".
- catalog subject "Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500.".
- catalog subject "Christian hagiography.".
- catalog subject "Christian saints in art.".
- catalog subject "Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Historical Setting: The Production of Saints' Lives -- 2. Word and Image: Narrative Problems in Pictorial Hagiography -- 3. Martyrs' Passions: Bearing Witness -- 4. The Virgin as Corpus: Bodily Offering -- 5. The Lives of Confessors: Bishops -- 6. The Lives of Confessors: Monks and Abbots -- 7. Lay and Royal Saints: Kings and Nobles -- 8. The Lives of Confessors: Nuns and Queens -- 9. The End of the Monastic Tradition and a New Beginning: Matthew Paris -- Epilogue: Narrative Innovation -- App. List of Manuscripts Cited.".
- catalog title "Narrative effect in pictorial lives of saints from the tenth through the thirteenth century".
- catalog title "Portrayed on the heart : narrative effect in pictorial lives of saints from the tenth through the thirteenth century / Cynthia Hahn.".
- catalog type "text".