The Experience of Beauty in the Middle Ages

Oxford University Press (2013)
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This book articulates a new approach to medieval aesthetic values, emphasizing the sensory and emotional basis of all medieval arts, their love of play and fine craftsmanship, of puzzles, and of strong contrasts.It offers an understanding of medieval literature and art that is rooted in the perceptions and feelings of ordinary life

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0198723253   9780199590322   9780198723257   019959032X

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