Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music

By: Jaeger, Stephen

Lively and deeply productive discussions have focused on the topics of "magnificence" and "the sublime" in the art and literature of antiquity, the Renaissance, and the ages following. They have engaged major figures from Ernst Gombrich to Theodore Adorno to Jean-Francois Lyotard. Yet, these discussions have virtually bypassed the Middle Ages. The essays in Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics reclaim a position for the medieval period...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230618987
• ISBN13: 9780230618985
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"