Queens in Stone and Silver: The Creation of a Visual Imagery of Queenship in Capetian France

by Kathleen D. Nolan

Queens in Stone and Silver makes the intriguing argument that royal women from the early twelfth through the mid-thirteenth centuries exercised cultural patronage to craft a visual imagery for queenship. Kathleen Nolan's study is the first to juxtapose medieval effigy tombs and personal seals, the two main forms of self-representation. This study considers the meaning of art both through the dialogue between semiotic and iconographic methodologies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403969906
• ISBN13: 9781403969903
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"