The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books

by Elina Gertsman

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association

Winner of the 2023 Otto Gr ndler Book Prize from Western Michigan University

Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui--the fear of empty space--is thus often construed as a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271087846
• ISBN13: 9780271087849
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 3.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 9.8"