History and Images, towards a New Iconology - BOLVIG, Axel - LINDLEY, Phillip (eds.)

KORTE INHOUD

Published in the series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 5. The University of Hull Centre for Medieval Studies. This important collection of essays represents a wide variety of new approaches to the deployment of images by historians. Methodological debates and historiographical concerns are explored by distinguished international scholars. Ground-breaking technological innovations in the last two decades of the twentieth century have led to the development of huge image databases, offering outstanding new opportunities for comparison, analysis and interrogation. This was apparent from the database demonstrations at the congress on History and Images in Copenhagen in 1999, part of the University of Copenhagen's Visual Construction of Realities research programme. Several of the papers included here summarise recent research or disclose the potential of the new technologies for posing - and answering - novel types of question. A common concern of many contributors to this volume has been the r... Lees verder...

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2003Uitgever: Brepols,240 paginas