Treasure, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages - Philippe Cordez
church objects in the Middle Ages
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Treasure, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages is een boek van Philippe Cordez. Deze editie wordt tweedehands aangeboden door 1 boekverkoper(s) uit Antwerpen. Voor meer info, bekijk de beschrijving van de beschikbare exemplaren verder op deze pagina.
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2020Uitgever: Brepols Publishers276 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1912554615ISBN-13: 9781912554614Koop dit boek tweedehands
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This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder. Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respecti...
