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Trees as symbol and metaphor in the Middle Ages : comparative contexts
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ISBN: 9781843846642 9781805432616 Year: 2024 Publisher: Cambridge D.S. Brewer

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The tree : symbol, allegory, and mnemonic device in medieval art and thought
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ISBN: 9782503548395 2503548393 9782503548913 Year: 2014 Volume: 20 Publisher: Turnhout: Brepols,

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Using a range of methodological strategies and examining material from different media, ranging from illuminated manuscripts to wall painting, stained glass windows, and monumental sculpture, the articles in this volume show how different arboreal structures were conceived, employed, and appropriated by their specific contexts, how they functioned in their original framework, and how they were perceived by their audience.


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Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages : Comparative Contexts
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ISBN: 1805432613 1843846640 Year: 2024 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell and Brewer,

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Highlights human encounters with the forest and its trees at the time of the European Middle Ages, when their lofty boughs were weighted with meaning.Forests, with their interlacing networks of trees and secret patterns of communication, are powerful entities for thinking-with. A majestic terrestrial community of arboreal others, their presence echoes, entangles, and resonates deeply with the human world. The chapters interrogate the pre-Anthropocene environment, reflecting on trees as metaphors for kinship and knowledge as they appear in literary, historical, art-historical, and philosophical sources. They examine images of trees and trees in-themselves across a range of environmental, material, and intellectual contexts, and consider how humans used arboreal and rhizomatic forms to negotiate bodies of knowledge and processes of transition. Looking beyond medieval Europe, they include discussion of parallel developments in the Islamic world and that of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.

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