Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art

Download or read book Negotiating Secular and Sacred in Medieval Art written by Alicia Walker and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this collection analyse the convergence between sacred and secular in medieval works of art and architecture, questioning the adequacy of those categories to describe medieval attitudes. Sacred and secular are shown to reflect largely modern cultural frameworks, which can be useful as scholarly tools, but which risk imposing false dichotomies. This volume complicates and enriches our understanding of social realities across a broad spectrum of medieval worlds.