{"product_id":"portrayed-on-the-heart-narrative-effect-in-pictorial-lives-of-saints-from-the-tenth-through-the-thirteenth-century-9780520223202","title":"Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eHagiography  or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints  was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the literature and arts of the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints lives that were made in medieval Europe. Cynthia Hahn discusses a broad range of manuscripts and other artifacts  many of which are reproduced here  and provides an analysis of their pictorial and narrative structure. Hahns book is a virtual compendium of images-many rarely published-as well as a learned study that deepens our understanding of the role of various types of saints  the nature of their audience  and the historical moment when individual works were produced.  After two informative introductory chapters setting the historical and narrative context of pictorial hagiography  Hahn considers the Lives of Martyrs and Virgins  Bishops  Monks and Abbots  and Kings and Queens  and concludes with an examination of the extraordinary chronicles and illustrations of the lives of saints by the English monk Matthew Paris. She considers such questions as: Why were illustrated saints lives produced in such great numbers during this period? Why were they illustrated at all given the trouble and expense of such illustration? And to whom did the saints lives appeal  and how did their readers use them?  As she addresses these and other intriguing questions  Hahn traces changes that occurred over time both in the images and the stories  and shows how their creators  mostly the intellectual elite  were finely attuned to audience reception. This important aspect of hagiographic production has received scant attention in the past  and as she considers this issue in light of contemporary narrative theory  Hahn brings us to a fresh appreciation of these intricately illustrated manuscripts and their multiple audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67687235485749,"sku":"ByrdShop_0520223209","price":71.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780520223202.jpg?v=1792137947","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/portrayed-on-the-heart-narrative-effect-in-pictorial-lives-of-saints-from-the-tenth-through-the-thirteenth-century-9780520223202","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}