Alexa Sand

Biographic Data

ID3950810
NAMEAlexa Sand
GIVEN NAMESAlexa
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SIGNATURESAND A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
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  • Puppets, Manuscripts, and Gendered Reading in the Hortus deliciarum

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLEGesta2021

    An oft-referenced but little scrutinized depiction of a puppet performance in Herrad of Hohenbourg’s Hortus deliciarum (ca. 1185, destroyed 1870) provides an opening into the study of the relationship between two types of performative objects—books and puppets. From the twelfth century onward, puppetry was an increasingly popular and widely practiced public art in Western Europe, associated with the lowest class of entertainer but present in sett…

  • Under the Hammer

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2013

  • Queen as King

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

  • Collaboration in the Arts from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

  • Marking the Hours

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2008

    In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were used for private, domestic devotions, and in which people commonly left traces of their lives. Manuscript prayers, biographical jottings, affectionate messages, autographs, and pious paste-ins often cro…

  • Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006

    Introduction 1. Ponderare statera meditationis: self as self-presentation in early Dominican religious life 2. The devil in human form: confession, deception and self-knowledge 3. Peter of Limoges, perspectivist optics and the displacement of vision 4. Normalizing error: Peter Aureol on the importance of appearances 5. Probability and perspective: Nicholas of Autrecourt and the fragmentation of vision Conclusion: vision, promise deferral

  • Islamic Aesthetics

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006

    It is often argued that a very special sort of consciousness went into creating Islamic art, that Islamic art is very different from other forms of art, that Muslims are not allowed to portray human beings in their art, and that calligraphy is the supreme Islamic art form. Oliver Leaman challenges all of these ideas, and argues that they are misguided. Instead, he suggests that the criteria we should apply to Islamic art are identical to the crit…

  • Art from the Courts of Burgundy

    Andrea Sand, Alexa SandARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2006