The Art of Healing
Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9798844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carole Rawcliffe (University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 490 |
| Pages | 199-201 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cej013 |
| OpenAlex | W2022076963 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The Art of Healing: Painting for the Sick and the Sinner in a Medieval Town. By MARCIA KUPFER (University Park: Penn State U.P., 2003; pp. xvii + 201. $45). HIDDEN away in the crypt of the Romanesque church of Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher is a remarkable cycle of early thirteenth-century wall paintings whose subject matter and location provide a rare insight into medieval approaches to sickness, health, mortality and redemption. They also present the opportunity for an unusually full interdisciplinary approach to the study of a vibrant religious landscape, since their place at the centre of a regional network of healing cults and the more immediate political and religious considerations that inspired them can also be documented in depth. In this lively and perceptive study Marcia Kupfer has risen admirably to the challenge of producing an integrated survey in which archives, topography, architecture and iconography combine to create an
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |