The Green Man

€ 33,90


Informação do Produto

ISBN9780859914970
AutoresKathleen Basford, Paul Hardwick
EditoraBoydell & Brewer Ltd
FormatoCapa mole
Número de páginas128
Peso (kg)0,438
Data de Publicação01/01/1978
Preço (iva excl.)€ 31,98
Imposto€ 1,92
Preço (iva inc.)€ 33,90
DisponibilidadeIndisponível

Descrição do Produto

Delightful, oft-reprinted guide to the foliate heads so common in medieval sculpture. This was the first-ever monograph dedicated to the Green Man. The Green Man, the image of the foliate head or the head of a man sprouting leaves, is probably the most common of all motifs in medieval sculpture. Nevertheless, the significance of the image lay largely unregarded until KathleenBasford published this book - the first monograph of the Green Man in any language -and thereby earned the lasting gratitude of scholars in many fields, from art history and folklore to current environmental studies. This book has opened up new avenues of research, not only into medieval man's understanding of nature, and into conceptions of death, rebirth and resurrection in the middle ages, but also into our concern today with ecology and our relationship with the green world. It is therefore a work of living scholarship and its publication in paperback will be greatly and justly welcomed.