COSMOS AND COMMUNITY IN EARLY MEDIEVAL ART

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant statesthe Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots betwe en 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, th ough local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to sh ow how cos...[Read more]