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Image on the Edge: the Margins of Medieval Art by Michael Camille (Paperback, 1992)
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Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches.
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What do they all mean - the lascivious ape, autophagic dragons, pot-bellied heads, harp-playing asses, arse-kissing priests and somersaulting jongleurs to be found protuding from the edges of medieval buildings and in the margins of illuminated manuscripts? Michael Camille explores that riotous realm of marginal art, so often explained away as mere decoration or zany doodles, where resistance to social constraints flourished. Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive and amazing the art of the time could be.Product Identifiers
PublisherReaktion Books
ISBN-139780948462283
eBay Product ID (ePID)90894642
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Book TitleImage on the Edge: the Margins of Medieval Art
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
AuthorMichael Camille
Number of Pages176 Pages
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Title_AuthorMichael Camille
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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