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050 00 $aN8223$b.K87 2003
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100 1 $aKupfer, Marcia A.$q(Marcia Ann)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86828804
245 14 $aThe art of healing :$bpainting for the sick and the sinner in a medieval town /$cMarcia Kupfer.
260 $aUniversity Park, Pa. :$bPennsylvania State University Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axvii, 202 pages, 80 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index.
520 1 $a"Many historians of medieval art now look beyond Gothic cathedrals to study the relationship of architecture and image-making to the hard realities of life in early medieval society. In The Art of Healing, Marcia Kupfer breaks new ground by uncovering the lost relationship between church decoration and ritual practice in caring for the sick. Her inquiry bridges cultural anthropology and the social history of medicine even as it also expands our understanding of the ways in which the clergy employed mural painting to cure body and soul." "Looking closely at the parish church of Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher in central France, Kupfer traces the roles played by its elaborate painted decoration to burial practices, to the veneration of saints, and to the care of the sick in nearby hospitals. Through analysis of the surrounding agrarian landscape, dotted with cults for specific afflictions, especially ergotism, then known as St. Silvan's fire, Kupfer sheds new light on the role of wall painting in an ecclesiastical economy of healing and redemption. Sickness and death, she argues, hold the key to understanding the dynamics of Christian community in the Middle Ages." "The Art of Healing will be important reading for cultural anthropologists and historians of both medicine and religion as well as to medievalists and art historians."--BOOK JACKET.
600 00 $aAegidius,$cSaint, Abbot$vArt.
610 20 $aCollégiale de St. Aignan (Saint-Aignan, Loir-et-Cher, France)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003003214
650 0 $aMedicine and art$zFrance$zSaint-Aignan.
650 0 $aHealing in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97001238
650 0 $aMiracles in art.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085935
650 0 $aMural painting and decoration, Romanesque$zFrance$zSaint-Aignan.
650 0 $aMural painting and decoration, French$zFrance$zSaint-Aignan.
650 0 $aChristian art and symbolism$zFrance$zSaint-Aignan$yMedieval, 500-1500.
650 0 $aMedicine, Medieval$zFrance$zSaint-Aignan.
651 0 $aSaint-Aignan (Loir-et-Cher, France)$xSocial life and customs.
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