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Virtue & vice : the personifications in the Index of Christian art / edited by Colum Hourihane.

Contributor(s): Hourihane, Colum, 1955- | Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art
Material type: TextTextSeries: Index of Christian art resources: 1.Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 2000Description: xviii, 456 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0691050376 (paper : alk. paper); 0691050368 (cloth : alk. paper)Other title: Virtue and viceSubject(s): Virtues in art -- Indexes | Vices in art -- Indexes | Personification in art -- Indexes | Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval, 500-1500 -- IndexesDDC classification: 704.9/482 LOC classification: N8012.V57 | V57 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Virtus or Virago? The female personifications of Prudentius's Psychomachia / S. Georgia Nugent -- Learning from nature : lessons in virtue and vice in the Physiologus and bestiaries / Ron Baxter -- The spirit in the world : the virtues of the Floreffe Bible frontispiece : British Library, add. ms. 17738, ff. 3v-4r / Anne-Marie Bouché -- Good and evil, not-so-good and not-so-evil : marginal life on Gothic German sacrament houses / Achim Timmermann -- The art of the tongue : illuminating speech and writing in later medieval manuscripts / Jesse M. Gellrich -- The virtuous pelican in medieval Irish art / Colum Hourihane -- Introduction to the catalogue -- List of virtues and vices in the catalogue -- Abbreviations used in the catalogue -- Virtues -- Vices -- Conflict of virtues and vices.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Virtus or Virago? The female personifications of Prudentius's Psychomachia / S. Georgia Nugent -- Learning from nature : lessons in virtue and vice in the Physiologus and bestiaries / Ron Baxter -- The spirit in the world : the virtues of the Floreffe Bible frontispiece : British Library, add. ms. 17738, ff. 3v-4r / Anne-Marie Bouché -- Good and evil, not-so-good and not-so-evil : marginal life on Gothic German sacrament houses / Achim Timmermann -- The art of the tongue : illuminating speech and writing in later medieval manuscripts / Jesse M. Gellrich -- The virtuous pelican in medieval Irish art / Colum Hourihane -- Introduction to the catalogue -- List of virtues and vices in the catalogue -- Abbreviations used in the catalogue -- Virtues -- Vices -- Conflict of virtues and vices.

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