Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250
Medieval church treasury inventories document an astonishing abundance of sumptuous treasury objects that no longer exist. These inventories, however, tend to withhold data of traditional interest to art history with their terse, formulaic, and minimal descriptions. Thus they have been somewhat ma...
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Department of Art History, University of Birmingham
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| description | Medieval church treasury inventories document an astonishing abundance of sumptuous treasury objects that no longer exist. These inventories, however, tend to withhold data of traditional interest to art history with their terse, formulaic, and minimal descriptions. Thus they have been somewhat marginalized. This essay recommends future approaches to these texts. By excavating generic conventions to detect underlying value systems, these inventories become quite voluble regarding medieval attitudes towards precious metalwork, vestments, and other liturgical objects. The approaches discussed here include issues of vocabulary, authorship, and formal convention; the mise-en-page and mise-en-livre of these texts; and their relationship with book inventories. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bea16bd34e6748a3ae6ac48fca80bab72022-12-22T03:48:33ZengDepartment of Art History, University of BirminghamJournal of Art Historiography2042-47522014-12-011111JSA1Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250Joseph Salvatore Ackley0ColumbiaMedieval church treasury inventories document an astonishing abundance of sumptuous treasury objects that no longer exist. These inventories, however, tend to withhold data of traditional interest to art history with their terse, formulaic, and minimal descriptions. Thus they have been somewhat marginalized. This essay recommends future approaches to these texts. By excavating generic conventions to detect underlying value systems, these inventories become quite voluble regarding medieval attitudes towards precious metalwork, vestments, and other liturgical objects. The approaches discussed here include issues of vocabulary, authorship, and formal convention; the mise-en-page and mise-en-livre of these texts; and their relationship with book inventories.https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/ackley.pdfchurchgenreinventorymedievalmetalworktreasury |
| spellingShingle | Joseph Salvatore Ackley Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250 Journal of Art Historiography church genre inventory medieval metalwork treasury |
| title | Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250 |
| title_full | Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250 |
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| title_short | Re-approaching the Western medieval church treasury inventory, c. 800-1250 |
| title_sort | re approaching the western medieval church treasury inventory c 800 1250 |
| topic | church genre inventory medieval metalwork treasury |
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