L'uomo con la borsa al collo. Genealogia e uso di un'immagine medievale
Year: 2017
Type: book
Abstract: During Middle Ages, sculptors, preachers, poets and painters employed the image of a man with a bag around his neck punished in hell to represent misers, usurers, sinners, heretics, bandits and excommunicated. The book follows the traces of this defamatory depiction from Byzantium in ninth century A.D. to the Auvergne in the eleventh, from the Dijon of Etienne de Bourbon to Italian communes of the age of Dante and Giotto. In this way it traces the journey of an image which, while remaining faithful to his function, underwent a constant evolution; an image which, in the alternation of contingencies and contexts, assumed ever more complex meanings and contributed to the formation of a common way of thinking evil.
Source: HAL
Author: Milani, Giuliano
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2785200455