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Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art (Essays in Art and Culture)

by Michael Camille

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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 protruding 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.

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A witty and original account of a fascinating subject. Medieval manuscripts, buildings and sculpture abound with subversive, erotic or scatological marginalia. Why are they there? Do they undermine dogma or just provide light relief? Camille gives some closely-observed and convincing answers.-Chris Savage King, New Statesman and Society

Michael Camille is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and is the author of The Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England (Reaktion, 1998).

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Michael Camille was Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago.

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AcknowledgmentsPreface1. Making Margins2. In the Margins of the Monastery3. In the Margins of the Cathedral4. In the Margins of the Court5. In the Margins of the City6. The End of the EdgeReferencesBibliographyList of Illustrations

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Jennifer Knighton, February 6, 2011 (view all comments by Jennifer Knighton)
My degree was in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. I created it myself because, while my university had a wonderful collection of professors who specialized in this field, it did not have a department for it. When explaining to my professors what I wanted from the degree - to find out what the people thought and felt - one of them recommended this book by Michael Camille. It is my favorite work of non-fiction to this day.

Camille looks at art and architecture from the sides and the corners. He looks into the little places where the artists hid their opinions and in many cases their talents. You look at the monsters hidden in the eaves of the cathedrals or in the margins of manuscripts. And all of this is written by a man who knows how to engage the reader. I couldn't put it down because of his passion for his subject. Camille encompasses what I like in a teacher - someone who clearly loves their subject and wants to share it with others.

I would recommend this book not just to historians but to people who want perspective into how people think.
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ISBN:
9780948462283
Author:
Camille, Michael
Publisher:
Reaktion Books
Subject:
History - Medieval
Subject:
General Art
Subject:
Art - General
Copyright:
2001
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture
Publication Date:
20040831
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TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
Professional and scholarly
Language:
English
Illustrations:
13 color plates, 73 halftones
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.6 in
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"Synopsis" by , A witty and original account of a fascinating subject. Medieval manuscripts, buildings and sculpture abound with subversive, erotic or scatological marginalia. Why are they there? Do they undermine dogma or just provide light relief? Camille gives some closely-observed and convincing answers.-Chris Savage King, New Statesman and Society

Michael Camille is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and is the author of The Mirror in Parchment: The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England (Reaktion, 1998).
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