Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Thun-Hohenstein AlbumCondition: NewDescription: The first extensive study of the depiction of the armour in the Thun-Hohenstein Album against the vibrant artistic and cultural contexts that created it.In late medieval and early modern Europe, armour was more than a defensive technology for war or knightly sport. Its diverse types formed a complex visual language. Luxury armour was fitted precisely to a wearer's body, and its memorable details declared his status. Empty armour could evoke an owner's physical presence, prompting recollection of knightly personae, glittering pageantry, and impressive feats of arms. Its mnemonic power persisted long after the battle had ended, the trumpets had gone silent, and the dust had settled in the tournament arena. Previously believed to contain preliminary designs sketched by master armourers, the Thun-Hohenstein album is a bound collection of drawings by professional book painters depicting some of the most artistically and technologically innovative armours of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Like a paper version of the princely armories that first formed during the 1500s, the album's images offered rich sites of meaning and memory. Their organization within the codex suggests the images' significance to their compiler. At the same time, the composition and details allow the reader to trace the transmission of recognizable armours, and the memories they embodied, from the anvil to the page. This book is the first to examine the album, and the armor it depicts, in their vibrant artistic and cultural context. In five thematic chapters, it moves from case studies of these drawings to explore the album's complex intersections with the genres of martial history, material culture, and literature. It also reveals the album's participation in cultures of remembrance that carried mythic, knightly personae constructed around powerful Habsburg princes forward in time from the Middle Ages into the early modern era, from the courts of the Holy Roman Empire to emerging urban audiences.Author: Chassica KirchhoffCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBEAN: 9781837650439Format: HardbackGenre: HistoryISBN: 9781837650439ISBN-10: 1837650438Item Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmItem Weight: 1gLanguage: EnglishPublisher: Boydell & BrewerRelease Date: 06/06/2023Book Series: Armour and WeaponsSubtitle: Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper ArmoryTopic: Architecture & AntiquesRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Thun-Hohenstein Album
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
EAN: 9781837650439
Format: Hardback
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781837650439
ISBN-10: 1837650438
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 156mm
Item Weight: 1g
Publication Name: The Thun-Hohenstein Album
Release Date: 06/06/2023
Release Year: 2023
Series: Armour and Weapons
Subtitle: Cultures of Remembrance in a Paper Armory
Title: The Thun-Hohenstein Album
Language: English
Topic: Firearms & Weapons, Europe / Medieval, Antiques & Collectibles, History
Author: Chassica Kirchhoff
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Illustrator: Yes
