Philippe Cordez, <i>Treasure, Memory, Nature: Church Objects in the Middle Ages</i>, trans. Chloe Morgan, ed. Julia Oswald. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020, 276 pp., numerous ill., b/w and color.
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This book had a bit of curious history; first having been defended as doctoral dissertation in 2010, then it was published German 2015, whereupon the original French 2016, and now, 2020, an English translation appeared print (with name translator editor rather hidden, not appearing on cover page). The study focuses objects medieval art, primarily service Church, but, contrary to sub-title, deals with many different also, only religious or liturgical ones. main emphasis, granted, rests found church treasuries, from early Carolingian age, but Cordez also examines other which later made their ways into royal treasuries Kuriositätenkabinette (16th century beyond). He views those cultural artefacts, does consider them own ‘subjectivity,’ recent scholarship has increasingly endeavored, his goes back judging bibliography, revised expanded much at all since then.
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