{"product_id":"a-cultural-history-of-color-carole-p-biggam-9781474273336","title":"A Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cultural History of Color in the Medieval Age\u003c\/i\u003e covers the period 500 to 1400. The medieval age saw an extraordinary burst of color - from illuminated manuscripts and polychrome sculpture to architecture and interiors, and from enamelled and jewelled metalwork to colored glass and the exquisite decoration of artefacts. Color was used to denote affiliation in heraldry and social status in medieval clothes. Color names were created in various languages and their resonance explored in poems, romances, epics, and plays. And, whilst medieval philosophers began to explain the rainbow, theologians and artists developed a color symbolism for both virtues and vices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColor shapes an individual's experience of the world and also how society gives particular spaces, objects, and moments meaning. The 6 volume set of the \u003ci\u003eCultural History of Color\u003c\/i\u003e examines how color has been created, traded, used, and interpreted over the last 5000 years. The themes covered in each volume are color philosophy and science; color technology and trade; power and identity; religion and ritual; body and clothing; language and psychology; literature and the performing arts; art; architecture and interiors; and artefacts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarole P. Biggam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, UK. \u003cb\u003eKirsten Wolf \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Old Norse and Scandinavian Linguistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.\u003cbr\u003e Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Color set.\u003cbr\u003e General Editors: Carole P. Biggam and Kirsten Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Carole P. Biggam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474273335\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474273336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.69h x 6.61w x 0.63d","brand":"Carole P. Biggam","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482800873727,"sku":"9781474273336","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_12915053-a3a7-48cc-9cfb-6d7cad637932.jpg?v=1715999528","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-cultural-history-of-color-carole-p-biggam-9781474273336","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}