Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Roman Language of Art
2: Earliest Christian Art
3: Conversion
4: Art for Aristocrats
5: Endings and Beginnings
6: Craftsmanship and Artistry
7: Saints and Holy Places
8: Holy Images
9: Word and Image
10: Art at the Court
11: Expressive and Didactic Images
12: Towards a New Age
Conclusion
Notes
Timeline
Further Reading
Museums and Websites
List of Illustrations
Index

About the Author

Lawrence Nees is Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1978. He is the author of 'The Gundohinus Gospels' (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), 'A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court' (Philadelphia, 1991), and editor of 'Approaches to Early Medieval Art' (Cambridge, Mass., 1998). He is currently completing a general book on Frankish manuscript illumination.

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