English shepherds' carols and the medieval arts
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Barbara Olson (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- James Wimsatt
Abstract: The English Shepherds' Carols are herein viewed through illumination by the other arts of the medieval age. Links exist between the visual arts, the performing arts, and the literature of the Middle Ages through a common nourishing soil: the Catholic Church and the rich medieval courts. Subjects, themes, techniques, and aims of each art overlap one another, with artists and poets borrowing from and giving to, influencing and spurring on their fellow craftsmen. Emphasis upon the medieval perspective on religion, shepherds, and carols, and a delving into the background of the craftsmen and the history of their arts creates a firm foundation upon which can be built a theory of the interlacing of the medieval arts. Textual analysis of the carols further strengthens the base so that the actual links to the visual arts and to the performing arts are properly viewed. The group of figures interspersed in Chapter V, drawn from the illuminated manuscripts, stained glass windows, frescoes, and sculpted panels of the age, are illustrative of the carols1 links to the visual arts. An Appendix containing copies of the Shepherds' Carols also proves helpful in the study of the songs and their relationship with the other arts, especially drama.
English shepherds' carols and the medieval arts
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 1974
- Subjects
- Shepherds' songs
- Art, Medieval
- Drama, Medieval
- Literature, Medieval