The Green Man (9780859914970)

The Green Man, the image of the foliate head or the head of a man sprouting leaves, is probably the most common of all motifs in medieval sculpture. Nevertheless, the significance of the image lay largely unregarded until KathleenBasford published this book - the first monograph of the Green Man in any language -and thereby earned the lasting gratitude of scholars in many fields, from art history and folklore to current environmental studies. This book has opened up new avenues of research, not only into medieval man's understanding of nature, and into conceptions of death, rebirth and resurrection in the middle ages, but also into our concern today with ecology and our relationship with the green world. It is therefore a work of living scholarship and its publication in paperback will be greatly and justly welcomed.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 128 pages
• Dimensions 216 x 276 x 8.89mm | 426.38g
• Publication date 01 May 1998
• Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Imprint D.S. Brewer
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Statement Revised ed.
• Illustrations note 170 b/w. 3 line.
• ISBN10 0859914976
• ISBN13 9780859914970
• Bestsellers rank 460,029

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