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Image on the Edge : The Margins of Medieval Art (Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture)
Image on the Edge The Margins of Medieval Art - Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture Author:Michael Camille Medieval image-makers focused attention on the underside of society, the excluded and the ejected. Peasants, servants, prostitutes and beggars all found their place, along with knights and clerics, engaged in impudent antics in the margins of prayer-books or, as gargoyles, on the outsides of churches. Camille brings us to an understanding of how... more » marginality functioned in medieval culture and shows us just how scandalous, subversive and amazing the art of the time could be.« less