CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Gruia, Ana Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | Religious Representations on Stove Tiles from the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary |
| Summary | This dissertation, focusing on fourteenth- to sixteenth-century stove tiles with religious representations from medieval Hungary, aims at discovering the inner mechanisms of tile production, use, and reception. It uses a two-fold approach. Both the transmission of motifs on tiles and the possible functions of such representations in their contexts of use constitute the red threads of research. Despite the fact that medieval stove tiles have been discovered in large numbers in Hungary, there is still no general perspective on how these items were produced, copied, and displayed; what made people prefer tiles decorated with certain motifs and what the functions of these images were is unknown. Attempting to formulate the answers to such questions, I employ a specific interdisciplinary methodology dictated by the nature of the source material. |
| Supervisor | Laszlovszky, József |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/mphgrm01.pdf |
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