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"The Trees of the Cross: Wood as Subject and Medium in the Art of Late Medieval Germany" by Gregory C. Bryda explores the significance of wood and vegetation in the religious art of late medieval Germany. The book argues that wood, both physically and in painted representations, not only referenced devotion to the True Cross but also encompassed local traditions. The author examines how artists depicted wood and plants, suggesting that these depictions had multiple meanings and provided a deeper understanding of the liturgical and social functions of objects incorporating the True Cross. The book also considers lesser-known works, bringing them to a wider audience. [Extracted from the article]

As an archaeologist, King is expert on the physical evidence for houses in Norwich, meticulously setting out their form and decoration on the basis of standing and excavated buildings. Chris King has written a fine book on the "Fine City". King examines the homes of wealthy merchant dynasties, craft households of middling status, and dwellings of the working poor. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents criticism of the short story "A Safe Investment" by Christina Rossetti included in her book "Commonplace and Other Stories." Topics covered are the Rossetti's interest in 19th-century material exchange, the connection of the story with the 19th-century desire, faith and theology, the moral aspect of the story focusing on the nature of true wealth and the author's narrative strategy. The link between Rossetti's work and theories of political economy by philosopher Karl Marx.

Romantic impulses govern the fraught, family histories in these poems on conflicts that disrupt or threaten loss to lovers. InIsabellaKeats explores a young woman’s resistance to her brothers’ machinations. InThe Eve of St. AgnesMadeline confronts an uncertain future, either in her family’s bastion or in Porphyro’s domains. The attention to romantic energy in both poems discloses Keats’s entrance into the manners, attitudes, striking poses that dominate the participants in mercantile and feudal realms. To what these participants say and do, he contributes elements of dirge, musical instruments, furnishings, stark landscapes, and historic accounts of cruelties and exploitation. Mythical allusion, unexpected humour, dream dialogue contribute to the embrace of the inexplicable. The texture of the poems argues that Keats’s engagement with family history is a recognition that the milieus he creates have an afterlife, that the recovery of an imagined past is not limiting but has currency for his own time future generations. His engagement with family history also draws him to his own circumstances, for, he turns to his own romantic desires, writing to George and Georgianna Keats that he believes that he will be among the English poets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several art exhibitions in Georgia including "Vaudeville in a Dark House" at Morton Theatre in Athens in July 1986, "Four in Extremis" at the University of Georgia Visual Arts Building in July 1986, and "The Corner Exhibit" at the corner of Broad and Clayton Streets in April 1986.

This is a book review of Silver Screen Buddha, Buddhism in Asian and Western Film by Sharon A. Suh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]