Binding The Absent Body In Medieval And Modern Art
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Binding The Absent Body In Medieval And Modern Art
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Author : Emily Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Binding The Absent Body In Medieval And Modern Art written by Emily Kelley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays, it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular, medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works even when it is not at first apparent.
Binding The Absent Body In Medieval And Modern Art
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Author : Emily Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Binding The Absent Body In Medieval And Modern Art written by Emily Kelley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Art categories.
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate forms including reliquaries, manuscripts, and cloth. The collection focuses on two eras, medieval and modern, when images referencing the absent body have been far more prolific in the history of art. In medieval times, works of art became direct references to the absent corporal essence of a divine being, like Christ, or were used as devotional aids. By contrast, in the modern era artists often reject depictions of the physical body in order to distance themselves from the history of the idealized human form. Through these essays, it becomes apparent, even when the body is not visible in a work of art, it is often still present tangentially. Though the essays in this volume bridge two historical periods, they have coherent thematic links dealing with abjection, embodiment, and phenomenology. Whether figurative or abstract, sacred or secular, medieval or modern, the body maintains a presence in these works even when it is not at first apparent.
Saints As Intercessors Between The Wealthy And The Divine
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Author : Emily Kelley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-04-25
Saints As Intercessors Between The Wealthy And The Divine written by Emily Kelley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Religion categories.
Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to ask explicitly how merchants invoked saints, and why. Despite medieval and modern stereotypes of merchants as godless and avaricious, medieval traders were highly devout – and rightly so. Overseas trade was dangerous, and merchants’ commercial activities were seen as jeopardizing their souls. Merchants turned to saints for protection and succor, identifying those most likely to preserve their goods, families, reputations, and souls. The essays in this collection, written from diverse angles, range across later medieval western Europe, from Spain to Italy to England and the Hanseatic League. They offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the ways that medieval merchants, from petty traders to influential overseas wholesalers, deployed the cults of saints. Three primary themes are addressed: danger, community, and the unity of spiritual and cultural capital. Each of these themes allows the international panel of contributors to demonstrate the significant role of saints in mercantile life. This book is unique in its exploration of saints and commerce, shedding light on the everyday role religion played in medieval life. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of religious history, medieval history, art history, and literature.
Spiritual Calculations
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Author : Christine Cooper-Rompato
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2021-12-13
Spiritual Calculations written by Christine Cooper-Rompato and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-13 with Literary Criticism categories.
Medieval English sermons teem with examples of quantitative reasoning, ranging from the arithmetical to the numerological, and regularly engage with numerical concepts. Examining sermons written in Middle English and Latin, this book reveals that popular English-speaking audiences were encouraged to engage in a wide range of numerate operations in their daily religious practices. Medieval sermonists promoted numeracy as a way for audiences to appreciate divine truth. Their sermons educated audiences in a hybrid form of numerate practice—one that relied on individuals’ pragmatic quantitative reasoning, which, when combined with spiritual interpretations of numbers provided by the preacher, created a deep and rich sense in which number was the best way to approach the sacred mysteries of the world as well as to learn how one could best live as a Christian. Analyzing both published and previously unpublished sermons and sermon cycles, Christine Cooper-Rompato explores the use of numbers, arithmetic, and other mathematical operations to better understand how medieval laypeople used math as a means to connect with God. Spiritual Calculations enhances our understanding of medieval sermons and sheds new light on how receptive audiences were to this sophisticated rhetorical form. It will be welcomed by scholars of Middle English literature, medieval sermon studies, religious experience, and the history of mathematics.
Interfaith Relationships And Perceptions Of The Other In The Medieval Mediterranean
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Author : Sarah Davis-Secord
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-12-16
Interfaith Relationships And Perceptions Of The Other In The Medieval Mediterranean written by Sarah Davis-Secord and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-16 with History categories.
This book is a collaborative contribution that expands our understanding of how interfaith relations, both real and imagined, developed across medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean. The volume pays homage to the late Olivia Remie Constable’s scholarship and presents innovative, thought-provoking, interdisciplinary investigations of cross-cultural exchange, ranging widely across time and geography. Divided into two parts, “Perceptions of the ‘Other’” and “Interfaith relations,” this volume features scholars engaging with church art, literature, historiography, scientific treatises, and polemics, in order to study how the religious “Other” was depicted to serve different purposes and audiences. There are also microhistories that examine the experiences of individual families, classes, and communities as they interacted with one another in their own specific contexts. Several of these studies draw their source material from church and state archives as well as jurisprudential texts, and span the centuries from the late medieval to early modern periods.
Devotional Interaction In Medieval England And Its Afterlives
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Devotional Interaction In Medieval England And Its Afterlives written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
The interdisciplinary volume Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion, with chapters that extend the temporality of objects and buildings beyond the Middle Ages.
The Agency Of Things In Medieval And Early Modern Art
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Author : Grażyna Jurkowlaniec
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-22
The Agency Of Things In Medieval And Early Modern Art written by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-22 with Art categories.
This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or pawned. Through a series of case studies set in various geographic locations, this volume examines a rich variety of systems throughout Europe and beyond. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
K Rper Und Leib In Der Animation Art
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Author : Luzie Kollinger
language : de
Publisher: Schüren Verlag
Release Date : 2022-04-01
K Rper Und Leib In Der Animation Art written by Luzie Kollinger and has been published by Schüren Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-01 with Performing Arts categories.
Gegenwärtig lassen sich für unser medialisiertes Leben unter anderem zwei besondere Phänomene beobachten: Eine Omnipräsenz animierter Bilder sowie eine Flut an Körperbildern. Animierte Visualisierungen begegnen uns in allen Lebensbereichen, ob als Unterhaltungsmedium (Film, Fernsehen, Virtual-Reality-Experience, Computerspiele), in der Darstellung von Wissenschafts-, Lehr-, Industrie- und Werbefilmen oder aber im alltäglichen Umgang mit graphischen User-Interfaces von Smartphone- und Computeroberflächen. Animationsforscher Paul Wells sieht darin "one of the most prominent aspects of popular culture worldwide." Ebenso wenig kann man sich im öffentlichen und privaten Raum Bildern von Körpern entziehen, an deren Verbreitung die Massenmedien maßgeblich beteiligt sind. Umso erstaunlicher ist, dass trotz der Virulenz beider Phänomene, ihre Verschränkung in der Animationsforschung bislang nur wenig Beachtung gefunden hat.
Death Torture And The Broken Body In European Art 1300 1650
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Author : Dr John R Decker
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-01-28
Death Torture And The Broken Body In European Art 1300 1650 written by Dr John R Decker and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-28 with Art categories.
Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: the art of the late medieval and early modern periods contains myriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdoms of saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities of war provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecration. Contributors to this volume explore the larger social functions that pain, suffering, and the desecration of the human form played in European society.
Time And Presence In Art
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Author : Armin Bergmeier
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Time And Presence In Art written by Armin Bergmeier and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Art categories.
This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections between medieval artworks' varied presences and their ever-shifting places in time. The volume begins with reflections on the study of temporality and presence in medieval and early modern art history. A second section presents case studies delving into the different ways medieval artworks once created and transformed their original viewers' experience of the present. These range from late antique Constantinople, early Islamic Jerusalem and medieval Italy, to early modern Venice and the Low Countries. A final section explores how medieval artworks remain powerful and relevant today. This section includes case studies on reconstructing presence in medieval art through embodied experience of pilgrimage, art historical research and museum education. In doing so, the volume provides a first dialog between museum educators and art historians on the presence of medieval artifacts. It includes contributions by Hans Belting, Keith Moxey, Rika Burnham and others.