Signs of Change
Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Hardback
524 pages
978-90-420-0999-8 (ISBN)
Description
Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000 focuses on the changing relationships between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about methodologies for writing cultural history.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
898 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0999-8 (9789042009998)
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Content
List of Plates
Preface
Nils Holger Petersen: INTRODUCTION: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000
SECTION ONE
Anthony Johnson: Introduction
Ananya Jahanara Kabir: Towards a Contra-Modern Aesthetics: Reading the Old English Andreas Against an Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Anthony Johnson: Levity and Gravity: Ben Jonson and the Crisis of the Image
Claus Cluever: Schoenberg's Play of the Artist?Saviour and the Calderonian auto sacramental
SECTION TWO
Claus Cluever: Introduction
Marica S. Tacconi: The Service?Books of the Cathedral of Florence: From Local Liturgical Specificity to Civic Identity
Nicoletta Isar: The Broken Image. Of Splits and Cuttings: Modern Representation and its Beginnings
Hugo Johannsen: The Protestant Palace Chapel: Monument to Evangelical Religion and Sacred Rulership
SECTION THREE
Kristin Rygg: Introduction
Andreas Buecker: Christianizing the Arts: From Augustine's De ordine to Carolingian Thought
Bernhard F. Scholz: Re-editing the Book of Nature: Observations on a Nineteenth Century Attempt at Modernizing a Seventeenth Century Book of Emblems
Magnar Breivik: A Twentieth Century musica instrumentalis: Boethius and Augustine in the Musical Thought of Paul Hindemith
SECTION FOUR
Robert A. Davis: Introduction
Jens Fleischer: Pre?Romanesque Church Walls and their "Language"
Eyolf Ostrem: "The Ineffable": Affinities between Christian and Secular Concepts of Art
Siglind Bruhn: Mythopoesis and Musical Genre in Bohuslav Martinu's Greek Passion
SECTION FIVE
Nicolas Bell and Andreas Buecker: Introduction
Susan Boynton: From the Lament of Rachel to the Lament of Mary: A Transformation in the History of Drama and Spirituality Columbia University
Gunilla Iversen: Fictiones or figurata ornamenta? On the Concept of "Poetry" in the Period of Transition from a Monastic to a Scholastic Culture
Nicolas Bell: Signs of Change from ars antiqua to ars nova in Polyphonic Music of the Early Fourteenth Century
Bernhard Ridderbos and Hans Bloemsma: Gates to Heaven, Gates to the Soul
SECTION SIX
Jeremy Llewellyn: Introduction
Volker Schier and Corine Schleif: Seeing and Singing, Touching and Tasting the Holy Lance: The Power and Politics of Embodied Religious Experiences in Nuremberg, 1424-1524
Nils Holger Petersen and Heinrich W. Schwab: The Devotional Genre of the Hymn Around 1800: The Hallelujah of Creation
Stephanie A. Glaser: Of Revolutions, Republics and Spires: Nineteenth?Century France and the Gothic Cathedral
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Abstracts
Contributors
Preface
Nils Holger Petersen: INTRODUCTION: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their Representation in the Arts, 1000-2000
SECTION ONE
Anthony Johnson: Introduction
Ananya Jahanara Kabir: Towards a Contra-Modern Aesthetics: Reading the Old English Andreas Against an Image of the Virgin of Guadalupe
Anthony Johnson: Levity and Gravity: Ben Jonson and the Crisis of the Image
Claus Cluever: Schoenberg's Play of the Artist?Saviour and the Calderonian auto sacramental
SECTION TWO
Claus Cluever: Introduction
Marica S. Tacconi: The Service?Books of the Cathedral of Florence: From Local Liturgical Specificity to Civic Identity
Nicoletta Isar: The Broken Image. Of Splits and Cuttings: Modern Representation and its Beginnings
Hugo Johannsen: The Protestant Palace Chapel: Monument to Evangelical Religion and Sacred Rulership
SECTION THREE
Kristin Rygg: Introduction
Andreas Buecker: Christianizing the Arts: From Augustine's De ordine to Carolingian Thought
Bernhard F. Scholz: Re-editing the Book of Nature: Observations on a Nineteenth Century Attempt at Modernizing a Seventeenth Century Book of Emblems
Magnar Breivik: A Twentieth Century musica instrumentalis: Boethius and Augustine in the Musical Thought of Paul Hindemith
SECTION FOUR
Robert A. Davis: Introduction
Jens Fleischer: Pre?Romanesque Church Walls and their "Language"
Eyolf Ostrem: "The Ineffable": Affinities between Christian and Secular Concepts of Art
Siglind Bruhn: Mythopoesis and Musical Genre in Bohuslav Martinu's Greek Passion
SECTION FIVE
Nicolas Bell and Andreas Buecker: Introduction
Susan Boynton: From the Lament of Rachel to the Lament of Mary: A Transformation in the History of Drama and Spirituality Columbia University
Gunilla Iversen: Fictiones or figurata ornamenta? On the Concept of "Poetry" in the Period of Transition from a Monastic to a Scholastic Culture
Nicolas Bell: Signs of Change from ars antiqua to ars nova in Polyphonic Music of the Early Fourteenth Century
Bernhard Ridderbos and Hans Bloemsma: Gates to Heaven, Gates to the Soul
SECTION SIX
Jeremy Llewellyn: Introduction
Volker Schier and Corine Schleif: Seeing and Singing, Touching and Tasting the Holy Lance: The Power and Politics of Embodied Religious Experiences in Nuremberg, 1424-1524
Nils Holger Petersen and Heinrich W. Schwab: The Devotional Genre of the Hymn Around 1800: The Hallelujah of Creation
Stephanie A. Glaser: Of Revolutions, Republics and Spires: Nineteenth?Century France and the Gothic Cathedral
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
Abstracts
Contributors