Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2014
336 pages
978-1-4438-6428-2 (ISBN)
Description
This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character. The book approaches 'ritual' as an action which is discussed under the general umbrella term ",performative practice",, and is characterised by a synthesis between the repetitive and the extraordinary that carries an intense symbolic meaning and is emotionally charged.Images, spaces and rituals were closely interconnected in both the religious and the secular spheres, and played a relevant role in the symbolic communication of the time. The essays in this volume are devoted to a complex study of these phenomena in Northern and Central Europe, including regions which, due to linguistic or cultural barriers, have thus far received comparatively little attention in Anglo-American scholarship, including Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltic states.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- LATE MEDIEVAL IMAGESAND THE VARIABILITYOF RITUALS
- "TO SHOW THAT THE PLACE IS DIVINE"
- THE ROSARY AND THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST
- IMAGE, TIME AND RITUAL
- MORIAN AND MERIAN. WORD AND IMAGE
- PART II
- THE GAZE OF POWER, THE ACT OF OBEDIENCE
- BAPTISM AND THE KING'S CORONATION
- IN BETWEEN THE SECULAR AND THE RELIGIOUS
- IMAGES OF HEREDITARY SUCCESSION
- MAGIC OF PRESENCE
- BETWEEN ACT, IMAGE, AND MEMORY
- PART III
- THE SELF-REPRESENTATION OF THELATE MEDIEVAL CISTERCIAN ABBOT
- MEMORIA AND SACRAL ARTIN LATE MEDIEVAL LIVONIA
- THE RITUAL CONTEXT OF CHANDELIERSAND SCONCES IN EARLY MODERNLUTHERAN CHURCHES
- THE ART OF RITUALS
- WINING AND DINING IN STYLE
- CONTRIBUTORS
