Images And Objects In Ritual Practices In Medieval And Early Modern Northern And Central Europe

Author : Krista Kodres,Anu Mänd
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443864282

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Images and Objects in Ritual Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Northern and Central Europe by Krista Kodres,Anu Mänd Pdf

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.

Author : Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317042853

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The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe by Catherine Richardson,Tara Hamling,David Gaimster Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a term that embraces a vast range of objects as well as addressing a wide variety of human interactions with their physical environments. This stimulating view of materiality is distinctive in asking questions about the whole material world as a context for lived experience, and the book considers material interactions at all social levels. There are 27 chapters by leading experts as well as 13 feature object studies to highlight specific items that have survived from this period (defined broadly as c.1500–c.1800). These contributions explore the things people acquired, owned, treasured, displayed and discarded, the spaces in which people used and thought about things, the social relationships which cluster around goods – between producers, vendors and consumers of various kinds – and the way knowledge travels around those circuits of connection. The content also engages with wider issues such as the relationship between public and private life, the changing connections between the sacred and the profane, or the effects of gender and social status upon lived experience. Constructed as an accessible, wide-ranging guide to research practice, the book describes and represents the methods which have been developed within various disciplines for analysing pre-modern material culture. It comprises four sections which open up the approaches of various disciplines to non-specialists: ‘Definitions, disciplines, new directions’, ‘Contexts and categories’, ‘Object studies’ and ‘Material culture in action’. This volume addresses the need for sustained, coherent comment on the state, breadth and potential of this lively new field, including the work of historians, art historians, museum curators, archaeologists, social scientists and literary scholars. It consolidates and communicates recent developments and considers how we might take forward a multi-disciplinary research agenda for the study of material culture in periods before the mass production of goods.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004366299

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The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World by Anonim Pdf

The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author : Katarzyna Kosior
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030118488

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Becoming a Queen in Early Modern Europe by Katarzyna Kosior Pdf

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenship—an absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of European royal culture that can only be lopsided and incomplete. Katarzyna Kosior cuts through persistent stereotypes of an East-West dichotomy and a culturally isolated early modern Poland to offer a groundbreaking comparative study of royal ceremony in Poland and France. The ceremonies of becoming a Jagiellonian or Valois queen, analysed in their larger European context, illuminate the connections that bound together monarchical Europe. These ceremonies are a gateway to a fuller understanding of European royal culture, demonstrating that it is impossible to make claims about European queenship without considering eastern Europe.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08T17:39:00+01:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788833139371

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Central Europe as a Meeting Point of Visual Cultures by AA. VV. Pdf

The end of World War I in 1918 meant a radical transformation of Central Europe: the multicultural space of former empires became divided into individual nation-states. This altered all spheres of life, deeply impacting the discipline of art history as well. The cosmopolitan vision of art history developed by figures from the Vienna School such as Franz Wickhoff and Alois Riegl was gradually replaced by new self-referential narratives. This nationalist tendency was reinforced by the division of Europe after World War II. In the wake of Jiří Kroupa’s pioneering studies, this volume takes a truly transcultural approach to art produced in the Central European region from the 12th to the 20th century. Freed from national prejudices, a region shaped by the constant movement of people, ideas, and objects emerges.

Author : Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580443241

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Saints and Sainthood around the Baltic Sea by Carsten Selch Jensen,Kurt Villads Jensen,Tuomas M S Lehtonen,Nils Holger Petersen,Tracey Sands Pdf

This volume addresses the history of saints and sainthood in the Middle Ages in the Baltic Region, with a special focus on the cult of saints in Russia, Prussia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Latvia (Livonia). Essays explore such topics as the introduction of foreign (and "old") saints into new regions, the creation of new local cults of saints in newly Christianized regions, the role of the cult of saints in the creation of political and lay identities, and the potential role of saints in times of war.

Author : Justin Colson,Arie van Steensel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351983624

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Cities and Solidarities by Justin Colson,Arie van Steensel Pdf

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and informal institutions, and the strategies of individual town dwellers that explain the similarities and differences in the organisation and functioning of urban communities in pre-modern Europe. It considers how communities within cities and towns are constructed and reconstructed, how interactions amongst members of differing groups created social and economic institutions, and how urban communities reflected a sense of social cohesion. In answering these questions, the contributions combine theoretical frameworks with new digital methodologies in order to provoke further discussion into the fundamental nature of urban society in this key period of change. The essays in this collection demonstrate the complexities of urban societies in pre-modern Europe, and will make fascinating reading for students and scholars of medieval and early modern urban history.

Author : Martin Heale
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781903153581

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The Prelate in England and Europe, 1300-1560 by Martin Heale Pdf

An investigation into the role of the high-ranking churchman in this period - who they were, what they did, and how they perceived themselves.

Author : Angela Jianu,Gheorghe Lazăr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000901801

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Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe by Angela Jianu,Gheorghe Lazăr Pdf

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European regions. For East-Central Europe there are many short studies in various regional languages, mainly on anthropological/ethnographic aspects of the funeral rituals. This is an edited collection of studies by international scholars on the interlocking themes of attitudes and discourses on death, commemorative practices, and inheritance/testamentary strategies in the Balkans and East-Central Europe. These and other related themes are addressed comparatively and cover areas including Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, and areas of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria from the perspective of imperial – Ottoman and Habsburg – legacies. Pro refrigerio animae: Death and Memory in East-Central Europe contributes to this subject by: linking anthropological/religious/cultural approaches to death to the legal/economic aspects of inheritance/commemoration; adding a still absent East-Central European and Habsburg, Balkan, and Ottoman dimension to the study of death, memorialization, and testaments; and presenting an abundant primary and secondary material in English translation and thus placing research on death and testaments by East-Central and Greek scholars within the international scholarly circuit.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004339521

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Space, Place, and Motion: Locating Confraternities in the Late Medieval and Early Modern City by Anonim Pdf

Space, Place, and Motion offers the first sustained comparative examination of the relationship between confraternal life and the spaces of the late medieval and early modern city.

Author : Eivor Andersen Oftestad,Joar Haga
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110636543

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Tracing the Jerusalem Code by Eivor Andersen Oftestad,Joar Haga Pdf

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Jerusalem is conceived as a code, in this volume focussing on Jerusalem's impact on Protestantism and Christianity in Early Modern Scandinavia. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536) Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750) Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

Author : Joanne W. Anderson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501334696

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Moving with the Magdalen by Joanne W. Anderson Pdf

Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.

Author : James B. Tschen-Emmons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216056805

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Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe by James B. Tschen-Emmons Pdf

Through the use of images, diagrams, and detailed descriptions, this book enables readers to appreciate how the construction, design, and function of famous structures inform our understanding of societies of the past. Buildings and Landmarks of Medieval Europe: The Middle Ages Revealed makes use of significant buildings as "representative structures" to provide insight into specific cultures, historical periods, or topics of the Middle Ages. The explanations of these buildings' construction, original intended use and change over time, and design elements allow readers to better comprehend what life in European societies of the past was like, covering social, political, economic, and intellectual perspectives. Readers will be able to apply what they learn from the discussions of the structures to improve their understanding of the historical period as well as their skills of observation and assessment needed to analyze these landmark structures and draw meaningful conclusions about their context and significance. The book's supporting features—a chronology, biographical appendix, glossary, and subject index—help researchers in successfully completing their papers or projects.

Author : Wim Blockmans,Mikhail Krom,Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315278568

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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 by Wim Blockmans,Mikhail Krom,Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas. Maritime trade routes connected diverse geographical and cultural spheres, contributing to a more integrated Europe in both cultural and material terms. This volume explores networks’ economic functions alongside their intercultural exchanges, contacts and practical arrangements in ports on the European coasts. The collection takes as its central question how shippers and merchants were able to connect regional and interregional trade circuits around and beyond Europe in the late medieval period. It is divided into four parts, with chapters in Part I looking across broad themes such as ships and sailing routes, maritime law, financial linkages and linguistic exchanges. In the following parts - divided into the Mediterranean, the Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic and North Seas - contributors present case studies addressing themes including conflict resolution, relations between different types of main ports and their hinterland, the local institutional arrangements supporting maritime trade, and the advantages and challenges of locations around the continent. The volume concludes with a summary that points to the extraterritorial character of trading systems during this fascinating period of expansion. Drawing together an international team of contributors, The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe is a vital contribution to the study of maritime history and the history of trade. It is essential reading for students and scholars in these fields.

Author : Ethan Matt Kavaler
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271098067

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Actors Carved and Cast by Ethan Matt Kavaler Pdf