Pilgrimage To Images In The Fifteenth Century

Author : Robert Maniura
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : 1843830558

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Pilgrimage to Images in the Fifteenth Century by Robert Maniura Pdf

A case study of the meaning and purpose of pilgrimage, based on the image of the 'scarred Virgin', Our Lady of Czestochowa. The tradition of pilgrimage to an image is so well-established as to be taken for granted. Throughout Christian history large numbers of people have made journeys to images associated with miracles, yet the phenomenon has never been a subject of detailed scholarly scrutiny. This book explores the issue through a case study of the origins of pilgrimage to one such image, Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland. The shrine remains one of the most prominent pilgrimage destinations in the Catholic world: the striking focal panel painting shows the Virgin Mary with an apparently scarred face, and the legend of the picture's origin claims that it was painted by St Luke and desecrated by iconoclasts. The author assesses the significance of the stories attached to the shrine, and goes beyond them to consider the practices and responses of the pilgrims. Drawing on the earliest surviving miracle collections, he also explores the interaction between the pilgrims and the image of the 'scarred' Virgin. ROBERT MANIURA is Lecturer in the History of Renaissance Art, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Author : Shannon Gayk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139492058

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Image, Text, and Religious Reform in Fifteenth-Century England by Shannon Gayk Pdf

Focusing on the period between the Wycliffite critique of images and Reformation iconoclasm, Shannon Gayk investigates the sometimes complementary and sometimes fraught relationship between vernacular devotional writing and the religious image. She examines how a set of fifteenth-century writers, including Lollard authors, John Lydgate, Thomas Hoccleve, John Capgrave, and Reginald Pecock, translated complex clerical debates about the pedagogical and spiritual efficacy of images and texts into vernacular settings and literary forms. These authors found vernacular discourse to be a powerful medium for explaining and reforming contemporary understandings of visual experience. In its survey of the function of literary images and imagination, the epistemology of vision, the semiotics of idols, and the authority of written texts, this study reveals a fifteenth century that was as much an age of religious and literary exploration, experimentation, and reform as it was an age of regulation.

Author : Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498554350

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Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art by Elena V. Shabliy Pdf

This interdisciplinary study explores Marian imagery and representations in world literature and art throughout the centuries, demonstrating the widespread deep veneration of the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary in various countries and different Christian traditions.

Author : Robert Bartlett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691169682

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Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? by Robert Bartlett Pdf

A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the Reformation From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most important aspects of the saints—including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the calendar, literature, and art. The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special treatment these relics received. From the routes, dangers, and rewards of pilgrimage, to the saints' impact on everyday life, Bartlett's account is an unmatched examination of an important and intriguing part of the religious life of the past—as well as the present.

Author : Deborah Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351576048

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"Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000?500 " by Deborah Howard Pdf

Although there is an obvious association between pilgrimage and place, relatively little research has centred directly on the role of architecture. Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesizes the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes, ritual topographies and human interaction with the natural environment, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences. The chosen period reflects the flowering of medieval and early modern pilgrimage. The perspective is that of the pilgrim journeying within - or embarking from - Southern Europe, with a particular emphasis on Italy. The book pursues the connections between pilgrimage and architecture through the investigation of such issues as theology, liturgy, patronage, miracles and healing, relics, and individual and communal memory. Moreover, it explores how pilgrimage may be regarded on various levels, from a physical journey towards a holy site to a more symbolic and internalized idea of pilgrimage of the soul.

Author : Margaret Connolly,Linne R. Mooney
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781903153246

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Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England by Margaret Connolly,Linne R. Mooney Pdf

"One of the most important developments in medieval English literary studies since the 1980s has been the growth of manuscript studies. The thirteen essays in this volume discuss aspects of the design and distribution of manuscripts in late medieval England, focusing particularly on vernacular manuscripts of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries." "This binary focus on secular and devotional texts illuminates shared networks of production and dissemination, and considerably expands current knowledge of regional and metropolitan book production in the period before printing."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Lisa Pon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107098510

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Printed Icon by Lisa Pon Pdf

Lisa Pon examines the cultural biography of the city of Forlì's miraculous woodcut, the Madonna of the Fire.

Author : Christopher Kleinhenz,Kristina Olson
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294287

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Approaches to Teaching Dante's Divine Comedy by Christopher Kleinhenz,Kristina Olson Pdf

Dante's Divine Comedy can compel and shock readers: it combines intense emotion and psychological insight with medieval theology and philosophy. This volume will help instructors lead their students through the many dimensions--historical, literary, religious, and ethical--that make the work so rewarding and enduringly relevant yet so difficult. Part 1, "Materials," gives instructors an overview of the important scholarship on the Divine Comedy. The essays of part 2, "Approaches," describe ways to teach the work in the light of its contemporary culture and ours. Various teaching situations (a first-year seminar, a creative writing class, high school, a prison) are considered, and the many available translations are discussed.

Author : Peter W. Parshall,Rainer Schoch,David S. Areford,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Richard S. Field,Peter Schmidt,Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300113396

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Origins of European Printmaking by Peter W. Parshall,Rainer Schoch,David S. Areford,National Gallery of Art (U.S.),Richard S. Field,Peter Schmidt,Germanisches Nationalmuseum Pdf

The first comprehensive history of late medieval printmaking, which transformed image production and led to profound changes in Western culture

Author : Jonathan Sumption
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122320661

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Pilgrimage by Jonathan Sumption Pdf

Author : Mary Lee Nolan,Sidney Nolan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469647807

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Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe by Mary Lee Nolan,Sidney Nolan Pdf

Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe is a commanding exploration of the importance of religious shrines in modern Roman Catholicism. By analyzing more than 6,000 active shrines and contemporary patterns of pilgrimage to them, the authors establish the cultural significance of a religious tradition that today touches the lives of millions of people. Roman Catholic pilgrimage sites in Western Europe range from obscure chapels and holy wells that draw visitors only from their immediate vicinity to the world-famous, often-thronged shrines at Rome, Lourdes, and Fatima. These shrines generate at least 70 million religiously motivated visits each year, with total annual visitation exceeding 100 million. Substantial numbers of pilgrims at major shrines come from the Americas and other areas outside Western Europe. Mary Lee Nolan and Sidney Nolan describe and interpret the dimensions of Western European pilgrimage in time and space, a cultural-geographic approach that reveals regional variations in types of shrines and pilgrimages in the sixteen countries of Western Europe. They examine numerous legends and historical accounts associated with cult images and shrines, showing how these reflect ideas about humanity, divinity, and environment. The Nolans demonstrate that the dynamic fluctuations in Christian pilgrimage activities over the past 2,000 years reflect socioeconomic changes and technological transformations as well as shifting intellectual orientations. Increases and decreases in the number of shrines established coincide with major turning points in European history, for pilgrimage, no less than wars, revolutions, and the advent of urban-industrial society, is an integral part of that history. Pilgrimage traditions have been influenced by -- and have influenced -- science, literature, philosophy, and the arts. Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe is based on ten years of research. The Nolans collected information on 6,150 shrines from published material, correspondence with bishops and shrine administrators, and interviews. They visited 852 Western European shrines in person. Their book will be of interest to many general readers and of special value to historians, cultural geographers, students of comparative religion, anthropologists, social psychologists, and shrine administrators.

Author : Edelgard E. DuBruck,Yael Even
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571130815

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Violence in Fifteenth-century Text and Image by Edelgard E. DuBruck,Yael Even Pdf

Special issue focusing on violence in fifteenth-century life, text, and image: warfare and justice, violence in family and milieu (court, town, village, and forest), hagiography, ethnicity and xenophobia, gender relations and sexual violence, brutality on the stage, and the relation of text and image in the depiction of violence.

Author : Dominic Janes,Gary Waller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351874038

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Walsingham in Literature and Culture from the Middle Ages to Modernity by Dominic Janes,Gary Waller Pdf

Walsingham was medieval England's most important shrine to the Virgin Mary and a popular pilgrimage site. Following its modern revival it is also well known today. For nearly a thousand years, it has been the subject of, or referred to in, music, poetry and novels (by for instance Langland, Erasmus, Sidney, Shakespeare, Hopkins, Eliot and Lowell). But only in the last twenty years or so has it received serious scholarly attention. This volume represents the first collection of multi-disciplinary essays on Walsingham's broader cultural significance. Contributors to this book focus on the hitherto neglected issue of Walsingham's cultural impact: the literary, historical, art historical and sociological significance that Walsingham has had for over six hundred years. The collection's essays consider connections between landscape and the sacred, the body and sexuality and Walsingham's place in literature, music and, more broadly, especially since the Reformation, in the construction of cultural memory. The historical range of the essays includes Walsingham's rise to prominence in the later Middle Ages, its destruction during the English Reformation, and the presence of uncanny echoes and traces in early modern English culture, including poems, ballads, music and some of the plays of Shakespeare. Contributions also examine the cultural dynamics of the remarkable revival of Walsingham as a place of pilgrimage and as a cultural icon in the Victorian and modern periods. Hitherto, scholarship on Walsingham has been almost entirely confined to the history of religion. In contrast, contributors to this volume include internationally known scholars from literature, cultural studies, history, sociology, anthropology and musicology as well as theology.

Author : Craig Harbison
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861899934

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Jan van Eyck by Craig Harbison Pdf

The surviving work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1395–1441) consists of a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations of the meanings behind these paintings have been grounded in a disguised religious symbolism that critics have insisted is foremost. But in Jan van Eyck, Craig Harbison sets aside these explanations and turns instead to the neglected human dimension he finds clearly present in these works. Harbison investigates the personal histories of the true models and participants who sat for such masterpieces as the Virgin and Child and the Arnolfini Double Portrait. This revised and expanded edition includes many illustrations and reveals how van Eyck presented his contemporaries with a more subtle and complex view of the value of appearances as a route to understanding the meaning of life.

Author : Emily Suzanne Clark,Rachel Mc Bride Lindsey
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110608755

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Digital Humanities and Material Religion by Emily Suzanne Clark,Rachel Mc Bride Lindsey Pdf

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital? Its chapters address a range of processes of mediation between the digital and the material from a variety of perspectives and sub-disciplines within the field of religion in order to theorize the implications of these two turns in scholarship, offer case studies in methodology, and reflect on various tools and processes. Authors attend to religious practices and the internet, digital archives of religion, decolonization, embodiment, digitization of religious artefacts and objects, and the ways in which varied relationships between the digital and the material shape religious life. Collectively, the volume demonstrates opportunities and challenges at the intersection of digital humanities and material religion. Rather than defining the bounds of a new field of inquiry, the essays make a compelling case, collectively and on their own, for the interpretive scrutiny required of the humanities in the digital age.