The Notion Of Liminality And The Medieval Sacred Space

Author : Katarína Dolezalová,Ivan Foletti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Architecture, Early Christian
ISBN : 8021094532

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The Notion of Liminality and the Medieval Sacred Space by Katarína Dolezalová,Ivan Foletti Pdf

The thematic frame of this issue is the anthropological notion of liminality, applied both to physical as well as imaginary places of transition in medieval art. The volume is thus dedicated to the phenomenon of the limen, the threshold in medieval culture, understood mainly as a spatial, ritual and temporal category. The structure of the book follows the virtual path of any medieval visitor entering the sacred space. While doing so, the visitor encountered and eventually crossed several "liminal zones" that have been constructed around a series of physical and mental thresholds. In order to truly access the sacred - once again both physically and metaphorically - many transitional (micro)rituals were required and were therefore given particular attention within this volume. The volume was published as proceedings of the Liminality and Medieval Art II conference, which was held in October 2018 at the Masaryk University in Brno. Authors were supposed to conceive their contributions in pairs in order to reflect on the selected topics with an interdisciplinary approach. In the end, the very same pattern was also maintained for the final publication.

Author : Tadhg O’Keeffe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-28
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781003850670

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Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque by Tadhg O’Keeffe Pdf

This book presents a fresh perspective on eleventh- and twelfth-century Irish architecture, and a critical assessment of the value of describing it, and indeed contemporary European architecture in general, as “Romanesque”. Medieval Irish Architecture and the Concept of Romanesque is a new and original study of medieval architectural culture in Ireland. The book’s central premise is that the concept of a “Romanesque” style in eleventh- and twelfth-century architecture across Western Europe, including Ireland, is problematic, and that the analysis of building traditions of that period is not well served by the assumption that there was a common style. Detailed discussion of important buildings in Ireland, a place marginalised within the “Romanesque” model, reveals the Irish evidence to be intrinsically interesting to students of medieval European architecture, for it is evidence which illuminates how architectural traditions of the Middle Ages were shaped by balancing native and imported needs and aesthetics, often without reference to Romanitas. This book is for specialists and students in the fields of Romanesque, medieval archaeology, medieval architectural history, and medieval Irish studies.

Author : Jelena Bogdanovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351359603

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Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium by Jelena Bogdanovic Pdf

Perceptions of the Body and Sacred Space in Late Antiquity and Byzantium seeks to reveal Christian understanding of the body and sacred space in the medieval Mediterranean. Case studies examine encounters with the holy through the perspective of the human body and sensory dimensions of sacred space, and discuss the dynamics of perception when experiencing what was constructed, represented, and understood as sacred. The comparative analysis investigates viewers’ recognitions of the sacred in specific locations or segments of space with an emphasis on the experiential and conceptual relationships between sacred spaces and human bodies. This volume thus reassesses the empowering aspects of space, time, and human agency in religious contexts. By focusing on investigations of human endeavors towards experiential and visual expressions that shape perceptions of holiness, this study ultimately aims to present a better understanding of the corporeality of sacred art and architecture. The research points to how early Christians and Byzantines teleologically viewed the divine source of the sacred in terms of its ability to bring together – but never fully dissolve – the distinctions between the human and divine realms. The revealed mechanisms of iconic perception and noetic contemplation have the potential to shape knowledge of the meanings of the sacred as well as to improve our understanding of the liminality of the profane and the sacred.

Author : AA. VV.
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : Gillian B. Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000603323

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Sculpted Thresholds and the Liturgy of Transformation in Medieval Lombardy by Gillian B. Elliott Pdf

This book explores the issue of ecclesiastical authority in Romanesque sculpture on the portals and other sculpted “gateways” of churches in the north Italian region of Lombardy. Gillian B. Elliott examines the liturgical connection between the ciborium over the altar (the most sacred threshold inside the church), and the sculpted portals that appeared on church exteriors in medieval Lombardy. In cities such as Milan, Civate, Como, and Pavia, the liturgy of Saint Ambrose was practiced as an alternative to the Roman liturgy and the churches were constructed to respond to the needs of Ambrosian liturgy. Not only do the Romanesque churches in these places correspond stylistically and iconographically, but they were also linked politically in an era of intense struggle for ultimate regional authority. The book considers liturgical and artistic links between interior church furnishings and exterior church sculptural programs, and also applies new spatial methodologies to the interior and exterior of churches in Lombardy. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, architectural history, and religious studies.

Author : Elaine Treharne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192843814

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Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts by Elaine Treharne Pdf

Perceptions of Medieval Manuscripts takes as its starting point an understanding that a medieval book is a whole object at every point of its long history. As such, medieval books can be studied most profitably in a holistic manner as objects-in-the-world. This means readers might profitably account for all aspects of the manuscript in their observations, from the main texts that dominate the codex to the marginal notes, glosses, names, and interventions made through time. This holistic approach allows us to tell the story of the book's life from the moment of its production to its use, collection, breaking-up, and digitization--all aspects of what can be termed 'dynamic architextuality'. The ten chapters include detailed readings of texts that explain the processes of manuscript manufacture and writing, taking in invisible components of the book that show the joy and delight clearly felt by producers and consumers. Chapters investigate the filling of manuscripts' blank spaces, presenting some texts never examined before, and assessing how books were conceived and understood to function. Manuscripts' heft and solidness can be seen, too, in the depictions of miniature books in medieval illustrations. Early manuscripts thus become archives and witnesses to individual and collective memories, best read as 'relics of existence', as Maurice Merleau-Ponty describes things. As such, it is urgent that practices fragmenting the manuscript through book-breaking or digital display are understood in the context of the book's wholeness. Readers of this study will find chapters on multiple aspects of medieval bookness in the distant past, the present, and in the assurance of the future continuity of this most fascinating of cultural artefacts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004697188

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Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality by Anonim Pdf

There is scant research on the art produced under the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, with the exception of a couple of general books focused primarily on major Oratorian art pieces. Therefore, this book of essays aims to discuss the art and culture produced by or associated with the Oratorians by providing a broad overview focused especially on rarely investigated issues. The authors focus on this very important artistic production, commonly forgotten when compared with other religious productions of art, by covering geographical areas spanning from Sri Lanka to Mexico, including Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, India and Brazil.

Author : Amanda Clare Murphy,Herbert L. Kessler,Marco Petoletti,Eamon Duffy,Guido Milanese
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Veil of Veronica in art
ISBN : 802108779X

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The European Fortune of the Roman Veronica in the Middle Ages by Amanda Clare Murphy,Herbert L. Kessler,Marco Petoletti,Eamon Duffy,Guido Milanese Pdf

Author : John Osborne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009415408

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Rome in the Ninth Century by John Osborne Pdf

Integrates the evidence for ninth-century Rome derived from standing remains and their decorations, objects in museum and library collections, contemporaneous documents, and recent archaeology in order to create an interdisciplinary space defined as 'history in art'. A sequel to the author's Rome in the Eighth Century (Cambridge, 2020).

Author : S. Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137295057

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The Carolingian Debate over Sacred Space by S. Collins Pdf

Retracing the contours of a bitter controversy over the meaning of sacred architecture that flared up among some of the leading lights of the Carolingian renaissance, Collins explores how ninth-century authors articulated the relationship of form to function and ideal to reality in the ecclesiastical architecture of the Carolingian empire.

Author : Dawn Marie Hayes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135860042

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Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389 by Dawn Marie Hayes Pdf

Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe investigates the medieval understanding of sacred place, arguing for the centrality of bodies and bodily metaphors to the establishment, function, use, and power of medieval churches. Questioning the traditional division of sacred and profane jurisdictions, this book identifies the need to consider non-devotional uses of churches in the Middle Ages. Dawn Marie Hayes examines idealized visions of medieval sacred places in contrast with the mundane and profane uses of these buildings. She argues that by the later Middle Ages-as loyalties were torn by emerging political, economic, and social groups-the Church suffered a loss of security that was reflected in the uses of sacred spaces, which became more restricted as identities shifted and Europeans ordered the ambiguity of the medieval world.

Author : Victor Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351474900

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The Ritual Process by Victor Turner Pdf

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Author : Sarah Hamilton,Andrew Spicer
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0754651940

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Defining the Holy by Sarah Hamilton,Andrew Spicer Pdf

Holy sites - churches, monasteries, shrines - defined religious experience and were fundamental to the geography and social history of medieval and early modern Europe. How were these sacred spaces defined? How were they created, used, recognized and tran

Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134217380

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Disability in Medieval Europe by Irina Metzler Pdf

This impressive volume presents a thorough examination of all aspects of physical impairment and disability in medieval Europe. Examining a popular era that is of great interest to many historians and researchers, Irene Metzler presents a theoretical framework of disability and explores key areas such as: medieval theoretical concepts theology and natural philosophy notions of the physical body medical theory and practice. Bringing into play the modern day implications of medieval thought on the issue, this is a fascinating and informative addition to the research studies of medieval history, history of medicine and disability studies scholars the English-speaking world over.

Author : Tobias Frese,Wilfried E. Keil,Kristina Krüger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110629156

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Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space by Tobias Frese,Wilfried E. Keil,Kristina Krüger Pdf

Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades.