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The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages

Author : HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351539655
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages written by HarrietM.Sonnede Torrens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts and the co-directors of the Baptisteria Sacra Index, the world?s only iconographical inventory of baptismal fonts, a research project at the University of Toronto, this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. The ?visual? is privileged, whether it is in the metaphysical, literary or empirical realms of scholarship, offering a rich understanding of the powerful role of baptism played in medieval and renaissance society. In the quest for a holistic understanding of the vessels, the settings and contexts, the rituals and the spiritual significance of the font, itself, the contributors have turned to a range of sources, folkloric tales, baptismal records, liturgical sermons, civic records, literary accounts, hagiographies and historical documents about local families, communities and ecclesiastical developments. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This collection of essays shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship.

The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages

Author : Harriet M. Sonnede Torrens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315084954
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (849 download)

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Book Synopsis The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages by : Harriet M. Sonnede Torrens

Download or read book The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages written by Harriet M. Sonnede Torrens and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts and the co-directors of the Baptisteria Sacra Index, the world's only iconographical inventory of baptismal fonts, a research project at the University of Toronto, this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. The 'visual' is privileged, whether it is in the metaphysical, literary or empirical realms of scholarship, offering a rich understanding of the powerful role of baptism played in medieval and renaissance society. In the quest for a holistic understanding of the vessels, the settings and contexts, the rituals and the spiritual significance of the font, itself, the contributors have turned to a range of sources, folkloric tales, baptismal records, liturgical sermons, civic records, literary accounts, hagiographies and historical documents about local families, communities and ecclesiastical developments. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This collection of essays shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship."--Provided by publisher.

Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C.200-c.1150

Author : Peter Cramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526425
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C.200-c.1150 by : Peter Cramer

Download or read book Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C.200-c.1150 written by Peter Cramer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inquiry into the baptismal rite, and how far medieval lay people understood church liturgy.

Decorating the Lord's Table

Author : Søren Kaspersen
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN 13 : 9788763501330
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Decorating the Lord's Table by : Søren Kaspersen

Download or read book Decorating the Lord's Table written by Søren Kaspersen and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxbow says: The six essays featured in this study originated as papers given at the 36th International Congress of Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. The contributors survey the ornate altars produced from the early 8th to 13th century in Europe, with specific examples taken from Italy, Germany and Scandinavia.

Protestants and Pictures

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195351487
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Book Synopsis Protestants and Pictures by : David Morgan

Download or read book Protestants and Pictures written by David Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-26 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lavishly illustrated book, David Morgan surveys the visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--a vast record of images in illustrated bibles, Christian almanacs, children's literature, popular religious books, charts, broadsides, Sunday school cards, illuminated devotional items, tracts, chromos, and engravings. His purpose is to explain the rise of these images, their appearance and subject matter, how they were understood by believers, the uses to which they were put, and what their relation was to technological innovations, commerce, and the cultural politics of Protestantism. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.

Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism

Author : Bryan D. Spinks
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754614289
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism by : Bryan D. Spinks

Download or read book Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism written by Bryan D. Spinks and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first of two volumes, Bryan Spinks summarizes the understandings of baptism in the New Testament and the development of baptismal reflection and liturgical rites throughout Syrian, Egyptian, Roman and African regions. He focuses particularly on the Homilies of Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, Theodore and Ambrose, the post-nicene rites and commentaries, and the impact of medieval theologies of baptism and Augustinian theology with reference to Western understanding.

Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts

Author : Frances Altvater
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443878596
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts by : Frances Altvater

Download or read book Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts written by Frances Altvater and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baptismal fonts were necessary to the liturgical life of the medieval Christian. Baptism marked the entrance of the faithful into the right relation, with the Catholic Church representing the main cultural institution of medieval society. In the period between ca. 1050 and ca. 1220, the decoration of the font often had an important function: to underscore the theology of baptism in the context of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. This period witnessed a surge of concern about sacraments. Just as religious thinkers attempted to delineate the sacraments and define their function in sermons and Sentence collections, sculptural programs visualized the teaching of orthodox ideas for the lay audience. This book looks at three areas of primary concern around baptism as a sacrament – incarnation, initiation, and the practice of baptism within the institution of the Church – and the images that embody that religious discussion. Baptismal fonts have been recognized as part of the stylistic production of the Romanesque period, and their iconography has been generally explored as moral and didactic. Here, the message of these fonts is set within a very specific history of medieval Catholic sacramental theology, connecting erudite thinkers and lay users through their decoration and use.

The Christ Child in Medieval Culture

Author : Theresa M. Kenney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098940
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis The Christ Child in Medieval Culture by : Theresa M. Kenney

Download or read book The Christ Child in Medieval Culture written by Theresa M. Kenney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.

Baptism in the Medieval West

Author : John Douglas Close Fisher
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
ISBN 13 : 9781595250018
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Baptism in the Medieval West by : John Douglas Close Fisher

Download or read book Baptism in the Medieval West written by John Douglas Close Fisher and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reissue of J. D. C. Fisher's classic work introduces the reader to primary sources that led the author to the theory of disintegration of the primitive rite of initiation. His material is covered geographically according to liturgical areas: Rome from John the Deacon and the Gelasian Sacramentary to the twelfth century; Milan and Northern Italy from Ambrose to the Ordo of Beroldus; Gaul and Germany from the seventh to the twelfth century; Spain from Isidore of Seville to the Mozarabic Liber Ordinum. Book jacket.

Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy

Author : Anne Derbes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503579689
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)

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Book Synopsis Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy by : Anne Derbes

Download or read book Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy written by Anne Derbes and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual, Gender, and Narrative in Late Medieval Italy is the first English-language study of the baptistery of Padua and its extraordinarily rich fresco program, which opens with Genesis and closes with the Apocalypse. Remarkably, when the building was refashioned and frescoed by Giusto de' Menabuoi in the 1370s, it was a woman, Fina Buzzacarini, who funded the enterprise. In late medieval Italy, baptisteries were potent symbols of civic identity, solidarity, and pride, and towns spent lavishly on them - but no other baptistery was so radically reworked at the behest of a woman. Remarkably, too, though the building continued to function as Padua's baptismal church, the renovations transformed it into the mausoleum of Fina Buzzacarini and her family. This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, using close visual analysis to argue that to a surprising degree, Fina exerted control over the images. The author argues too that ritual is equally important in understanding the frescoes: that in multiple ways that have rarely been considered, the images respond to and participate in the ritual enacted in this sacred space. The prayers intoned at the font, the actions of the officiant, the hymns chanted in procession and inside the baptistery, and even details of the rite all find visual echoes on the baptistery's walls. Ultimately, gender and ritual intersect in the multilayered frescoes of the Padua baptistery.

Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C. 200-c. 1150

Author : Peter John Cramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages, C. 200-c. 1150 written by Peter John Cramer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater

Author : Laura Weigert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040477
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater by : Laura Weigert

Download or read book French Visual Culture and the Making of Medieval Theater written by Laura Weigert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revives the variety of performances that took place in the realms of the French kings and Burgundian dukes.

Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe

Author : Joseph H. Lynch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691656738
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe by : Joseph H. Lynch

Download or read book Godparents and Kinship in Early Medieval Europe written by Joseph H. Lynch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between A.D. 200 and 1000, sponsorship at baptism evolved from a simple liturgical act into a mechanism for the creation of enduring relationships regarded as especially holy forms of kinship. Combining anthropological, historical, theological, and literary approaches, Joseph Lynch presents a comprehensive analysis of the origins and development in Western society of this "spiritual" kinship. Because of its solemnity and adaptability, such kinship gradually took its place alongside blood and marital ties as a fundamental part of medieval society, continuing to expand in high and late medieval Europe and to flourish even in modern times, particularly in Latin America. Professor Lynch traces the liturgical practices and theological beliefs undergirding sponsorship and examines its social purposes, including sacralization of personal firendships, creation of client/patron reltionships, extension of marital taboos, provision of protectors for the young, fostering of trust among adults, and dissemination of religious instruction. In the process he offers a rich array of insights into the Church's role in the passage of Western society from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Joseph H. Lynch is Professor of History and former Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State University. He is author of Simoniacal Entry into Religious Life form 1000 to 1260: A Social, Economic and Legal Study (Ohio State). Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Globalised Visual Culture?

Author : Fabio Guidetti
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789254493
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book A Globalised Visual Culture? written by Fabio Guidetti and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antique artefacts, and the images they carry, attest to a highly connected visual culture from ca. 300 to 800 C.E. On the one hand, the same decorative motifs and iconographies are found across various genres of visual and material culture, irrespective of social and economic differences among their users – for instance in mosaics, architectural decoration, and luxury arts (silver plate, textiles, ivories), as well as in everyday objects such as tableware, lamps, and pilgrim vessels. On the other hand, they are also spread in geographically distant regions, mingled with local elements, far beyond the traditional borders of the classical world. At the same time, foreign motifs, especially of Germanic and Sasanian origin, are attested in Roman territories. This volume aims at investigating the reasons behind this seemingly globalised visual culture spread across the Late Antique world, both within the borders of the (former) Roman and (later) Byzantine Empire and beyond, bringing together diverse approaches characteristic of different national and disciplinary traditions. The presentation of a wide range of relevant case studies chosen from different geographical and cultural contexts exemplifies the vast scale of the phenomenon and demonstrates the benefit of addressing such a complex historical question with a combination of different theoretical approaches.

The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans

Author : JohnR. Decker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351540076
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans written by JohnR. Decker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating the complex interactions between devotional imagery and Church doctrine in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century, this book demonstrates how the pictorial arts intersected with popular religious practice. The author reconstructs the conceptual frameworks underlying the use and production of religious art in this period and provides a more nuanced understanding of the use of images in the process of soul formation. This study delves into the complexity of the early modern system of personal justification and argues that religious images and objects were part of a larger 'Technology of Salvation.' In order to make these connections clearer, the author analyzes selected works by Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Little Gerard at St. John's) and shows how they functioned within their larger social and historical milieu.

Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World

Author : Sally J. Cornelison
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9782503555546
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World by : Sally J. Cornelison

Download or read book Mendicant Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern World written by Sally J. Cornelison and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eleven interdisciplinary essays that comprise this book complement and expand upon a significant body of literature on the history of the Franciscan and Dominican orders during the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. They elucidate and examine the ways in which mendicant friars established, sustained, and transformed their institutional identities and shaped the devotional experiences of the faithful to whom they ministered via verbal and visual culture. Taking primary texts and images as their point of departure, these essays break new scholarly ground by revising previous assumptions regarding mendicant life and actions and analysing sites, works of art, and texts that either have been neglected in the existing literature or that have not been examined through the lens of current methodologies such as sermon studies, ritual, gender, and cross-cultural interactions. Indeed, the varied methods and subjects of these essays demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the mendicant orders and the ways and spaces in which they operated and presented themselves on the local, regional, and global stages.

Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy

Author : Anne Dunlop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351957163
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy written by Anne Dunlop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the mendicant orders in the later Middle Ages coincided with rapid and dramatic shifts in the visual arts. The mendicants were prolific patrons, relying on artworks to instruct and impress their diverse lay congregations. Churches and chapels were built, and new images and iconographies developed to propagate mendicant cults. But how should the two phenomena be related? How much were these orders actively responsible for artistic change, and how much did they simply benefit from it? To explore these questions, Art and the Augustinian Order in Early Renaissance Italy looks at art in the formative period of the Augustinian Hermits, an order with a particularly difficult relation to art. As a first detailed study of visual culture in the Augustinian order, this book will be a basic resource, making available previously inaccessible material, discussing both well-known and more neglected artworks, and engaging with fundamental methodological questions for pre-modern art and church history, from the creation of religious iconographies to the role of gender in art.