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Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages

Author : K. Starkey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113705655X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages written by K. Starkey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts. The term 'visual culture' has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and other contemporary representational forms and functions. But this emphasis on visuality is not only a modern phenomenon. Discourses on visual processes pervade the works of medieval secular poets, theologians, and scholastics alike. The Middle Ages was a highly visual society in which images, objects, and performance played a dominant communicative and representational role in both secular and religious areas of society. The essays in this volume, which present various perspectives on medieval visual culture, provide a critical historical basis for the study of visuality and visual processes.

Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages

Author : K. Starkey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages written by K. Starkey and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 11. The Logos in the Press: Christ in the Wine-Press and the Discovery of Printing -- 12. From the Word of God to the Emblem -- List of Contributors -- Index

Defaced

Author : Valentin Groebner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Defaced written by Valentin Groebner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding late medieval pictorial representations of violence. Destroyed faces, dissolved human shapes, invisible enemies: violence and anonymity go hand in hand. The visual representation of extreme physical violence makes real people nameless exemplars of horror--formless, hideous, defaced. In Defaced, Valentin Groebner explores the roots of the visual culture of violence in medieval and Renaissance Europe and shows how contemporary visual culture has been shaped by late medieval images and narratives of violence. For late medieval audiences, as with modern media consumers, horror lies less in the "indescribable" and "alien" than in the familiar and commonplace. From the fourteenth century onward, pictorial representations became increasingly violent, whether in depictions of the Passion, or in vivid and precise images of torture, execution, and war. But not every spectator witnessed the same thing when confronted with terrifying images of a crucified man, misshapen faces, allegedly bloodthirsty conspirators on nocturnal streets, or barbarian fiends on distant battlefields. The profusion of violent imagery provoked a question: how to distinguish the illegitimate violence that threatened and reversed the social order from the proper, "just," and sanctioned use of force? Groebner constructs a persuasive answer to this question by investigating how uncannily familiar medieval dystopias were constructed and deconstructed. Showing how extreme violence threatens to disorient, and how the effect of horror resides in the depiction of minute details, Groebner offers an original model for understanding how descriptions of atrocities and of outrageous cruelty depended, in medieval times, on the variation of familiar narrative motifs.

Representations of German Identity

Author : Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Publisher : German Visual Culture
ISBN 13 : 9781788742559
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book Representations of German Identity written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and published by German Visual Culture. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the multi-faceted nature of German identity through the lens of myriad forms of visual representation from the Middle Ages to the present. A broad spectrum of visual culture is considered - from painting to sculpture, advertising to architecture, film to installation art - to offer new insights into the 'German Question'.

Weimar Surfaces

Author : Janet Ward
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924734
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Weimar Surfaces written by Janet Ward and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany of the 1920s offers a stunning moment in modernity, a time when surface values first became determinants of taste, activity, and occupation: modernity was still modern, spectacle was still spectacular. Janet Ward's luminous study revisits Weimar Germany via the lens of metropolitan visual culture, analyzing the power that 1920s Germany holds for today's visual codes of consumerism.

Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : Vanina Kopp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503588728
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Vanina Kopp and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, games were not an idle pastime, but were in fact important tools for exploring, transmitting, enhancing, subverting, and challenging social practices and their rules. Their study, through both visual and material sources, offers a unique insight into medieval and early modern gaming culture, shedding light not only on why, where, when, with whom and in what conditions and circumstances people played games, but also on the variety of interpretations that they had of games and play. Representations of games, and of artefacts associated with games, also often served to communicate complex ideas on topics that ranged from war to love, and from politics to theology.00This volume offers a particular focus onto the type of games that required little or no physical exertion and that, consequently, all people could enjoy, regardless of age, gender, status, occupation, or religion. The representations and artefacts discussed here by contributors, who come from varied disciplines including history, literary studies, art history, and archaeology, cover a wide geographical and chronological range, from Spain to Scandinavia to the Ottoman Turkey and from the early medieval period to the seventeenth century and beyond. Far from offering the ?last word? on the subject, it is hoped that this volume will encourage further studies.

Pilgrimage and Pogrom

Author : Mitchell B. Merback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226520196
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage and Pogrom written by Mitchell B. Merback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.

Medieval Literature on Display

Author : Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786736330
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Literature on Display written by Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism: the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001). Emerging around the turn of the 20th century, the museums explore medieval German literature, cultural memory and local history. As the museums reconstruct and transform medieval narratives for the contemporary audience, they enact the process of medievalism: they reveal how memory, through the lens of the middle ages, shapes modern cultural identity and heritage. Medieval Literature on Display thereby contributes to important conversations about medievalism's role in constructing and affirming cultural identity, in conceptualizing and finding places for the future of the past. This unique book is vital reading for scholars of medieval literature and historians of medieval Europe, as well as scholars of visual culture and museum studies.

Nuns as Artists

Author : Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520203860
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Nuns as Artists written by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997-05-30 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hamburger's singular discovery of a group of devotional drawings made by an anonymous nun . . . is here presented with magisterial learning, theoretical sophistication, and deep human sympathy."—V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles

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.

A Medievalist's Gaze

Author : Galit Noga-Banai
Publisher : German Visual Culture
ISBN 13 : 9781800791084
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Medievalist's Gaze written by Galit Noga-Banai and published by German Visual Culture. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Beginning with a memorial for German soldiers in El Alamein and continuing with memorials for victims of the Nazis in Germany, the book challenges the visual differences between modern and medieval art and transforms the interactions between the two into six productive conversations. The examples discussed move from Christian themes or visual practice directly connected to medieval art in the surrounding local urban landscape, to secular or abstract projects that seem disconnected from premodern forms and formats. The wide variety of techniques, materials, iconography, layouts, and styles demonstrates that medievalism is a method of observation, one that can underscore the links between several works of art, offer a broader context, add layers of meaning, and explore relationships with nearby visual and social environments, physical and mental landscapes, conflicts and memories. The medieval association may also contribute to a project's potential to arouse empathy and to stand the test of time and distance from the events it is meant to recall. The book's medieval prism will afford the reader greater insight into these works of art and a better understanding of their contribution to modern and contemporary memory culture in Germany.

Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Author : Ingrid Baumgärtner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110587416
Total Pages : 691 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Maps and Travel in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period written by Ingrid Baumgärtner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume discusses the world as it was known in the Medieval and Early Modern periods, focusing on projects concerned with mapping as a conceptual and artistic practice, with visual representations of space, and with destinations of real and fictive travel. Maps were often taken as straightforward, objective configurations. However, they expose deeply subjective frameworks with social, political, and economic significance. Travel narratives, whether illustrated or not, can address similar frameworks. Whereas travelled space is often adventurous, and speaking of hardship, strange encounters and danger, city portraits tell a tale of civilized life and civic pride. The book seeks to address the multiple ways in which maps and travel literature conceive of the world, communicate a 'Weltbild', depict space, and/or define knowledge. The volume challenges academic boundaries in the study of cartography by exploring the links between mapmaking and artistic practices. The contributions discuss individual mapmakers, authors of travelogues, mapmaking as an artistic practice, the relationship between travel literature and mapmaking, illustration in travel literature, and imagination in depictions of newly explored worlds.

Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250

Author : Kersti Markus
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426175
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, 1100-1250 written by Kersti Markus and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, Kersti Markus examines how visual rhetoric was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the region during the Baltic crusades.

William Faulkner and the Tangible Past

Author : Thomas S. Hines
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520328809
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book William Faulkner and the Tangible Past written by Thomas S. Hines and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836971
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture written by Elina Gertsman and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary approaches to the material culture of the middle ages, from illuminated manuscripts to church architecture.

Beyond the Yellow Badge

Author : Mitchell Merback
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004151656
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Yellow Badge written by Mitchell Merback and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together thirteen leading art historians, Beyond the Yellow Badge seeks to reframe the relationship between European visual culture and the many changing aspects of the Christian majority’s negative conceptions of Jews and Judaism during the Middle Ages and early modern periods.

Handbook of Medieval Studies

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110215586
Total Pages : 2849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Studies written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 2849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.