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Painting the Page in the Age of Print
"The history of the book in the fifteenth century is especially associated in German-speaking countries with Gutenberg's invention of printing with movable type. Over a century of scholarship has tended, often in rather gratuitous fashion, to dismiss the majority of illuminated manuscripts produced in central Europe between around 1400 and the Reformation as mediocre manifestations of a culture in decline. This book--originally published in German to accompany a series of exhibitions in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland from 2015 to 2017--was written to challenge these prejudices and the weight of tradition which they represent. It contains four wide-ranging art historical essays which for the first time give an overview of fifteenth-century illumination in Central Europe."--
A Companion to the Premodern Apocalypse
The final book of the New Testament, the Apocalypse, has been controversial since its initial appearance during the first century A.D. For centuries after, theologians, exegetes, scholars, and preachers have grappled with the imagery and symbolism behind this fascinating and terrifying book. Their thoughts and ideas regarding the apocalypse—and its trials and tribulations—were received within both elite and popular culture in the medieval and early modern eras. Therefore, one may rightly call the Apocalypse, and its accompanying hopes and fears, a foundational pillar of Western Civilization. The interest in the Apocalypse, and apocalyptic movements, continues apace in modern scholarship ...
Die liturgische Gegenwart des abwesenden Königs
It has for decades been part of the canon of maxims of basic research that most images of rulers in early medieval book illustrations have been transmitted in liturgical manuscripts, i.e. manuscripts originally intended for divine worship. There have however to date been few investigations which draw serious consequences from this and which also view miniatures of rulers in the light of their functional aspects, for example as ‘memorial depictions’ (O.G. Oexle), or on the basis of the social reality of the pious motives behind their presentation. This study gives a more precise explanation of the function and purpose of ruler-images by examining a few selected early medieval miniatures. It analyzes the historical and social contexts of their genesis and the liturgical and commemorative aims of their use against the setting of the social form of remembrance of confraternity.
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture
Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-1002) and Henry II (1002-1024). Author Eliza Garrison analyzes liturgical artworks created for both rulers with the larger goal of addressing the ways in which individual art objects and the collections to which they belonged were perceived as elements of a material historical narrative and as portraits. Since these objects and images had the capacity to stand in for the ruler in his physical absence, she argues, they also performed political functions that were bound to their ritualized use in the liturgy not only during the ruler's lifetime, but even after his death. Garrison investigates how treasury objects could relay officially sanctioned information in a manner that texts alone could not, offering the first full length exploration of this central phenomenon of the Ottonian era.
Racist Trademarks
Since the beginning of commodity culture, products have been marketed with images reflecting racist concepts of otherness. Using the prominent examples of three companies - Uncle Ben's, Sarotti, and Banania - this book examines how racist trademark figures were established in the U.S., Germany, and France, and built on nation-specific processes of racial stereotyping. While it finds that the three figures mirror their national histories of slavery, Orientalism, and colonialism, the book reveals that their paths through popular culture also followed strikingly similar patterns. Conceived in an era of overt racism, each symbol was challenged by social movements over the course of the 20th century and became increasingly marginalized in promotional activities. In the early 2000s, however, all three figures were relaunched with supposedly new makeovers, hitting once again at the heart of commodity culture and illustrating the subtle prevalence of racist stereotypes. (Series: Racism Analysis - Series A: Studies - Vol. 3)
The Scribes For Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany
While there has been a great tradition of scholarship in medieval manuscripts, most studies have focused on the details of manuscript production by male copyists. In this study, Cynthia J. Cyrus demonstrates the prevalence of manuscript production by women monastics and challenges current assumptions of how manuscripts circulated in the late medieval period. Drawing on extensive research into the surviving manuscripts of over 450 women's convents, the author assesses the genres common to women's convent libraries emphasizing a social rather than a codicological understanding of how manuscripts of women's libraries came to be copied. An engaging mix of biography, women's history, and book history, The Scribes for Women's Convents in Late Medieval Germany will change the way medieval manuscripts are understood and studied.
Sainthood and Race
In popular imagination, saints exhibit the best characteristics of humanity, universally recognizable but condensed and embodied in an individual. Recent scholarship has asked an array of questions concerning the historical and social contexts of sainthood, and opened new approaches to its study. What happens when the category of sainthood is interrogated and inflected by the problematic category of race? Sainthood and Race: Marked Flesh, Holy Flesh explores this complicated relationship by examining two distinct characteristics of the saint’s body: the historicized, marked flesh and the universal, holy flesh. The essays in this volume comment on this tension between particularity and univ...
Die Reichenauer Evangelienbücher
Die im Scriptorium des Benediktinerklosters Reichenau entstandenen Handschriften zählen zu den Spitzenwerken der ottonischen Buchmalerei. Unter diesen Manuskripten finden sich acht, teilweise noch vollständig erhaltene Evangeliare, von denen einige zum Weltdokumentenerbe der UNESCO gezählt werden. Mit ihren prachtvollen Miniaturen, die Szenen aus dem Leben Jesu oder die vier Evangelisten zeigen, den virtuos konzipierten Initialseiten und dem aufwendig kalkulierten Evangelientext bieten sie Anknüpfungspunkte für diese interdisziplinäre Untersuchung. Im Mittelpunkt der Studie stehen die Anlagekonzepte, die potenziellen Spuren einer gottesdienstlichen Verwendung der Codices zur Verkündigung der Evangelienperikopen sowie das sowohl durch die Struktur als auch durch die Bildkonzepte der Handschriften visualisierte Offenbarungsverständnis. Aufgrund der beispielhaft erfolgenden Analysen der visuellen Organisation, der Erschließungssysteme und der Bildkonzepte der Reichenauer Evangelienbücher können die hier erarbeiteten Ergebnisse auch auf Evangeliare anderer Scriptorien übertragen werden.
Voice of the Living Light
For a woman of the 12th century, Hildegard of Bingen's achievements were so exceptional that posterity has found it hard to take her measure. Hildegard authority Barbara Newman brings together major scholars to present an accurate portrait of the Benedictine nun and her many contributions to 12th-century religious, cultural, and intellectual life. 18 illustrations.
Die Apsismalereien in der Kathedrale von Aquileia
Die Apsismalereien in der Kathedrale von Aquileia (1028-1031) dürfen zu den bedeutendsten Wandmalereien des Mittelalters gezählt werden, befinden sich doch dort mit den Darstellungen von Konrad II., Gisela, Heinrich III. sowie Heinrich II. die einzigen erhaltenen monumentalen Herrscherbilder der Salierzeit. Der äußerst reduzierte Erhaltungszustand der Malereien gab den Anlaß, sich im ersten Teil dieser Studie mit restaurierungsgeschichtlichen Fragestellungen zu beschäftigen. Dazu wurden zunächst die verschiedenen mittelalterlichen und nachmittelalterlichen Veränderungsphasen beschrieben und in ihrer historisch-politischen Dimension erfasst. Entdeckung, Freilegung und Restaurierung de...
