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Binding Words
In the Middle Ages, textual amulets--short texts written on parchment or paper and worn on the body--were thought to protect the bearer against enemies, to heal afflictions caused by demonic invasions, and to bring the wearer good fortune. In Binding Words, Don C. Skemer provides the first book-length study of this once-common means of harnessing the magical power of words. Textual amulets were a unique source of empowerment, promising the believer safe passage through a precarious world by means of an ever-changing mix of scriptural quotations, divine names, common prayers, and liturgical formulas. Although theologians and canon lawyers frequently derided textual amulets as ignorant superst...
Mysterium
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Kunst und Profit
Nicht nur Adolf Hitler und Hermann Göring nutzten die Besetzung Frankreichs während des Zweiten Weltkriegs zur Beschaffung von Kunstwerken für ihre Sammlungen – auch deutsche Museen tätigten hier Erwerbungen. Der vorteilhafte Wechselkurs und das große Angebot von Kunstwerken etwa aus enteignetem jüdischem Besitz boten günstige Gelegenheiten. Auch französische Museen wie der Louvre erweiterten in dieser Zeit ihre Bestände. Viele Ankäufe deutscher Museen wurden in der Nachkriegszeit an Frankreich restituiert, manche sind jedoch bis heute in den Sammlungen verblieben und erst jetzt in den Fokus der Forschung geraten. Aus deutscher und französischer Perspektive analysieren die Beitr...
Le trésor des rois
Une brillante synthèse sur ce qui unit royauté et sacré en France au Moyen Âge. Philippe IV le Bel et ses trois fils, " rois maudits " selon la célèbre légende, meurent les uns après les autres sans héritier mâle, mettant ainsi fin à la lignée directe des Capétiens. En 1328, Philippe VI de Valois devient donc roi, mais doit faire face à la contestation d'Édouard III d'Angleterre qui revendique la Couronne de France. Ainsi débute la Guerre de Cent Ans. Pour asseoir leur légitimité et conquérir les cœurs, les Valois doivent alors renforcer les liens entre royauté et sacré. Trésoriers du Christ depuis l'acquisition par Saint Louis des Instruments de la Passion – la Cour...
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the earliest period of post-Roman society - the fifth to seventh centuries - for which documents are lackin...
Faces of Community in Central European Towns
This collection examines symbolic communication and the role of visual experience in Central European urban communities in the late medieval and early modern periods. The contributors analyze how images, monuments, and rituals both reflected and affected identity formation, conflict, and networks of power.
Secular Power and Sacral Authority in Medieval East-Central Europe
This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period. Contributors present new research on the region's political and legal history, nobility and government institutions, war and diplomacy, literature and literacy, sacred and secular art, archaeological research, heritage studies, and much more.
Premodern Rulership and Contemporary Political Power
This book offers thirteen case studies from premodern and contemporary Europe that demonstrate the process through which political corporations-bodies politic-were and continue to be constructed and challenged.
The Moore Bede
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Jesuit Art and Czech Lands, 1556–1729
This collection examines how the Society of Jesus used art and architecture in its missionary efforts in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. The Jesuits used a variety of visual media to re-invigorate the cult of miraculous images, saints, and local Catholic customs in the Central European region, where a tradition of religious dissent went back to the legendary Hussites of the 15th century. Jesuit art is seen as resulting from the transfer, local adaptation, and visualization of ideas about image theology, the order's global mission, its self-promotion, and the construction of the religious past. Examining the architecture, statues, images, murals, and decorative programs of Jesuit complexes and other visual media (devotional prints, medieval images), the essays here demonstrate how the Jesuit Order cultivated the subjects and functions of art to promote concepts of Catholic piety as they grew into one of the most successful agents of Catholic Reform in the Bohemian kingdom.
