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The Centre as Margin: Eccentric Perspectives on Art
'The Centre as Margin. Eccentric Perspectives on Art' is a multi-authored volume of collected essays that answer the challenge of thinking Art History, and the Arts in a broader sense, from a liminal point of view. Its main goal is thus to discuss the margin from the centre - drawing on its concomitance within study themes and subjects, ontological and epistemological positions, or research methodologies themselves. Marginality, eccentricity, liminality, and superfluity are all part of a dynamic relationship between centre and margin(s) that will be approached and discussed, from the point of view of disciplines as different and as close as art history, philosophy, literature and design, fro...
Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, C. 1000-1500
New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed. Over the last two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of women's attitude to and agency in medieval monastic reform, challenging the idea that they were, by and large, unwilling to accept or were necessarily hostile towards reform initiatives. Rather, it has shown that they actively participated in debates about the ideas and structures that shaped their religious lives, whether rejecting, embracing, or adapting to calls for "reform" contingent on their circumstances. Nevertheless, fundamental...
Choir Stalls in Architecture and Architecture in Choir Stalls
Misericordia International was founded by Elaine C. Block (Professor of the City University of New York) as an association dedicated to the study of choir stalls and their relation to other artistic manifestations during the Middle Ages, and the dissemination of research. From its beginnings, Misericordia International has promoted a bi-annual international conference as a place for scientific exchange among members of the research community interested in this topic (and in Medieval iconography in general) from a multidisciplinary approach. The most recent conference was a collaboration between the Universities of Cantabria, Oviedo and Leon in Spain. Titled “Choir Stalls in Architecture an...
Relations of Power
Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.
Arte en Palacio. De los Trastámara a la Casa de Austria
La relación establecida en los siglos XV y XVI entre el poder y el arte no fue algo monolÃtico y homogéneo, ni los Trastámara fueron los primeros en mostrar interés artÃstico, pero quizá sà lo fueron en evidenciar una «especial relación» con el arte, ya una relación cambiante al final de la Edad Media, iniciando unos comportamientos que serán heredados, matizados y «sublimados» por los Reyes Católicos y amplificados por la labor de promoción artÃstica de sus prelados y nobles. El arte se convierte en signo de distinción social con un componente devocional, asistencial o cultural en sentido amplio, que observaremos cada vez en mayor número entre los hombres y las mujeres â...
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
Before the late sixteenth century, the churches of Florence were internally divided by monumental screens that separated the laity in the nave from the clergy in the choir precinct. Enabling both separation and mediation, these screens were impressive artistic structures that controlled social interactions, facilitated liturgical performances, and variably framed or obscured religious ritual and imagery. In the 1560s and 70s, screens were routinely destroyed in a period of religious reforms, irreversibly transforming the function, meaning, and spatial dynamics of the church interior. In this volume, Joanne Allen explores the widespread presence of screens and their role in Florentine social and religious life prior to the Counter-Reformation. She presents unpublished documentation and new reconstructions of screens and the choir precincts which they delimited. Elucidating issues such as gender, patronage, and class, her study makes these vanished structures comprehensible and deepens our understanding of the impact of religious reform on church architecture.
Entre l’Église et la ville
Au sortir de la guerre civile catalane de 1462-1472, Barcelone, principale cité de Catalogne et grand port méditerranéen, entre dans une phase de reconstruction. Le roi Ferdinand le Catholique transforme les modalités d’entrée au gouvernement municipal, formalise l’accès à la noblesse et implante dans la ville une nouvelle Inquisition sous contrôle royal. Affecté également, le haut clergé cherche sa place, et les chanoines de la cathédrale en particulier tâchent d’assurer leur implantation au sein des pouvoirs urbains en recomposition. Au croisement de l’histoire canoniale et de l’histoire urbaine, cette étude montre comment, au-delà de leurs attributions religieuses, évêques et chanoines, pleinement intégrés à l’élite dirigeante de la ville, sont amenés à jouer un véritable rôle dans la vie publique d’une cité en pleine mutation.
A la luz de Roma. Santos y santidad en el barroco iberoamericano. Volumen III. Tierra de santidad
Nella creazione dei nuovi santi barocchi del mondo iberoamericano, il pontificato ha giocato un ruolo decisivo. Tuttavia, il processo ha coinvolto le chiese locali e anche il potere civile, che ha promosso le cause, mettendo davanti a sé i propri agenti. I nuovi santi rispondono soprattutto alle esigenze rappresentative della nuova Chiesa americana. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-80060-55-6
A la luz de Roma. Santos y santidad en el barroco iberoamericano. Volume II: España, espejo de santos
In Spagna, più che altrove, il XVII secolo è il secolo dei santi. Non solo per l'elevazione agli altari di quell'inedito manipolatore di uomini e donne le cui virtù furono riconosciute da Roma nel 1622, ma in senso più ampio, a causa della posizione di crocevia che la monarchia ispanica aveva tra il Mediterraneo e l'Atlantico. Specchio tra due mari, la penisola iberica, vedeva riflessa nella sua luna interna la fonte di esempi di vita cristiana della chiesa primitiva, giganteschi o distorti, secondo il taglio e la recinzione dello scrittore religioso, anche se quasi sempre riconoscibili, come quelle ombre sfigurate che lasciavano trasparire i vetri spessi incorniciati da legni nobili che registrano gli inventari dell'epoca. Un po' più vicino allo specchio ispanico, gli archetipi della santità imitabile o ammirevole del tardo medioevo, santità militante, di clausura o guerriera, che mostrava un florilegio di esempi di vita vocazionale, sulla sedia, sul pulpito, nel convento e persino per i modi. DOI: 10.13134/979-12-5977-009-7
