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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.
The Arthur of the Italians
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Milan
Milan was for centuries the most important center of economic, ecclesiastical and political power in Lombardy. As the State of Milan it extended in the Renaissance over a large part of northern and central Italy and numbered over thirty cities with their territories. A Companion to Late Medieval and early Modern Milan examines the story of the city and State from the establishment of the duchy under the Viscontis in 1395 through to the 150 years of Spanish rule and down to its final absorption into Austrian Lombardy in 1704. It opens up to a wide readership a well-documented synthesis which is both fully informative and reflects current debate. 20 chapters by qualified and distinguished scho...
Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. IV
The book series “Ottomania” researches cultural transfers between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, with the performing arts as its focus. In Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, vol. IV: Seraglios in Theatre, Music and Literature, the series continues to explore one of the most popular subjects of eighteenth-century art: the seraglio and its harem. This volume provides a deeper understanding of the seraglio's various manifestations in the artworks, music and theatre of the Austrian/ Habsburg and central European regions, including interconnections with Italy and France, from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. The studies examine descriptions of the seraglio by European diplomats, the seraglio's visual traces in European artworks, and depictions of the seraglio in eighteenth-century Austrian Singspiele. They also consider seraglios from the Ottoman point of view and investigate the music of the seraglio in eighteenth-century opera.
Out of the Stream
The subject of this book arises from recent developments in the inventory, preservation and study of mural paintings from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, particularly those from what can be considered the periphery of Europe. The aim of this book is to demonstrate the vitality that the study of wall painting in peripheral regions can bring to the discipline of Art History. The articles collected in this book are overwhelmingly about wall paintings that would be hard pressed to be considered part of the master narrative of Art History. They are studies regarding regions and themes that are rarely present in the mainstream of the discipline, but their common thread is their focus on the f...
Forgery, Replica, Fiction
Credulity -- Reference by artifact -- Germany and "Renaissance"--Forgery -- Replica -- Fiction -- Re-enactment.
Moving with the Magdalen
Moving with the Magdalen is the first art-historical book dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalen in the late medieval Alps. Its seven case study chapters focus on the artworks commissioned for key churches that belonged to both parish and pilgrimage networks in order to explore the role of artistic workshops, commissioning patrons and diverse devotees in the development and transfer of the saint's iconography across the mountain range. Together they underscore how the Magdalen's cult and contingent imagery interacted with the environmental conditions and landscape of the Alps along late medieval routes.
The Architecture of the Christian Holy Land
Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.
'Es wäre ja schade, wenn alles geklärt wäre.'
Ingo Schneider ist ein im Vielnamensfach Europäische Ethnologie breit aufgestellter Forscher und Hochschullehrer, in dessen Arbeiten Neugier, kognitive Beweglichkeit und Verantwortung zentrale Elemente sind. Das vorliegende Buch versammelt Aufsätze einiger langjähriger Wegbegleiter:innen, Kolleg:innen und Schüler:innen und spiegelt die inhaltliche Vielfalt der Themen, die ihn und sein Umfeld angetrieben haben und antreiben. Denn wenn dieses Buch auch anlässlich seiner Pensionierung erscheint - von Ruhestand kann wohl keine Rede sein.
Macht und Herrschaft als transkulturelle Phänomene
›Macht‹ und ›Herrschaft‹ als prägende politisch-gesellschaftliche Organisationsformen sozialer Ordnung der Vormoderne werden in dieser kommentierten Zusammenstellung von Texten, Bildern und Artefakten anschaulich. Gut gewählte Fallbeispiele beleuchten die thematischen Felder ›Konflikt und Konsens‹, ›Personalität und Transpersonalität‹, ›Zentrum und Peripherie‹ sowie ›Idealisierung und Kritik‹ und stellen sie jeweils in einer Kombination aus europäischen und außereuropäischen Fachperspektiven vor. Um eine transkulturelle Vergleichbarkeit zu erleichtern, folgen alle Beiträge, soweit möglich und sinnvoll, einem gemeinsamen Muster. Dabei sichern Übersetzungen fr...
