ISBN:
9781443864282
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1443864285
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 328 pages)
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illustrations, portraits, plans.
Parallel Title:
Print version Images and objects in ritual practices in medieval and early modern northern and central Europe
DDC:
940.1
Keywords:
Art, Medieval Europe
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Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500
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Europe
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Rites and ceremonies, Medieval History
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Rites and ceremonies, Medieval History
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Art, Medieval
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Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500
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Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500
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Rites and ceremonies, Medieval History
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Art, Medieval
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Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Western
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Art, Medieval
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Christian art and symbolism ; Medieval
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Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
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Medieval history
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History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600
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History
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Europe
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; late medieval imagesand the variabilityof rituals; "to show that the place is divine"; the rosary and the wounds of christ; image, time and ritual; morian and merian. word and image; part ii; the gaze of power, the act of obedience; baptism and the king's coronation; in between the secular and the religious; images of hereditary succession; magic of presence; between act, image, and memory; part iii; the self-representation of thelate medieval cistercian abbot; memoria and sacral artin late medieval livonia.
Abstract:
The ritual context of chandeliersand sconces in early modernlutheran churchesthe art of rituals; wining and dining in style; contributors.
Abstract:
This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character. The book approaches 'ritual' as an action which is discussed under the general umbrella term ""performative practice"", and is characterised by a synthesis between the repetitive and the extraordinary that carries an intense symbolic meaning and is emotionally charged. Images, spaces a
Note:
Description based on print version record
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