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Title Images and objects in ritual practices in medieval and early modern northern and central Europe / edited by Krista Kodres and Anu Mänd
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 328 pages) : illustrations, portraits, plans
Contents 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
The ritual context of chandeliersand sconces in early modernlutheran churchesthe art of rituals; wining and dining in style; contributors
Summary 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 ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Art, Medieval -- Europe
Christian art and symbolism -- Europe -- Medieval, 500-1500
Rites and ceremonies, Medieval -- History
Art, Medieval.
History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600.
Medieval history.
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Art, Medieval
Christian art and symbolism -- Medieval
Rites and ceremonies, Medieval
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Kodres, Krista
Mänd, Anu
ISBN 9781443864282
1443864285
1306992311
9781306992312