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Sense, Matter, and Medium

New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture

Herausgegeben von: Fiona Griffiths, Beatrice Kitzinger und Kathryn Starkey

ISSN: 2367-0290

e-ISSN 2367-0304

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Sense, Matter, and Medium focuses on medieval material culture, and its contexts of production and reception. "Sense" refers both to the meanings in artifacts and to their sensory experience. "Matter" speaks both to the intellectual and physical substance of material culture. "Medium" reflects on cultural transmission practices. The series includes monographs and essay collections. The volumes encompass different disciplines across national boundaries, broadening the scope of the field by introducing lesser-known sources alongside work that re-imagines medieval cultural milestones.

Fiona Griffiths, Stanford University, USA

Beatrice Kitzinger, Princeton University, USA

Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, USA

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Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Byzantine Materiality

Evan Freeman, Roland Betancourt

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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This volume explores the power of matter and materials in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium. Recent attention to matter as dynamic and meaningful constitutes an emerging, interdisciplinary field of inquiry known as materiality, new materialism, or the material turn. Materials can be symbolic, but matter can also act on human subjects. This volume builds on these insights to consider the role of matter, materials, form, and embodied experiences in Byzantium. In many respects, Byzantine materiality represents a continuation of its Greco-Roman inheritance, which was also shared by neighboring peoples such as the Umayyads and Abbasids. But the Byzantines also developed their own, unique perspectives on matter and form, as with their parsing of the sacred materialities of icons, the Eucharist, and relics. Chapters in this volume consider the cultural meanings and functions of materials such as gold and ivory, the materiality of icons and relics, experiences of objects, as well as Byzantine philosophies of matter and form. Materiality takes center stage in Byzantine constructions of power, luxury, belief, and identity, which will be of interest to scholars and students of Byzantium and the wider medieval world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110980738
ISBN:: 9783110980738
ISBN:: 9783110799736
ISBN:: 9783110981094
Fachgebiet:: Kunst
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen
Fachgebiet:: Gattungen, andere
Fachgebiet:: Epochen
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Byzantinistik
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Noch nicht erschienen 2024

Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures

Ágnes Kriza, William F. Ryan, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures is a thematic essay volume to investigate the history and function of enigma in Orthodox Slavic cultures with a special focus on the cultural history of Rus and Muscovy. Its seventeen case studies across disciplinary boundaries analyze Slavic biblical and patristic translations, liturgical commentaries, occult divinatory texts, and dream interpretations. Slavic riddles inscribed on walls and compilations of riddles in question-and-answer format are all subjects of this volume. Not only written, but also pictorial enigmas are examined, together with their relationships to texts suggesting novel methodologies for their deciphering. This kaleidoscopic survey of Enigma in Rus and Medieval Slavic Cultures by an international group of scholars demonstrates the historiographical challenges that medieval enigmatic thought poses for researchers and offers new approaches to the interpretation of medieval sources, both verbal and visual.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.0000/9783110779226
ISBN:: 9783110779226
ISBN:: 9783110779103
ISBN:: 9783110779240
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Mittelalter
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Things and Thingness in European Literature and Visual Art, 700–1600

Jutta Eming, Kathryn Starkey

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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The eleven chapters in this international volume draw on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches to focus our attention on medieval and early modern things (ca. 700–1600). The range of things includes actual objects (the Altenburg Crucifixion, a copy of Hieronymus Brunschwig’s Liber de arte distillandi, a pilgrim’s letter), imagined objects (a prayed cloak for the Virgin Mary), and narrative objects in texts (the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Ordene de Chevalerie, Hartmann von Aue’s Erec, Heinrich of Neustadt’s Apollonius of Tyre, Luís de Camões’s Os Lusíadas, and the vita of Saint Guthlac). Each in its own way, the papers consider how things do what they do in texts and art, often foregrounding the intersection between the material and the immaterial by exploring such questions as how things act, how they express power, and how texts and images represent them. Medieval and early modern things are repeatedly shown to be more than symbolic or passive, they are agentive and determinative in both their intra- and extradiegetic worlds. The things that are addressed in this volume are varied and are embedded, or entangled, in different contexts and societies, and yet they share a concerted engagement in human life.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110742985
ISBN:: 9783110742985
ISBN:: 9783111358659
ISBN:: 9783110743081
ISBN:: 9783110742329
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Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Anglo-Amerikanische Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Eclecticism in Late Medieval Visual Culture at the Crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and Slavic Traditions

Maria Alessia Rossi, Alice Isabella Sullivan

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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This volume builds upon the new worldwide interest in the global Middle Ages. It investigates the prismatic heritage and eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, while challenging the temporal and geographical parameters of the study of medieval, Byzantine, post-Byzantine, and early-modern art. Contact and interchange between primarily the Latin, Greek, and Slavic cultural spheres resulted in local assimilations of select elements that reshaped the artistic landscapes of regions of the Balkan Peninsula, the Carpathian Mountains, and further north. The specificities of each region, and, in modern times, politics and nationalistic approaches, have reinforced the tendency to treat them separately, preventing scholars from questioning whether the visual output could be considered as an expression of a shared history. The comparative and interdisciplinary framework of this volume provides a holistic view of the visual culture of these regions by addressing issues of transmission and appropriation, as well as notions of cross-cultural contact, while putting on the global map of art history the eclectic artistic production of Eastern Europe.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695618
ISBN:: 9783110695618
ISBN:: 9783110693164
ISBN:: 9783110695632
Fachgebiet:: Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Allgemeine Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Medialität, Intermedialität
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2022

Time and Presence in Art

Moments of Encounter (200–1600 CE)

Armin Bergmeier, Andrew Griebeler

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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This volume explores the relationship between temporality and presence in medieval artworks from the third to the sixteenth centuries. It is the first extensive treatment of the interconnections between medieval artworks' varied presences and their ever-shifting places in time. The volume begins with reflections on the study of temporality and presence in medieval and early modern art history. A second section presents case studies delving into the different ways medieval artworks once created and transformed their original viewers' experience of the present. These range from late antique Constantinople, early Islamic Jerusalem and medieval Italy, to early modern Venice and the Low Countries. A final section explores how medieval artworks remain powerful and relevant today. This section includes case studies on reconstructing presence in medieval art through embodied experience of pilgrimage, art historical research and museum education. In doing so, the volume provides a first dialog between museum educators and art historians on the presence of medieval artifacts. It includes contributions by Hans Belting, Keith Moxey, Rika Burnham and others.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722079
ISBN:: 9783110722079
ISBN:: 9783110722161
ISBN:: 9783110720693
Fachgebiet:: Kunst
Fachgebiet:: Epochen
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Museen und Sammlungen
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Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen in den Kulturwissenschaften
Fachgebiet:: Andere Forschungsthemen
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Illuminating Metalwork

Metal, Object, and Image in Medieval Manuscripts

Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Shannon L. Wearing

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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The presence of gold, silver, and other metals is a hallmark of decorated manuscripts, the very characteristic that makes them “illuminated.” Medieval artists often used metal pigment and leaf to depict metal objects both real and imagined, such as chalices, crosses, tableware, and even idols; the luminosity of these representations contrasted pointedly with the surrounding paints, enriching the page and dazzling the viewer. To elucidate this key artistic tradition, this volume represents the first in-depth scholarly assessment of the depiction of precious-metal objects in manuscripts and the media used to conjure them. From Paris to the Abbasid caliphate, and from Ethiopia to Bruges, the case studies gathered here forge novel approaches to the materiality and pictoriality of illumination. In exploring the semiotic, material, iconographic, and technical dimensions of these manuscripts, the authors reveal the canny ways in which painters generated metallic presence on the page. Illuminating Metalwork is a landmark contribution to the study of the medieval book and its visual and embodied reception, and is poised to be a staple of research in art history and manuscript studies, accessible to undergraduates and specialists alike.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110637526
ISBN:: 9783110637526
ISBN:: 9783110620153
ISBN:: 9783110637083
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Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Medialität, Intermedialität
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2021

Gender Bonds, Gender Binds

Women, Men, and Family in Middle High German Literature

Sara S. Poor, Alison L. Beringer, Olga V. Trokhimenko

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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While Gender Studies has made its mark on literary studies, much scholarship on the German Middle Ages is largely inaccessible to the Anglo-American audience. With gender at its core as a category of analysis, "Gender Bonds, Gender Binds"uniquely opens up medieval German material to English speakers. Recognizing the impact of Ann Marie Rasmussen’s Mothers and Daughters in Medieval German Literature, this transatlantic volume expands on questions introduced in her 1997 book and subsequent work. More than a mere tribute, the collection moves the debates forward in new directions: it examines how gender bonds together people, practices, texts, and interpretive traditions, while constraining and delimiting these things socially, ideologically, culturally, or historically. As the contributions demonstrate, a close, materially focused analysis produces complex results, not easily reduced to a platitude. The essays steer a firm course through the terrain of gender bonds and binds, many of which remain challenging in the present. Herein lies the broader reach of this volume, for understanding the longevity of patriarchy and its effects on human relations demonstrates how crucial the study of the past can be for us as a society today.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110729191
ISBN:: 9783110729191
ISBN:: 9783110729252
ISBN:: 9783111121796
ISBN:: 9783110729054
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Deutsche Literatur
Fachgebiet:: 8.-15. Jahrhundert
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Geschlecht und Literatur
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2019

After the Carolingians

Re-defining Manuscript Illumination in the 10th and 11th Centuries

Beatrice Kitzinger, Joshua O’Driscoll

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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A volume that introduces new sources and offers fresh perspectives on a key era of transition, this book is of value to art historians and historians alike. From the dissolution of the Carolingian empire to the onset of the so-called 12th-century Renaissance, the transformative 10th–11th centuries witnessed the production of a significant number of illuminated manuscripts from present-day France, Belgium, Spain, and Italy, alongside the better-known works from Anglo-Saxon England and the Holy Roman Empire. While the hybrid styles evident in book painting reflect the movement and re-organization of people and codices, many of the manuscripts also display a highly creative engagement with the art of the past. Likewise, their handling of subject matter—whether common or new for book illumination—attests to vibrant artistic energy and innovation. On the basis of rarely studied scientific, religious, and literary manuscripts, the contributions in this volume address a range of issues, including the engagement of 10th–11th century bookmakers with their Carolingian and Antique legacies, the interwoven geographies of book production, and matters of modern politics and historiography that have shaped the study of this complex period.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110579499
ISBN:: 9783110579499
ISBN:: 9783110578393
ISBN:: 9783110574678
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Editionswissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Medialität, Intermedialität
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2018

Sensory Reflections

Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts

Fiona Griffiths, Kathryn Starkey

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110563443
ISBN:: 9783110563443
ISBN:: 9783110562347
ISBN:: 9783110562866
ISBN:: 9783110709025
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein
Fachgebiet:: Ausgewählte Themen der Literaturwissenschaft
Fachgebiet:: Medialität, Intermedialität
Verlag:: De Gruyter