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Wunschzeit Mittelalter. Wie alte Kunst neu geordnet und eine Epoche erfunden wurde. »Das Mittelalter« diente seit seiner Erfindung in der Frühen Neuzeit für unterschiedliche Distinktions- und Identifikationswünsche. So wurde es um 1800 zur Projektionsfläche für neu entstehende, nationale und imperiale Politikinteressen. Diese Mittelalterbilder verleugneten ihren instrumentalen Charakter und wirken so, oft unerkannt, bis heute. Anhand der Aneignung mittelalterlich imaginierter Artefakte durch aristokratische und bürgerliche Sammler Ende des 18. und im Laufe des 19. Jahrhunderts sowie der gleichzeitigen spiegelbildlichen Abstoßung solcher Artefakte, geht die Autorin der Frage nach der Produktion von Mittelalterbildern nach. Es werden widersprüchliche Interessen am »Mittelalter« offen gelegt und die kulturellen Dispositionen von Mittelaltermoden aufgedeckt. Zur Sprache kommen ein spätabsolutistisches Mittelalter in Wörlitz, eine bürgerlich anachronistische Glasmalerei-Sammlung in Zürich, deren durch nun entstehende öffentliche Sammlungsinteressen bewegten Weg über Schlesien zurück in die Schweiz, die widersprüchliche Ungleichzeitigkeit preußisch-höfischer Privatsammlungen in Glienicke mit ihrem auratischen Ausweichen in byzantinisierende Herrschaftsmotive sowie die gleichzeitige europäische Zerstreuung des Basler Münsterschatzes in neuen, rivalisierenden ständischen und nationalen Kontexten.

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This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic houses made use of the resources and contacts available to them. The study focuses on one of the richest medieval floor tile assemblages in the world, with material from 118 sites. Over 500 different designs and 60 mosaic arrangements have been identified. Jennie Stopford examines the monastic influence on northern England's manufacture and use of floor tiles. Split into three sections - Chronological Survey, The Tile Groups, and The Sites and Collections - this in-depth study covers an immense body of work.

Tiles --- Building materials --- History --- History / Europe / Medieval --- Social Science / Archaeology --- Art / History / Medieval --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- 4.240.

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(Trans)missions: Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers focuses on the Catholic tradition of consecrated life (vita religiosa) from the High Middle Ages to the present. It gathers papers by authors from various disciplinary backgrounds, in particular art history, history, anthropology and translation studies. Finally, it includes two short reports on Czech projects on monastic topics. The chronological and geographical scope of the book is focused on the Western tradition from the High Middle Ages up to the present, specifically in the territory of Central Europe and Spain along with its overseas colonies. The region of Central Europe was interconnected with the Spanish Empire through the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs, allowing the given topic to be studied in a broader international context, and to involve the Central European and Spanish territories in the global flow of information, thus incorporating the regional and national histories of individual European countries into global history. This involvement is also enabled by the study of interconnecting themes, such as cultural transfers within and between the Old and the New World, information flows between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburgs, the processes of individual and social identity formation, representation and othering of women, and the missionary activities of mendicant orders in the New World, together with their translation practices; and by the contextualization of monastic history and related themes within the processes of European internal and external colonization and evangelization.

Art, Medieval --- Religion --- Art --- Art, medieval --- Arts --- Art / History / Medieval --- Art / Subjects & Themes / Religious --- Religion / History --- Art, Medieval. --- Religious art. --- History.

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"During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." How, though, did these categories enter the field of vision? How do you know a sodomite when you see one? In Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages, Robert Mills explores the relationship between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval culture, on the one hand, and those categories we today call gender and sexuality, on the other. Challenging the view that ideas about sexual and gender dissidence were too confused to congeal into a coherent form in the Middle Ages, Mills demonstrates that sodomy had a rich, multimedia presence in the period--and that a flexible approach to questions of terminology sheds new light on the many forms this presence took. Among the topics that Mills covers are depictions of the practices of sodomites in illuminated Bibles; motifs of gender transformation and sex change as envisioned by medieval artists and commentators on Ovid; sexual relations in religious houses and other enclosed spaces; and the applicability of modern categories such as "transgender," "butch" and "femme," or "sexual orientation" to medieval culture." -- Publisher's description.

Sodomy --- Sodomy in art. --- Art, Medieval --- Sodomy in literature. --- Vision in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Art, Medieval. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Sodomy. --- ART / History / Medieval. --- Sexual Behavior --- Homosexuality --- History and criticism. --- history. --- Europe. --- Art / history / medieval. --- Art, medieval --- Art, medieval. --- Literature, medieval --- Literature, medieval. --- Sexual behavior --- History.

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Notre-Dame of Amiens is one of the great Gothic cathedrals. Its construction began in 1220, and artistic production in the Gothic mode lasted well into the sixteenth century. In this magisterial chronicle, Stephen Murray invites readers to see the cathedral as more than just a thing of the past: it is a living document of medieval Christian society that endures in our own time.Murray tells the cathedral's story from the overlapping perspectives of the social groups connected to it, exploring the ways that the layfolk who visit the cathedral occasionally, the clergy who use it daily, and the artisans who created it have interacted with the building over the centuries. He considers the cycles of human activity around the cathedral and shows how groups of makers and users have been inextricably intertwined in collaboration and, occasionally, conflict. The book travels around and through the spaces of the cathedral, allowing us to re-create similar passages by our medieval predecessors. Murray reveals the many worlds of the cathedral and brings them together in the architectural triumph of its central space. A beautifully illustrated account of a grand and historically and religiously important building from a variety of perspectives and in a variety of time periods, this book offers readers a memorable tour of Notre-Dame of Amiens that celebrates the cathedral's eight hundredth anniversary in 2020.Notre-Dame of Amiens is enhanced by high-resolution images, liturgical music, and animations embedded in an innovative website.

Architecture and society --- Architecture, Gothic --- ART / History / Medieval. --- Gothic architecture --- Christian antiquities --- Church architecture --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History. --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- Cathédrale d'Amiens. --- Amiens. --- Eglise Notre-Dame (Amiens, France) --- Notre-Dame (Cathedral : Amiens, France) --- Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens --- History --- Amiens (France) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Амьен (France) --- Anmyen (France) --- Samarobriva (France) --- Ambianum (France)