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Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the 1340s, in the area of Central Italy surrounding the city of Siena, combined images and relics, presented visibly together, within painted and decorated wooden frames. In these tabernacles the various media and materials worked together to create a powerful and captivating ensemble, usable in several contexts, both in procession and static, as the centre of focussed, prayerful attention. This book looks at Siena and Central Italy as environments of artistic invention, and at Sienese painters in particular as experts in experimentation whose ingenuity encouraged the development of this new form of devotional technology. It is the first full-length study to focus in depth on the materiality of these tabernacles, investigating the connotations and effects of the materials from which they were made. It examines especially the effect of bringing relics and images together, and considers how the impressions of variety and abundance created by the multiplication of materials give birth to meaning and encourage certain kinds of action or thought.

Christian special devotions --- Iconography --- iconography --- reliquaries --- tabernacles [liturgical containers] --- Medieval [European] --- anno 1300-1399 --- Italy --- Christian art and symbolism --- Reliquaries --- Tabernacles (Church furniture) --- Italie --- 14e siècle --- Reliquaires

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"This is the first comprehensive book on the architecture and imagery of late medieval sacrament houses, those dazzlingly complex microarchitectural structures designed for the paraliturgical reservation and display of the Eucharist and 'real present' body of Christ. The study is embedded in a discussion of sacramental theology and devotion, and traces the development of this genre of furnishing from the introduction of the Corpus Christi feast in 1260 to the first decades of the Counter-Reformation, from the Low Countries to Hungary and the Saxon settlements of Transylvania, from the Swedish island of Gotland to the Swiss Canton of Graublinden. Much of the argument is devoted to such major sacrament houses as those in St. Pieters in Leuven (1050) or St. Lorenz in Nuremberg (1493-6), though provincial solutions like the dugout tabernacles of the Brandenburg Marches are equally considered. The book is intended as a contribution to the study of both Gothic microarchitecture and the role of the visual in late medieval devotional culture."--Jacket.

Tabernacles (Church furniture) --- Church architecture --- Tabernacles --- Architecture chrétienne --- churches [buildings] --- sacrament towers --- Gothic [Medieval] --- Leuven, Sint-Pieterskerk --- eucharists --- tabernacles [liturgical containers] --- Decoration and ornament [Medieval ] --- Decoration et ornement medievaux --- Sacrament houses --- Sacramentshuizen --- Versiering en ornament [Middeleeuwse ] --- Lord's Supper --- Decoration and ornament, Medieval --- Sacrament houses. --- Decoration and ornament, Medieval. --- History --- art history --- Architecture --- Iconography --- Christian church history --- History of civilization --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- 16th century --- Middle Ages, 500-1500 --- Altars --- Church decoration and ornament --- Church furniture --- Sacrament chapels --- 264-061 --- 246.3 --- 246.3 Beelden in kerken. Beeldenverering. Iconoclasme --- Beelden in kerken. Beeldenverering. Iconoclasme --- 264-061 Heilige Mis. Goddelijke dienst. Eucharistieviering. Eucharistisch gebed --- Heilige Mis. Goddelijke dienst. Eucharistieviering. Eucharistisch gebed --- Lord's Supper - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Lord's Supper - History - 16th century --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- religious experience