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The texture of images
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ISBN: 9004440127 9789004440128 9789004404489 9004404481 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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"This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books. The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance"--


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Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy : Image, Relic and Material Culture
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ISBN: 1805433458 Year: 2020 Publisher: Woodbridge, England : The Boydell Press,

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Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images.


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Primordial abundances of subdominant dark matter
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Year: 2017 Publisher: Liège Université de Liège (ULiège)

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The PIDM model consists in two types of dark matter, one component of which accounts for a small portion of the total amount of dark matter and is self-interacting. The aim is to establish the characteristics of this subdominant dark-matter part. We first present the dark matter concept by reviewing the historical evidence of dark matter as well as the different sorts of dark matter. Then we introduce the concordance model in cosmology and evoke its small-scales defects. Dark-matter models are then mentioned to solve these problems, one of which being the PIDM model. Next, starting from the Boltzmann equation, we derive a formula allowing to compute the relic density of a species and we test it for the WIMP model. Then we derive a precise expression for the thermally averaged annihilation cross section. In doing so, we determine the characteristics of the subdominant dark-matter particles by constraining the thermally averaged annihilation cross section so that its abundance remains small compared to the total dark-matter abundance as stated by the PIDM model.


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The texture of images : the relic book in late-medieval religiosity and early modern aesthetics
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ISBN: 9789004404489 9789004440128 9004404481 Year: 2021 Volume: 85 66 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic-books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books. The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable types in its early period and it offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the renaissance.


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Sacred Relics : Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America
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ISBN: 022605974X 1299784712 9781299784710 9780226059747 9780226059600 Year: 2013 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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A piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Various bits and pieces of the past-often called "association items"-may appear to be eccentric odds and ends, but they are valued because of their connections to prominent people and events in American history. Kept in museum collections large and small across the United States, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. In Sacred Relics, Teresa Barnett explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past. She traces the relic-collecting tradition back to eighteenth-century England, then on to articles belonging to the founding fathers and through the mass collecting of artifacts that followed the Civil War. Ultimately, Barnett shows how we can trace our own historical collecting from the nineteenth century's assemblages of the material possessions of great men and women.


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Heilige und Reliquien : die Geschichte ihres Kultes vom frühen Christentum bis zur Gegenwart.
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ISBN: 3406380964 9783406380969 Year: 1994 Publisher: München : Beck,


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Holocaust icons
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ISBN: 0813574056 9780813574059 9780813574042 0813574048 9780813574035 081357403X 9780813574028 0813574021 Year: 2015 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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The Holocaust has bequeathed to contemporary society a cultural lexicon of intensely powerful symbols, a vocabulary of remembrance that we draw on to comprehend the otherwise incomprehensible horror of the Shoah. Engagingly written and illustrated with more than forty black-and-white images, Holocaust Icons probes the history and memory of four of these symbolic relics left in the Holocaust's wake. Jewish studies scholar Oren Stier offers in this volume new insight into symbols and the symbol-making process, as he traces the lives and afterlives of certain remnants of the Holocaust and their ongoing impact. Stier focuses in particular on four icons: the railway cars that carried Jews to their deaths, symbolizing the mechanics of murder; the Arbeit Macht Frei ("work makes you free") sign over the entrance to Auschwitz, pointing to the insidious logic of the camp system; the number six million that represents an approximation of the number of Jews killed as well as mass murder more generally; and the persona of Anne Frank, associated with victimization. Stier shows how and why these icons-an object, a phrase, a number, and a person-have come to stand in for the Holocaust: where they came from and how they have been used and reproduced; how they are presently at risk from a variety of threats such as commodification; and what the future holds for the memory of the Shoah. In illuminating these icons of the Holocaust, Stier offers valuable new perspective on one of the defining events of the twentieth century. He helps readers understand not only the Holocaust but also the profound nature of historical memory itself.


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Comics and Stuff
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ISBN: 1479831255 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York New York University Press

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Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff.When we use the phrase "and stuff" in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like "etcetera." In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimental attachments, and nostalgic longings that we express--or hold at bay--through our relationships with stuff.In Comics and Stuff, his first solo authored book in over a decade, pioneering media scholar Henry Jenkins moves through anthropology, material culture, literary criticism, and art history to resituate comics in the cultural landscape. Through over one hundred full-color illustrations, using close readings of contemporary graphic novels, Jenkins explores how comics depict stuff and exposes the central role that stuff plays in how we curate our identities, sustain memory, and make meaning. . They give vivid expression to a culture preoccupied with the processes of circulation and appraisal, accumulation and possession. By design, comics encourage the reader to scan the landscape, to pay attention to the physical objects that fill our lives and constitute our familiar surroundings. Because comics take place in a completely fabricated world, everything is there intentionally. . Considers how comics display our everyday stuff--junk drawers, bookshelves, attics--as a way into understanding how we represent ourselves nowFor most of their history, comics were widely understood as disposable--you read them and discarded them, and the pulp paper they were printed on decomposed over time. Today, comic books have been rebranded as graphic novels--clothbound high-gloss volumes that can be purchased in bookstores, checked out of libraries, and displayed proudly on bookshelves. They are reviewed by serious critics and studied in university classrooms. A medium once considered trash has been transformed into a respectable, if not elite, genre.While the American comics of the past were about hyperbolic battles between good and evil, most of today's graphic novels focus on everyday personal experiences. Contemporary culture is awash with stuff. .

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transformative works. --- toxic masculinity. --- still life painting. --- sketchbook. --- scrapbooks. --- monster culture. --- mise-en-scene. --- material culture. --- accumulation;Alice in Wonderland;Animation history;army surplus;art world;autobiography;Cabinet d'amateur;Caricature;Chicago;Collage;collecting;consciousness raising;Crooners;Culling;Display;Early comic strips;Early photography;family history;fantasy;furniture;Graphic novels;Happy objects;hoarding;Homosocial Relations;identity;inheritance. --- Wonder cabinets. --- White supremacy. --- WWII veterans. --- Underground comics. --- Trickster stories. --- Transitional objects. --- Trading. --- Toy. --- The residual. --- The abject. --- Southern folklore. --- Senior citizens. --- Rituals. --- Relic. --- Racism. --- Nostalgia. --- Music hall. --- Midcentury Podern. --- Memory. --- Meaning. --- Local History. --- Alice in Wonderland. --- Animation history. --- Cabinet d’amateur. --- Caricature. --- Chicago. --- Collage. --- Crooners. --- Culling. --- Display. --- Early comic strips. --- Early photography. --- Graphic novels. --- Happy objects. --- Homosocial Relations. --- Local History. --- Meaning. --- Memory. --- Midcentury Podern. --- Music hall. --- Nostalgia. --- Racism. --- Relic. --- Rituals. --- Senior citizens. --- Southern folklore. --- The abject. --- The residual. --- Toy. --- Trading. --- Transitional objects. --- Trickster stories. --- Underground comics. --- WWII veterans. --- White supremacy. --- Wonder cabinets. --- accumulation. --- army surplus. --- art world. --- autobiography. --- collecting. --- consciousness raising. --- family history. --- fantasy. --- furniture. --- hoarding. --- identity. --- inheritance. --- material culture. --- mise-en-scene. --- monster culture. --- scrapbooks. --- sketchbook. --- still life painting. --- toxic masculinity. --- transformative works.

Medieval Piety from Relics to the Eucharist: A Process of Mutual Interaction
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ISSN: 00818607 ISBN: 9004102639 9004475516 9789004102637 9789004475519 Year: 1995 Volume: 63 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : Brill

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As a major advance in the study of medieval piety the interrelationship between the veneration of relics and of the Eucharistic Host is presented here for the first time. Traced through Christian Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the veneration of the Host proves to be closely associated with the piety focused on relics of the Saints. Both were kept in the sleeping area of private homes, carried on journeys and placed in graves. They were buried together in altar tables and monks called on both for help in threatening circumstances. Like the relics, the sacred Host was later carried in procession, shown to the people for veneration and used to give blessings. This book offers a rich account of one of the most revealing dimensions of medieval belief and practice.


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Körperbild und Bildkörper : die "Technological Reliquaries" von Paul Thek und die christliche Reliquientradition
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ISBN: 9783506708823 3506708821 9783657708826 3657708820 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paderborn Ferdinand Schöningh

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Paul Theks Werkgruppe der "Technological Reliquaries" rekurriert auf die Bildsprache von Reliquie und Reliquiar, bricht aber mit deren traditioneller Gestaltungsform. Die künstlerische Bedeutungsverschiebung ist aufschlussreich für ein zeitgemäßes theologisches Verständnis der Reliquienverehrung. Der US-amerikanische Künstler Paul Thek (1933-1988) stellt seine Werke in die Rezeptionsgeschichte der christlichen Reliquientradition. Die Werke gestalten die Verflechtung von Bild und Körper neu und bringen dadurch die aktuellen Körper- und Bilddiskurse von Theologie und Kunst miteinander ins Gespräch. Die Kunstwerke zeigen sich als fruchtbar für das theologische Nachdenken über Reliquie und Reliquiar, ebenso wie die theologische Perspektive zu einem vielschichtigen Verständnis der Werke Paul Theks beiträgt.

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