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Anger's Past
This book considers the role of anger in the social lives and conceptual universes of a varied and significant cross-section of medieval people: monks, saints, kings, lords, and peasants.
'You Shall Surely Not Die'
Using medieval miniatures to complement written sources, this book gives a new insight into how ideas of death, sin and salvation altered and developed in order to meet the needs of a changing society in the Middle Ages.
The Assertion of Monastic Spiritual and Temporal Authority in the Romanesque Sculpture of Sainte-Madeleine at Vézelay
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Rethinking Reform in the Latin West, 10th to Early 12th Century
This collection of studies investigates how people of the 10th to early 12th century experienced and represented processes of intentional change in the Church, and what the consequences are of modern scholars’ reliance on ‘reform’ to describe and interpret these processes. In 11 thematic chapters it takes stock of the current state of research and offers suggestions to deepen our understanding of the ideological, institutional, and cultural dynamics at play. Contributors are Julia Barrow, Robert F. Berkhofer III, Gordon Blennemann, Katy Cubitt, Nicolangelo D'Acunto, Anne-Marie Helvétius, Ludger Körntgen, Rutger Kramer, Brigitte Meijns, Diane Reilly, Rachel Stone, and Steven Vanderputten.
Peace and Negotiation
Peace was far from a pale, static concept - a simple lack of violence - in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Rather, it was at times constructed as a rich and complex, positive and dynamic ideal. The thirteen articles in this volume cover a broad range of disciplines, times, and geographical areas and explore strategies that were used in the past to resolve conflict and attain peace. They examine events, texts, and images that date from the fifth through the sixteenth centuries, and their authors focus not only on Western Europe, but also on Scandinavia, the Caucusus, and Egypt. This volume rests on the assumption that peace covers a spectrum of situations that connects the personal and the p...
Violence and Daily Life
The twelfth-century manuscript of Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job, lavishly written and illuminated at the Cistercian monastery of Cîteaux in 1111, contains images of seemingly gratuitous violence and daily life that are famous but have a significance that has eluded most modern viewers. These images range anywhere from monstrous beasts that devour and hack at each other with swords to monks harvesting grain and felling trees. They have been called by some scholars the products of "unbridled, often irrational fantasy," entirely independent of the text and of any specific meaning. In this book, Conrad Rudolph argues that beyond the face value of these illuminations, there lies an undercur...
Die Vorhalle als Paradies
Das Figurenportal in der Westvorhalle der Andlauer Kirche ist nicht nur das umfangreichste, das im Elsass aus romanischer Zeit erhalten ist, es ist auch das bedeutendste Zeugnis geistiger Tätigkeit, das aus dem ehemaligen Kanonissenstift überdauert hat. Die skulpturale Ausstattung erstreckt sich über die ganze Vorhalle und umfasst auch einen Fries mit 38 Einzelreliefs. Da eine gründliche Darstellung der mittelalterlichen Stiftsgeschichte fehlte, sind theologischer Gehalt und politische Bezugnahme des Bildprogramms bisher kaum zu fassen gewesen. Gegründet um 880, diente Andlau der Kaiserin Richgard als Rückzugsort und Grablege. Als der Papst sie 1049 zur Ehre der Altäre erhob, wurde da...
Gehen und Sehen in Saint-Lazare in Autun
The church of Saint - Lazare in Autun was built at the beginning of the 12th century for the relics of Lazarus of Bethany. The author examines the iconography with 116 illustrations (13 color).
