The Virtual Liturgy and Ritual Artifacts in Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Katharine D. Scherff (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-27456-0 (ISBN)

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Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book uses traditional art-historical methodologies and media technology theory to reexamine ritual objects. Previous analysis has not considered the in-between nature of these objects as deliberate and virtual conduits to the divine. The liturgy, the altarpiece, the altar environment, relics, and their reliquaries are media. In a series of case studies, several objects tell a different story about culture and society in medieval Europe. In essence, they reveal that media and media technologies generate and modulate the individual and collective structure of feelings of sacredness among assemblages of humans and nonhumans.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, early modern studies, and architectural history.

Katharine D. Scherff is Postdoc Lecturer and teaches for the School of Art and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University.

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. There are No Medieval Media?

Part I

2. Media, Mediator, And Intercessor: Remembering the Loca Sancta

3. Mass Media and Liturgical Performance

Part II

4. Religious Technology and The Vièrge Ouvrante

5. Virtually There: Expounding the Tensions Between Planar and Virtual Space Within the Ghent Altarpiece

6. Reflections

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.02.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Art History
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 21 Halftones, color; 34 Halftones, black and white; 21 Illustrations, color; 34 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-032-27456-5 / 1032274565
ISBN-13	978-1-032-27456-0 / 9781032274560
Zustand	Neuware