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Memory and redemption : public monuments and the making of late medieval landscape
- Title
- Memory and redemption : public monuments and the making of late medieval landscape / Achim Timmermann.
- Author
- Timmermann, Achim
- Publication
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvi, 427 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- Erected in large numbers from about 1300 onwards, and featuring increasingly sophisticated designs, wayside crosses and other edifices in the public sphere - such as fountains, pillories and boundary markers - constituted the largest network of images and monuments in the late medieval world. Not only were they everywhere, they were also seen by nearly everyone, because large sections of the populace were constantly on the move. Carrying an entire spectrum of religious, folkloric and judicial beliefs, these monuments were indeed at the very heart of late medieval life. This is the first critical study of these fascinating and rich structures written by a medievalist art historian. Focusing on the territories of the former Holy Roman Empire, this investigation considers such important edifices as the towering wayside crosses of Wiener Neustadt and Brno or the elaborate pillories of Kasteelbrakel and Wrocław, though less ostentatious works such as the Bildstöcke of Franconia and Carinthia or the high crosses of Westphalia and the Rhineland are equally examined. In addition, the study looks at the homiletic, literary, devotional and artistic imagination, in which wayside crosses and other such structures helped constitute a spiritual and allegorical landscape that very much complemented and put pressure on the physical landscapes traversed and inhabited by the contemporary public.--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Architectura medii aevi ; viii
- Uniform Title
- Architectura medii aevi ; v. 8.
- Subjects
- Crosses
- Shrines
- Christian art and symbolism
- Crosses > Cult
- Shrines > Europe, Central > History
- Crosses > Holy Roman Empire > History
- Europe, Central
- Crosses > Europe, Central > History
- Christian art and symbolism > Medieval
- Europe > Holy Roman Empire
- History
- Christian art and symbolism > Holy Roman Empire > History
- Crosses > Cult > Holy Roman Empire > History
- 500-1500
- Christian art and symbolism > Europe, Central > Medieval, 500-1500
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-362) and index.
- Contents
- From the Ahenny crosses to the Zderad column : northern Sacroscapes to c. 1500 -- In the city : persuasion and protection -- On the road : perdition and perpetuity -- To Heaven (or Hell) : the pictorial and allegorical imaginary.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-234
- ISBN
- 9782503546520
- 2503546528
- OCLC
- 987372372
- Author
- Timmermann, Achim, author.
- Title
- Memory and redemption : public monuments and the making of late medieval landscape / Achim Timmermann.
- Publisher
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Architectura medii aevi ; viiiArchitectura medii aevi ; v. 8.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-362) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 500-1500
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-234