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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.
Subject
  • 500-1500
  • Shrines > Europe, Central > History
  • Crosses > Europe, Central > History
  • Crosses > Holy Roman Empire > History
  • Crosses > Cult > History. > Holy Roman Empire
  • Christian art and symbolism > Europe, Central > Medieval, 500-1500
  • Christian art and symbolism > Holy Roman Empire > History
  • Christian art and symbolism
  • Christian art and symbolism > Medieval
  • Crosses
  • Crosses > Cult
  • Shrines
  • Europe, Central
  • Europe > Holy Roman Empire
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 ; viii
Architectura medii aevi ; v. 8.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-362) and index.
Chronological Term
500-1500
Research Call Number
JQF 18-234
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