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Tomb - memory - space : concepts of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic art

Title
Tomb - memory - space : concepts of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic art / edited by Francine Giese, Anna Pawlak and Markus Thome.
Publication
  • Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Giese, Francine
  • Pawlak, Anna
  • Thome, Markus
Description
viii, 344 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimile, plans; 25 cm
Summary
"From an intercultural perspective, this book focuses on aesthetic strategies and forms of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic sepulchral art. Seeing the tomb as an interface for eschatological, political, and artistic debate, the contributions analyze the diversity of memorial space configurations from the 11th to the 17th centuries"--Back cover.
Subject
  • Sepulchral monuments, Medieval > Congresses
  • Islamic sepulchral monuments > Congresses
  • Islamic sepulchral monuments
  • Sepulchral monuments, Medieval
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • "This book started with the international conference 'Medieval Tombs and their Spatial Contexts : Strategies of Commemoration in Christianity and Islam' held in February 2016 organized by the Institute of Art History at the Universities of Zürich and Tübingen in cooperation with the DFG-Research Training Group"--Acknowledgement page.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Contributions in English and German.
Contents
Memorial space configurations : an introduction / Markus Thome, Anna Pawlak, Francine Giese -- On a holy mountain? : Remote and elevated funerary monuments in medieval Islam / Richard Piran Mcclary -- Urban space beyond the walls : siting Islamic funerary complexes in Konya / Patricia Blessing -- Die Entstehung der Hohenzollern-Grablege im Raumgefüge der Zisterzienserabteikirche Heilsbronn / Markus Hörsch -- Von Stiftern und Mönchen : grablegen als erinnerungsorte im kontext monastischer raumkonzepte / Christina Vossler-Wolf -- Saint-Denis und die Grablegen der Königinnen bis ins 15. Jahrhundert : programm oder zufall / Susanna Blaser-Meier -- The funerary complex of Sultan Qalawun (1284-1285) : between text and architecture / Doris Behrens-Abouseif -- The crosses of the Sultan : Sultan Qaytbay and the mystery of the two crosses in his funerary complex at Cairo's northern cemetery (1472-1474) / Sarni de Giosa -- The Capilla Real in Córdoba : transcultural exchange in medieval Iberia / Francine Giese -- Sepoltura al solito? Die grablegen in Santo Spirito im kontext von regulierungen der Florentiner begräbniskultur und vormodernen raumordnungen / Claudia Jentzsch -- The stadtholder's two bodies and the visibility of power : the tomb of William of Orange in the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft / Anna Pawlak -- Die großen kreuze in X-Form im mittelalterlichen bodenmosaik : ausdruck gräflicher autoritat zur zeit der Gregorianischen reform / Barbara Franzé -- Das Bischofsgrabmal und die Visualisierung liturgischer Gemeinschaft Die Mainzer Kathedrale als Gedächtnisraum / Markus Thome -- Die Grablege Bischof Thilo von Trothas im Merseburger Dom : von einem bautechnischen Kunststiick, in einer historischen Spannungssituation mit sakralisierenden, genealogischen und anderen memorialen Mitteln einen Ort machtvoll zu inszenieren und die Raumbedeutungen im Bau-und Ausstattungsprozess zu steigern / Stefan Burge -- Das Grabmal "als Prozess" : Form, Raum, Liturgie und Rezeption am englischen Konigsund Königinnengrabmal und an den koniglichen Chantry Chapels / Antje Fehrmann -- A widespread 'taste for the macabre', apotropaic or political marks? : urbanism, landscapes and funerary architecture in the Indian sultanates / Sara Mondini - Die letzte Feier der Monarchia Universalis Abdankung, Tod und Begrabnis Kaiser Karls V / Arwne Koller
Call Number
JQE 18-807
ISBN
  • 9783110515893
  • 311051589X
LCCN
2018934819
OCLC
996939949
Title
Tomb - memory - space : concepts of representation in premodern Christian and Islamic art / edited by Francine Giese, Anna Pawlak and Markus Thome.
Publisher
Berlin ; Boston : de Gruyter, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Language
Contributions in English and German.
Added Author
Giese, Francine, editor.
Pawlak, Anna, editor.
Thome, Markus, editor.
Research Call Number
JQE 18-807
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