A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image

A Heritage of Holy Wood: The Legend of the True Cross in Text and Image
Author: Barbara Baert
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2004-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047405749

This fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.

A Heritage Of Holy Wood

A Heritage Of Holy Wood
Author: Barbara Baert
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004139443

This fascinating study reconstructs the tradition of the Legend of the True Cross in text and image, from its tentative beginnings in 4th-century Jerusalem to the culminating expression of its multi-layered cosmic content in 14th and 15th-century monumental cycles in Germany and Italy.

Sacred Stimulus

Sacred Stimulus
Author: Galit Noga-Banai
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2018
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0190874651

How did early Christian Rome deal with the fact that Christ was never there? Sacred Stimulus is about the effect Jerusalem had on the formulation of Christian art in Rome during the fourth and fifth centuries. It deals with the visual Christianization of Rome from an almost neglected perspective: not in comparison to pagan art in Rome, not as reflecting the struggle with Constantinople, but rather as visual expressions of the idea of Jerusalem and its holy sites and traditions.

The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople

The Bronze Horseman of Justinian in Constantinople
Author: Elena N. Boeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2021-04-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108187064

Justinian's triumphal column was the tallest free-standing column of the pre-modern world and was crowned with arguably the largest metal equestrian sculpture created anywhere in the world before 1699. The Byzantine empire's bronze horseman towered over the heart of Constantinople, assumed new identities, spawned conflicting narratives, and acquired widespread international acclaim. Because all traces of Justinian's column were erased from the urban fabric of Istanbul in the sixteenth century, scholars have undervalued its astonishing agency and remarkable longevity. Its impact in visual and verbal culture was arguably among the most extensive of any Mediterranean monument. This book analyzes Byzantine, Islamic, Slavic, Crusader, and Renaissance historical accounts, medieval pilgrimages, geographic, apocalyptic and apocryphal narratives, vernacular poetry, Byzantine, Bulgarian, Italian, French, Latin, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, Florentine wedding chests, Venetian paintings, and Russian icons to provide an engrossing and pioneering biography of a contested medieval monument during the millennium of its life.

Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa

Chosen Places: Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa
Author: Jelena Erdeljan
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004345795

In Chosen Places. Constructing New Jerusalems in Slavia Orthodoxa, Jelena Erdeljan focuses on the Old Testament topic of the divinely-chosen status of Jerusalem and translatio Hierosolymi, including the history, process and media of formulating and disseminating this idea and its spatial-visual matrix in Christian visual culture. Firstly the study presents the case of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, as New Jerusalem, and secondly, in relation to Constatinople, discussion focuses on the cases of the capitals of Slavia Orthodoxa in the later Middle Ages: Turnovo, Belgrade and Moscow. The idea of Jerusalem corresponds with the idea of a mystical center, the center of the historical Christian world, which travels and follows the path of eschatologial realisation.

Inhuman Nature

Inhuman Nature
Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher: punctum books
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2014
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0692299300

Collection of essays examining the ways in which humanity is enmeshed in its surroundings.

The Cross and the Eucharist in Early Christianity

The Cross and the Eucharist in Early Christianity
Author: Daniel Cardó
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108483232

An investigation on ancient sources (patristic and liturgical) on the Cross and the Eucharist that sheds light on contemporary discussions.

Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women

Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women
Author: Martin Homza
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004338136

In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza scrutinises the genesis of ruler ideology among the most prominent East Central and Eastern European dynasties from the early and later Middle Ages. At the center of attention are the Přemyslids, the Piasts, the Rurikids, and the Árpáds, but also the main dynasties of the Balkans, namely the Trpimirović and the Nemanjić dynasties, as well as the House of Bogdan, and the Moldova dynasty of the Muṣatins. Unlike previous work, which has focused on narrative sources of male ruler hagiography, Homza studies texts concerning female royal figures. More broadly, this book also attempts to bridge the artificial gap between West and East in Europe.

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary

The Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary
Author: Liz Herbert McAvoy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2021
Genre: Christian art and symbolism
ISBN: 1843845989

During the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device. Usually associated with the Virgin Mary or the Lady of popular romance, it appeared in myriad literary and iconographic forms, largely for its aesthetic, decorative and symbolic qualities. This study focuses on the more complex metaphysical functions and meanings attached to it between 1100 and 1400 - and, in particular, those associated with the gardens of Eden and the Song of Songs. Drawing on contemporary theories of gender, gardens, landscape and space, it traces specifically the resurfacing and reworking of the idea and image of the enclosed garden within the writings of medieval holy women and other female-coded texts. In so doing, it presents the enclosed garden as generator of a powerfully gendered hermeneutic imprint within the medieval religious imaginary - indeed, as an alternative "language" used to articulate those highly complex female-coded approaches to God that came to dominate late-medieval religiosity. The book also responds to the "eco-turn" in our own troubled times that attempts to return the non-human to the centre of public and private discourse. The texts under scrutiny therefore invite responses as both literary and "garden" spaces where form often reflects content, and where their authors are also diligent "gardeners" the apocryphal Lives of Adam and Eve, for example; the horticulturally-inflected Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenburg and the "green" philosophies of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias; the visionary writings of Gertrude the Great and Mechthild of Hackeborn collaborating within their Helfta nunnery; the Middle English poem, Pearl; and multiple reworkings of the deeply problematic and increasingly sexualized garden enclosing the biblical figure of Susanna.