scholarly journals Plates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Church

<p>This volume presents a thorough study of the more than a thousand preserved Danish medieval rural parish churches. It traces the transformations of church interiors from <em>c</em>. 1450 to 1600 (thus covering both the emergence and impact of the Danish Reformation) by interpreting material changes within a broad historical perspective that highlights changes in religious practices and liturgy. The book explores the spatial and artistic implications of liturgy as well as the role of the congregation, the donor, and the clergy both in shaping and disrupting these interiors. It sets out to answer four basic questions: What did these rural churches look like by the middle of the fifteenth century? How did they change from the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth? How were they used and integrated into public as well as private ceremonies? And how may these churches have been perceived and experienced by the congregation and clergy?<br></p><p>This study seeks to establish a methodological framework that incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, and theology, in order to facilitate an overall understanding of the architectural setting, embracing spatial, material, and artistic elements within the church through liturgy.</p>

scholarly journals Plates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Church

<p>This volume presents a thorough study of the more than a thousand preserved Danish medieval rural parish churches. It traces the transformations of church interiors from <em>c</em>. 1450 to 1600 (thus covering both the emergence and impact of the Danish Reformation) by interpreting material changes within a broad historical perspective that highlights changes in religious practices and liturgy. The book explores the spatial and artistic implications of liturgy as well as the role of the congregation, the donor, and the clergy both in shaping and disrupting these interiors. It sets out to answer four basic questions: What did these rural churches look like by the middle of the fifteenth century? How did they change from the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth? How were they used and integrated into public as well as private ceremonies? And how may these churches have been perceived and experienced by the congregation and clergy?<br></p><p>This study seeks to establish a methodological framework that incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, and theology, in order to facilitate an overall understanding of the architectural setting, embracing spatial, material, and artistic elements within the church through liturgy.</p>

The role of the church in the context of Covid-19. Adaptation and religious practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xolani
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
The Church

From time immemorial, the plagues and pandemics have been a challenge to the church. The covid-19 is such a challange to the church. The cure is not in sight, hence the talk of adaptation and healing in the context of a pandemic such as covid-19. These interventions will include the role of the church. This is because the church is one of the important social pillars that has huge influence on people at any given time. It is because of this understanding that this paper will discuss the role of the church in such a context. A practical ecclesiological method will be employed because of its disciplinary nature so as to consider the empirical issues related to the pandemic, the historical perspective in studing the church's role in the response against pandemics, the hermeneutical perspective into such a role of the church, and then strategise on how best the church can contribute to nurture, healing and adaptation. Though this paper treats the pandemic of covid-19 globally, it however has a special interest to the Zimbabwean situation.

Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Corporeal Nature

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

scholarly journals Legal Aspects of the Role of the Corrector of the Clergyin the Early Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Prague

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Veronika Ondrášková
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Moral Conduct ◽  
Rules Set ◽  
The Church

The paper focuses on the institution of the Corrector of the Clergy within the Diocese of Prague. This ecclesial administrative representative was a criminal judge who also oversaw the moral conduct of the clergy. The paper compares legal rules set by the Church for the clergy through synodical statutes and an actual enforcement of these duties by the Corrector. The paper analyses the judicial book covering the period from 1407 to 1410, examining the judge’s approach to moral delicts (breach of celibate, etc.), which constituted the majority of the cases. Emphasis is given on the prescribed punishments.

THE PLEA ROLLS OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS: AN UNUSED SOURCE FOR THE ART AND HISTORY OF LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, 1422–1509

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 157-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Danbury ◽  
Kathleen L Scott
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Land Inheritance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Contemporary Context

The court of Common Pleas was one of the most important courts in the English legal system for more than 600 years, until its abolition by Act of Parliament in 1873. The cases heard before this royal court were civil disputes between the king’s subjects, often relating to land, inheritance and debts. The purpose of this paper is to introduce readers to the ornament and imagery that appeared on the headings of the main records of the court of Common Pleas between 1422 and 1509 and to explore the origins and contemporary context of the images and representations employed by the clerk-artists who wrote and decorated these headings. The decoration they chose ranged from simple ornament to representations of plants, birds, animals and people. Great emphasis was placed on the role of the sovereign as the fount of justice, and this emphasis was reinforced by the incorporation of words and phrases, acclamations and verses from the Psalms chosen to underline the majesty and power of successive monarchs. The illustrations provide an important insight into the art, history and politics of late fifteenth-century England.

scholarly journals VI.—A Description of the Paintings in the Church of Kempley, near Ross

Archaeologia ◽  
1880 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 187-194
Author(s):  
John Thomas Micklethwaite
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Usual Type ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Church

Kempley is about seven miles from Ross. It is in Gloucestershire, but on the borders of the county of Hereford, and was formerly in the diocese of Hereford, though now in that of Gloucester and Bristol. The church, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, is of the usual type of small parish churches of the Norman period, being made up of aisleless nave and chancel, the former about 34 feet by 19 feet, the latter about 18 feet by 14 feet, inside the walls. All the original walls remain, though most of the windows have been replaced by later ones, and a tower of the fifteenth century has been added at the west end. The chancel is roofed with a plain barrel-vault of rubble.

scholarly journals Miejsce ekfrazy w bizantynistycznej historiografii artystycznej

Vox Patrum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 471-484
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Smorąg Różycka
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
Comparative Methods ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Strict Adherence ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Byzantine Art ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Iconoclastic Controversy ◽  
The Church

In Byzantium, writing ekphrases was one of the standard literary skills, de­veloped during school instruction. Yet, in Byzantine art history, the analysis of Byzantine ekphrases had long been beyond the scope of researchers who favoured rather the iconographic and formal comparative methods. It was not until the dis­covery of the role of rhetoric in the shaping of pictorial formulae and iconographic programmes of paintings, by H. Maguire, that the importance of ekphrases was fully recognised – especially as far as interpretation of the contents of art works and the understanding of mechanisms governing the development of iconographic and compositional programmes that ‘defied’ the canon were concerned. The examples of ‘reversed’ compositional schemes in the Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem scene in the Church of the Virgin at Daphni or the Holy Myrrhbearers at the Sepulchre in the Mileševa Monastery, discussed in the present paper, consi­dered within a broad context of architectural space and the liturgy, have demons­trated that the Byzantine artist was able to freely shape his pictorial formulae while looking for new ways of visualising dogmatic content, especially in the period after the Iconoclastic Controversy (726-843). An example of Michael Psellos’ ekphrasis of an image of the Crucifixion fur­ther proves that also Byzantine writers were faced with a similar problem of fin­ding adequate forms for expressing dogmatic content in keeping with the literary canon. In his description of the image, Psellos not only identified its particular elements (schemata) but also referred to the experience and knowledge of the recipient who was supposed to be able to discern in the picture also the reality that could not be represented using artistic means. Thus, the above affinity between the artistic and literary stances seems to re­lease the researchers of Byzantine art from strict adherence to stereotypical inter­pretations in keeping with the methodological canon.

scholarly journals La Iglesia de Mallorca y la redención de cautivos en la Baja Edad Media = The Church of Majorca and the Ransom of Captives during the Late Middle Ages

2019 ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Albert Cassanyes Roig
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
La Caridad ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Church

El presente artículo es un primer estudio del rol de la Iglesia en la redención de los cautivos cristianos que se hallaban bajo el yugo de los infieles. La tarea de las órdenes redentoristas —trinitarios y mercedarios— en este ámbito fue muy significativa. Menos conocida es la intervención de la catedral, a veces junto a las autoridades municipales. En ambos casos, las limosnas constituían la principal fuente de ingresos, de modo que el rescate era posible gracias a la caridad de los vecinos. El artículo se centra en el ejemplo de la diócesis de Mallorca, un territorio abocado al mar, cuyos habitantes eran frecuentemente capturados. A partir de una serie de registros de subsidios de mediados del siglo xv, se pueden conocer algunos rasgos de los cautivos, la vulnerabilidad en la que quedaban sus familias y el comportamiento de los responsables de la distribución de las limosnas entre las personas a rescatar.AbstractThis paper analyses the role of the Church in the ransom of Christian captives who fell under Muslim control.  The role of the ransoming orders—Trinitarians and Mercedarians—in the ransoming process was highly significant.  Less known is the intervention of the cathedral chapter, often working side by side with the municipal authorities.  In both cases, alms were the most important source of income; the charity of their neighbors made a captive’s ransom possible.  This paper focuses on the example of the Diocese of Majorca, a territory exposed to the sea, whose inhabitants were frequently captured.  Based on some mid-fifteenth century registers of subsidies it is possible to know some of the individual characteristics of the captives, the vulnerability of their families, and the behavior of the responsible persons who distributed the charitable money among the captives and their families.

Bild, Ding, Material: Nimben und Goldgründe italienischer Tafelmalerei in transkultureller Perspektive

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-541
Author(s):  
Vera-Simone Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Panel Painting ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Impact

Abstract With a special focus on processes of artistic transfer between the Apennine peninsula and other regions in the Mediterranean and beyond, this paper sheds new light on haloes and gold grounds in thirteenthto fifteenth-century Italian painting. By means of case studies, it analyzes both (1) the role of haloes and gold grounds within the specific logic of the images, and (2) the impact of imported artifacts (their techniques, decoration, and materiality) on Italian panel painting as well as the complex interplays between imports and local production. Elucidating the intersections, frictions, and fields of tension between visual and material culture, this paper contributes to discussions on transmedial and transmaterial dynamics, transcultural art history, and the multireferentiality of gold.

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