Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, through the Middle Ages to the pres...Lasīt vairāk
This book traces the history of the Annunciation, exploring the deep and lasting impact of the event on the Western imagination. Waller explores the Annunciation from its appearance in Lukes Gospel, to its rise to prominence in religious doctrine an...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the instruments of the Passion, in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition...Lasīt vairāk
This study examines theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography....Lasīt vairāk
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of the origin of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality....Lasīt vairāk
This book represents the first attempt to study an ancient network of pilgrimage sites, known as Shakti Pithas, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Sati in an art historical and political context. During the nineteenth century these sites were re-imagine...Lasīt vairāk
The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period....Lasīt vairāk
Offering snapshots of mercantile devotion to saints in different regions, this volume is the first to explicitly ask how merchants invoked saints, and why. The essays in this collection, written from diverse angles, range across later medieval weste...Lasīt vairāk
Since early Christianity, wood, earth, water and stone were taken from loca sancta to signify them elsewhere. Unlike textual or visual representations, natural materials not only represent the Holy Land; they are part of it. This book examines the p...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Early Christian Art surveys a broad spectrum of Christian art produced from the late second through the sixth centuries....Lasīt vairāk
Focusing on the fate and meaning of the two altarpiece paintings commissioned by the Oratorians from Peter Paul Rubens, this study offers the first comparative study of Jesuit and Oratorian images of their respective would-be saints, and the controv...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2020, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429424984)
This book highlights the history of Islamic popular devotional art and visual culture in 20th-century India, weaving the personal narrative of the authors journey through his understanding of the faith. It presents an overview of Indian Muslim poste...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first detailed investigation of the late medieval use of the Tree of Jesse, the genealogical tree of Christ depicted on many objects across different media, created in Northern Europe in the mid-fifteenth to early sixteenth centurie...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays introduces the currents of thought and practice that underpin artistic engagement with medieval Western Christian mysticism, and explores the continued link between art and theology....Lasīt vairāk
This book provides a framework by which a global audience might think theologically about contemporary films produced in mainland China by Chinese directors. Up to this point the academic discipline of Christian theology and film has focussed predom...Lasīt vairāk
Icons in Time, Persons in Eternity presents a critical, interdisciplinary examination of contemporary theological and philosophical studies of the Christian image and redefines this within the Orthodox tradition by exploring the ontological and aest...Lasīt vairāk
Examining various encounters with the holy in the medieval Mediterranean through the lens of the human body and perceptible dimensions of sacred space, the chapters in this volume discuss the complex dynamics of perception employed when experiencing...Lasīt vairāk
The studies in this volume all deal with images and texts that relate to the veneration of the saints in Byzantium after the ninth century. Some papers are devoted to the church calendar and the annual commemorations of hundreds of saints through li...Lasīt vairāk
