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A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages
This volume presents the medieval Eucharist in all its glory combining introductory essays on the liturgy, art, theology, architecture, devotion and theology from the early, high and late medieval periods.
Sacred Scripture / Sacred Space
Thirteen papers on different subjects, focussing on writings and inscriptions in medieval art, explore the faculty of writing to create and determine spaces and to generate the sacred by the display of holy scripture. The subjects range from book illumination over wall painting, mosaics, sculpture, and church interiors to inscriptions on portals and façades.
Crafting Presence
The contributions to this volume analyse material and visual effects that are artistically produced in different, often seemingly 'poorer' media. As an alternative to the notions of mimesis and imitation, this volume uses the term 'evocation’, a concept that avoids the interpretation of lifelike mimesis as representational goal and instead values specific and intrinsic dynamisms that afford objects and materials to assume aesthetic presence. The individual chapters show how distinct cross-media perspectives, such as media permeability, semantic openness, and aesthetic blurring, are consciously employed as media-specific strengths that can transcend the boundaries between materials, crafts,...
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