Images of Cult and Devotion. Function and Reception of Christian Images in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe.

Kaspersen, Søren & Ulla Haastrup (eds.)

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Publisher's pictorial boards. Neat ownership inscription of Ingalill Pegelow (one of the contributors). Fine. Copenhagen, Museum Tusculanum Press / Univeristy of Copenhagen, 2004. Large 8vo. viii + 312 pp. + colour plates. Texts in German and English. Based on papers held at the international symposion on "Images of cult and images of devotion" at Sandberg Manor in Jutland, 27-31 August, 1994, the 14th in a series of Nordic iconographic symposia. - - - Contents: "Christian Reliquaries and Pagan Idols" by Signe Horn Fuglesang, "Pictures of Cult and Letters of Indulgence" by Ingalill Pegelow, "The Cult of Medieval Wooden Sculptures in Post-Reformation Norway" by Martin Blindheim, "Religiöses Erleben vor bildender Kunst in autobiographischen und biographischen Zeugnissen des Hoch- und Spätmittelalters" by Peter Dinzelbacher, "Sehen - verstehen - erleben. Besondere Redaktionen narrativer Ikonographie im Stundengebetbuch" by F. O. Büttner, "The Spatial Setting of Worship: Some Observations on the Relation Between Altarpieces and Churches" by Kees van der Ploeg, "Zu Altar- und Andachtsbildern in den Wandmalereien des mittelalterlichen Dänemark" by Ulla Haastrup, "Wall-Paintings and Devotion: The Impact of Late Medieval Piety on Danish Murals" by Soren Kaspersen, "The Passion of Christ in Late Medieval Wall-Paintings" by Helena Edgren, "Public Devotional Pictures in Late Medieval Denmark" by Poul Grinder-Hansen, "The Iconography of the Enthroned Virgin with the Christ Child Standing in Her Lap" by Aina Trotzig, "The Mother of God - The Life-Giving Fountain" by Jens Fleischer, "Obtrusive Paintings: Pordenone and the Baroque Tendencies in Italian Art at the Beginning of the 16th Century" by Hanne Kolind Poulsen, "Sind die Andachtsbilder mit der Reformation verschwunden?" by Åke Andrén, "The Sinner's Contemplation" by Henrik von Achen, "The Devotional Image: Reflections on Images in the Devotional Life of the Evangelical Tradition During the 17th and 18th Centuries" by Bengt Arvidsson.

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• Title: Images of Cult and Devotion. Function and Reception of Christian Images in Medieval and Post-Medieval Europe.
• Binding: Hardcover