Memory and Redemption: Public Monuments and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape: 8 (Architectura Medii Aevi) - Softcover

Timmermann, Achim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2503546528 ISBN 13: 9782503546520

Publisher: Brepols N.V., 2017

Synopsis

Erected in large numbers from about 1200 onwards, and featuring increasingly sophisticated designs, wayside crosses and other edifices in the public sphere - such as fountains, pillories and boundary markers - constituted the largest network of images and monuments in the late medieval world. Not only were they everywhere, they were also seen by nearly everyone, because large sections of the populace were constantly on the move. Carrying an entire spectrum of religious, folkloric and judicial beliefs, these monuments were indeed at the very heart of late medieval life. This is the first critical study of these fascinating and rich structures written by a medievalist art historian. Focusing on the territories of the former Holy Roman Empire, this investigation considers such important edifices as the towering wayside crosses of Wiener Neustadt and Brno or the elaborate pillories of Kasteelbrakel and Wroclaw, though less ostentatious works such as the Bildstöcke of Franconia and Carinthia or the high crosses of Westphalia and the Rhineland are equally examined. In addition, the study looks at the homiletic, literary, devotional and artistic imagination, in which wayside crosses and other such structures helped constitute a spiritual and allegorical landscape that very much complemented and put pressure on the physical landscapes traversed and inhabited by the contemporary public.

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About the Author

Achim Timmerann teaches medieval and northern Renaissance art and architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is author of Real Presence: Sacrament Houses and the Body of Christ, c. 1270-1600 (AMA 4, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brepols N.V.
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2503546528
• ISBN 13: 9782503546520
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 427