Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation - Couverture rigide

 
9786155053214: Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 6155053219 ISBN 13 : 9786155053214
Editeur : Central European University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or the manifestations of magic attributed to diabolic forces, were contained by a variety of discourses, described and discussed in religion, philosophy, chronicles, literature and fiction, and also in a large number of pictures and material objects. The nine essays in this collection discusses how supernatural phenomena - especially angels and devils - found visual manifestation in Latin and Eastern Christianity as well as Judaism in the late medieval, early renaissance period.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gerhard Jaritz is Professor at the Medieval History Department of Central European University.

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Éditeur
Central European University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
6155053219
ISBN 13 
9786155053214
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
216
Éditeur
Jaritz Gerhard
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