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MEMORY AND REDEMPTION PUBLIC

by Achim Timmermann

  • Paperback
  • 427 pages
  • Publisher: Brepols Pub
  • 22.1 x 27.7 x 2.3 cm

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Erected in large numbers from about 1300 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 Wroc?aw, though less ostentatious works such as the Bildstocke 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.

  • Title

    MEMORY AND REDEMPTION PUBLIC

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brepols Pub

  • Published

    September 2017

  • Weight

    1703g

  • Page Count

    427

  • Dimensions

    22.1 x 27.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9782503546520

  • ISBN-10

    2503546528

  • Eden Code

    5479681