"All the contributions shed new light on the late medieval and early modern Baltic and Scandinavian worlds that are generally unfamiliar to Anglo-American scholars. However, the most exciting aspect of the collection is that it introduces the wider Anglophone scholarly world to the work of younger researchers, based in Estonia and Lithuania. [...] The reviewer heartily recommends this book."Felice LifshitzUniversity of AlbertaThe Historian, 78: 3 (2016)
This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character. The book approaches ‘ritual’ as an action which is discussed under the general umbrella term “performative practice”, and is characterised by a synthesis between the repetitive and the extraordinary that carries an intense symbolic meaning and is emotionally charged.Images, spaces and rituals were closely interconnected in both the religious and the secular spheres, and played a relevant role in the symbolic communication of the time. The essays in this volume are devoted to a complex study of these phenomena in Northern and Central Europe, including regions which, due to linguistic or cultural barriers, have thus far received comparatively little attention in Anglo-American scholarship, including Scandinavia, Poland and the Baltic states.
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This multidisciplinary collection of essays explores the functions, meanings and use of images and objects in various late Medieval and Early Modern social practices, which were linked by their ritual character.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781443851336
Publisert
2013-10-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Høyde
212 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
340