Virtual Liturgy and Ritual Artifacts in Medieval and Early Modern - Studie

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book uses traditional art-historical methodologies and media technology theory to reexamine ritual objects. Previous analysis has not considered the in-between nature of these objects as deliberate and virtual conduits to the divine. The liturgy, the altarpiece, the altar environment, relics, and their reliquaries are media. In a series of case studies, several objects tell a different story about culture and society in medieval Europe. In essence, they reveal that media and media technologies generate and modulate the individual and collective structure of feelings of sacredness among assemblages of humans and nonhumans.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, early modern studies, and architectural history.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. There are No Medieval Media?
Part I
2. Media, Mediator, And Intercessor: Remembering the Loca Sancta
3. Mass Media and Liturgical Performance
Part II
4. Religious Technology and The Vièrge Ouvrante
5. Virtually There: Expounding the Tensions Between Planar and Virtual Space Within the Ghent Altarpiece
6. Reflections
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Katharine D. Scherff is Postdoc Lecturer and teaches for the School of Art and the Medieval and Renaissance Studies Center at Texas Tech University.

Summary

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal the evolution and function of these ritual objects.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine Scherff, Katharine D. Scherff, Katharine D. (Texas Tech University Scherff
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032304793
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3230479-3
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Media Studies, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, History of art / art & design styles, History of Religion, History of Art, History of Architecture, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Civil engineering, surveying & building, History and Archaeology, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics, ART / History / European / Renaissance, ART / History / European / Medieval