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Zusatztext 'It is genuinely a pleasure to welcome as innovative! wide-reaching! and thoughtful a study of the now-familiar Arma Christi tradition as this one! which breaks new ground while also offering a useful edition of a centrally related text.' Renaissance Quarterly 'The interaction between private devotional practices! texts! and images was particularly fascinating! giving a convincing account of the practicalities of using the roll format! which an older tradition saw as a form of public display... The collection traces the shifts in devotional practices in the later medieval period through this single theme. It is also an excellent example of the role an interest in material culture can play in opening up new questions for scholars in the range of disciplines represented in this anthology.' Parergon Informationen zum Autor Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England (2011) and co-editor, with Andrea Denny-Brown, of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2008). Andrea Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (2012), and the co-editor, with Lisa H. Cooper, of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2008). Klappentext This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the 'instruments of the Passion,' in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images, and innovative architecture. The verbal and visual representations that accrued from these holiest of relics, and the practices they in turn inspired, are relevant to a wide variety of critical fields and theoretical approaches. This collection capitalizes on recent work on these most central of medieval 'objects,' and produces, through its interdisciplinary and intergenerational scholarly collaboration, a fresh view of the multiple intersections of the spiritual and the material in the Middle Ages. It also includes a new edition of the English Arma Christi poem known as 'O Vernicle' from previously unpublished manuscripts. Zusammenfassung This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the arma Christi, the "instruments of the Passion," in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction: Arma Christi: the material culture of the Passion, Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny Brown; The Arma Christi before the Arma Christi: rhetorics of the Passion in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Mary Agnes Edsall; Figure and ground: Elene’s nails, Cynewulf’s runes, and Hrabanus Maurus’s painted poems, Seeta Chaganti; Mapping virtual pilgrimage in an early 15th-century Arma Christi roll, Richard G. Newhauser and Arthur J. Russell; The footprints of Christ as Arma Christi: the evidence of Morgan B.54, Ann Eljenholm Nichols; The Arma Christi and the ethics of reckoning, Martha Rust; Memorial technai, St Thomas the Twin, and British Library MS Additional 22029, Ann W. Astell; Arma Christi as landscape in Hieronymus Bosch’s Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child, Suzanne Verderber; Liturgy and Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: reframing the Arma Christi, Lee Palmer Wandel; The Arma Christi in medieval and early modern Ireland, Salvador Ryan; Early modern afterlives of ...
