Livia Cárdenas

Gebundenes Buch

The Texture of Images

The Relic Book in Late-Medieval Religiosity and Early Modern Aesthetics

Übersetzung: Simon, Kathleen Anne

Beschreibung

This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books. The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance.

This book is a translation of Die Textur des Bildes: Das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters (De Gruyter, 2013)

Autor

Livia Cárdenas (PhD 2011, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), art historian, is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Basel and Leuphana University Lüneburg. She has published on medieval and premodersn art and culture.

Produktdetails

• Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World 85
• Verlag: Brill
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 87126844
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Quartal 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 37mm x 163mm x 245mm
• Gewicht: 1018g
• ISBN-13: 9789004404489
• ISBN-10: 9004404481
• Artikelnr.: 59951684

Rezensionen

"This book should be of great interest to book historians, art historians, and others interested in the thought and art of the late medieval and early Reformation period."
John L. Flood, University of London. In: The Library, 7.22.3 (September 2021), pp. 390-392.