IMC 2012: Sessions
Session 1715: Some Aspects of Exploring the Medieval Countryside in the Orderly State in Prussia: Art as Testimony of Religious Life
Thursday 12 July 2012, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Instytut Zabytkoznawstwa i Konserwatorstwa, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
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Organiser: | Monika Jakubek-Raczkowska, Instytut Zabytkoznawstwa i Konserwatorstwa, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Toruń |
Moderator/Chair: | Emilia Jamroziak, Forschungsstelle für Vergleichende Ordensgeschichte (FOVOG), Technische Universität Dresden / Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
Paper 1715-a | New Research Perspectives: The Discoveries in the Church of Marianka / Marienfelde (East Prussia) (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Art History - Painting, Heraldry |
Paper 1715-b | Rhetoric Model ad status in the Pictorial Education of People in Prussian Villages in the 14th Century (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Art History - Sculpture, Religious Life, Sermons and Preaching |
Paper 1715-c | The Church in Montau near Marienburg: A Witness of the Birth of a New Local Mystic's Cult (Dorothy of Montau) and New Devotion (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - General, Lay Piety, Religious Life, Social History |
Abstract | The section is devoted to the artistic culture of the countryside in the State of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia in the late Middle Ages perceived through the potential of artwork as a medium shaping the norms of religious life (christianisation of folk culture, evangelisation of the populace, stimulating devotion). The papers present the results of a newly undertaken research path - multi-aspect and interdisciplinary possibilities of exploring medieval folk culture, open thanks to recent conservators' discoveries (paper -a) and applying an anthropological method of interpreting the works of art (papers -b and -c). A re-reading of the liturgical space of the village church allows us to follow the transformations of religious life of the countryside and the rules by which it used to be guided. |