IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 1238: Material Manifestations of Transcendent Truth
Wednesday 3 July 2019, 14.15-15.45
Organisers: | Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen, Nationalmuseet, København Maria H. Oen, Centrum för medeltidsstudier, Stockholms universitet / Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier, Universitetet i Oslo |
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Moderator/Chair: | Kristin B. Aavitsland, Det teologiske Menighetsfakultet, Oslo |
Paper 1238-a | Situating Devotional Edification: The Function of Micro-Architecture on the Exterior of Rural Parish Churches (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General |
Paper 1238-b | Shrinking the World: Depicting the Holy in Miniature (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Liturgy, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Paper 1238-c | The Role of Art in the Construction of Late Medieval Visions (Language: English) Index terms: Architecture - Religious, Art History - General, Mentalities, Religious Life |
Abstract | This session explores the connections between materiality and devotional culture in the Middle Ages. This juxtaposition by now has a long tradition within interdisciplinary scholarship and has gained renewed interest within academia since Caroline Bynum Walker published her much lauded volume Christian Materiality in 2011. The three papers focus on the paradoxical character of material representations as man-made objects of this world which, in medieval belief, when approached with the right mind-set (the 'ghostly eye' as the English mystic Margery Kempe calls it) become porous, transparent entities through which the beholder or devotee momentarily transcends into the beyond and is able to peruse divine truth. |