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Our lives are saturated with images. They exert an unparalleled power in contemporary culture. However, the power of images is in fact nothing new. Although texts are often the most important historical sources for academics, the image played an enormous role for those who actually lived in these past societies. Images communicated all manner of concepts and messages to a much wider audience than theological texts. Throughout history, images frequently depicted God, human beings, and their relationship in a manner that was meant to teach theology and inspire awe. Historically speaking, most people who have done theological reflection have done so in intimate conversation with the images seen in sacred spaces.

This volume explores how images themselves are theology, how they influence sacred texts and theological concepts in a way that words cannot on their own. In part one, the book presents five essays investigating the ways in which images have shaped sacred and theological texts. In part two, the book offers five discussions of the sort of theological work that images can perform that words are unable to do. The volume concludes by outlining areas for future research and exploration based on the insights achieved among the chapters. The collection is, in its totality, a celebration of how central the image has been in shaping theology and how it should continue to do so.

Dr C. A. Strine is Lecturer in Ancient Near Eastern History and Literature at the Univerity of Sheffield. He is the author of the award-winning monograph Sworn Enemies and Director of the Back Where You Came From project, reading biblical stories about migration and making art with sanctuary seekers.

Mark McInroy is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). He is the author of Balthasar on the Spiritual Senses: Perceiving Splendour (OUP, 2014), for which he received a Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise in 2015.

Alexis Torrance is Archbishop Demetrios College Chair of Byzantine Theology. He is the author of Repentance in Late Antiquity: Eastern Asceticism and the Framing of the Christian Life, ca. 400–650, for which he received a Manfred Lautenschläger Award for Theological Promise in 2015.

Table des matières :

Foreword — Thomas Pfau

Introduction: The Place of the Image — C. A. Strine, Mark McInroy, and Alexis Torrance

‘Mischmetaphors’: (Re-)Presenting God in Unusual and Sophisticated Ways — Brent A. Strawn

Mary’s Image as Theology — Jane Heath

Early Christian Visual Theology: Iconography of the Trinity and Christ — Robin M. Jensen

Persons or Principles? The Meaning of the Byzantine Icon Revisited — Alexis Torrance

The Catalytic Image: Migration, Image, and Exegetical Imagination in the Jacob Narrative (Genesis 25–33) — C. A. Strine

Image as Theology in Dante’s Commedia: Praying for Each Other’s Good — Vittorio Montemaggi

Beholding the Radiant Invisible: The Incarnate Image in Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Jean-Luc Marion — Mark McInroy

Brought into the Fold — Ben Quash

The End of Images: Towards a Phenomenology of Eschatological Expectation — Judith Wolfe

Conclusion: Whither the Image? — C. A. Strine, Mark McInroy, and Alexis Torrance

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Authors

Index of Biblical Texts

Informations pratiques :

Image as Theology. The Power of Art in Shaping Christian Thought, Devotion, and Imagination, éd. Strine Casey, Mark Mclnroy, Alexis Torrance, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022 ; 1 vol., 244 p. (Arts and the Sacred, 6). ISBN : 978-2-503-58121-7. Prix : € 110,00.

Source : Brepols

Ulrich Eisenhardt wertet die Quellen zur Rechtsprechung der obersten Gerichte im Alten Reich zu den Gerichtsprivilegien aus und gelangt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Gerichtsverfassung des Reiches seit dem Mittelalter von den Gerichtsprivilegien, die der König bzw. Kaiser verlieh, geprägt war, ohne dass es eine nennenswerte Gesetzgebung gegeben hätte. Mit Hilfe der Gerichtsprivilegien versuchte man, Gerichtszuständigkeiten für die Rechtsuchenden in Regeln zu fassen, die den Zugang zu den erstinstanzlichen Gerichten und später auch die Appellationsmöglichkeiten bestimmten. Auch die Abgrenzung zwischen weltlicher und geistlicher Gerichtsbarkeit spielte dabei eine bedeutende Rolle. Erst in einem sich in der neueren Zeit verstärkenden Prozess verdrängten Gesetze die Privilegien, nachdem lange Zeit ein Nebeneinander von gesetzlichen Bestimmungen und Privilegien als Rechtsquellen bei gleichem Regelungsinhalt geherrscht hatte. Nicht zu unterschätzen ist der Beitrag, den die Gerichtsprivilegien zur Territorialisierung des Gerichtswesens und damit zur Ausbildung föderalistischer Strukturen geleistet haben.

Informations pratiques :

Ulrich Eisenhardt, Kaiserliche Gerichtsprivilegien Ihre Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Rechtspflege im Alten Reich, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2023 ; 1 vol., 442 p. (Quellen und Forschungen zur höchsten Gerichtsbarkeit im Alten Reich, 78). ISBN : 978-3-412-52857-7. Prix : € 70,00.

Source : Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht

At the end of the Middle Ages, a group of hatmakers from the Low Countries migrated across the North Sea to London. These men brought with them new skills and technologies, unknown to English artisans, becoming the first to manufacture brimmed felts hats in England. However, though their wares were immediately popular with English consumers, from courtiers to ordinary people, they faced an economic environment in London that restricted and sometimes completely disallowed the production and retail of their goods. In the early years of the sixteenth century, the hatmakers’ desire to remain independent from regulation and governance by London civic guilds led to their formation of a craft association of their own. The Hatmakers’ fraternity of St James operated for about a decade, until in 1511 the royal council mandated their amalgamation with and subordination to the powerful London Haberdashers’ Company. In their short period of independence, the Hatmakers’ guild wrote bilingual ordinances, in English and Dutch, regulating the craft of hatmaking in London. The small parchment booklet in which they wrote the ordinances, now housed in the London Guildhall Library, contains more than a simple list of craft rules: it reveals how these Dutch craftsmen negotiated their immigrant lives in both the specifics of their artisanal practice and the broader social and linguistic realities of their daily interactions.

Shannon McSheffrey is Professor of History at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has written five books and numerous articles and chapters on aspects of English society, culture, and politics between 1400 and 1550. She is currently at work on the Evil May Day anti-immigrant riot in London in 1517.

Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol’s Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

Table des matières :

Preface

Part I: Study
1. Citizen Guilds, Stranger Artisans, and the Hat Trade in London, circa 1500
2. The Formation of the Hatmaker’s Fraternity
3. The Hatmakers and the 1511 Agreement
4. The Manuscript
5. The Linguistic Interest of the Bilingual Ordinances

Conclusion

Part II: Texts
Editorial Conventions
The Bilingual Ordinances of the Hatmakers
The Agreement with the Haberdashers
The Oath of the Wardens of the Haberdashers

Bibliography
Index

Informations pratiques :

Shannon McSheffrey et Ad Putter, The Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London. With an edition of their bilingual Guild Ordinances, Woodbridge, The Boydell Press, 2023 ; 1 vol., 176 p. (Medieval and Renaissance Clothing and Textiles, 6). ISBN : 9781837650804. Prix GBP : 19,99.

Source : Boydell and Brewer

L’enluminure occupe une place centrale dans le système des arts du Moyen Âge et de la première époque moderne. Dotée de caractères propres par son intégration dans cet organisme complexe qu’est le codex, elle dialogue néanmoins avec les autres domaines de la création.

Cet ouvrage explore justement les rapports entre l’enluminure et d’autres arts – que ce soient les textiles, l’orfèvrerie, la sculpture, la gravure ou encore la peinture sur panneau et la peinture monumentale – en considérant des cas significatifs de l’époque carolingienne à la Renaissance, passant de Paris à Bologne, des Alpes à la Méditerranée. Une vingtaine d’autrices et d’auteurs d’Allemagne, de France, d’Italie et de Suisse interrogent les conditions institutionnelles, les formes et les significations des échanges entre les techniques dans et en dehors du manuscrit, entre polyvalence des artistes, collaboration entre les métiers, circulation de modèles, stratégies représentatives.

Table des matières :

• Michele Tomasi, Avant-propos
• I. Polyvalence d’artistes à la fin du Moyen Âge, entre la France et l’Italie (avec une escapade helvétique)
  • Inès Villela-Petit, Les frères de Limbourg hors du livre
  • Nicolas Oget, Le Maître de Coëtivy: un cheminement dans la polyvalence du métier de peintre à la fin du Moyen Âge
  • Mireia Castaño, Quelques réflexions sur les rapports entre enluminure et broderie en France au XV^e siècle
  • Aurélia Cohendy, Les enlumineurs toulousains à la fin du XV^e siècle d’après les statuts de leur corporation
  • Fabio Massaccesi, Tra pittura e miniatura: il caso bolognese di Jacopo di Paolo e Giovanni da Modena
  • Pier Luigi Mulas, Intorno a un miniatore-glittico milanese dimenticato: Giovanni Antonio Decio
  • Cristina Quattrini, Miniatori e pittori nella Milano di fine Quattrocento: il caso di Princivalle Negri
  • Adeline Favre, Autour de Pierre Maggenberg et d’un missel à l’usage de Lausanne: peinture et enluminure à Fribourg au début du XV^e siècle
• II. Échanges entre l’enluminure et d’autres techniques. Manuscrits et arts somptuaires
  • Fabrizio Crivello, Più preziosa dei preziosi. Miniatura e arti suntuarie alla corte di Carlo Magno
  • Ilka Mestemacher, Expanding Illumination Techniques: Paint Splashes and Gold Relief in the Carolingian Aachen Gospels
  • Alessia Marzo, Alle origini della miniatura sotto cristallo. Prime riflessioni
  • Marina Bernasconi Reusser, Christine Jakobi-Mirwald, Rammendi, miniature, tessuti. Lavori da monache a Engelberg
• III. Sculpture, peinture monumentale, architecture, estampe
  • Loretta Vandi, A Long Foliate Reform. Acanthus in Romanesque Tuscany between Illumination and Sculpture
  • Chiara Paniccia, Roma e l’area figurativa toscana nel XII secolo. Contaminazioni tra pittura murale e pittura libraria
  • Melissa Nieto, De la sculpture à l’enluminure et vice versa. Échanges entre techniques dans la région du Haut-Rhin autour de 1200
  • Denise Zaru, Entre enluminure et peinture en Emilie-Romagne à la fin du XV^e siècle. Les architectures fictives d’Ercole de’ Roberti: un outil dévotionnel
  • Nastasia Gallian, Giulio Clovio (1498-1578) et l’estampe
• Index des noms
• Index des manuscrits
• Les autrices et les auteurs

Informations pratiques :

Dans le manuscrit et en dehors Échanges entre l’enluminure et les autres arts (IXe-XVIe siècles), éd. Michele Tomasi, Rome, Viella, 2023 ; 1 vol., 560 p. (I libri di Viella. Arte / Études lausannoises d’histoire de l’art, 33). ISBN : 978-8-83313-869-5. Prix : € 49,00.

Source : Viella