Memory and Redemption. Public Monuments and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape

Achim Timmermann

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Pages: 427 p. Illustrations:335 b/w, 50 col. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2017. Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-54652-0. Paperback -- SUMMARY Erected in large numbers from about 1200 onwards, and featuring increasingly sophisticated designs, wayside crosses and other edifices in the public sphere such as fountains, pillories and boundary markers constituted the largest network of images and monuments in the late medieval world. Not only were they everywhere, they were also seen by nearly everyone, because large sections of the populace were constantly on the move. Carrying an entire spectrum of religious, folkloric and judicial beliefs, these monuments were indeed at the very heart of late medieval life. This is the first critical study of these fascinating and rich structures written by a medievalist art historian. Focusing on the territories of the former Holy Roman Empire, this investigation considers such important edifices as the towering wayside crosses of Wiener Neustadt and Brno or the elaborate pillories of Kasteelbrakel and Wrocław, though less ostentatious works such as the Bildstöcke of Franconia and Carinthia or the high crosses of Westphalia and the Rhineland are equally examined. In addition, the study looks at the homiletic, literary, devotional and artistic imagination, in which wayside crosses and other such structures helped constitute a spiritual and allegorical landscape that very much complemented and put pressure on the physical landscapes traversed and inhabited by the contemporary public. TABLE OF CONTENTS A Short Introduction Chapter 1: From the Ahenny Crosses to the Zderad Column: Northern Sacroscapes to c. 1500 Part 1: High cross (1), picture stone, and Irminsul: Competing monuments in northern and northwestern Europe to c. 1100 Part 2: High cross (2), discoidal cross, and Bildstock: Monumental landscapes in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1100 1530 Part 3: Eleanor Cross, high cross (3), and Spinnerin am Kreuz: The great turriform monument in northern Europe, c. 1270 1470 Chapter 2: In the City: Persuasion and Protection Part 1: The market cross: Commerce and the law. Excursus: The market crosses of Britain and Ireland Part 2: The pillory: Degradation through elevation Part 3: The fountain: Regeneration and civic munificence Part 4: Lion, Rider, Roland: Making and faking civic history Part 5: The Stations of the Cross: The city as Jerusalem Part 6: The cemetery lantern: Illuminating the city of the dead Chapter 3: On the Road: Perdition and Perpetuity Part 1: The poor sinner s cross: Crime, punishment, and redemption, I Part 2: The penance cross: Crime, punishment, and redemption, II Part 3: Battle crosses and accident crosses: Disaster, trauma, and remembrance Part 4: Pilgrimage- and processional crosses, safe conduct- and border stones: Trajectories and boundaries. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 02747

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