Staging the ruler's body in medieval cultures : a comparative perspective
This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history, political theory, and...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers,
[2023]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | [Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history]
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| Schlagworte: | Kings and rulers in art Human body Art, Medieval |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (351 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history, political theory, and Repräsentationsgeschichte. More specifically, it investigates the multiple ways in which the ruler's physical appearance was apprehended and invested with visual, metaphorical, and emotional associations, as well as the dynamics whereby such mise-en-scène devices either were inspired by or worked as sources of inspiration for textual and pictorial representations of royalty. The outcome is a multifaced analysis of the multiple, imaginative, and terribly ambiguous ways in which, in past societies, the notion of a God-driven, eternal, and transpersonal royal power came to be associated with the material bodies of kings and queens, and of the impressive efforts made, in different cultures, to elude the conundrum of the latter's weakness, transitoriness, and individual distinctiveness |
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| Beschreibung: | Series title from publisher's website Based on the international conferernce, Staging the Ruler's Body in Medieval Cultures: a Comparative Perspective, held on November 23-24, 2020 at the University of Fribourg Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (351 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781915487162 1915487161 9781915487087 1915487080 |