Creations : medieval rituals, the arts, and the concept of creation / edited by Sven Rune Havsteen ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Havsteen, Sven Rune.

Series:

Ritus et artes : traditions and transformations ; 2.

Ritus et artes : traditions and transformations ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--History--To 1500.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Liturgy and the arts--Europe--History--To 1500.

Liturgy and the arts.

Creation in art.

Creation in literature.

History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

269 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2007]

Summary:

The meanings of the noun 'creation', and the verb 'to create', range from the traditional theological idea of God creating ex nihilo to a more recent sense of the process of artistic conception. This collection of thirteen essays, written by scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and theology, explores the complicated relationship between medieval rituals and theology, and the development of an idea of human artistic creation, which came to the fore in the sixteenth century.

The volume concentrates on the period from the Carolingians to the Counter-Reformation but also includes some twentieth-century musicians. Each essay is dedicated to a particular topic concerned with ritual or artistic beginnings, inventions, harmony and disharmony, as well as representations or celebrations of creation. Central themes include the interplay of the ideas of God as creator, of God acting and recreating in medieval liturgy, of God as artist-the deus artifex of the Pythagorean cosmology, which was occasionally referred to as recently as the early nineteenth century-and, finally, of the homo creator, a concept in which man reflected (and eventually replaced) God in his artistic creativity. This book therefore features new, significant, individual contributions from a range of scholarly disciplines, but, taken as a whole, it also constitutes a complex interdisciplinary study, with large-scale historical constructions.

Contents:

'Divine Creation' and its Heritage

Deus artifex and Homo creator: Art Between the Human and the Divine / Eyole Ostrem 15

Invocatio Musae: Inspired by the Muse, the Inescapable Reality / Wim Verbaal 49

Creation and Recreation in Irish Bardic Poetry / Salvador Ryan 65

Human Creation

Ritual and Creation: Medieval Liturgy as Foreground and Background for Creation / Nils Holger Petersen 89

Writing Alternative Worlds: Rituals of Authorship and authority in Late Medieval Theological and Literary Discourse / Richard Utz 121

Creatio in musica - 'Creation' in Music: On the New Manner of Composing in the Years around 1800 / Heinrich W. Schwab 139

'Driven out of Paradise': Schoenberg on Creation and Construction / Magnar Breivik 165

The Disrupted Creation

The Jesuit Creation / Peter Davidson 185

Anti-Ritual: Blasphemous Reactions to the Late Medieval Cult of Exposition in Scandinavian Mural Painting / Hans Henrik Lohfert Jorgensen 197

The Creative Flow of a Musico-Verbal Collage: Section III of Luciano Berio's Sinfonia / Claus Cluver 229

The Double Movement of Creation: Vignettes of Kabbalistic and Deconstructive Thought / Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503522951

2503522955

OCLC:

84151768