Reformations and their impact on the culture of memoria / edited by Truus van Bueren [and four others].

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Bueren, Truus van, editor.

Series:

• Memoria and remembrance practices ; Volume 1.
• Memoria and remembrance practices ; Volume 1

Language:

• English
• German

Subjects (All):

• Christian art and symbolism--History.
• Counter-Reformation in art.
• Christian art and symbolism--Modern period, 1500-.
• Reformation and art.
• Memorials--Europe.
• Memorials in art.
• Dead--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 409 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2016]

Language Note:

In English and German.

Summary:

"This volume presents cultural studies approaches to different modes of memoria (the original medieval way of commemoration), taking into account specific confessional contexts. It mainly focuses on the consequences of political, religious and social reforms in the period from 1200 to 1800. Scholars from multiple subject areas in the field of cultural studies evaluate if, and to what extent, reform processes and political or social change have influenced different practices of memoria. Since customs of commemoration of the dead (and the living) serve as a means of self-reassurance for a society, they allow significant insights into what the respective societies were grounded upon. This volume delivers the first discipline-specific and methodologically diverse approach to the consequences of different reforms on memoria. In this way this overview creates a "history of memoria" throughout the centuries."--Back cover.

Contents:

• Preface : A series on memoria and remembrance practices
• Introduction : Reformations and changes in the commemoration of the dead
• I. Memoria and reformations in the Middle Ages. Monastische Reformen im Zeitalter des Investiturstreits und ihre Resonanz im Rhein-Maasraum : der Liber officii Capituli des St. Viktor-Stifts Xanten (Cod. Monast. 101) und sein historischer Zeugniswert / Jens Lieven ; Memoria in einer Dorfkirche nach dem Vierten Laterankonzil (1215) : Bau und Ausstattung von St. Johann Baptist in Dortmund-Brechten (um 1250) / Thomas Schilp ; Workhouses where the living served the dead? : the foundation of apostle houses in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Frans Gooskens
• II. Memoria and the reformations of the sixteenth century (England, Germany and the Low Countries). Opportunity or oppression? : the impact of the Reformation on funeral monuments in Cornwall / Paul Cockerham ; Memoria : Kultur der Erinnerung und Vergessen : Überlegungen zur Frauengemeinschaft Clarenberg bei Dortmund-Hörde im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert / Thomas Schilp ; Memoria im Luthertum? : Sachzeugnisse des individuellen Totengedenkens in thüringischen Kirchen vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert / Susanne Ruf ; The memorial painting which became a text panel : intended and actual functions / Truus van Bueren and Corinne van Dijk ; From memoria to commemoration? : stained-glass windows in the Netherlands before and after the Reformation / Truus van Bueren and Charlotte Dikken ; Burials in Saint John's Church, 's-Hertogenbosch (thirteenth century-1810) / Anton Schuttelaars ; Mapping the role of commemorative space in processes of (re) territorialization : elite families and spatialities of enclosure in Counter-Reformation Antwerp / Bert Timmermans
• III. The disappearance of memoria. Das Ende der Memoria / Otto Gerhard Oexle.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-379).

ISBN:

2-503-56856-4