Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Kessler, Herbert L.

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“…This circumstance, which did not limit individual experience, meant that the boundaries with veneration became increasingly blurred, and, with the recovery of Byzantine postulates from the 12th century onwards, Western authors gradually constructed a discourse that legitimized their position as sacred objects (Boulnois 2008, pp. 237-42;Kessler 2006a). It would be in the following century when the semantics and ontology of the images were equated, and, under the protection of the new frameworks of thought, it was recognized that the virtus sancta, the divine power, could work miracles through them (García Avilés 2010;Sansterre 2009b).…”

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Living Images and Marian Devotion: Words, Gestures, and Gazes

Nicolas

2023

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This article examines the living images of the Virgin through the illustration of one of the most important collections of miracles of the 13th century, Les Miracles de Nostre Dame by Gautier de Coinci. In this case, I will focus my attention on manuscript 551 of Besançon (Besançon, BM, MS 551), which, although it has many flaws in its manufacture, offers an interesting presentation of living images. The study of these miniatures reflects the importance of devotion, the set of gestures, words, and gazes, in the medieval spectator’s experience of Marian images. At a time when these images’ legitimacy as sacred objects was still being debated, the artists in this manuscript show their power without censorship, presenting them as if they were the Virgin herself.

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Living Images and Marian Devotion: Words, Gestures, and Gazes

Nicolas

2023

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“…» 40. For a useful overview and bibliography, see Kessler (2006). taking on, rather, the character of relics than images.…”

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Bugslag

2010

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AbstractThis article charts, through the longue durée, two contested constructions of the Virgin Mary, the one theological, the other material. Material constructions, founded on such concrete material as relics, images, pilgrimage shrines and sacralized landscape features, differ considerably from, and have sometimes clashed with theological constructions. These two quite distinct hermeneutical strands of Marian identity, I contend, have always formed a discourse, and neither can be understood fully without reference to the other. This discursive consideration of Mary both broadens consideration of her historical identity beyond the hegemonic definition of the Church and creates a fuller appreciation of the diverse functions and meanings that Mary has had for her various constituencies.

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Images and Words: Screen Functions and Technologies of Expression

Carbone,

Lingua

2023

Toward an Anthropology of Screens

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Gregory the Great and Image Theory in Northern Europe during the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Cited by 9 publications

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Living Images and Marian Devotion: Words, Gestures, and Gazes

Living Images and Marian Devotion: Words, Gestures, and Gazes

Material and Theological Identities

Images and Words: Screen Functions and Technologies of Expression

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