Rubrics, images and indulgences in late Medieval Netherlandish manuscripts
What role did images play in the mania for indulgences during the decades prior to the Protestant Reformation? 'Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts' considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images. Con...
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| Type de support: | Imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2017]
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Library of the written word / The manuscript world (volume 8)
Année: 2017 |
| Collection/Revue: | Library of the written word / The manuscript world
volume 8 Library of the written word volume 55 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Niederlande
/ Manuscrit enluminé
/ Livre de prière
/ Indulgence
/ Histoire 1350-1500
B Niederlande / Image pieuse / Histoire 1350-1500 B Néerlandais / Écriture / Illumination / Histoire 1200-1500 B Niederlande / Manuscrit enluminé / Art chrétien / Iconographie / Histoire 1350-1500 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Manuscripts, Medieval (Netherlands)
B Christian art and symbolism Medieval, 500-1500 B Prayer books (Netherlands) |
| Accès en ligne: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag) Quatrième de couverture |
| Résumé: | What role did images play in the mania for indulgences during the decades prior to the Protestant Reformation? 'Rubrics, Images and Indulgences in Late Medieval Netherlandish Manuscripts' considers how indulgences (the remission of time in Purgatory) were used to market certain images. Conversely, images helped to spread indulgences, such as those attached to the Virgin in sole and the Mass of St Gregory. Images also began depicting the effects of indulgences: souls escaping Purgatory. Drawing on numerous unpublished sources, Kathryn M. Rudy demonstrates how rubrics modified behaviour and expectations around image-centred devotion. Her work is the first to analyse systematically the way that indulgences and images interacted - indeed, shaped each other - prior to the Reformation-- |
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| ISBN: | 9004326952 |