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Strange Beauty : Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-Circa 1204 by Cynthia Hahn (2013, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-100271059486
ISBN-139780271059488
eBay Product ID (ePID)172104193
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Number of Pages312 Pages
Publication NameStrange Beauty : Issues in the Making and Meaning of Reliquaries, 400-Circa 1204
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
SubjectIndustrial Design / Packaging, Methodology, History / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / Religious, European, History / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArt, Philosophy, Technology & Engineering
AuthorCynthia Hahn
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight40.1 Oz
Item Length10 in
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Reviews"[ Strange Beauty ] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since Strange Beauty , more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn's approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies." --Eliza A. Foster Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, "Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of 'representation' that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn's text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation." --Thomas Dale,University of Wisconsin-Madison, "[ Strange Beauty ] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since Strange Beauty , more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn's approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies." -Eliza A. Foster, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, "[Strange Beauty] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since Strange Beauty, more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn's approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies." -Eliza A. Foster, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, "[Strange Beauty] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since Strange Beauty, more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn's approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies." --Eliza A. Foster, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, "[ Strange Beauty ] stands as a major study in the field and is worth a serious read. Since Strange Beauty , more literature has engaged with concepts of reception, materiality, metaphor, and performance, demonstrating the continued relevance of this approach. As important as this work is to the study of relics, it is Hahn's approach to the complexities of material culture that will provide the greatest appeal to a wide range of scholars and students, both within and beyond medieval studies." --Eliza A. Foster, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture, &"Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of 'representation&' that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn&'s text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation.&" &-Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin&Madison, "Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of 'representation' that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn's text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation." -Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. Strange Beauty's intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers-medieval and modern-in significations that we still seek to understand." -Seeta Chaganti, CAA.Reviews, "What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. Strange Beauty 's intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers--medieval and modern--in significations that we still seek to understand." --Seeta Chaganti CAA.Reviews, "What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. Strange Beauty 's intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers-medieval and modern-in significations that we still seek to understand." -Seeta Chaganti, CAA.Reviews, "Cynthia Hahn offers a refreshing new synthesis on the topic of medieval reliquaries. She shows that they are a form of 'representation' that mediates religious experience of relics as well as their political and institutional meanings. Engaging both primary sources and current theoretical writings, Hahn's text will be of crucial interest to a broader readership concerned with the material embodiment of the sacred and strategies of representation." --Thomas Dale, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. Strange Beauty's intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers--medieval and modern--in significations that we still seek to understand." --Seeta Chaganti, CAA.Reviews, "What discourses of otherness exist as particular and appropriate to premodernity and not as retrofitted versions of the theoretical frameworks designed to consider these issues for modernity? Addressing this question can profit us beyond the domain of medieval studies. Strange Beauty 's intricate objects offer clues to such possible discourses, expressed visually and poised to train viewers--medieval and modern--in significations that we still seek to understand." --Seeta Chaganti, CAA.Reviews
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Table Of ContentContents List of Illustrations Preface Part I: First Things 1 Introduction 2 The Reliquary and Its Maker 3 Relics, Meaning, and Response: Early Christian Reliquaries, Narrative and Not Part II: Shaped Reliquaries 4 Spolia and Sign, Metaphor and Simile 5 The Reliquary Cross 6 Like and Unlike Metaphors 7 Body-Part Reliquaries: Heads 8 Body Part Reliquaries: Other Body Parts Part III: A Gathering of Saints: Processions and Treasuries 9 Reliquaries in Action 10 Treasuries 11 Relic Display 12 A Case Study: Wibald of Stavelot as Patron 13 The Impact of 1204, the "Space" of the Ark, and Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisA study of reliquaries as a form of representation in medieval art. Explores how reliquaries stage the importance and meaning of relics using a wide range of artistic means from material and ornament to metaphor and symbolism., Reliquaries, one of the central art forms of the Middle Ages, have recently been the object of much interest among historians and artists. Until now, however, they have had no treatment in English that considers their history, origins, and place within religious practice, or, above all, their beauty and aesthetic value. In Strange Beauty , Cynthia Hahn treats issues that cut across the class of medieval reliquaries as a whole. She is particularly concerned with portable reliquaries that often contained tiny relic fragments, which purportedly allowed saints to actively exercise power in the world. Above all, Hahn argues, reliquaries are a form of representation. They rarely simply depict what they contain; rather, they prepare the viewer for the appropriate reception of their precious contents and establish the "story" of the relics. They are based on forms originating in the Bible, especially the cross and the Ark of the Covenant, but find ways to renew the vision of such forms. They engage the viewer in many ways that are perhaps best described as persuasive or "rhetorical," and Hahn uses literary terminology--sign, metaphor, and simile--to discuss their operation. At the same time, they make use of unexpected shapes--the purse, the arm or foot, or disembodied heads--to create striking effects and emphatically suggest the presence of the saint.
