Dissertations / Theses: 'Christian medieval art'

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Stowell, Steven. "The mystical experience of art : Medieval Christian themes in the literature on art of the Italian Renaissance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517020.

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Kay, Nancy J. "The sacred public sculptures in Antwerp: From their medieval origins to the French Revolution." View abstract/electronic edition; access limited to Brown University users, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3318337.

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Velimirovic, Nada. "Reflections of the divine| Muslim, Christian and Jewish images on luster glazed ceramics in Late Medieval Iberia." Thesis, Graduate Theological Union, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10240733.

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For eight centuries, from 711 until 1492, a unique combination of political, cultural, and faith traditions coexisted in the mostly southern region of the Iberian Peninsula now called Spain. From the thirteenth century through the fifteenth century, two key production centers of luster glazed ceramics emerged in this region: Islamic-ruled Málaga and Christian-ruled Valencia. Muslim artisans using Islamic decorative motifs on reflective luster glaze ceramics created objects that patrons, including nobility and Christian royalty, clamored to collect. Initially, traditional Islamic decorative motifs dominated luster glazed ceramic production by Muslim artisans in Málaga; eventually, these artisans used combinations of Islamic and Christian motifs. As wars raged near Málaga, Muslim artisans migrated to Valencia—some converting to Christianity. Here, luster glazed ceramics evolved to include combinations of Islamic and Christian motifs, and, in one example, Islamic and Jewish motifs.

This investigation of Iberian luster glazed ceramics examines religious decorative motifs and their meaning by using a methodology that combines material culture studies and art history. Material culture studies seeks: (1) To find value and meaning in everyday objects; and (2) To introduce the understanding that visual motifs communicate in a different way than texts. Additions from art historians augment the conceptual framework: (1) Alois Riegl’s concept of Kunstwollen—that every artistic expression and artifact that is produced is a distillation of the entirety of creator’s worldview; and (2) Oleg Grabar’s definition of Islamic art as one that overpowers and transforms ethnic or geographical traditions. In this dissertation, religious decorative elements on Iberian luster glazed ceramics are categorized as: (1) Floral and vegetative motifs; (2) Geometric symbols; (3) Figurative images; (4) Christian family coats of arms; and (5) Calligraphic inscriptions.

This dissertation will demonstrate how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish artisans used and combined the visual expressions of their respective faith traditions in motifs that appear on luster glazed ceramics created in the Iberian Peninsula under both Islamic and Christian ruled territories. Investigation of objects previously deemed not worthy of scholarly attention provides a more nuanced understanding of how religious co-existence (convivencia in Spanish) was negotiated in daily life.

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Morgan, David. "The origin and use of compositional geometry in Christian painting /." Thesis, McGill University, 1994. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=68125.

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Painters of Christian subjects in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance developed a complex system of geometry which they used to order the various elements in the image. They did this because they were convinced that the aesthetic dimension of their work resided in the structure of the work. More specifically, the artists of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance believed that the particular aesthetic experience which geometric compositional structure provides corresponded to Christian mystical experience. Thus a work of art that combined geometric structure, naturalistic style, and Christian imagery could provide an experience analogous to that of Christian revelation. This paper traces the development of this idea from its origin in the Old Testament tradition, its formalization in Greek thought and its full flowering in early Christian painting.

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Angers, Philippe 1968. "Principles of religious imitation in mediaeval architecture : an analysis of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and its European copies from the Carolingian period to the late Romanesque." Thesis, McGill University, 2006. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98534.

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This study concerns the concept of sacred architectural imitation, using the Platonic notion of mimesis which then later finds expression in the medieval idea of imitatio. In Religious as well as in artistic and architectural forms of expression, the notion of imitation is indeed a very central and complex issue. At the heart of this concept is the question of meaning, or, more precisely, the transference or translation of meaning; from original to copy, from prototype to reproduction.
In order to better illustrate and understand the principles guiding the notion of medieval sacred architectural imitation I have chosen to focus on five specific instances surrounding the replication of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, arguably the most revered landmark in Christendom.
A close examination of the relationships which exist between model and copy will bring to the fore the dynamics which govern the process of mimesis by which meaning is reproduced in the architectural replicas.
From this comparative analysis will emerge a more universal picture of the medieval concept of religious imitation. Indeed, if anything, a preliminary survey of the great many imitations of the Holy Sepulcher spread throughout Europe reveals to the observer a surprising trend, namely a consistency of inconsistencies in their effort to "copy".
The present study will demonstrate that these seeming inconsistencies within the application of the mimetic process nevertheless reveal a somewhat unexpected structure.
From the pattern of these inconsistencies will emerge a clearer picture of the principles governing the transfer of sacred meaning via the method of imitatio during the Middle Ages.

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Muir, Autumn M. "The Psalter Mappaemundi: Medieval Maps Enabling Ascension of the Soul within Christian Devotional Practices." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300733958.

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Bai, Mengtian. "Yangzhou Latin Tombstones: A Christian Mirror of Yuan China Society." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1530141020070354.

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Tóthné, Kriza Ágnes Rebeka. "Depicting orthodoxy : the Novgorod Sophia icon reconsidered." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/275821.

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The Novgorod icon of Divine Wisdom is a great innovation of fifteenth-century Russian art. It represents the winged female Sophia flanked by the Theotokos and John the Baptist. Although the icon has a contemporaneous commentary and it exercised a profound influence on Russian cultural history (inspiring, among others, the sophiological theory of the turn of the twentieth century), its meaning, together with the dating and localisation of the first appearance of the iconography, has remained a great art-historical conundrum. This thesis sheds new light on this icon and explores the message, roots, function and historical context of the first, most emblematic and most enigmatic Russian allegorical iconography. In contrast to its recent interpretations as a Trinitarian image with Christ-Angel, it argues that the winged Sophia is the personification of the Orthodox Church. The Novgorod Wisdom icon represents the Church of Hagia Sophia, that is Orthodoxy, as it was perceived in fifteenth-century Rus’: the icon together with its commentary was a visual-textual response to the Florentine Union between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, signed in 1439 but rejected by the Russians in 1441. The thesis is based on detailed interdisciplinary research, utilising simultaneously the methodologies of philology, art history, theology and history. The combined analysis reveals that the great innovation of the Novgorod Sophia icon is that it amalgamates ecclesiological and sophiological iconographies in new ways. Hence the dissertation is also an innovative attempt to survey how Orthodoxy was perceived and visualized in medieval Rus’. It identifies the theological questions that constituted the basis of Russian Orthodox identity in the Middle Ages and reveals the significance of the polemics between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches for the history of Medieval Russian art.

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Leatherbury, Sean Villareal. "Inscribed within the image : the visual character of early Christian mosaic inscriptions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9ea6f425-7010-4820-b35d-bed33c658b60.

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Between the fourth and the seventh centuries CE, Christian patrons erected thousands of churches, chapels, and monasteries in cities and villages across the Mediterranean, decorating the apses, walls and floors of many of these structures with figural and geometric mosaics. These late antique Christian mosaics have been studied for their iconography, their Graeco-Roman components, and as evidence for the religious beliefs of newly-Christian patrons. However, art historians largely have ignored the ways that texts, inscribed within the visual field and composed of the same mosaic material, functioned as images in Christian spaces. For the first time, this thesis assembles the foundations of a comprehensive catalogue of early Christian mosaic inscriptions, places them back into the physical spaces in which they were meant to be read, and analyzes how these texts functioned both verbally and visually for the late antique reader/viewer, against the backdrop of Graeco-Roman traditions. I first examine the ekphrastic components of Christian inscriptions and look more closely at the different ways in which texts work with and against images and spaces, encouraging the viewer to react physically and mentally. Second, I study the language of light used by the inscriptions, and argue that this language linked text to the material of mosaic and enabled patrons to make complex statements about their cultural erudition and religious affiliation. Third, I investigate the functions and visual forms of short tituli which label scenes or name figures to simplify, authenticate or transform static images into narratives in motion. Finally, I turn to the frames of the inscriptions and contend that different forms conveyed powerful visual arguments. By writing these texts back into their mosaics, this thesis argues that texts and images were inseparable in the period, and that text written into images performed and played in more complex ways than has been previously thought.

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Martone, Thomas. "The theme of the conversion of Paul in Italian paintings from the early Christian period to the high Renaissance." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/11970051.html.

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Wittekind, Susanne. "Altar - Reliquiar - Retabel : Kunst und Liturgie bei Wibald von Stablo /." Köln : Böhlau, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40026334g.

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Hoffman, J. Starr. "Passionate transformation in vernicle images." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4701/.

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This thesis will examine the iconography of late-thirteenth- through fifteenth-century images of St. Veronica's veil, also known as vernicles. In the late Middle Ages, vernicle iconography changed from iconic representations of Christ's face toward graphic imagery of Christ's suffering during his Passion. These passionate transformations, as I have called them, were affected by the Roman Sudarium relic, popular devotion to Christ's suffering and humanity during his Passion, and the Catholic ritual of Mass. This thesis will consider how the function of vernicle images during Mass was reflected in their iconography throughout Europe between 1250 and 1500.

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Emery, Beth A. "Lorenzo Monaco's Man of sorrows." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=33283.

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This thesis examines Lorenzo Monaco's altarpiece the Man of Sorrows with the Virgin, St. John the Evangelist, with the Emblems and Episodes of the Passion, (c. 1404) under historical, religious, political, and liturgical rubrics. While comparing various depictions of the Man of Sorrows, this project places Lorenzo Monaco's unique interpretation within the context of events surrounding the painting's conception and realization. With particular attention to Lorenzo's distinctive composition, techniques and juxtaposition of imagery, this study shows that his Man of Sorrows in fact conveys a complex message about Florentine society in Late Gothic times.

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Nylander, Anna. "De medeltida målningarna i Arbrå kyrka : en typologisk tolkning." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för kultur- och religionsvetenskap, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-7365.

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The aim of this essay is to investigate the murals in the church of Arbrå, what they portrait and how they can be linked to medieval typology as described in Biblia Pauperum (BP), the Poor Man’s Bible. The aim is also to find out what the purpose was to paint medieval churches and what the function of the paintings was. Arbrå Church was painted around 1520-1530, and almost all of the motifs from the Old Testament can be directly traced back to BP as can one motif from the New Testament. Together these paintings represent most of the important events which make out the foundation of the Christian Cult. The purpose of painting churches was probably a combination of at least three; People of wealth could pay for different things for their church as a tribute to God, the paintings made people feel closer to God as they became enclosed in the biblical history and the paintings served an educative purpose as people could more easily remember what the priests preached.

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Leclercq-Marx, Jacqueline. "La sirène dans la pensée et dans l'art chrétien, 2e - 12e siècles: antécédents culturels et réalités nouvelles." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/213418.

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Tuchscherer, Jean-Michel 1942. "Sponsus - SponsaChristus - Ecclesia : the illustrations of the Song of Songs in the Bible moralisée de Saint-Louis, Toledo, Spain, Cathedral Treasury, Ms. 1 and Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. lat. 11560." Thesis, McGill University, 1996. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=40269.

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Among the considerable manuscript production of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Bible moralisee stands out by the number of miniatures and by the conception of the manuscript itself. The composition and many iconographical themes recall stained glass windows of contemporary cathedrals, such as Chartres, Sens, Bourges, or Canterbury in England.
The manuscript of the Bible moralisee to which this study is partly dedicated, is located in the Treasury of the Toledo cathedral chapter in Spain. This study deals also with the duplicate copy which was realized soon afterwards. The interpretation and illustrations of the verses vary in number according to the books of the Bible. Though being one of the smallest biblical books, the Song of Solomon is given outstanding consideration, more than any other book in the Bible. The central theme--the espousal of the Bride and the Bridegroom, Christ and Ecclesia being its allegory--enjoyed a considerable success in medieval theology. It corresponded to the courtly love atmosphere of its time. Abundant commentary literature and the development of mariology made this book even more popular. About a quarter of the commentary illustrations are dedicated to the theme Christus-Ecclesia. Ecclesia, always crowned, holds the chalice which confirms her sacramental significance. In no other known iconographical medieval programme has Ecclesia such a position.
The question raised by the problematic around this Bible is the eventual intention being at the origin of this order which, without any doubt, emanates from French royalty. Has it been produced to enhance the prestige of royalty? Is it a pedagogical work intended for the education of the royal children? Was it meant to be a royal political gift? The Ecclesia theme in the Bible is the exaltation of, or an hommage to the Church, spiritual or temporal, by the French royalty of the thirteenth century.

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Jacobs, Philip Walker. "The reception history and interpretation of the New Testament portrayals of Joseph the carpenter in nativity and infancy portrayals in early Christian and early medieval narratives and art from the second-cenury to the ninth century CE." Thesis, Bangor University, 2013. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-reception-history-and-interpretation-of-the-new-testament-portrayals-of-joseph-the-carpenter-in-nativity-and-infancy-portrayals-in-early-christian-and-early-medieval-narratives-and-art-from-the-second-century-to-the-ninth-century-ce(ce638107-800d-44d0-9405-56f3f763ccc9).html.

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This thesis undertakes the task of tracing and documenting the development of the Wirkungsgeschichte of the portrayals of Joseph in the canonic gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John, within early Christian and early medieval narratives and art between the period of approximately 150 CE and 800 CE. After providing an initial review of the current state of scholarly research into the subject of the development of the Wirkungsgeschichte of the canonical portrayals of Joseph in Part I, this study then provides a detailed reading, by means of literary and narrative analysis, of the portrayals of Joseph in Matthew, Luke, and John in Part 11. The thesis then traces and documents the development of these earlier portrayals of Joseph in four non-canonic narratives, the Infancy Gospel of James, the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, the History of Joseph the Carpenter, and the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and in eighteen works of art, in Parts III and IV . IIJ the process of this analysis several different concerns are addressed. These include: the date, provenance, purpose, and content of the various narratives and compositions; the characterization of Joseph they portray; the independence and distinctiveness these later literary and artistic representations of Joseph exhibit from earlier canonic and non-canonic literary referents and prior artistic creations of Joseph; and the different perceptions and beliefs narrators and artists and their respective ecclesiastical communities held with regard to Joseph. At the same time, consideration is given to the prospect of patterns or trajectories that might emerge as the review occurs. Attention to the development of this in the four non-canonic narratives leads to the discovery of the presence of two trajectories - one that affirms, enhances, and continues the positive narrative portrayals of Joseph found in the canonic literature (and is found to be present in two of these texts); the other that diminishes these portrayals (and is found to be present in the other two texts).

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Yordanova, Lilyana. "Commande et donation pieuses en Bulgarie médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles) : arts, économie et société." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPSLP008.

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La commande et la donation de biens destinés à l’Église conditionnent le fonctionnement de la société médiévale. Grâce à une approche holistique et interdisciplinaire, une première étude globale de la pratique, des mécanismes et des effets du patronage pieux sur la société bulgare des XIIe-XVe siècles est proposée. Depuis la refondation de l’Empire bulgare en 1185, en passant par les périodes de conflits avec Byzance, la Serbie et les États latins, jusqu’à l’établissement des Ottomans en 1396 et même au-delà, les dons servent à définir le territoire, à négocier le pouvoir et à forger la cohésion entre les groupes sociaux. L’identification de nouvelles formes de générosité et le réexamen d’œuvres et de sources narratives et juridiques, parfois méconnues, permettent d’élaborer un modèle de fonctionnement horizontal et vertical du patronage et de contribuer par cet éclairage nouveau à l’étude de ce phénomène social complexe à l’échelle plus large du monde médiéval
Commissions and donations of goods and property to the Church are at the core of medieval society. Through a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, this dissertation aims to provide the first global study of the practice, mechanisms and role of pious patronage within Bulgarian society during the 12th-15th century. From the re-foundation of the Bulgarian Empire in 1185, through the intermediate periods of conflict with Byzantium, Serbia and the Latin States, until the establishment of the Ottomans in 1396 but also beyond, pious donations have been used to define territory, negotiate power and maintain the cohesion of social groups. The identification of new forms of generosity and the re-examination of artworks, narrative and legal sources, some of which hitherto neglected, lead to elaborate a new model of horizontal and vertical social patronage and shed new light for the study of this complex social phenomenon on the broader scale of the medieval world

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Daniel, Dane Thor. "The Empyrean: The Pinnacle of the Medieval World View (Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277828/.

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The heavenly empyrean was the highest expression of the Medieval Weltanschauung (world view). It served as the outermost sphere of the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic geocentric cosmos while possessing an eminent theological status. This paper explores the importance of the empyrean during the Scholastic Period (eleventh through fourteenth centuries).

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Workman, Jameson Samuel. "Chaucerian metapoetics and the philosophy of poetry." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8cf424fd-124c-4cb0-9143-e436c5e3c2da.

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This thesis places Chaucer within the tradition of philosophical poetry that begins in Plato and extends through classical and medieval Latin culture. In this Platonic tradition, poetry is a self-reflexive epistemological practice that interrogates the conditions of art in general. As such, poetry as metapoetics takes itself as its own object of inquiry in order to reinforce and generate its own definitions without regard to extrinsic considerations. It attempts to create a poetic-knowledge proper instead of one that is dependant on other modes for meaning. The particular manner in which this is expressed is according to the idea of the loss of the Golden Age. In the Augustinian context of Chaucer’s poetry, language, in its literal and historical signifying functions is an effect of the noetic fall and a deformation of an earlier symbolism. The Chaucerian poems this thesis considers concern themselves with the solution to a historical literary lament for language’s fall, a solution that suggests that the instability in language can be overcome with reference to what has been lost in language. The chapters are organized to reflect the medieval Neoplatonic ascensus. The first chapter concerns the Pardoner’s Old Man and his relationship to the literary history of Tithonus in which the renewing of youth is ironically promoted in order to perpetually delay eternity and make the current world co-eternal to the coming world. In the Miller’s Tale, more aggressive narrative strategies deploy the machinery of atheism in order to make a god-less universe the sufficient grounds for the transformation of a fallen and contingent world into the only world whatsoever. The Manciple’s Tale’s opposite strategy leaves the world intact in its current state and instead makes divine beings human. Phoebus expatriates to earth and attempts to co-mingle it with heaven in order to unify art and history into a single monistic experience. Finally, the Nun’s Priest’s Tale acts as ars poetica for the entire Chaucerian Performance and undercuts the naturalistic strategies of the first three poems by a long experiment in the philosophical conflict between art and history. By imagining art and history as epistemologically antagonistic it attempts to subdue in a definitive manner poetic strategies that would imagine human history as the necessary knowledge-condition for poetic language.

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Pirotte, Emmanuelle. "La Chair du verbe: l'image, le texte, l'écrit dans les évangéliaires insulaires (VIIeme-IXeme siècle)." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211997.

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Moore, Katharine T. "Al-Andalus, the Umayyads, and Hispano-Islamic Art:The Influence of the Abbasids and Northern Christians on the Art of Muslim Patronage in the Iberian Peninsula from the 8th to 11th Centuries." Walsh University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1587323490141253.

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Langdell, Sebastian James. "Religious reform, transnational poetics, and literary tradition in the work of Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2e8eb46-5d08-405d-baa9-24e0400a47d8.

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This study considers Thomas Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a “religious” writer: as an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels – and in environments that are at once London-based, national, and international. The chapters focus, respectively, on the role of reading and moralization in the Series; the language of “vice and virtue” in the Epistle of Cupid; the moral version of Chaucer introduced in the Regiment of Princes; the construction of the Hoccleve persona in the Regiment; and the representation of the Eucharist throughout Hoccleve’s works. One main focus of the study is Hoccleve’s mediating influence in presenting a moral version of Chaucer in his Regiment. This study argues that Hoccleve’s Chaucer is not a pre-established artifact, but rather a Hocclevian invention, and it indicates the transnational literary, political, and religious contexts that align in Hoccleve’s presentation of his poetic predecessor. Rather than posit the Hoccleve-Chaucer relationship as one of Oedipal anxiety, as other critics have done, this study indicates the way in which Hoccleve’s Chaucer evolves in response to poetic anxiety not towards Chaucer himself, but rather towards an increasingly restrictive intellectual and ecclesiastical climate. This thesis contributes to the recently revitalized critical dialogue surrounding the role and function of fifteenth-century English literature, and the effect on poetry of heresy, the church’s response to heresy, and ecclesiastical reform both in England and in Europe. It also advances critical narratives regarding Hoccleve’s response to contemporary French poetry; the role of confession, sacramental discourse, and devotional images in Hoccleve’s work; and Hoccleve’s impact on literary tradition.

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Williams, Shelley. "Text and Tapestry: "The Lady and the Unicorn," Christine de Pizan and the le Vistes." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2009. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2929.pdf.

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Imhoff, Helen Martha Burns. "Pre-Christian characters in medieval Irish literature : an examination of Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608665.

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Appel, Nona Faye. "The Confident Amazon: Warrior-Women in the Collected Works of Christine de Pizan." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332794/.

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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze and discuss the relationship between the images and texts concerning Amazons and warrior-women in the collected works of Christine de Pizan. It evaluates Christine's interpretation of the ancient story in light of her career as an author and publisher, and it compares her imagery to other representations of Amazons and warrior-women. This study indicates that Christine reworked the myth in a way that reflects her positive of women and her desire to influence the queen of France, Isabeau de Baviere, who was the original owner of the manuscript.

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Chelvan, Richard D. "What has Damascus to do with Paris? A Comparative Analysis of Ibn Taymiyya and Gregory of Rimini: A Fourteenth Century and Late Medieval Rejection of the Use of Aristotelian Logic in the Legitimization of Divine Revelation in the Christian and Islamic Traditions." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12095/.

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This thesis is a comparative analysis of Ibn Taymiyya of Damascus and Gregory of Rimini within their respective religious and philosophical traditions. Ibn Taymiyya and Gregory of Rimini rejected the use of Aristotelian logic in the valorization of divine revelation in Islam and Christianity respectively. The translation movements, in Baghdad and then in Toledo, ensured the transmission of Greek scientific and philosophical works to both the Islamic world during the 'Abbasid Caliphate and the Catholic Christian European milieu beginning in the eleventh century. By the fourteenth century both the Islamic and the Catholic European religious traditions had a long history of assimilating Aristotle's Organon. Ibn Taymiyya and Gregory of Rimini rejected the notion, adopted by the kalam and scholastic traditions respectively, that logical demonstration could be used to validate religious doctrine as taught in the Qur'an and the Bible. Ibn Taymiyya rejected demonstration completely but Gregory accepted its qualified use.

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Dupraz-Rochas, Hélène. "La Revendication du plaisir littéraire : autour de Jean Renart et Raoul de Houdenc (XIIe–XIIIe siècles)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040030.

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Le présent travail étudie un moment d’histoire littéraire et culturelle en langue française – à la charnière des XIIe et XIIIe siècles, autour de Jean Renart et Raoul de Houdenc – sous l’angle du plaisir littéraire. Les œuvres en vers de ces deux auteurs actifs au début du XIIIe siècle, qui révèlent une conscience auctoriale aiguë et que sous-tend une réflexion métadiscursive faisant la part belle au principe du delectare, sont révélatrices des jugements divergents que le Moyen Âge porte sur cette notion problématique. En effet, l’expression littéraire du plaisir se situe à la croisée de plusieurs champs discursifs qui en précisent le sens et éclairent ses enjeux sous des jours contrastés. La poésie se fait d’une part l’écho du discours dominant de l’Église et illustre la complexité de l’attitude des théologiens et des moralistes devant le plaisir littéraire, entre condamnation virulente et légitimation conditionnelle. Elle atteste – et accompagne – également l’épanouissement d’une autre idéologie, aristocratique et profane, bien plus favorable au plaisir puisque l’imaginaire courtois accorde au deduit littéraire une valeur à la fois éthique, sociale et politique. Elle reflète enfin la conception médiévale du Beau littéraire formalisée par les arts poétiques médiolatins qui en établissent le canon et dont le plaisir est le signe. Lieux de confrontation de ces discours souvent discordants, les œuvres littéraires du temps de Jean Renart et Raoul de Houdenc témoignent de la revendication nouvelle d’un plaisir présenté comme une valeur et une exigence. C’est une certaine conception de la littérature en langue vulgaire qui voit le jour autour de 1200
This work focuses on a short period in French-language literary and cultural history—at the turn of 12th and 13th centuries, around the work of Jean Renart and Raoul de Houdenc—from the standpoint of literary enjoyment. The poetic output of these two early 13th-century authors, who display a keen authorial consciousness underpinned by a meta-discursive reflection that gives more than its due to the principle of delectare, testifies to the diversity of judgements that the Middle Ages pass on this controversial notion. The literary expression of enjoyment is indeed located at the crossing of several discursive fields that specify its meaning and shed contrasting lights on its stakes. Poetry both echoes the dominant views of the Church and epitomizes the complexity of attitudes of theologians and moralists towards literary enjoyment, between outright condemnation and conditional legitimiza-tion. It also bears witness to—and accompanies—the flowering of another ideology, aristocratic and secular, far more favourably disposed towards enjoyment, since the courtly imaginative world grants literary deduit a value that is at the same time ethical, social, and political. Lastly, it reflects the medieval conception of literary Beauty, as formalized by the ars poetica of Medieval Latin, which sets the canons and takes enjoyment as a sign. As a battlefield for these often discordant views, the literary works from the era of Jean Renart and Raoul de Houdenc testify to the appearance of a new claim to pleasure, considered both as an ethical standard and an entitlement. A certain conception of literature in the vernacular was thus born around year 1200

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"Mythological Women and Sex: Transgression in Christian and Buddhist Religious Imagery." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57282.

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abstract: Many religious textual accounts describe provocative women: The Great Whore from the Apocalypse, Saint Mary Magdalene from the New Testament, and the Daughters of Mara from the Buddhist tradition are all accused of fornication or the seduction of men. However, when artists have depicted these subjects, the women are rarely shown transgressing in the ways the texts describe. The Great Whore is often masculinized and shown as the equal of kings, Mary Magdalene assumes divergent attitudes about prostitution in early Renaissance Europe, and the Daughters of Mara are comparable to other Buddhist deities, recognizable only from the surrounding narrative. Therefore, in this inquiry, I seek out the ways that artists have manipulated misogynistic religious narratives and introduced their own fears, concerns, and interpretations. Artistic deviations from the text indicate a sensitivity to cultural values beyond the substance of their roles within the narrative. Both the Great Whore and her virtuous counterpart, the Woman Clothed in the Sun, have agency, and the ways they are shown to use their agency determines their moral status. Mary Magdalene, the patron saint of prostitutes and a reformed sinner, is shown with iconographical markers beyond just prostitution, and reveals the ways in which Renaissance artists conceptualized prostitution. In the last case study, the comparison between the Daughters and the Buddhist savioresses, the Taras, demonstrates that Himalayan artists did not completely subscribe to the textual formulations of women as inherently iniquitous. Ultimately, these works of art divulge not just interpretations of the religious traditions, but attitudes about women in general, and the power they wielded in their respective contexts.
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Masters Thesis Art History 2020

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Arthur, Duncan Malcolm. "Liberation through Salvation: the Medieval Western European and South African experiences (1860 to 1994) compared through a selection of religious iconography." Diss., 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1722.

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The medieval period (approximately 800 to 1300 AD) in Western Europe is noted for its rich tradition in religious Roman Catholic iconography. Frequently the only art works to be produced in the period, or to have survived, are religious icons of the period reflecting the dominant nature of the feudal structure of society and the oppressive circumstances that led to their execution. The works can be seen as a means of escape, although in an afterlife, or they might also be interpreted as a protest against the oppressive nature of the condition of the artist. The "rigidity" of a medieval existence and the utilisation of religious art as a means of expressing unhappiness with that existence may, as it is argued here, be interpreted as a means of protest. Rigid and oppressive political structures are not isolated to any particular historical period. South Africa too was an oppressive society where the material and political advancement of the majority of the population was stifled through discriminatory legislation and similar means making meaningful protest difficult, if not dangerous. This dissertation argues that religious art too became a means of protest in a manner intended to reflect the religious viewpoints of the artist but with political intentions and subtext. Similar themes in modern South African iconography (from approximately 1850 to 1994) and medieval prototypes are therefore discernible.
History
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Mackie, Gillian Vallance. "The early medieval chapel: decoration, form and function. A study of chapels in Italy and Istria in the period between 313 and 741 AD." Thesis, 1991. https://dspace.library.uvic.ca//handle/1828/9508.

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The relationship between decoration, architectural form, and function is investigated in depth in those early chapels of Italy and Istria which retain significant amounts of their decorative programmes. These include the Archbishops' chapel and the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna, S. Vittore in Ciel d'Oro, Milan, the St. Matrona chapel at S. Prisco near S. Maria di Capua Vetere, Campania, and the chapels at the Lateran Baptistery, Rome. In addition, the chapels are set into a broader context through a survey of the many chapels which survive in less good condition, or are known only from archaeological and literary sources. The decorative programme of each chapel is analysed for iconographic content. Themes reflect not only the basic vocabulary of the earliest Christian art, but more precisely, the hopes and aspirations of the chapel's builder. The vast majority of the surviving chapels were built as memorial or funerary chapels in connection with the cult of the dead, and expressed the soul's need for assistance in the attainment of heaven. The funerary cult was intimately connected with that of the martyrs, whose bodies and relics also rested in the chapels, and whose power in favour of those who were interred beside them was invoked in art in the chapels' decorative programmes. Literary evidence confirmed that chapels had also existed in the dwellings of the lay aristocracy, though none had survived. On the other hand, clergy-house oratories were represented not only by the chapel of the Archbishops of Ravenna, but by the shrines of the two saints John at the Lateran Baptistery, Rome, which were identified as papal oratories adjacent to the home of the early popes at the Lateran Palace. The total loss of the domestic chapels of the laiety slanted the conclusions of the study not only towards clergy house oratories, but towards funerary and memorial structures, of which a greater number survived. It was found that the latter illustrate the chronological sequence: martyr's memoria, funerary chapel, martyrium. Some examples served more than one of these functions in turn, and possibly the full sequence. Analysis of the iconographic programmes showed that themes and functions were closely interrelated. Even so, there were more similarities than differences in the iconographic programmes of chapels which clearly served different functions. Most importantly, three-dimensional decorative schemes were common to all types of chapel. In these compositions, the chapel's interior space represented a microcosm of the universe. These schemes were judged to be ancestral to the decorative schemes typical of centrally-planned churches in the Middle Byzantine period. Annexed chapels formed the main subject of the study, and all those mentioned so far are of this type. However, the origin of chapels within the perimeters of church buildings, which occurred late in the period of study, is briefly discussed in the final chapter, where oratories, sacristies, and chapels inside auxiliary buildings are distinguished from one another, and from the annexed chapels which had previously been standard.
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Steyn, Raita. "Christian divine, holy and saintly protection of African rulers in the Byzantine ‘Coptic’ iconographic tradition." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/12506.

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This thesis deals with the Christian divine, holy and saintly protection of African rulers in the Afro-Byzantine ‘Coptic’ (mainly Nubian and Ethiopian) iconographic tradition. The term ‘icon’ is used in its Byzantine Orthodox meaning as “a theological art picture; a religious, sacred image”, according to the theological and artistic Byzantine prescriptions.1 The term is also applied to frescos, murals, mosaics, larger wooden panels, illustrations in manuscripts and scrolls and smaller items such as protective amulets and charms, depicting a Christian holy representation. The iconographic themes, representing authority and its preservation and protection will be discussed, analysed and examined, the two coefficients being authority and protection of royals and their deputies and officials (i.e. the ‘protected’) on the one hand, and on the other hand Christ, the Holy Virgin, angels, military and non-military saints, supernatural and holy beings (i.e. the ‘protectors’). Firstly, a historical overview of the Byzantine and Afro-Byzantine Orthodox society in terms of religious, social, cultural and political influences is presented and the importance of Orthodox iconography and hagiography and the transformation of local Afro-Byzantine themes are analysed. As such, once the conversion from paganism to Christianity took place in Africa, influences of the Byzantine iconography and hagiography were transformed and integrated with local African Orthodox themes. Byzantine ideology and political theory as well as their relevance for the Coptic-Egyptian, Nubian and Ethiopian context have been discussed, while the artistic and symbolic iconographic representations of the Byzantine (and Medieval Afro-Byzantine) periods...

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Kalas, Gregor A. "Sacred image, urban space image, installations, and ritual in the early medieval Roman forum /." 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/49623530.html.

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Žďárská, Zuzana. "Románské tympanony Posledního soudu ve Francii." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328526.

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This master's degree written work aims at charting and minute depicting romanesque church tympanums of the Last judgment in France using the accesible bibliography and photographic materials. The main part of the text is devoted to the detailed description of the representative monuments based on the photographic documentation and their detailed iconography. The treatise about these monuments of art is placed in the historical and art-historical context. The regional and typological variations of the forms of art of the monuments are also described. The work describes the characteristic elements of the imagery of the theme of the Last judgment in medieval arts and the evolution of the coherent iconographic themes especially during the romanesque era.

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Slaymaker, Peter James Victor. "Augustine and the Trinity vision in the Vita Sancti Augustini Imaginibus Adornata." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/3886.

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Šmied, Miroslav. "České středověké umění pohledem Katolického dějepisectví." Doctoral thesis, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-358587.

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This paper deals with the history of the study and discipline called "History of Christian Art". It attempts to find the roots of the interest in history, sacred monuments, and national monuments of the past in the spiritual environment of the Czech lands, and its subsequent inclusion in the context of contemporary European developments of interest in art and its study. Beginning with the oldest hagiographic texts, which are not only records of literary history, but in many cases are important in terms of references to building monuments and artworks, among which Kristian's legend is dominant, through the texts of medieval chroniclers, Kosmas, his followers, the Chronicle of Zbraslav Monastery and chronicles from the reign of Charles IV., across the historiography of the Baroque period, which is without a doubt dominated by the work of Bohuslav Balbín and Thomas Pešina of Čechorod, and the period of national awakening, through a boom industry in the nineteenth century, when Ferdinand Josef Lehner made history with his founding work, to the culmination in the activities of representatives of the field the first half of the twentieth century, when it was represented by personalities such as Antonin Podlaha, Eduard Sittler, and Josef Cibulka. Based on the recapitulation and subsequent description of...

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