Medievalists.net » Iconography http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The last wonderful thing: the icon of the Heavenly Ladder on Mount Sinai http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/last-wonderful-thing-icon-heavenly-ladder-mount-sinai/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/last-wonderful-thing-icon-heavenly-ladder-mount-sinai/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2014 18:54:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54315 Description and dating of the icon of the Heavenly Ladder Jacob ‘dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached toheaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/23/last-wonderful-thing-icon-heavenly-ladder-mount-sinai/feed/ 0 The Bones of St. Cuthbert: Defining a Saint’s Cult in Medieval Northumbria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:57:24 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=54235 This paper investigates the social, political, and religious changes and tensions which surrounded the cult of St. Cuthbert in medieval Northumbria. Specific comparisons are made between the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods in English history, and how St. Cuthbert's cult responded to the Norman Conquest in 1066.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/19/bones-st-cuthbert-defining-saints-cult-medieval-northumbria/feed/ 0 Turning Toward Death: The Medievals’ Terrestrial Treatment of Death in Art During the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/turning-toward-death-medievals-terrestrial-treatment-death-art-fourteenth-fifteenth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/turning-toward-death-medievals-terrestrial-treatment-death-art-fourteenth-fifteenth-centuries/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2014 12:33:14 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52432 Throughout the Middle Ages, religious iconography was a main theme of art and the Church heavily patronized works that embodied virtuous ideals. Art was often used as a religious implement in which the Church instructed the illiterate masses. However, art can also represent pain and trauma acting as an outlet for the artist.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/08/turning-toward-death-medievals-terrestrial-treatment-death-art-fourteenth-fifteenth-centuries/feed/ 0 ‘Warrior-women’ in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/03/warrior-women-viking-age-scandinavia-preliminary-archaeological-study/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/03/warrior-women-viking-age-scandinavia-preliminary-archaeological-study/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 11:57:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50080 This paper seeks to provide a new contribution to the debates on Viking Age women by focusing on a rather controversial notion of ‘female warriors’. The core of the article comprises a preliminary survey of archaeological evidence for female graves with weapons (axes, spears, swords and arrowheads) from Viking Age Scandinavia.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/03/warrior-women-viking-age-scandinavia-preliminary-archaeological-study/feed/ 0 Call for Papers: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:05:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48870 CFP: Moving Women, Moving Objects (300-1500) (ICMA CAA 2015)

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/08/call-papers-moving-women-moving-objects-300-1500-icma-caa-2015/feed/ 0 Movement Through Stillness: Imagined Pilgrimage in Medieval Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/movement-stillness-imagined-pilgrimage-medieval-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/movement-stillness-imagined-pilgrimage-medieval-europe/#comments Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:59:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=48332 This paper examines the phenomenon of 'spiritual' or 'imagined' pilgrimage in Medieval Europe.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/16/movement-stillness-imagined-pilgrimage-medieval-europe/feed/ 0 The Military Use of the Icon of the Theotokos and its Moral Logic in the Historians of the Ninth-Twelfth Centuries http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/military-use-icon-theotokos-moral-logic-historians-ninth-twelfth-centuries/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/military-use-icon-theotokos-moral-logic-historians-ninth-twelfth-centuries/#comments Sat, 15 Feb 2014 18:20:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47599 Starting at least by the late tenth century, Byzantine emperors took icons of the Mother of God with them on campaign. This article examines the appearance of such icons in the narratives of historical texts.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/15/military-use-icon-theotokos-moral-logic-historians-ninth-twelfth-centuries/feed/ 0 The Man of Sorrows and the King of Glory in Italy, c. 1250 – c. 1350 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/09/the-man-of-sorrows-and-the-king-of-glory-in-italy-c-1250-c-1350/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/09/the-man-of-sorrows-and-the-king-of-glory-in-italy-c-1250-c-1350/#comments Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:55:35 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47455 The Man of Sorrows – an iconographic type of Jesus Christ following his Crucifixion – has received extensive analytical treatment in the art-historical literature.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/09/the-man-of-sorrows-and-the-king-of-glory-in-italy-c-1250-c-1350/feed/ 0 Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos: George Ripley’s Wheel of Inferior Astronomy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/10/depicting-the-medieval-alchemical-cosmos-george-ripleys-wheel-of-inferior-astronomy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/10/depicting-the-medieval-alchemical-cosmos-george-ripleys-wheel-of-inferior-astronomy/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:28:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45680 Alchemical writing often develops the idea of a physical or analogical correspondence between heaven and earth: a relationship most fre- quently and conveniently expressed by the use of the seven planetary symbols (Sol, Luna, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) to denote the seven metals (usually gold, silver, quicksilver, copper, iron, tin and lead respectively).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/12/10/depicting-the-medieval-alchemical-cosmos-george-ripleys-wheel-of-inferior-astronomy/feed/ 0 The Charlemagne Window at Chartres Cathedral: New Considerations on Text and Image http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-charlemagne-window-at-chartres-cathedral-new-considerations-on-text-and-image/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-charlemagne-window-at-chartres-cathedral-new-considerations-on-text-and-image/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:02:51 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45219 The Charlemagne Window, justly considered one of the most beautiful of the history windows of Chartres Cathedral, is located in the northeastern intermediate radial chapel and can probably be dated to about 1225.

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