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Staging the ruler's body in medieval cultures : a comparative perspective

  • Turnhout, Belgium : Harvey Miller Publishers ; Brepols, [2023]

351 Seiten

Kings and rulers in art
English This book explores the viewing and sensorial contexts in which the bodies of kings and queens were involved in the premodern societies of Europe, Asia, and Africa, relying on a methodology that aims to overcoming the traditional boundaries between material studies, art history, political theory, and Repräsentationsgeschichte. More specifically, it investigates the multiple ways in which the ruler's physical appearance was apprehended and invested with visual, metaphorical, and emotional associations, as well as the dynamics whereby such mise-en-scène devices either were inspired by or worked as sources of inspiration for textual and pictorial representations of royalty. The outcome is a multifaced analysis of the multiple, imaginative, and terribly ambiguous ways in which, in past societies, the notion of a God-driven, eternal, and transpersonal royal power came to be associated with the material bodies of kings and queens, and of the impressive efforts made, in different cultures, to elude the conundrum of the latter's weakness, transitoriness, and individual distinctiveness
Faculty
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
Department
Département d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie
Language
  • English
Notes
  • "This book resulted from the international conference "Staging the ruler's body in medieval cultures: a comparative perspective", which took place on 23-24 November 2020 at the University of Fribourg [...]."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-222) and indexes
Other material characteristics
Illustrationen
License
CC BY-NC
Open access status
gold
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/330080
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