Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1509302025-02-10T17:01:00Z Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective Bacci, Michele Grigoryan, Gohar Studer-Karlen, Manuela Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture Medieval art history Political & institutional history (c. 500-1500) thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages 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. 2025-02-10T17:00:59Z 2025-02-10T17:00:59Z 2023 book ONIX_20250210_9781915487087_3 9781915487087 9781915487162 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150930 eng Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9781915487087-1 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.HMSAH-EB.5.134720 Brepols Harvey Miller 10.1484/M.HMSAH-EB.5.134720 10.1484/M.HMSAH-EB.5.134720 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9781915487087 9781915487162 Harvey Miller 351 Turnhout open access
spellingShingle Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500)
Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture
Medieval art history
Political & institutional history (c. 500-1500)
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages
Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title_full Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title_fullStr Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title_full_unstemmed Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title_short Staging the Ruler’s Body in Medieval Cultures: A Comparative Perspective
title_sort staging the ruler s body in medieval cultures a comparative perspective
topic Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500)
Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture
Medieval art history
Political & institutional history (c. 500-1500)
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages
topic_facet Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500)
Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture
Medieval art history
Political & institutional history (c. 500-1500)
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history::NHDJ European history: medieval period, middle ages
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