Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region
This is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis to demonstrate that the representation of Infancy cycles on twelfth-and-thirteenth-century baptismal fonts was primarily a northern predilection in the Latin West directly influenced by the contemporary military campaigns. The Infantia Chri...
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| description | This is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis to demonstrate that the representation of Infancy cycles on twelfth-and-thirteenth-century baptismal fonts was primarily a northern predilection in the Latin West directly influenced by the contemporary military campaigns. The Infantia Christi Corpus, a collection of approximately one-hundred-and-fifty fonts, verifies how the Danish and Gotland workshops modified and augmented biblical history to reflect the prevailing crusader ideology and rhetoric that dominated life during the Valdemarian era in the Baltic region. The artisans constructed the pictorial programs according to the readings of the Mass for the feast days in the seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphanytide. The political ambitions of the northern leaders and the Church to create a Land of St. Peter in the Baltic region strategically influenced the integration of Holy Land motifs, warrior saints, militia Christi and martyrdom in the Infancy cycles to justify the escalating northern conquests. Neither before nor after, in the history of baptismal fonts, have so many been ornamented with the Infancy cycle in elaborate pictorial programs. A brief revival of elaborate Infancy cycles occurs on the fourteenth and fifteenth century fonts commissioned for sites previously located in the Christian borderlands east of the Elbe River with the rise of the Baltic military orders and the advancement of the Church authority. This extraordinary study integrates theological, liturgical, historical and political developments, broadening our understanding of what constituted northern crusader art in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1509712025-02-10T17:03:20Z Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region Sonne De Torrens, Harriet M. Medieval sculpture Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) Crusades Scandinavian & Baltic lands (c. 500-1500) High Middle Ages (c.1000 -1300) thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKB Sculpture This is the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis to demonstrate that the representation of Infancy cycles on twelfth-and-thirteenth-century baptismal fonts was primarily a northern predilection in the Latin West directly influenced by the contemporary military campaigns. The Infantia Christi Corpus, a collection of approximately one-hundred-and-fifty fonts, verifies how the Danish and Gotland workshops modified and augmented biblical history to reflect the prevailing crusader ideology and rhetoric that dominated life during the Valdemarian era in the Baltic region. The artisans constructed the pictorial programs according to the readings of the Mass for the feast days in the seasons of Advent, Christmas and Epiphanytide. The political ambitions of the northern leaders and the Church to create a Land of St. Peter in the Baltic region strategically influenced the integration of Holy Land motifs, warrior saints, militia Christi and martyrdom in the Infancy cycles to justify the escalating northern conquests. Neither before nor after, in the history of baptismal fonts, have so many been ornamented with the Infancy cycle in elaborate pictorial programs. A brief revival of elaborate Infancy cycles occurs on the fourteenth and fifteenth century fonts commissioned for sites previously located in the Christian borderlands east of the Elbe River with the rise of the Baltic military orders and the advancement of the Church authority. This extraordinary study integrates theological, liturgical, historical and political developments, broadening our understanding of what constituted northern crusader art in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 2025-02-10T17:03:19Z 2025-02-10T17:03:19Z 2024 book ONIX_20250210_9782503599380_44 9782503599380 9782503599397 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150971 eng Europa Sacra image/png Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503599380-1 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.ES-EB.5.128349 Brepols Brepols 10.1484/M.ES-EB.5.128349 10.1484/M.ES-EB.5.128349 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503599380 9782503599397 Brepols 30 492 Turnhout open access |
| spellingShingle | Medieval sculpture Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) Crusades Scandinavian & Baltic lands (c. 500-1500) High Middle Ages (c.1000 -1300) thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKB Sculpture Sonne De Torrens, Harriet M. Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region |
| title | Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region |
| title_full | Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region |
| title_fullStr | Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region |
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| title_short | Crusader Rhetoric and the Infancy Cycles on Medieval Baptismal Fonts in the Baltic Region |
| title_sort | crusader rhetoric and the infancy cycles on medieval baptismal fonts in the baltic region |
| topic | Medieval sculpture Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) Crusades Scandinavian & Baltic lands (c. 500-1500) High Middle Ages (c.1000 -1300) thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKB Sculpture |
| topic_facet | Medieval sculpture Iconography, Symbolism & representation in art and architecture Cultural & intellectual history (c. 500-1500) Crusades Scandinavian & Baltic lands (c. 500-1500) High Middle Ages (c.1000 -1300) thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFK Non-graphic and electronic art forms::AFKB Sculpture |
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