Buch, Englisch, Band 38, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 443 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 38, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 443 g
Reihe: Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1-Studia
ISBN: 978-90-5867-519-4
Verlag: Leuven University Press
This book discusses uses made of churches and monasteries by secular authorities in the Low Countries, the German regions and the British Isles, focussing on the late medieval period. In this way, the reader is offered a view across borders and periods, as well as across different levels of society. Symbolic uses of churches for reasons of prestige, legitimacy or solemnity are confronted with the down-to-earth (ab)use of sacred spaces in order to survive. Long-term, traditional uses which were continued for centuries, are set against improptu decisions in answer to occasional needs or emergencies. More in particular, the topics discussed for the Low Countries range from the everyday use of parish churches (Kuys), over the use of ecclesiastical buildings for peace-proclamations (van Leeuwen), to the abuse of these buildings in times of war (De Smet), and to the representation of patronage on the paintings with which they were decorated (Dekeyzer). For the German regions, the function of these buildings for royal representation (Rahel Oesterle) and the church as a space for communication (Signori) are discussed. The London Mendicant monasteries (Röhrkasten) and a Cistercian monastery (Jamroziak) were situated within the sphere of influence of several secular authorities --among which was the court-- while also the influence of urban ceremonies (Sweetinburgh) and noble patronage (Stöber) on ecclesiastical buildings in more peripheral regions receives the attention it deserves.
This book represents for the Low Countries a first attempt at the study of this subject.
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Introduction
Paul Trio
Introduction
Low Countries
Marjan De Smet
Heavenly Quiet and the Din of War: Use and Abuse of Religious Buildings for Purposes of Safety, Defence and Strategy
Jan Kuys
Weltliche Funktionen spätmittelalterlicher Pfarrkirchen in den nördlichen Niederlanden
Jacoba van Leeuwen
Praise the Lord for this Peace! The Contribution of Religious Institutions to the Ceremonial Peace-Proclamations in Late Medieval Flanders (1450-1550)
Brigitte Dekeyzer
For Eternal Glory and Remembrance: On the Representation of Patrons in Late Medieval Panel Paintings in the Southern Low Countries
German Regions
Jenny Rahel Oesterle
The Liturgical Dimension of Royal Representation
Gabriela Signori
Sakral oder Profan? Der Kommunikationsraum Kirche
British Isles
Jens Röhrkasten
Secular Uses of the Mendicant Priories of Medieval London
Emilia Jamroziak
St Mary Graces: A Cistercian House in Late Medieval London
Sheila Sweetinburgh
Mayor-Making and Other Ceremonies: Shared Uses of Sacred Space among the Kentish Cinque Ports
Karen Stöber
The Role of late Medieval English Monasteries as Expressions of Patronal Authority: Some Case Studies
Conclusion
Koen Goudriaan
Conclusion
List of contributors
Index librorum manu scriptorum
Index locorum
Index nominum
Index operum