Format:
1 online resource (574 pages)
ISBN:
9789004440128
Series Statement:
Library of the Written Word Ser.
Content:
Intro -- The Texture of Images: The Relic Book in Late-Medieval Religiosity and Early Modern Aesthetics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgements -- Translator's Note -- Key German Terms -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1 Relic Books -- 2 Secondary Literature -- Introduction -- 1 Relic Books issues of Genre and Classification -- 2 The State of Scholarship -- 3 The Aims of this Study -- Part 1: The Diversification of the Genre -- 1 Mimesis as Politics -- 1 The Title Page of the Nuremberg Relic Book -- 2 The Introductory Text -- 3 Processional Sections and Epilogue -- 4 The Organization of the Book -- 5 Hans Mair's New Edition of 1493 commission or Free Enterprise? -- 6 Excursus the Manuscript of 1458 -- 7 The Book as Pictogram of the City -- 8 The Motivation of the Book's Commissioners -- 9 The Self-Privileging of the Citizens -- 2 Competition between Cities and Printers -- 1 The Basic Type and Layout of the Bamberg Relic Book -- 2 Competition between Cities -- 3 Competition between Printers -- 3 Speculating on Similarity -- 1 The Preface of the Würzburg Relic Book -- 2 The Sequence of the Relics An Open Problem? -- 3 Speculating on Similarity in the Text The Copied Intercessory Prayers -- 4 Speculating on Similarity in the Image -- 5 Hans Mair Printer in His Own Name -- 4 Familiar Means - New Piety -- 1 Preface and the Calendar of Indulgences -- 2 The Location of the Event -- 3 "Is Clearly Displayed in Image and Word -- 4 The Martyrdom of Saint Stephen -- 5 The Saint's Martyrdom and the Reader's Own Death -- 6 From Didactics to Endowment -- 7 One Step Forward, Two Steps Back The New Title Page -- 5 Aesthetic Enhancement -- 1 Lucas Cranach The Art of Court and Book -- 2 The Wittenberg Relic Book -- 3 Shifting Statements A Comparison between the B-Edition and the A-Edition.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004404489
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004404489
Language:
English
