Bathsheba's Bath and the Seven Deadly Sins: A New Interpretation of a Visual Narrative Strategy in Late Medieval Books of Hours

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-82
Author(s):  
Mónica Ann Walker Vadillo
Keyword(s):  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Narrative Strategy ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours ◽  
Seven Deadly Sins ◽  
New Interpretation

Gender-Querying Christ’s Wounds

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Sexon
Keyword(s):  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Visual Interpretation ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours ◽  
And Gender

This chapter argues that Christ’s body can be read as a non-binary body in Late Medieval imagery through analysis of images of Christ’s wounds that appear in Books of Hours and prayer rolls. Wounds opened up the gendered representation of the holy body to incorporate aspects of femininity, masculinity and aspects that signify as neither. Through a reading of Christ’s wounds as potential markers of the genderqueer, I argue that an individual’s identification with the non-binary body of Christ could result in identification as a non-binary body for the viewing patron. Genderqueer interpretation of Christ’s body shows how non-binary visual interpretation more broadly is useful for understanding the complexity of medieval bodies and gender.

Medieval Commentators on Future Contingents in De Interpretatione 9

Vivarium ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 75-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simo Knuuttila
Keyword(s):  
Future Contingents ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Peter Abelard ◽  
Duns Scotus ◽  
The World ◽  
Future Contingent ◽  
Truth Value ◽  
De Interpretatione ◽  
New Interpretation

AbstractThis article considers three medieval approaches to the problem of future contingent propositions in chapter 9 of Aristotle’s De Interpretatione. While Boethius assumed that God’s atemporal knowledge infallibly pertains to historical events, he was inclined to believe that Aristotle correctly taught that future contingent propositions are not antecedently true or false, even though they may be characterized as true-or-false. Aquinas also tried to combine the allegedly Aristotelian view of the disjunctive truth-value of future contingent propositions with the conception of all things being timelessly present to God’s knowledge. The second approach was formulated by Peter Abelard who argued that in Aristotle’s view future contingent propositions are true or false, not merely true-or-false, and that the antecedent truth of future propositions does not necessitate things in the world. After Duns Scotus, many late medieval thinkers thought like Abelard, particularly because of their new interpretation of contingency, but they did not believe, with the exception of John Buridan, that this was an Aristotelian view.

Philibert de L’Orme’s Dome in the Chapel of the Château d’Anet: The Role of Stereotomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 253-284
Author(s):  
Sara Galletti
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Correct Pattern ◽  
Exact Shape ◽  
New Interpretation

ABSTRACTThe coffered dome designed by Philibert de L’Orme (1514-70) for the chapel of the Château d’Anet in northern France between 1549 and 1552 is a masterpiece of stereotomy — the stone vaulting technique characterised by the custom cutting (or dressing) of a vault’s components or voussoirs. The dome was executed by first individually dressing its large voussoirs, so that they would fit one another precisely, and then dry assembling them like the pieces of a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. The spiralling ribs that form the coffers added a layer of complexity to the work, for they are embedded in the voussoirs; thus the exact shape and position of the rib sections belonging to each voussoir had to be calculated precisely before dressing to ensure that, after assembling, they would form the correct pattern over the vault’s surface. The dome’s execution method continues to baffle historians, in particular with regard to the transfer of the complex pattern formed by the ribs on to the templates used by the stonecutters to shape the voussoirs. Based on a new 3D laser scan of the dome and on the analysis of late medieval and early modern stereotomic practices and theories, this article offers a new interpretation of the methods that de L’Orme adopted at Anet and of their significance within the panorama of sixteenth-century architectural practice and theory.

Popular and Elite Religion: Feastdays and Preaching

2006 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 162-179
Author(s):  
David D’Avray
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Church History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Books Of Hours ◽  
Similar Point ◽  
Late Medieval England ◽  
Great Force

In rejecting the distinction between elite and popular religion, Eamon Duffy’s presidential address echoes a much earlier contribution to Studies in Church History. Arnaldo Momigliano found the dichotomy misleading where Christian historians of Late Antiquity were concerned, as Dermot Fenlon points out later in this volume, showing that the other historians too were thinking along the same lines. In the present volume Professor Duffy makes a similar point with great force for a different time and place, late medieval England. Here and in his Stripping of the Altars the liturgy has a key role in his argument. He observes that Books of Hours or Primers are a form of the monastic office. Taking his thought further on lines he clearly intends, one could argue that the psychology of prayer is similar in the two cases and similar to the rosary also. In all three cases thoughts need not be about the words, for the focus of the prayer may be different, but the words work as a mantra to shut out distractions and create a devout frame of mind.

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