Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Corporeal Nature

In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of contemporary spirituality, populating the walls of the monastery with a highly naturalistic assortment of earthly, divine, and demonic figures. This book draws on art history, anthropology, and gender studies to explore the disciplinary and didactic role of the images, as well as their relationship to important papal projects at the Vatican.

scholarly journals Vroue in die Sinoptiese Evangelies – méér as dekoratiewe karakters

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Biblical Interpretation ◽  
Synoptic Gospels ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Full Humanity

Women in the Synoptic Gospels – more than decorative charactersThe aim of the paper is to show that the Synoptic Gospels represent different perspectives on Jesus and gender. From these perspectives Jesus’ narrated vision on the role of the male disciples and the women is described in order to explore some implications of the three visions in Mark, Matthew, and Luke. The focus is on developing a comprehensive philosophy which attests to the full humanity and personhood of women, the equal value of men and women as persons, and the public acknowledgement of their value. The paper demonstrates that gender studies in biblical interpretation can contribute not only to the special interests of women, but also in a broader sense to society as a whole.

The politics of (in)visibility displays: Ultra-Orthodox women manoeuvring within and between visibility regimes

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (12) ◽  
pp. 1609-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
Varda Wasserman ◽  
Michal Frenkel
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Matrix Of Domination ◽  
And Gender

How does the multiplicity of surveilling gazes affect the experience of employees subjected to a matrix of domination in organisations? Building on a case study of ultra-religious Jewish women in Israeli high-tech organisations, the article demonstrates how the intersectionality of gender and religiosity exposed them to a matrix of contradicting visibility regimes – managerial, peers, and religious community. By displaying their compliance with each visibility regime, they were constructed as hyper-subjugated employees, but simultaneously were able to use (in)visibility as a resource. Specifically, by manoeuvring between the various gazes and playing one visibility regime against the other, they challenged some of the organisational and religious norms that served to marginalise them, yet upheld their status as worthy members of both institutions. Juxtaposing theoretical insights from organisational surveillance and gender studies, the article reveals the role of multiple surveilling gazes in both the reproduction of minorities’ marginalisation, and their ability to mobilise it to maintain their collective identities.

THE PLEA ROLLS OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS: AN UNUSED SOURCE FOR THE ART AND HISTORY OF LATER MEDIEVAL ENGLAND, 1422–1509

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 ◽  
pp. 157-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Danbury ◽  
Kathleen L Scott
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
Land Inheritance ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Contemporary Context

The court of Common Pleas was one of the most important courts in the English legal system for more than 600 years, until its abolition by Act of Parliament in 1873. The cases heard before this royal court were civil disputes between the king’s subjects, often relating to land, inheritance and debts. The purpose of this paper is to introduce readers to the ornament and imagery that appeared on the headings of the main records of the court of Common Pleas between 1422 and 1509 and to explore the origins and contemporary context of the images and representations employed by the clerk-artists who wrote and decorated these headings. The decoration they chose ranged from simple ornament to representations of plants, birds, animals and people. Great emphasis was placed on the role of the sovereign as the fount of justice, and this emphasis was reinforced by the incorporation of words and phrases, acclamations and verses from the Psalms chosen to underline the majesty and power of successive monarchs. The illustrations provide an important insight into the art, history and politics of late fifteenth-century England.

scholarly journals Plates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wangsgaard Jürgensen
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Art History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Rural Churches ◽  
Parish Churches ◽  
The Church

<p>This volume presents a thorough study of the more than a thousand preserved Danish medieval rural parish churches. It traces the transformations of church interiors from <em>c</em>. 1450 to 1600 (thus covering both the emergence and impact of the Danish Reformation) by interpreting material changes within a broad historical perspective that highlights changes in religious practices and liturgy. The book explores the spatial and artistic implications of liturgy as well as the role of the congregation, the donor, and the clergy both in shaping and disrupting these interiors. It sets out to answer four basic questions: What did these rural churches look like by the middle of the fifteenth century? How did they change from the middle of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth? How were they used and integrated into public as well as private ceremonies? And how may these churches have been perceived and experienced by the congregation and clergy?<br></p><p>This study seeks to establish a methodological framework that incorporates the disciplines of archaeology, art history, history, and theology, in order to facilitate an overall understanding of the architectural setting, embracing spatial, material, and artistic elements within the church through liturgy.</p>

scholarly journals Around the sieve. Motif, Symbol, Hermeneutic.

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-75
Author(s):  
Barbara Baert
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Female Identity ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Queen Elizabeth I ◽  
And Gender

This article starts from the so-called sieve portraits of Queen Elizabeth I. What is the meaning of this fascinating attribute she is holding in her hand? How does this sieve relate both to her political and female identity? This brings me to a wider scope on sieves and sieving in art history and anthropology. Indeed, the sieve exhibits a wide range of symbolism that extends across art history, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. The article provides an interdisciplinary perspective
on the sieve from three angles of approach: as motif (the sieve is an attribute), as symbol (the sieve is an image), and as hermeneutic (the sieve is a paradigm). Doing so, it will become clear that underneath the sieve the idea of textile, “textility” and texture is constantly resonating.

scholarly journals Rochelle Ruthchild. Natalya Pushkareva – Creator of the Russian School of Gender Studies in History and Ethnology

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Rochelle G. Ruthchild
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Scientific Biography ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Identity ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
American Historian ◽  
And Gender

In a brief report by a well-known American historian is analysed the contribution of her Russian colleague Natalya Pushkareva to the creation of a new scientific direction - gender studies in ethnology and in the study of the past. The author substantiates the special role of an individual in the institutionalization of women's and gender studies in Russian historiography, reflects on stages of the scientific biography of Natalya Pushkareva, foundation of a scientific school and her followers, united by common interests and intellectual identity.

Ethics in Gender Online Research: A Facebook Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-96
Author(s):  
Claudia Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Online Research ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the role of researchers in online environments, namely Facebook, and their ethical responsibilities towards fieldwork in a broad sense, their interlocutors, colleagues, themselves, and their families. The aim is to highlight the relationship between methodology, ethical considerations, and political circumstances in the realm of jihadi audiovisualities. By addressing actual methodological and ethical limitations experienced while conducting research offline and on Facebook, I will further the practical understanding of radicalization processes and entanglement with jihadi media. The study has its own ethic and theoretical limitations since it is anchored in an empirical case study that represents a novelty in terms of methods and results. The sum of the application of these methods and creative solutions may inspire new scientific approaches for digital ethnography, digital ethics, and gender studies and may, in particular, help to conceptualize jihadi audiovisuality as a field of research.

scholarly journals Incunabula in Communities of Canonesses Regular and Tertiaries Related to the Devotio Moderna

Quaerendo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-248
Author(s):  
Anna Dlabačová ◽  
Patricia Stoop
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Religious Women ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Inclusive Approach ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
Religious Book

Abstract This contribution discusses the hitherto overlooked ownership of the earliest printed books (incunabula) by Netherlandish female religious communities of tertiaries and canonesses regular connected to the religious reform movement of the Devotio moderna. Studies of book ownership and book collections in these communities have tended to focus on manuscripts. From the last decades of the fifteenth century onwards, however, these religious women increasingly came in contact with printed books, even though the involvement of the Devotio moderna with the printing press was limited. The discussion focuses on the channels via which tertiaries and canonesses acquired books produced by commercially operating printers, the ways in which incunabula affected what these (semi-)religious women read, as well as the ratio between printed books in Latin and the vernacular, and their function(s) within these communities. Thus the essay intends to sketch a preliminary image of the role of incunabula in female convents, and advocates a more inclusive approach of female religious book ownership.

Bild, Ding, Material: Nimben und Goldgründe italienischer Tafelmalerei in transkultureller Perspektive

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-541
Author(s):  
Vera-Simone Schulz
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Art History ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Panel Painting ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Impact

Abstract With a special focus on processes of artistic transfer between the Apennine peninsula and other regions in the Mediterranean and beyond, this paper sheds new light on haloes and gold grounds in thirteenthto fifteenth-century Italian painting. By means of case studies, it analyzes both (1) the role of haloes and gold grounds within the specific logic of the images, and (2) the impact of imported artifacts (their techniques, decoration, and materiality) on Italian panel painting as well as the complex interplays between imports and local production. Elucidating the intersections, frictions, and fields of tension between visual and material culture, this paper contributes to discussions on transmedial and transmaterial dynamics, transcultural art history, and the multireferentiality of gold.

scholarly journals W jaki sposób metafory wyrażają literaturoznawczy światopogląd? Analiza wybranych tekstów teoretyczno- i krytycznoliterackich.

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 349-367
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Lisowska
Keyword(s):  
Gender Studies ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Feminist Criticism ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Way

In the article, Katarzyna Lisowska analyzes selected literary studies metaphors (Edward Bal-cerzan’s term) in order to discuss the way in which they represent the academic worldview of the author. The paper focuses on the phrases from the semantic field of corporeality and/or eroticism and their presence in four influential methodologies: structuralism, post-structuralism (as well as the perspectives related to it: deconstruction and deconstructionism), feminist criticism and gender studies discourse. The analyses reveal a significant role of metaphors in expressing and formulating the assumptions of a given methodology, as well as some paradoxes which result from the applica-tion of the presented phrases.

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