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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cordez, Philippe (1979-....)
Titre(s) : Treasure, memory, nature : church objects in the Middle Ages [Texte imprimé] / Philippe Cordez
Publication : Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (276 p.) : color illustrations, facsimiles (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Collection : Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
Lien à la collection : Studies in medieval and early renaissance art history
Note(s) : "Éditions de l'EHESS for the original French edition: Cordez, Philippe, Trésor, mémoire,
merveilles. Les objets des églises au Moyen Âge...2016"--Colophon. - "The book was first published as Schatz, Gedächtnis, Wunder. Die Objekte der
Kirchen im Mittelalter (Regensburg: Schnell und Steiner, 2015). This German version
has more and lengthier footnotes, with extensive quotations and additional bibliography.
Readers interested in such in-depth references might consult it together with the
present book. The original French text, with reduced footnoes, was published as Trésor,
mémoire, merveilles. Les objets des églises au Moyen Âge (Paris: Éditions de l'EHESS,
2016). Anne Madelain, at Éditions de l'EHESS, generously initiated yet another translation
of the text. This English version, Treasure, memory, nature, Church objects in the
Middle Ages, mirrors the French version (with complementary references to existing
English translations of original texts and scientific literature)...For her careful
translation, I would like to thank Chloe Morgan ... Julia Oswald, who edited the text
beautifully and with great precision."--Acknowledgements. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-264) and index
"Translated from the French"--Foreword.
"This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures,
and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder. Precious
metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants
were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The
material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia
and objets d'art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively.
Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later
history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial
objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries
and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates
primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm
shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and
museum practices. Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art
History in Paris"--Publisher's web site
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Morgan, Chloe Siner. Traducteur
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Church objects in the Middle Ages
- Titre parallèle : Trésor, mémoire, merveilles
Sujet(s) : Trésors d'églises -- Moyen âge
Église catholique -- Objets liturgiques -- Moyen âge
Reliquaires médiévaux
Objets d'art médiévaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781912554614 (alk. paper). - ISBN 1912554615 (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46633934g
Notice n° :
FRBNF46633934
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / / Herbert L. Kessler ; ; Acknowledgements -- ; Introduction: Ars sacra?
The 'objects' of churches -- ; Chapter 1 --. The imaginary of treasure -- ; The 'treasure'
of the church and the 'treasures of churches' -- ; Spiritual treasures and Christian
society (late antiquity) -- ; Material treasures and sovereignty (Carolingian times)
-- ; The economy of the thesaurus ecclesiae -- ; From the treasurer to the fabric:
The 'common good' (high Middle Ages) -- ; The 'treasury of merit': indulgences and
alms (late Middle Ages) -- ; Chapter 2 --. Memory and histories -- ; Relics and writing
-- ; The first collections: inventories -- ; Inventorying: objects, techniques, relevance
-- ; Forms and uses of inventories: the mediation of collections -- ; Object histories:
the construction of memory -- ; Saint Peter's staff -- ; Christ's foreskin -- ; Chess
and the imaginary of power -- ; Imperial positions and military conflicts -- The king
of France, Saint-Denis, and Reims -- ; Chivalric histories -- ; Chapter 3 --. Marvels
and nature -- ; Forms and functions of wonder -- ; Ostrich eggs, coconuts, mollusk
shells: reliquaries and exempla -- ; Unicorn horns: objects and knowledge -- ; The
remains of giants: natural histories -- ; Encounters with monsters: mastering the
world -- ; Victory over evil: dragons -- ; Adventures in the East: griffins' claws
-- ; At the margin of the world: the teeth and bones of sea creatures -- ; Conclusion:
objects, history, museums -- ; Bibliography -- ; Index -- ; Figure credits.
