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The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

Katherine of Alexandria was a major object of devotion within medieval Europe ranking second only to the Virgin Mary in the canon of female saints. Yet despite her undoubted importance relatively little is known about the significance and function of her cult within the German-speaking territories that stood at the heart of Europe. Anne Simon's study adds a welcome new interdisciplinary perspective to the study of Saint Katherine and the wider ecclesiastical landscape of a medieval Europe poised on the edge of religious change. Taking as a case study the wealthy and politically influential merchant city of Nuremberg this book draws on a wide variety of textual and visual sources to explore interrelated themes: the shaping of urban space through the cult of Saint Katherine; her role in the moulding and advertising patrician identity and alliances through cultural patronage; and patrician use of the saint to showcase the city's political economic cultural and religious importance at the heart of the Holy Roman Empire. Further the book reveals the construction of exemplarity in Saint Katherine's legend and miracles and their resonance within the context of the city and the Dominican Convent of Saint Katherine whose nuns came from the same status-aware confident patrician elite that so loyally supported successive Emperors. Filling a significant gap in current research the work has much to offer scholars of medieval history hagiography art history German studies cultural and urban studies. Hence it not only expands our understanding of Saint Katherine's importance in German-speaking territories but also adds to the picture of her cult in its European perspective. | The Cult of Saint Katherine of Alexandria in Late-Medieval Nuremberg Saint and the City

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Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse façade at Reims Cathedral has received little in the way of scholarly attention. Interpreting the iconography in the light of Latin texts associated with the building its history and its ceremonial use Donna Sadler assesses the significance of the reverse façade in light of other thirteenth-century visual programs associated with the court of Louis IX. The book's chapters deal with the history of the cathedral and its architectural antecedents; the iconographic message of the visual program the meaning of the reverse fa§ade and how it intersects with the overall iconography; the function of the verso and how it is enhanced by the marriage of form and content; and a consideration of contemporary works linked to the court of Saint Louis concluding with a brief look at the new roles sculpture assumes as it migrates inside cathedrals. Ultimately this book reveals how the imagery on the reverse façade not only conforms to a system of memory and mode of medieval narratology but also articulates a dominant ideological position regarding the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers. | Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France

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Globalizing Literary Genres Literature History Modernity

Globalizing Literary Genres Literature History Modernity

Focused on the relation between processes of globalization and literary genres this volume intervenes in the prevalent notions of globalization literary history genre and the novel. Using both close reading and world history both literary criticism and political theory the book is a timely intervention in the debates about world postcolonial and transnational literature as they have been intensified by critical globalization studies world-systems analysis Bourdieuan sociology and cosmopolitanism studies. It contends that globalization far from starting in recent decades has a long and complex history not unlike the history of literature itself meaning that when we speak of globalization and literature we in effect invoke the entire history of literature. Essays examine literary genres in relation to broader historical processes connecting the present state of globalization to such key world-historic events as the early modern geographical and scientific explorations the Enlightenment the expansions of modernity in the long nineteenth and twentieth centuries postmodernity and postcoloniality and contemporary counter-hegemonic movements. The book offers innovative readings of the pastoral from Saint-Pierre to Carpentier; the novel in Kant and Wieland and in Diderot and Marx; travel writing from Verne to Cortázar; sports writing in James and Kahn; entrelacement in Bolaño Ghosh and Soderbergh; and also the Mozambican ghost story Indian genre fiction fake autobiographies Sephardic language memoirs the postcolonial Gothic Irish chick lit and counter-hegemonic novels. Making important theoretical contributions to a renewed discussion about genre especially genres of narrative fiction this volume addresses global studies the history of the novel and debates over periodization and nationalism in literary history. | Globalizing Literary Genres Literature History Modernity

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