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The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond: Theoretical and Historical Approaches book cover

1st Edition

The Living Image in the Middle Ages and Beyond Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Edited By Kamil Kopania, Henning Laugerud, Zuzanna Sarnecka Copyright 2025
242 Pages 19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 19 Color & 47 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci of such powerful... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

Introduction

Zuzanna Sarnecka, Kamil Kopania, and Henning Laugerud

 

Part I: Principles of Animation

1. Four Fundamental Concepts of Animation: Mechanical and Organic, Supernatural and Phenomenological

Hans Henrik Lohfert Jørgensen

2. Screen, Window, Door: Three Devices to Understand Animation in the Middle Ages

Carla M. Bino

3. ‘To Which the Crucifix Replied’: The Phenomenology of The Animate Image

Peter Dent

4. Mary, Matter, Mother: Re-Thinking the Living Image Through Animism and Materiality in Moments of Crisis, Ritual, and Devotion

Amy Whitehead

 

Part II: Medieval and Early Modern Animation

 

5. Blood, Peace, and Cinnabar: Animated Crucifixes and the Bianchi Devotions of 1399

Alexandra R.A. Lee

6. Guillaume de Lorris and the Speaking Image: Personification, Ekphrasis, and Poetic Creation

Hartley R. Miller

7. Ealy Prints in Motion

Joanna Sikorska

8. “I Carve My Figures Fine and Make Them Come to Life”: The Animation of Late Medieval Kleinplastik

Agnieszka Dziki

9. Clothes as Animation Devices: Miracle-Working Images, Enshrinement, and the Production of Matter in Early Modern Portugal

Diana R. Pereira

 

Part III: Animated Tradition(s)

           

10. Motion and Emotion: Flying Baptismal Angels in Scandinavia

Elisabeth Andersen

11. Playing (with) Puppets: Jigging Puppets from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century

Francesca Cecconi

12. Thinking with a Figure: Different ways of Animating Sculptures of Saints in Polish Puppet Theatre at the End of the 20th Century

Karol Suszczyński

 

Index

Biography

Kamil Kopania is Assistant Professor at the A. Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, Poland.

Henning Laugerud is Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.

Zuzanna Sarnecka is SNSF Ambizione Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Art History at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

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