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- Åkestam, Mia, 1954-
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Bebådelsebilder : Om bildbruk under medeltiden
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates the Annunciation motif and the use of images in a medieval socio-cultural context. There are almost 400 medieval images of the Annunciation from the period 1150–1550 in Sweden today. It is found in murals, baptismal fonts, paintings, wooden sculpture, stone reliefs, liturgical vessels, textile works and altarpieces. The aim of the thesis is to present this rich and varied material, and also to relate the images to the milieus where they were used and viewed as objects of cult, and to elucidate the historical situation in which they were used for communicative purposes. It is argued that an “image-culture” perspective and a long-term investigation can reveal other aspects than a specific study, and that it is fruitful to equally emphasize the rhetoric of the image, the beholders part and the historical context. Hence the picture analysis is based on semiotics and rhetoric analysis of pictures and reception theory. With this point of departure the thesis addresses iconographic problems and shows that text as a source and explanation of historical image can be insufficient. The study shows that the figures’ gestures and body language, their contenace, is crucial for our understanding, and remains the most important mark of identification. The motif can be identified even with an angel without wings. The meaning of this universal picture could then be enlarged with specific attributes and symbols with a purpose to emphasize specific ideas. In context this elucidates bishopric, monastic as well as worldly use of imagery. The image context includes motifs from classical antiquity, references to the pious Christian worshiper, as well as symbolic staging of the Gospels and Christian faith. More expected is the biblical history. The motif can also be displayed alone, and thus it can be regarded as a sign. An important outcome is that the Annunciation not is used in legendary suites or in narratives of the Virgin Mary. Hence, the relationship between image and text is not uncomplicated. The thesis shows that people in the Middle Ages were fully aware of the use of pictures and skilfully used the rhetoric of the image.
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- Andersson, Roger, 1957-
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Postillor och predikan : en medeltida texttradition i filologisk och funktionell belysning
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The subject of this dissertation is the textual tradition of a sermon collection in Old Swedish, which 1 call the ß postil. The extant manuscripts have so far not been thoroughly investigated from a philological view-point besides the editions. The dissertation focuses on several issues: to provide such a philological description of the material, to make account for the sources of the textual tradition as well as for the provenance of the now lost archetype, to study the purpose and use of both the lost archetype and the extant manuscripts. The textual tradition as a whole in relation to its sources as well as changes within the textual tradition are instants of how the continental theology is transformed into popular edification directed to a lay public. The philological theory of textual transmission is here complemented by a theory of textual transformation, the key-word of which is popularization. A crucial role in this process is played by Vadstena abbey. It was probably here that the lost archetype was written. It is also shown that the liturgically arranged vernacular postil in the same process develops from the often more disparate Latin sermon collection of preferably mendicant origin. The question of use takes its point of departure in a brief examination of Swedish mediaeval preaching. During the 15th century the demands for a regular preaching on Sundays and major feasts are increasing. The development of the genre in combination with inner criteria (contents, formulae) suggests that these texts are directly or indirectly related to the mediaeval preaching activity.
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