Spiritual Vegetation
Vegetal Nature in Religious Contexts Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Contributions by Naïs Virenque Contributions by Alice Laforet Contributions by Hans Rudolf Velten Contributions by Silke Winst Contributions by Marie-Luise Musiol Contributions by Franziska Wenzel Contributions by Tobias Petry Contributions by Beatrice Trînca Contributions by Achim Timmermann Contributions by Guita Lamsechi Contributions by Delia Cosentino Contributions by Sarina Tschachtli Contributions by Leopoldine Prosperetti Edited by Guita Lamsechi Edited by Beatrice Trînca
Hardback (Published)
(April 2022)
ISBN: 9783847114260
6.34 x 9.33 inches
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The contributions concern premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.
This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that allude to a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience.
- Contributions by Naïs Virenque
- Contributions by Alice Laforet
- Contributions by Hans Rudolf Velten
- Contributions by Silke Winst
- Contributions by Marie-Luise Musiol
- Contributions by Franziska Wenzel
- Contributions by Tobias Petry
- Contributions by Beatrice Trînca
- Contributions by Achim Timmermann
- Contributions by Guita Lamsechi
- Contributions by Delia Cosentino
- Contributions by Sarina Tschachtli
- Contributions by Leopoldine Prosperetti
- Edited by Guita Lamsechi
- Edited by Beatrice Trînca
Other Titles in this Series
Blutige Worte
Internationales und interdisziplinäres Kolloquium zum Verhältnis von Sprache und Gewalt in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit
Ain ewig Stipendium
Das Collegium Sanctorum Georgii et Martini – Eine Tübinger Studienstiftung des 16. Jahrhunderts
Gastfreundschaft in der frühneuzeitlichen Gesellschaft
Praktiken, Normen und Perspektiven von Gelehrten
Zwischen Jakobsleiter und Eselsbrücke
Das ›bildende Bild‹ im Emblem- und Kinderbilderbuch des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
Melancholia translata
Marsilio Ficinos Melancholie-Begriff im deutschsprachigen Raum des 16. Jahrhunderts
Wissen und Geltung
Interdisziplinäre Beiträge zur Dynamik kulturellen Wissens in Mittelalter und Neuzeit
Wissen, Arbeit, Freundschaft
Ökonomien und soziale Beziehungen an den Akademien in London, Paris und Berlin um 1700
Gender Studies – Queer Studies – Intersektionalität
Eine Zwischenbilanz aus mediävistischer Perspektive
Renovatio et unitas – Nikolaus von Kues als Reformer
Theorie und Praxis der reformatio im 15. Jahrhundert
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