A Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages

Buch | Hardcover

500 Seiten

2022
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-30557-1 (ISBN)

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Quedlinburg Abbey was one of the oldest and most prestigious women's religious communities in medieval Germany. This essay collection conveys the abbey’s illustrious history, political importance, and cultural significance through studies on, among others, its architecture, rich treasury, and its abbatial effigies.

The imperial convent of St. Servatius at Quedlinburg (founded in 936) was one of the wealthiest, most prestigious, and most politically powerful religious houses of medieval Germany, subject only to the authority of the emperor and the pope. This is the first English-language volume to provide an introduction to this important female religious community.

The twelve essays by a team of international scholars address an array of topics in Quedlinburg’s medieval history, with a particular focus on how the Quedlinburg community of learned aristocratic women used architecture and the visual arts to assert the abbey's illustrious history, ongoing political importance, and cultural significance.

Contributors are: Clemens Bley, Karen Blough, Shirin Fozi, Tobias Gärtner, Eliza Garrison, Evan A. Gatti, G. Ulrich Großmann, Annie Krieg, Manfred Mehl, Katharina Ulrike Mersch, Christian Popp, Helene Scheck, and Adam R. Stead.

Karen Blough, Ph.D. (1995), Rutgers University, is Professor of art history at SUNY Plattsburgh. She has published on various topics in German medieval art, with an emphasis on the arts patronage of religious women.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Karen Blough

1 Quedlinburg Abbey’s Medieval History in Ever-Changing Political and Religious Frameworks: A Survey

Katharina Mersch

2 Quedlinburg in the 10th and 11th Centuries: An Archaeological View

Tobias Gärtner

3 Quedlinburg: The Conventual Buildings from an Architectural History Perspective

Ulrich Grossmann

4 For the Living and the Dead: Memorial Prayers of the Quedlinburg Canonesses in the High Middle Ages

Christian Popp

5 Psallite sapienter: Psalms and Learning at Quedlinburg

Helene Scheck

6 Abbatial Effigies and Conventual Identity at St. Servatius, Quedlinburg

Karen Blough

7 Bracteates of the Abbesses of Quedlinburg: Romanesque Craftwork of Great Quality

Manfred Mehl

8 The Quedlinburg Frieze and Its Romanesque Context

Shirin Fozi

9 Of Donors and Patrons: The Abbey of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg as a Site of Remembrance, Distinction, and Representation

Clemens Bley

10 A Reliquary Revisited: The Reliquary of St. Servatius and Its Contexts

Eliza Garrison and Evan Gatti

11 Matter and Spirit: Reliquaries at St. Servatius in the 13th Century

Adam Stead

12 Restored, Repurposed, Reassessed: The Abbey Church of Quedlinburg across Five Germanies

Annie Krieg

Dates of the Quedlinburg Abbesses, German Kings, and Bishops of Halberstadt

Manuscripts

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2022
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Companions to European History ; 29
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	953 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	90-04-30557-2 / 9004305572
ISBN-13	978-90-04-30557-1 / 9789004305571
Zustand	Neuware