Riemenschneider in Rothenburg - Sacred Space and Civic Identity in the Late Medieval City (Hardcover)

The concept of the medieval city is fixed in the modern imagination, conjuring visions of fortified walls, towering churches, and winding streets. In Riemenschneider in Rothenburg, Katherine M. Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning and artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments, demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping the late medieval city. Using altarpieces by the famed medieval artist Tilman Riemenschneider as touchstones for her argument, Boivin explores how artwork in Germany’s preeminent medieval city, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, deliberately propagated civic ideals. She argues that the numerous artistic pieces commissioned by the city’s elected council over the course of two centuries built upon one another, creating a cohesive structural network that attracted religious pilgrims and furthered the theological ideals of the parish church. By contextualizing some of Rothenburg’s most significant architectural and artistic works, such as St. James’s Church and Riemenschneider’s Altarpiece of the Holy Blood, Boivin shows how the city government employed these works to establish a local aesthetic that awed visitors, raising Rothenburg’s profile and putting it on the pilgrimage map of Europe. Carefully documented and convincingly argued, this book sheds important new light on the history of one of Germany’s major tourist destinations. It will be of considerable interest to medieval art historians and scholars working in the fields of cultural and urban history.

General

Imprint:	Pennsylvania State University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Katherine M Boivin (Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture)
Dimensions:	254 x 203 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-271-08778-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 500 CE to 1400 > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-271-08778-1
Barcode:	9780271087788

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