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Taking a new approach to medieval art, "Meaning in Motion"
reveals the profound importance of movement in the physical,
emotional, and intellectual experience of art and architecture in
the Middle Ages. Focusing on the physical movement of objects and
viewers, as well as movements of the mind, this richly illustrated
collection of interdisciplinary essays explores a wide range of
rituals, performances, works of art, and texts in which movement is
crucial to meaning. These include liturgical and devotional
practices, but also pilgrimage, reading techniques, and the use of
art and allegory in late medieval courtly society. The contributors
consider movement not only as a physical action but also as an
active intellectual process involving the reception of images, one
that creates layers of meaning through the multidimensional
experience of objects and spaces, both real and imaginary. This
novel approach to medieval art, building on the concept of agency
and the understanding of ritual as a performative act, is
influenced by two anthropological perspectives: Victor Turner's
"processual" analysis of rites of passage and Alfred Gell's
conception of the interactive relationship between art and the
viewer as a process. The essays in this volume engage in an
interdisciplinary discussion of the significance of movement for
the making and perception of medieval art.
In Art, Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval Southern Italy, Nino
Zchomelidse examines the complex and dynamic roles played by the
monumental ambo, the Easter candlestick, and the liturgical scroll
in southern Italy and Sicily from the second half of the tenth
century, when the first such liturgical scrolls emerged, until the
first decades of the fourteenth century, when the last monumental
Easter candlestick was made. Through the use of these objects, the
interior of the church was transformed into the place of the story
of salvation, making the events of the Bible manifest. By linking
rites and setting, liturgical furnishings could be used to stage a
variety of biblical events, in accordance with specific feast days.
Examining the interaction of liturgical performance and the
ecclesiastical stage, this book explores the creation, function,
and evolution of church furnishings and manuscripts.
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