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Das Herz in den Bildmedien religiöser Frauengemeinschaften

Frühneuzeitliche Körperkonzepte im Spannungsverhältnis von Konfession, Stand und Geschlecht
  • Maria Schaller
Language: German
Published/Copyright: 2024

About this book

The heart had a key position in the visual media of religious women’s communities in the early modern era. Maria Schaller analyzes portraits and image-bearing jewelry created in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women’s convents during the 17th and 18th centuries; these address ideas such as the indwelling, imprinting, or inscribing of the divine in the human heart. This study examines their recourse to the heart visions of late medieval mystics, but also to remarkable new semanticizations such as constructing the genealogy of an ‘eternal wound of the heart’. The primary question is how far the body images and imaginaries of the heart presented here reflect mediation processes in the field of tension between denomination, class, and gender.

  • Fundamental contribution to gender research and the history of the body during the early modern age
  • Images of the heart in various Christian denominations

Author / Editor information

Maria Schaller, DFG research group "Geistliche Intermedialität in der Frühen Neuzeit", University of Hamburg

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
April 1, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9783111073620
Hardcover published on:
April 1, 2024
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111027784
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
552
Illustrations:
151
Coloured Illustrations:
32
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