Das Herz in den Bildmedien religioser Frauengemeinschaften: Fruhneuzeitliche Korperkonzepte im Spannungsverhaltnis von Konfession, Stand und Geschlecht

During the 17th and 18th centuries, religious women's communities in Catholic nunneries and Protestant womens convents used visual media, such as portraits and image-bearing jewelry, to explore ideas like the indwelling, imprinting, or inscribing of the divine in the human heart. This study examines how far these body images and imaginaries reflect mediation processes in the field of tension between denomination, class, and gender.

Format: Hardback
Length: 520 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2024
Publisher: De Gruyter

The heart held a central place in the visual media of religious women's communities during the early modern era. Maria Schaller delves into the analysis of portraits and image-bearing jewelry crafted in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women's convents during the 17th and 18th centuries. These works address concepts such as the indwelling, imprinting, or inscribing of the divine within the human heart. This study explores their recourse to heart visions of late medieval mystics, as well as remarkable new semanticizations such as constructing the genealogy of an 'eternal wound of the heart.' The central question revolves around how far the body images and imaginaries of the heart presented herein reflect mediation processes in the field of tension between denomination, class, and gender.

This research makes a significant contribution to gender studies and the history of the body during the early modern age. Images of the heart within various Christian denominations

The heart held a central place in the visual media of religious women's communities during the early modern era. Maria Schaller delves into the analysis of portraits and image-bearing jewelry crafted in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women's convents during the 17th and 18th centuries. These works address concepts such as the indwelling, imprinting, or inscribing of the divine within the human heart. This study explores their recourse to heart visions of late medieval mystics, as well as remarkable new semanticizations such as constructing the genealogy of an 'eternal wound of the heart.' The central question revolves around how far the body images and imaginaries of the heart presented herein reflect mediation processes in the field of tension between denomination, class, and gender.

This research makes a significant contribution to gender studies and the history of the body during the early modern age. Images of the heart within various Christian denominations

The heart held a central place in the visual media of religious women's communities during the early modern era. Maria Schaller delves into the analysis of portraits and image-bearing jewelry crafted in Catholic nunneries and Protestant women's convents during the 17th and 18th centuries. These works address concepts such as the indwelling, imprinting, or inscribing of the divine within the human heart. This study explores their recourse to heart visions of late medieval mystics, as well as remarkable new semanticizations such as constructing the genealogy of an 'eternal wound of the heart.' The central question revolves around how far the body images and imaginaries of the heart presented herein reflect mediation processes in the field of tension between denomination, class, and gender.

This research makes a significant contribution to gender studies and the history of the body during the early modern age. Images of the heart within various Christian denominations

Weight: 1473g
Dimension: 240 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783111027784