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  1. Everyday aesthetics and the practice of historical reenactment : revisiting Cavell's Emerson
    Author: Wagner, Ulrike
    Published: 14.04.2022

    Throughout his career, Stanley Cavell's subject has been the ordinary: what Ralph Waldo Emerson would call 'the near, the low, the common'. Cavell provides compelling insights into Emerson's efforts to locate philosophy within the flow of everyday... more

     

    Throughout his career, Stanley Cavell's subject has been the ordinary: what Ralph Waldo Emerson would call 'the near, the low, the common'. Cavell provides compelling insights into Emerson's efforts to locate philosophy within the flow of everyday life. He examines how Emerson renews common thinking, citations, and fragments from the works of others by means of his 'aversive thinking': his technique of turning writing back upon itself. While taking Cavell's Emerson readings as its point of departure, this essay switches Cavell's philosophical angle for a philological one. I suggest that Emerson's engagement with contemporary debates concerning the historical reading of sacred and secular literature (the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare) formed his own practice of reworking literatures of various origins and recasting aesthetics in major ways.

     
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    Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Cavell, Stanley; Historische Kritik
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  2. Speculative writing : unfilmed scripts and premediation events
    Author: Gonçalo, Pablo
    Published: 14.04.2022

    This article investigates and proposes the concept of speculative writing, which is a disruptive sort of dramaturgy mediated by artificial intelligence. What are the kinds of events created by speculative writing? What might its history and genealogy... more

     

    This article investigates and proposes the concept of speculative writing, which is a disruptive sort of dramaturgy mediated by artificial intelligence. What are the kinds of events created by speculative writing? What might its history and genealogy be? What might the duration of an alphanumeric reenactment be? Guided by these questions, the article details its search for speculative writing in unfilmed script history as well as in premediation events. According to these concepts, this essay concludes that speculative writing will enact potential, abstract, and premediated events, which have never become material media.

     
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    Subjects: Spekulativer Realismus; Schreiben; Drehbuch; Archiv
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  3. Reenactment in theatre : some reflections on the philosophical status of restaging
    Author: Sacco, Daniela
    Published: 14.04.2022

    Theatre, because of its ability to represent through restaging, would seem to be the quintessential platform for reenactment. The "Orestea (una commedia organica?)" by R. Castelluci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, restaged at the Paris Automne... more

     

    Theatre, because of its ability to represent through restaging, would seem to be the quintessential platform for reenactment. The "Orestea (una commedia organica?)" by R. Castelluci and Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, restaged at the Paris Automne Festival in 2015, twenty years after its 1995 world premiere in Prato, is the starting point for a reflection on the status of restaging in theatre. This case study is the occasion to apply Walter Benjamin's philosophical concept of the 'Jetztzeit' to a theatrical context, and to consider also the 'citational' value of theatrical reenactment. These concepts are useful to study not only the reenactment of theatrical gesture and acting but also to consider the practice of restaging related to the theatrical event conceived in its entirety.

     
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    Subjects: Aeschylus; Orestia; Inszenierung; Castellucci, Romeo; Societas Raffaello Sanzio; Aufführung; Paris; Geschichte 2015; Reenactment
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  4. Re-search, re-enactment, re-design, re-programmed art
    Author: Cangiano, Serena; Fornari, Davide; Seratoni, Azalea
    Published: 14.04.2022

    Kinetic and programmed art has been a trend of contemporary arts that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. Kinetic artworks often incorporated technology, at that time still immature, and involved the audience in the production of visual, sound, and... more

     

    Kinetic and programmed art has been a trend of contemporary arts that flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. Kinetic artworks often incorporated technology, at that time still immature, and involved the audience in the production of visual, sound, and somatic effects. Gruppo T was the pioneering group at the forefront of this groundbreaking vision of art as reproducible, participatory, and interactive. Through an action research project and the methodological tool of reenactment, a group of researchers, designers, and artists has proposed an alternative way to conserve Gruppo T artworks. The project 'Re-programmed Art: An Open Manifesto' originated from the ephemeral and experimental features, as well as fragility, of the works by Gruppo T - that is, from the difficulties of practice, conservation, technology, and market that have confined them for far too long to the margins of mainstream art history. We conceive reenactment not just a mere restaging but as re-designing, re-thinking, updating, and reprogramming a series of works by Gruppo T.

     
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    Subjects: Gruppe T; Kinetische Kunst; Reenactment; Konservierung
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  5. In the beginning there is an end : approaching Gina Pane, approaching "Discours mou et mat"
    Author: Arnell, Malin
    Published: 14.04.2022

    In this fifteen-minute lecture-performance, Malin Arnell presents her dialogue with the work of French-Italian artist Gina Pane (1939–1990). Oriented around textual and visual traces of Pane and Arnell's historical intra-action, this ongoing dialogue... more

     

    In this fifteen-minute lecture-performance, Malin Arnell presents her dialogue with the work of French-Italian artist Gina Pane (1939–1990). Oriented around textual and visual traces of Pane and Arnell's historical intra-action, this ongoing dialogue explores performance art documentation and historical narratives. The project interrogates the operations of archives, asking: 'How do queer feminist performance archives make you vulnerable, how do they make you feel, act, react?' 'Whose bodies remain present, and which bodies are lost?' The framework of the work - its repetition with variations and its artistic and queer feminist methodologies - enables an exploration of history, documentation, and bodily epistemology as an attempt to take responsibility for what is not known by doing, through action - through performance.

     
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    Subjects: Pane, Gina; Performance <Künste>; Reenactment; Künstlerische Forschung
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  6. Performance art in the 1990s and the generation gap
    Author: Saurisse, Pierre
    Published: 14.04.2022

    In the 1990s, the question of the legacy of historical performance was posed with a particular sense of urgency. In the context of most pioneers of the art form having retired from live performance, reenactments not only reproduced past works but... more

     

    In the 1990s, the question of the legacy of historical performance was posed with a particular sense of urgency. In the context of most pioneers of the art form having retired from live performance, reenactments not only reproduced past works but positioned artists within the genealogy of performance. The sense of the passage of a generation and the transmission of the memory of past performances were made explicit by Marina Abramović in "The Biography" (1992), a theatre piece in which she stages the very process of accounting for her past, as well as by Takashi Murakami and Oleg Kulik, who emerged on the art scene in the 1990s and mimicked live works from the past.

     
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    Subjects: Performance <Künste>; Reenactment; Geschichte 1990-2000; Abramović, Marina
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  7. Re-presenting art history : an unfinished process
    Author: Baldacci, Cristina
    Published: 22.04.2022

    Can reenactment both as reactivation of images and restaging of exhibitions be considered an alternative way of tackling the critical task to re-present art history (i.e., to present it anew) in the here and now, over and over and over again? The... more

     

    Can reenactment both as reactivation of images and restaging of exhibitions be considered an alternative way of tackling the critical task to re-present art history (i.e., to present it anew) in the here and now, over and over and over again? The gesture of restoring visibility to something no longer present, reactivating or reembodying it as an object/image in and for the present, is here proposed as a (political) act of restitution and historical recontextualization. Examining the boundaries between past and present, original and copy (as well as originality and copyright), repetition and variation, authenticity and auraticity, presence and absence, canon and appropriation, durée and transience, the paper focuses on remediation, reinterpretation, and reconstruction as creative gestures and cultural promises in contemporary art practice, curatorship, and museology.

     
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    Subjects: Kunst; Reenactment; Kunstgeschichtsschreibung; Museum; Ausstellung; Original; Kopie; Wiederholung; Variation; Warburg, Aby Moritz; Mnemosyne
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  8. Reconciling authenticity and reenactment : an art conservation perspective
    Author: Brost, Amy
    Published: 22.04.2022

    Locating authenticity in artworks that are remade (all or in part) or re-performed over time presents a unique challenge for art conservators, whose activities have traditionally been oriented toward caring for the material aspects of art objects.... more

     

    Locating authenticity in artworks that are remade (all or in part) or re-performed over time presents a unique challenge for art conservators, whose activities have traditionally been oriented toward caring for the material aspects of art objects. The paper offers a brief overview of perspectives on authenticity and discusses various theoretical models that have been developed to conceptualize how media, installation, and performance artworks are displayed and cared for over time. These include the score/performance model, the concepts of autographicity and allographicity, the concept of iteration, and authenticity as a practice. The author proposes a theoretical model based on the ritual aspects of presenting artworks, arguing that authenticity, repetition, and community participation can be reconciled within a ritual context.

     
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    Subjects: Performance <Künste>; Installation <Kunst>; Medienkunst; Konservierung; Wiederholung; Authentizität; Ritual
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  9. UNFOLD : the strategic importance of reinterpretation for media art mediation and conservation
    Author: Wijers, Gaby
    Published: 22.04.2022

    UNFOLD: Mediation by Reinterpretation is a research project and interdisciplinary network initiated by LIMA, Platform for Media Art in Amsterdam, that examines reinterpretation as an emerging practice for artistic production, presentation, and... more

     

    UNFOLD: Mediation by Reinterpretation is a research project and interdisciplinary network initiated by LIMA, Platform for Media Art in Amsterdam, that examines reinterpretation as an emerging practice for artistic production, presentation, and preservation of media works. New elements stretch the boundaries of traditional preservation methods and require insights from both the artist and the curator to decide how pieces can be restaged. This essay investigates how to deal with the changes of digital/media artworks over time, and how to preserve and mediate their performative aspects.

     
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    DDC Categories: 700; 770; 800
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    Subjects: Medienkunst; Computerkunst; Konservierung; Interpretation; Reenactment
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  10. Unfold Nan Hoover : on the importance of actively encouraging a variable understanding of artworks for the sake of their preservation and mediation
    Author: Mota, Vera Sofia; Putt, Fransien van der
    Published: 22.04.2022

    To support the practice of preservation and mediation of video works in the LIMA Collection (Amsterdam), the authors explore the possibilities of reinterpretation as a rather common practice in the performing arts. As a choreographer and a... more

     

    To support the practice of preservation and mediation of video works in the LIMA Collection (Amsterdam), the authors explore the possibilities of reinterpretation as a rather common practice in the performing arts. As a choreographer and a dramaturge, they establish a correlation between reinterpretation and dramaturgy - as a way to deal with non-objective or transitory aspects of the works - and describe their method in relation to the video and performance artist Nan Hoover.

     
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    Subjects: Hoover, Nan; Performance <Künste>; Videokunst; Konservierung; Reenactment; Interpretation
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  11. Living simulacrum : the Neoplastic Room in Łódź: 1948 / 1960 / 1966 / 1983 / 2006 / 2008 / 2010 / 2011 / 2013 / 2017 / ∞
    Author: Kiliszek, Joanna
    Published: 22.04.2022

    The Neoplastic Room at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź was originally designed in 1948 by the avant-garde artist Władysław Strzemiński. Destroyed in 1950 and reconstructed in 1960, it became the focal point of the museum, with the 'International Collection... more

     

    The Neoplastic Room at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź was originally designed in 1948 by the avant-garde artist Władysław Strzemiński. Destroyed in 1950 and reconstructed in 1960, it became the focal point of the museum, with the 'International Collection of Modern Art' by the a.r. group being exhibited there. At the same time, it became a point of reference for contemporary artists and a strategy for building a permanent collection for the museum, as well as a reflection on how the past can give a vision of the future. This essay focuses on the gesture of 're-curating' the Neoplastic Room in relation to the performative practice of the artists involved (e.g., Daniel Buren, Elżbieta Jabłońska).

     
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    Subjects: Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz); Muzeum Sztuki (Lodz). Mie̜dzynarodowa Kolekcja Sztuki Nowoczesnej; Neoplastizismus; Reenactment; Performance <Künste>; Rekonstruktion
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  12. 'Repetition: Summer display 1983' at Van Abbemuseum : or what institutional curatorial archives can tell us about the museum
    Author: Alessandrini, Michela
    Published: 25.04.2022

    The reactivation of Rudi Fuchs' 1983 exhibition 'Summer Display' took place in 2009 as part of the collection series, 'Play van Abbe part 1: The Game and the Players', and was entitled 'Repetition: Summer Display 1983'. The reconstruction questioned... more

     

    The reactivation of Rudi Fuchs' 1983 exhibition 'Summer Display' took place in 2009 as part of the collection series, 'Play van Abbe part 1: The Game and the Players', and was entitled 'Repetition: Summer Display 1983'. The reconstruction questioned the codes and systems used within (but also consciously and unconsciously outside) the museum and raised several questions, including: what story did the original composers want to tell, and how can this piece of history be understood today? Is the new presentation a separate exhibition entirely or a copy of the 'original' one? What is then the difference between the idea of copy, repetition, and reenactment? And what is the role of the museum's archive in the process of restaging? What can curatorial institutional archives tell us about the museum itself?

     
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    Subjects: Stedelijk Van Abbe-Museum; Ausstellung; Archiv
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  13. 'Political-timing-specific' performance art in the realm of the museum : the potential of reenactment as practice of memorialization
    Author: Marçal, Hélia; Salazar, Daniela
    Published: 25.04.2022

    Can reenactments be a way to create counter-narratives in and for the museum? Through the analysis of political performance (or what the artist Tania Bruguera calls 'political-timing-specific' artworks), this essay discusses the potential of... more

     

    Can reenactments be a way to create counter-narratives in and for the museum? Through the analysis of political performance (or what the artist Tania Bruguera calls 'political-timing-specific' artworks), this essay discusses the potential of reenactment as both a practice of materializing memories and narratives of oppression and of rethinking museum policies in terms of preservation and display. Its main argument is that, while the archive can be regarded as a form of materializing the memory of these works, reenactment is more than a way of recovering the past; it is also a device for reconstructing memories of activism and oppression. This essay further suggests that reenactments of political-timing-specific works demand a change in accessioning, conservation, and presentation practices, which might be inclined to erase decentralized art-historical and material narratives.

     
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    DDC Categories: 790; 800
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Politische Kunst; Aktivismus; Performance <Künste>; Reenactment; Gedächtnis; Museum
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  14. 'We are gathering experience' : restaging the history of art education
    Author: Rockwell, Alethea
    Published: 25.04.2022

    In recent years, critics and art historians have pointed to an 'educational turn', a rise in participatory pedagogical art projects and artist-led experimental schools. This essay considers artist-led projects and museum programmes that restage or... more

     

    In recent years, critics and art historians have pointed to an 'educational turn', a rise in participatory pedagogical art projects and artist-led experimental schools. This essay considers artist-led projects and museum programmes that restage or reenact educational experiments from the past, analysing their limits and possibilities in the study and presentation of modern art history. Much like performance art, pedagogy is ephemeral and contingent, and yet it differs in that it does not establish a fixed spectatorial role. To be understood it must be participated in, for, as Josef Albers described his teaching, 'we are gathering experience'.

     
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    DDC Categories: 370; 700; 800
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    Subjects: Kunst; Pädagogik; Museumspädagogik; Albers, Josef
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  15. Introduction : medieval openness
    Author: Gragnolati, Manuele; Suerbaum, Almut
    Published: 15.06.2022

    The essays in this volume seek to understand manifold kinds of medieval openness that become visible when one refrains from modern assumptions, and are also interested in how articulations of openness in the Middle Ages often stand in creative... more

     

    The essays in this volume seek to understand manifold kinds of medieval openness that become visible when one refrains from modern assumptions, and are also interested in how articulations of openness in the Middle Ages often stand in creative tension with forms of closure and can even be empowered by them. The chapters highlight the complex relationship between author, work, and text, but also explore several, often paradoxical, ways in which medieval culture mobilizes forms, practices, and experiences of openness without having a single abstract concept for it.

     
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    DDC Categories: 800; 940
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    Subjects: Mittelalter; Offenheit
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  16. An interminable work? : the openness of Augustine's "Confessions"
    Author: Giusti, Francesco
    Published: 20.06.2022

    From opening books to read them, through the continuous effort at opening one's heart to God, to the eventual disclosure of God's mysteries to human beings, Augustine seems to trace an implicit conceptualization of openness in his "Confessions". The... more

     

    From opening books to read them, through the continuous effort at opening one's heart to God, to the eventual disclosure of God's mysteries to human beings, Augustine seems to trace an implicit conceptualization of openness in his "Confessions". The words of Matthew 7. 7–8 underlie Augustine's engagement with openness up to the very last sentence of the book, which ends with a sequence of verbs in the passive voice that culminates with the desired manifestation of the divine. The entire endeavour of opening oneself up undertaken in the "Confessions" aims at this final passive openness, which is (always) yet to come as much as human opera are (always) yet to come to completion.

     
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    DDC Categories: 230; 800; 870
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    Subjects: Augustinus, Aurelius, Heiliger; Confessiones; Offenheit; Lesen; Interpretation
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  17. What was open in/about early scholastic thought?
    Author: Byrne, Philippa
    Published: 20.06.2022

    This chapter examines the meaning of the term 'aperire' ('to open') in the schools of the twelfth century and within early scholastic thought. It argues for a shift from a traditional understanding of opening as a revelation received from God,... more

     

    This chapter examines the meaning of the term 'aperire' ('to open') in the schools of the twelfth century and within early scholastic thought. It argues for a shift from a traditional understanding of opening as a revelation received from God, towards a more technical definition of opening as applying dialectical logic to a text. The act of opening was employed polemically, both in debates between scholastic masters and to distinguish Christian from Jewish exegetical practices.

     
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    DDC Categories: 230; 800
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    Subjects: Scholastik; Öffnung; Offenheit; Exegese; Dialektik; Disputation; Christentum; Polemik; Judentum
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  18. Speech-wrangling : shutting up and shutting out the oral tradition in some Icelandic sagas
    Author: McMahon, Brian
    Published: 22.06.2022

    This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland. It examines the question of whether prolegomena were intended to be included in... more

     

    This chapter considers the role of prolegomena and authorial interventions in constraining and contextualizing orally derived saga narratives in high medieval Iceland. It examines the question of whether prolegomena were intended to be included in oral renditions of the sagas and, if so, in whose 'voice' they were understood to be spoken. The 'openness' of a saga text - the extent of editorial freedom enjoyed by those concerned with extracting it from the oral milieu - has been much discussed; however, less attention has historically been paid to the freedom which the written texts then afforded any would-be reciter for emending or adapting their content when reading them aloud to a live audience. Prolegomena provide our most instructive source of contemporary commentary on how the written sagas should be understood and transmitted, and they therefore represent distinct and important critical texts in their own right, which inform our understanding of how 'open' or 'fixed' medieval Icelanders understood these extant written sagas to be.

     
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    Subjects: Saga; Altnordisch; Island; Mündiche Überlieferung; Schriftlichkeit; Prolog; Epilog; Autorität
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  19. Merlin's open mind : madness, prophecy, and poetry in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Vita Merlini"
    Author: Otter, Monika
    Published: 23.06.2022

    This essay considers the observatory in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Vita Merlini", with its seventy doors and seventy windows, as a structuring emblem of the title character's state of mind and, by extension, the poem's poetics and epistemology. more

     

    This essay considers the observatory in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Vita Merlini", with its seventy doors and seventy windows, as a structuring emblem of the title character's state of mind and, by extension, the poem's poetics and epistemology.

     
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    DDC Categories: 800; 870; 890
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Galfredus, Monumetensis; Vita Merlini; Sternwarte; Wahnsinn <Motiv>; Prophetie <Motiv>; Wildnis <Motiv>
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  20. Enclosure and exposure : locating the 'house without walls'
    Author: Sutherland, Annie
    Published: 24.06.2022

    This chapter explores medieval exegetical and affective characterizations of the birthplace of Christ. It focuses in particular on evocations of this birthplace as an exposed, liminal location and argues that the radical exposure endured by Christ at... more

     

    This chapter explores medieval exegetical and affective characterizations of the birthplace of Christ. It focuses in particular on evocations of this birthplace as an exposed, liminal location and argues that the radical exposure endured by Christ at the moment of his birth was crucial to medieval understandings of the significance of the Incarnation. But it also points out that its condition of openness is always in a dialectical relationship with its capacity to enclose and protect.

     
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    DDC Categories: 800; 820; 870
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Geburt Jesu; Ort; Mittelenglisch; Literatur; Exegese; Offenheit; Schutz
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  21. Unlikely matter : the open and the nomad in "The Book of Margery Kempe" and the Middle English "Christina Mirabilis"
    Author: Wolf, Johannes
    Published: 27.06.2022

    In "The Book of Margery Kempe", the protagonist shifts between identities and geographies as a nomadic subject, dispersed across compassionate responses to violence that unusually include a recognition of animal suffering. The "Life" of Christina the... more

     

    In "The Book of Margery Kempe", the protagonist shifts between identities and geographies as a nomadic subject, dispersed across compassionate responses to violence that unusually include a recognition of animal suffering. The "Life" of Christina the Astonishing also seizes on the nonhuman aspects of extreme affective experience as her bodily transformations participate in a process of becoming animal. Both texts reflect a medieval fascination with the devotional body as a zone of closure and opening where transhuman and interspecies associations can be safely explored.

     
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    DDC Categories: 800; 820
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    Subjects: The book of Margery Kempe; Thomas, von Cantimpré; Vita Christinae; Körper; Tiere <Motiv>; Spiritualität
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  22. Including the excluded : strategies of opening up in late medieval religious writing
    Author: Suerbaum, Almut
    Published: 27.06.2022

    Practices of rewriting and mouvance are central to medieval culture, but have been neglected by contemporary scholarship. This paper highlights how collaborative forms of writing such as religious song engage with complex theological thought, opening... more

     

    Practices of rewriting and mouvance are central to medieval culture, but have been neglected by contemporary scholarship. This paper highlights how collaborative forms of writing such as religious song engage with complex theological thought, opening up a discourse from which the laity had previously been excluded. Using forms which defy conventional author-based aesthetic norms, these songs explore poetic practices which are both collective and inclusive.

     
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    DDC Categories: 800; 830
    Collection: ICI Berlin
    Subjects: Gottfried, von Straßburg; Höfische Literatur; Eckhart, Meister; Mystik; Rezeption; Christliche Literatur; Lyrik; Mittelalter; Geschichte 1250-1500; Ästhetik; Offenheit
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  23. Openness and intensity : Petrarch's becoming laurel in "Rerum vulgarium fragmenta" 23 and 228
    Author: Gragnolati, Manuele; Southerden, Francesca
    Published: 27.06.2022

    Our paper offers a comparative reading of Rvf 23 and 228, which describe the poetic subject's transformation into (23), or implantation with (228), the laurel tree that normally represents the poet's beloved, Laura. Bringing Petrarch's poems into... more

     

    Our paper offers a comparative reading of Rvf 23 and 228, which describe the poetic subject's transformation into (23), or implantation with (228), the laurel tree that normally represents the poet's beloved, Laura. Bringing Petrarch's poems into dialogue with philosophical works that consider the nature of plant existence as a form of interconnectedness and porosity to the outside, we argue that the becoming tree these poems stage is a form of desire to be understood not as lack but as intensity.

     
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    Subjects: Petrarca, Francesco; Canzoniere; Lorbeer; Pflanzen <Motiv>; Metamorphose; Liebe <Motiv>
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  24. Highest openness : on Agamben's promise
    Author: Sacco, Damiano
    Published: 29.06.2022

    This essay follows the productive discussion of Giorgio Agamben's "The Open: Man and Animal" that took place as part of the 'Openness in Medieval Culture' conference at the ICI Berlin. The essay attempts to develop a speculative notion of openness... more

     

    This essay follows the productive discussion of Giorgio Agamben's "The Open: Man and Animal" that took place as part of the 'Openness in Medieval Culture' conference at the ICI Berlin. The essay attempts to develop a speculative notion of openness within Agamben's work, in particular by connecting the question of openness to the question of the promise: the promise of the resolution of the question of man and animal ("The Open"); the promise of the Franciscans' vow, or 'sacramentum' ("The Highest Poverty"); and the promise of language ("The Sacrament of Language").

     
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    DDC Categories: 800
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    Subjects: Agamben, Giorgio; Offenheit; Mensch; Tiere; Versprechen; Messianismus; Eschatologie; Franziskaner; Sprache
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  25. The monastic enclosure
    Author: Thompson, Benjamin
    Published: 29.06.2022

    The moral and physical enclosure of monks and nuns is central to the founding documents of Western monasticism. But even there it encountered the need for monasteries to interact with their societies, through recruits, hospitality, and the monastic... more

     

    The moral and physical enclosure of monks and nuns is central to the founding documents of Western monasticism. But even there it encountered the need for monasteries to interact with their societies, through recruits, hospitality, and the monastic economy. The increasing intensity of this tension is traced through key reforming texts, until later English visitations open up religious houses to closer scrutiny, ironically aided by inmates' quandary over whether to conceal or reveal their secrets.

     
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    DDC Categories: 230; 800; 940
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    Subjects: Mönchtum; Klausur; Ordensregel; Benediktiner; Zisterzienser; Benedikt XII., Papst; Ordensreform; Visitation
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