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Le double décomposé. Rencontres des vivants et des morts à la fin du Moyen Age
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kiening, Christian |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Abstract | The Double Decomposed : Meetings between the Living and the Dead at the end of the Middle Ages. ; ; Since the "automn" of the Middle Ages, representations of dead bodies - corpses and skeletons rising from their tombs, haunting, warning or attacking the living, thus becoming personifications of Death - are an integral part of occidental imagination. They can represent fears as well as hopes, clerical control mechanisms as well as laic emancipation fantasies. Although widespread in the age of the great epidemics, their polymorphology and multifunctionalism make them resist one-dimensional social or cultural interpretations. The essay attempts to demonstrate the subtle implications of the phenomenon up to the age of Holbein and Bruegel by means of iconographical models, in which the exciting confrontation of the living and the dead is particularly pronounced, in which forms of symmetry, asymmetry or distortion reveal experimental configurations revolving round the paradox how consciousness might think the unthinkable. |
| Starting Page | 1157 |
| Ending Page | 1190 |
| Page Count | 34 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3406/ahess.1995.279421 |
| Volume Number | 50 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/113630/7/Kiening_Double_Mit%20Quellenangabe.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.zora.uzh.ch/113630/7/Kiening_Double_Mit%20Quellenangabe.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3406/ahess.1995.279421 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
