Bruno Reudenbach - Böcker

Reliquiare sind liturgische Geräte, in denen Reliquien aufbewahrt und für den Kult bereitgestellt wurden. Nachdem das hochdifferenzierte Formenrepertoire dieser liturgischen Geräte lange vor allem typen- und stilgeschichtlich bearbeitet worden ist, stehen in diesem Buch bei den Beiträgen aus Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte und mittellateinischer Philologie die medialen Qualitäten von Reliquiaren und die historischen Bedingungen ihrer häufig singulären Form im Vordergrund. Dabei wird untersucht, welche religiösen und politischen Konzeptionen Reliquiare veranschaulichen können und auf welche Weise sie diese Vorstellungen in ihrer materiellen Zusammensetzung und bildlichen Gestalt vermitteln.

The so-called ‘Canon Tables’ of the Christian Gospels are an absolutely remarkable feature of the early, late antique, and medieval Christian manuscript cultures of East and West, the invention of which is commonly attributed to Eusebius and dated to first decades of the fourth century AD. Intended to host a technical device for structuring, organizing, and navigating the Four Gospels united in a single codex – and, in doing so, building upon and bringing to completion previous endeavours – the Canon Tables were apparently from the beginning a highly complex combination of text, numbers and images, that became an integral and fixed part of all the manuscripts containing the Four Gospels as Sacred Scripture of the Christians and can be seen as exemplary for the formation, development and spreading of a specific Christian manuscript culture across East and West AD 300 and 800. In the footsteps of Carl Nordenfalk’s masterly publication of 1938 and few following contributions, this book offers an updated overview on the topic of ‘Canon Tables’ in a comparative perspective and with a precise look at their context of origin, their visual appearance, their meaning, function and their usage in different times, domains, and cultures.

The fourteenth volume of the Vorträge aus dem Warburg Haus brings together lectures, whose spectrum of contents extends from the "pillar of angels" of the Strasbourg Cathedral to the aesthetic potential of "mille artifex" in the early modern period and views of the island of Taiwan on leather wall hangings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, up to Donald Trump’s use of images. With texts by Jacqueline E. Jung, Jörg Jochen Berns, Elisabeth Bronfen, Shai-Shu Tzeng, and Uwe Fleckner.

The fifteenth volume of lectures from the Warburg House brings together contributions whose spectrum of content ranges from the dispute over the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome in the mid-18th century to Aby Warburg's scientific and popular educational commitment to the Hamburg Planetarium and the aesthetic treatment of machine and technology. With contributions by Pascal Dubourg Glatigny, Emmanuel Alloa, Alexander Honold, Birgit Recki, and Gertrud Koch.

The 16th volume of lectures from the Warburg House, Hamburg, brings together contributions covering a spectrum ranging from the different modes of perception of late antique and medieval mosaics in the light of modern reproduction techniques to Las Hilanderas of Diego Velázquez, the afterlife of Théodore Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa and René Magritte's „images peintes“ to new reflections on femininity, the gaze and the „afterlife“ of the Shoah in the work of Boris Lurie. With contributions by Barbara Schellewald, Victor I. Stoichita, Gregor Wedekind, Wolfram Picher, and Katharina Sykora.