Henning Laugerud – författare

This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci of such powerful properties? The present volume is an attempt to recuperate the living image, draw it from the margins, and re-illuminate its importance for cultural history. The title of this book reflects the ambition of the contributions to navigate between the Middle Ages of the past and the Middle Ages of the present. Our aim is to provide new theoretical reflections and methodologies concerning the study of material agency and “living images” both historically and today. The chapters include close examination of surviving objects and archival research, as well as theoretical reflections, and span chronologically and geographically across Europe from North to South, medieval to modern.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, material culture, theatre studies, and religious history.

This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci of such powerful properties? The present volume is an attempt to recuperate the living image, draw it from the margins, and re-illuminate its importance for cultural history. The title of this book reflects the ambition of the contributions to navigate between the Middle Ages of the past and the Middle Ages of the present. Our aim is to provide new theoretical reflections and methodologies concerning the study of material agency and “living images” both historically and today. The chapters include close examination of surviving objects and archival research, as well as theoretical reflections, and span chronologically and geographically across Europe from North to South, medieval to modern.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, material culture, theatre studies, and religious history.

This volume brings the history of Christian devotional culture in Europe from the Middle Ages to the present to life through the objects, texts, and images that people have used to practise and express their religion. At the heart of Experiencing Material Christianity are 21 empirical case studies, each of which captures the writer's encounter with a particular ‘thing’ that has played a role in the religious lives of European Christians. The examples are drawn from across the continent and include both well-known objects, such as the famous Scala Santa, or Holy Stairs, in Rome and the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, and lesser-known places and curiosities, such as a pilgrimage site in the mountains of Kosovo and votive objects from Greek Orthodox devotional practice. The concise and illustrated chapters provide an accessible and compelling overview of the breadth of material expressions of Christianity in Europe.The introduction and afterword frame the rich examples by outlining overarching themes in the study of material religion, including practices, expressions, and instruments, that reoccur throughout the collection. As a whole, the volume acts as a fresh entry point to the multi-disciplinary study of the cultural and material dimension of Christian devotion that shows how the material and the sensual have interacted with the spiritual across several centuries throughout Europe.

This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms.

This book examines the experiences and interconnections of the Reformations, principally in Denmark-Norway and Britain and Ireland (but with an eye to the broader Scandinavian landscape as well), and also discusses instances of similarities between the Reformations in both realms.