Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians - John-Paul Himka

Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians

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Buch | Softcover
328 Seiten
2018
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-2341-1 (ISBN)
41,15 inkl. MwSt
Few subjects in Christianity have inspired artists as much as the last judgment. Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians examines images of the last judgment from the fifteenth century to the present in the Carpathian mountain region of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, and Romania, as a way to consider history free from the traditional frameworks and narratives of nations. Over ten years, John-Paul Himka studied last-judgment images throughout the Carpathians and found a distinctive and transnational blending of Gothic, Byzantine, and Novgorodian art in the region.


Piecing together the story of how these images were produced and how they developed, Himka traces their origins on linden boards and their evolution on canvas and church walls. Tracing their origins with monks, he follows these images' increased popularity as they were commissioned by peasants and shepherds whose tastes so shocked bishops that they ordered the destruction of depictions of sexual themes and grotesque forms of torture. A richly illustrated and detailed account of history through a style of art, Last Judgment Iconography in the Carpathians will find a receptive audience with art historians, religious scholars, and slavists.

John-Paul Himka is a professor in the Department of History and Classics at the University of Alberta.

List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

1 Introduction
2 Origins
3 Further Elaboration
4 Disintegration
5 Conclusions

Appendix 1 Place Names in Different Languages
Appendix 2 Ephraim the Syrian’s Sermon on the Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Summary
Appendix 3 The Life of St Basil the New: Summary
Appendix 4 Early Modern Ukrainian Sermons on the Last Judgment

Catalogue of Images of the Last Judgment

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-4875-2341-6 / 1487523416
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-2341-1 / 9781487523411
Zustand Neuware
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