080080 VO The Image of God in the Pictorial Hagiography (2024W)
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Language: English
Examination dates
Lecturers
- Ivan Gerát
- Eva Walser (Student Tutor)
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 03.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 10.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 17.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- N Thursday 24.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 31.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 07.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 14.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 21.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 28.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 05.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 12.12. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 12.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 09.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
- Thursday 16.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
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Aims, contents and method of the course
A series of lectures will introduce participants to the most significant examples of visualized interactions between Christian saints and God, with a focus on medieval images from Central Europe. In addition to the basic iconography, it will also be a certain typology of the ways in which image-makers dealt with the paradox of God's irrepresentability. Their authors and viewers believed that saints, precisely because of their closeness to God, could help human beings to transcend death as the horizon of their own individual earthly existence towards eternity. Visual media that inevitably existed in time in various ways represented and developed references to the timeless, familiar from the texts of the Bible and the thoughts of church authorities. Course participants would learn to decipher the hidden messages in visual media that linked the teaching of revealed theological truth to the more temporally and locally specific concerns of individuals, groups, and institutions.
Assessment and permitted materials
- written exam (a test aimed at abasic identication and analysis of five selected examples)
- Permitted auxiliary materials: Dictionaries (for non-native speakers).
- Permitted auxiliary materials: Dictionaries (for non-native speakers).
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Minimum requirements
Basic knowledge of the topics discussed in the lectures, basic knowledge about the literature on the subject (in English and in German, will be announced continuously).Assessment criteria
The final assessment will be based on the results of the written test.
To pass the course, the participants must be able to identify and descride the typical motives of the legends, discussed in the lectures. To obtain a better note, they should be actively interested in theoretical questions, raised during the lectures and show the results of this interest in their written commentaries on the selected examples.
Basic knowledge of the topics discussed in the lectures, basic knowledge about the literature on the subject (in English and in German, will be announced continuously).Assessment criteria
The final assessment will be based on the results of the written test.
To pass the course, the participants must be able to identify and descride the typical motives of the legends, discussed in the lectures. To obtain a better note, they should be actively interested in theoretical questions, raised during the lectures and show the results of this interest in their written commentaries on the selected examples.
Examination topics
All examination topics will be directly related to the topics, discussed in the lectures.
Reading list
Rumpza, Stephanie. Phenomenology of the Icon. Mediating God through the Image. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Lentes, Thomas. Soweit das Auge reicht. Frömmigkeit und Visualität vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Reformation. Berlin: Reimer, 2022.
Le Goff, Jacques. In Search of Sacred Time : Jacobus De Voragine and the Golden Legend. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.The books and articles to individual case studies will be announced continuously and a selection will posted on the page of the course.
Die Bücher und Artikel zu den einzelnen Fallstudien werden laufend bekannt gegeben und eine Auswahl wird auf der Seite des Kurses veröffentlicht.
Lentes, Thomas. Soweit das Auge reicht. Frömmigkeit und Visualität vom Frühmittelalter bis zur Reformation. Berlin: Reimer, 2022.
Le Goff, Jacques. In Search of Sacred Time : Jacobus De Voragine and the Golden Legend. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014.The books and articles to individual case studies will be announced continuously and a selection will posted on the page of the course.
Die Bücher und Artikel zu den einzelnen Fallstudien werden laufend bekannt gegeben und eine Auswahl wird auf der Seite des Kurses veröffentlicht.
Association in the course directory
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