The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'...

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Lisa H. Cooper Andrea Denny-Brown

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown

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Routledge
24 January 2014

History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art; Religious subjects depicted in art; Medieval history; Material culture

The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images, and innovative architectural ornament. This collection displays the fascinating range of intellectual possibilities generated by representations of these medieval ’objects,’ and through the interdisciplinary collaboration of its contributors produces a fresh view of the multiple intersections of the spiritual and the material in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It also includes a new and authoritative critical edition of the Middle English Arma Christi poem known as ’O Vernicle’ that takes account of all twenty surviving manuscripts. The book opens with a substantial introduction that surveys previous scholarship and situates the Arma in their historical and aesthetic contexts. The ten essays that follow explore representative examples of the instruments of the Passion across a broad swath of history, from some of their earliest formulations in late antiquity to their reformulations in early modern Europe. Together, they offer the first large-scale attempt to understand the arma Christi as a unique cultural phenomenon of its own, one that resonated across centuries in multiple languages, genres, and media. The collection directs particular attention to this array of implements as an example of the potency afforded material objects in medieval and early modern culture, from the glittering nails of the Old English poem Elene to the coins of the Middle English poem ’Sir Penny,’ from garments and dice on Irish tomb sculptures to lanterns and ladders in Hieronymus Bosch’s panel painting of St. Christopher, and from the altar of the Sistine Chapel to the printed prayer books of the Reformation.

Edited by: Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.040kg
ISBN: 9781409456766
ISBN 10: 1409456765
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 24 January 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lisa H. Cooper is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England (2011) and co-editor, with Andrea Denny-Brown, of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2008). Andrea Denny-Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (2012), and the co-editor, with Lisa H. Cooper, of Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century (2008). Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny Brown, Mary Agnes Edsall, Seeta Chaganti, Richard G. Newhauser, Arthur J. Russell, Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Martha Rust, Ann W. Astell, Suzanne Verderber, Lee Palmer Wandel, Salvador Ryan, Shannon Gayk.

Reviews for The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture: With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

'It is genuinely a pleasure to welcome as innovative, wide-reaching, and thoughtful a study of the now-familiar Arma Christi tradition as this one, which breaks new ground while also offering a useful edition of a centrally related text.' Renaissance Quarterly