A Companion to the Abbey of Quedlinburg in the Middle Ages.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to European History
• Author: Blough, Karen.
• Place / Publishing House: Durham : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to European History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (497 pages)

"The imperial convent of St. Servatius at Quedlinburg (founded in 936) was one of the wealthiest, most prestigious, and most politically powerful religious houses of medieval Germany, subject only to the authority of the emperor and the pope. This is the first English-language volume to provide an introduction to this important female religious community. The twelve essays by a team of international scholars address an array of topics in Quedlinburg's medieval history, with a particular focus on how the Quedlinburg community of learned aristocratic women used architecture and the visual arts to assert the abbey's illustrious history, ongoing political importance, and cultural significance. Contributors are: Clemens Bley, Karen Blough, Shirin Fozi, Tobias Gärtner, Eliza Garrison, Evan A. Gatti, G. Ulrich Grossmann, Annie Krieg, Manfred Mehl, Katharina Ulrike Mersch, Christian Popp, Helene Scheck, and Adam R. Stead"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Quedlinburg Abbey's Medieval History in Ever-Changing Political and Religious Frameworks: A Survey -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Abbey of St. Servatius, Queens, Kings, and Royal Abbesses in the Ottonian Era -- 3 Royal Tradition and Political Challenges in the 11th and Early 12th Century -- 4 Quedlinburg Abbey in Changing Surroundings -- 5 A Traditional Community in Times of Religious Upheaval -- Works Cited -- 2 Quedlinburg in the 10th and 11th Centuries: An Archaeological View -- 3 Quedlinburg: The Conventual Buildings from an Architectural History Perspective -- 1 The Monastic Complex (Figure 3.1) -- 2 The Conventual Buildings -- 2.1 Chapel on the South Side of the Transept -- 3 Gatehouse and Gate on the North (Figure 3.4) -- 4 Former Cloister: Western Residential Complex (Figure 3.7) -- 5 Abbey Church -- 6 The Oldest Church Buildings (in the Present Crypt) (Figure 3.10) -- 7 The Collegiate Church in the Salian Period: Appearance and Alterations -- 7.1 The Exterior-Towers, Nave, Transept, and Choir -- 7.1.1 Apse and Choir (Figure 3.11) -- 7.1.2 Transept and Side Apses -- 7.1.3 Nave (Figure 3.12) -- 7.1.4 West Towers -- 7.2 The Interior -- 7.2.1 The Nave (Figure 3.14) -- 7.2.2 Crossing and Transept (Figure 3.15) -- 7.3 Elevated Choir -- 8 The Romanesque Crypt (Figure 3.17) -- 9 Summary: The Castle (Figure 3.18) -- 10 Summary: The Abbey -- 4 For the Living and the Dead: Memorial Prayers of the Quedlinburg Canonesses -- 5 Psallite sapienter: Psalms and Learning at Quedlinburg -- 1 Singing Psalms Wisely -- 2 Background on Quedlinburg -- 3 Learning the Psalms: Orthodoxy, Univocality -- 4 Music and Movement-The Physicality of the Psalms -- 5 Singing Wisely: Study and Song in Quedlinburg Codex 76 -- 6 Reception -- 7 Coda.

6 Abbatial Effigies and Conventual Identity at St. Servatius, Quedlinburg -- 7 Bracteates of the Abbesses of Quedlinburg: Romanesque Craftwork of Great Quality -- 1 Abbess Beatrix II, Countess of Winzenburg, 1138-60 -- 2 Abbess Meregart, 1160-61 (?) -- 3 Abbess Adelheid III, 1161-84 -- 4 Abbess Agnes II of Meissen, 1184-1203 -- 5 Abbess Sophia of Brehna, 1203-26 -- 8 The Quedlinburg Frieze and Its Romanesque Context -- 1 Imperial Environments -- 2 Mediterranean Pathways -- 3 Historiographic Interventions -- 4 Conclusions -- 9 Of Donors and Patrons: The Abbey of St. Servatius in Quedlinburg as a Site of Remembrance -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 10 A Reliquary Revisited: The Reliquary of St. Servatius and Its Contexts -- 1 Before Quedlinburg: The Servatius Reliquary's Carolingian Core -- 2 From Metz to Fulda and Everywhere in between: The Question of Workshops -- 3 The Carolingian Casket: Iconographies of Liminality and Duality -- 4 Tradition and Traditio Legis: Accounting for Apostles and Arcades -- 5 The Servatius Reliquary in a Carolingian Context -- 6 Arrival in St. Servatius: Quedlinburg and Post-Easter Politics -- 7 Romanesque Renovations: A Capsa Remade, An Abbess Remembered -- 8 From Reliquary to Propaganda: The Reliquary of St. Servatius in the Modern Era -- 11 Matter and Spirit: Reliquaries at St. Servatius in the 13th Century -- 1 The Past and Prestige -- 2 Messages, Materials, Meanings -- 3 Patronage, Production, Presentation -- 12 Restored, Repurposed, Reassessed: The Abbey Church of Quedlinburg across Five Germanies -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Formulating a German Aesthetic in the 19th Century -- 3 The Heinrich Celebrations and the Renovation of "King Henry's Cathedral" under National Socialism -- 4 Postwar Reckoning -- Dates of the Quedlinburg Abbesses, German Kings, and Bishops of Halberstadt -- Abbesses of Quedlinburg.

German Kings and Emperors -- Bishops of Halberstadt -- Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.