Spiritual vegetation : : vegetal nature in religious contexts across Medieval and early modern Europe / / Guita Lamsechi and Beatrice Trinca, editors ; with the collaboration of Tobias Petry.
This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the con...
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| Superior document: | Berliner Mittelalter- und Fruhneuzeitforschung ; Band 26 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Germany : : V & R unipress,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English German |
| Series: | Berliner Mittelalter- und Fruhneuzeitforschung ;
Band 26. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
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| Summary: | This volume concerns premodern understandings of vegetal nature that encompass multiple semantics and perspectives. Scholars from the disparate fields of art history, literature, and religious studies present tantalizing studies of trees and plants in sacred and secular thought. Some discuss the concept of the Book of Nature and its implications. Others explore narratives of symbiosis between humans and vegetal material, tree-dwelling hermits, spirits metamorphosing into wood, flowers or trees that sprout from bodies or the dissolution of the self into the natural world. Complementary to these approaches are studies that suggest a collapsing of time and space in spiritually charged yet ambiguous natural motifs or topographies where forests or groves are spaces of transformative experience. |
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| ISBN: | 3737014264 3847014269 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Guita Lamsechi and Beatrice Trinca, editors ; with the collaboration of Tobias Petry. |