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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Spiritual Vegetation
Vegetal Nature in Religious Contexts Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Vegetal Nature in Religious Contexts Across Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Foreword
- Beatrice TrĂźnca: Einleitung
- Tobias Petry: Abstracts
- NaĂŻs Virenque: Dendrites' and Preachers' Trees: A Literary and Iconographic Study of Mnemonic Images
- Alice LaforĂȘt: âEve was a fruitless willowâ. Botanical Properties and Spiritual Dimension of an Ambiguous Tree
- Hans Rudolf Velten: Der allegorische Garten im frĂŒhen Mittelalter zwischen Heilwissen, religiöser Semantik und Poetologie. Zum Liber de cultura hortorum des Walahfrid Strabo
- Marie-Luise Musiol / Silke Winst: Pfirsichbaum und dunkler Wald. Pflanzliche Konfigurationen zwischen Dynamisierung und Innehalten im Partonopier und Meliur Konrads von WĂŒrzburg
- Franziska Wenzel: Uneigentlicher Sinn. Das Vegetabile als signum translatum in den Liedern Heinrichs von MĂŒgeln, mit einem Seitenblick auf Frauenlobs Marienleich
- Tobias Petry: Knotenholz. Metamorphosen der Selbstmörder in Dantes Inferno XIII
- Beatrice TrĂźnca: Verschobener FrĂŒhling in der Franziskus-Vita Sibillas von Bondorf (BL Add MS 15710)
- Achim Timmermann: Art, Nature and Public Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe
- Guita Lamsechi: Reading Forests in the Visual Culture of Early Modern Europe
- Delia Cosentino: Transplanting Christianity: Franciscan Martyrdom and the Spiritual Tree in Early Colonial Mexico
- Sarina Tschachtli: âMein Herz will auch ausschlagenâ. Spiritual and Vegetal Growth in the Spring Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
- Leopoldine Prosperetti: Ars Ponendi Lucum: Groves in Poetry and Art
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