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• 15 jan 2019

  Beitragsaufruf - Religionswissenschaften

  Iconotrop

  Symbolic and Material Changes to Cult Images in the Classical and Medieval Ages

  Iconotropy is a Greek word which literally means “image turning.” William J. Hamblin (2007) defines the term as “the accidental or deliberate misinterpretation by one culture of the images or myths of another one, especially so as to bring them into accord with those of the first culture.” In fact, iconotropy is commonly the result of the way cultures have dealt with images from foreign or earlier cultures. Numerous accounts from classical antiquity and the Middle Ages detail how cult images were involved in such processes of misinterpretation, both symbolically and materially. Pagan cultures for example deliberately misrepresented ancient ritual icons and incorporated new meanings to the mythical substratum, thus modifying the myth’s original meanings and bringing about a profound change to existing religious paradigms. Iconotropy is a fundamental concept in religious history, particularly of contexts in which religious changes, often turbulent, took place. At the same time, the iconotropic process of appropriating cult images brought with it changes in the materiality of those images...The conference hopes to generate new research questions and creative synergies by initiating conversation and the exchange of ideas among scholars in the arts and humanities.

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• 17 mar 2018

  Paris

  Beitragsaufruf - Mittelalter

  « Describe arborem ». Les trames arborescentes dans la littérature, la théologie et la méditation de saint Bonaventure

  Né en 2015, le projet « Trames arborescentes » a pour vocation de favoriser, à travers des groupes de travail et des journées d’étude, la rencontre de chercheurs dont l’arbre et l’arborescence sont au centre ou en périphérie des travaux. Une journée d’étude spécialisée, consacrée aux trames arborescentes dans la littérature, la théologie et la méditation de saint Bonaventure, aura lieu le 13 avril 2018.

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