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Creations. Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation

Creations. Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation

Publié le par Bérenger Boulay

Sven Rune Havsteen, Nils Holger Petersen, Heinrich W. Schwab, and Eyolf Østrem (eds), Creations. Medieval Rituals, the Arts, and the Concept of Creation, Brepols Publishers, 2007, 269p. 

Isbn (ean13): 978-2-503-52295-1.

Recension de cet ouvrage par Antonella Doninelli dans The Medieval Review (TMR 08.09.17, BMR-L Digest, Vol 20, Issue 27)

Présentation de l'éditeur: 

The meaning of terms like 'creation' or 'to create' - as well as otherderivations of such words - range from the traditional theological ideaof God creating ex nihilo to a more recent one of artistic creation.This collection of essays written by scholars of music, literature, thevisual arts, and theology - which chronologically spans the period fromthe Carolingians to the twentieth century - explores the complicatedrelationship between medieval rituals and theology, and the developmentof an idea of human artistic creation. From the fifteenth century thisidea comes to the fore and as late as the early nineteenth century itis occasionally used with reference to Pythagorean cosmology. It mayalso be directly connected to a medieval ritual heritage. Each study inthe volume examines a particular topic concerned with ritual orartistic beginnings, inventions, harmony, disharmony, orrepresentations or celebrations of creation, involving, not least, theinterplay of the ideas of God the creator, God as being activelypresent in the medieval liturgy, God as artist, deus artifex, and,finally, homo creator, man reflecting God in his own (more modest)creativity. The book provides new contributions from the individualscholarly disciplines as well as an impulse to a complexinterdisciplinary and large-scale historical construction