| Description |
1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations, photographs |
| Contents |
Introduction / Anja Seliger, Willy Piron -- Getting the idea : the role of drawings in the manufacturing process of choir stalls / Anja Seliger -- Module as model for early modem choir stalls / Angela Glover -- Big seats for fat Benedictines, small ones for slender Cistercians? some statistics on choir stall sizes / Kristiane Lemé-Hébuterne -- The choir stalls of 1537 from Tobsdorf/Dupuş in Transylvania, Romania : aspects of the workshop technique and connections to Master Johannes Reychmut of Schäůrg/Sighişoara / Ralf Buchholz, Susanne Karius, Gerdi Maierbacher-Legl -- The choir stalls of the Cistercian abbey at Salem from 1588-1593 : aspects of their creation in the context of liturgical and economic reform / Ulrich Knapp -- Set in stone : the stone bench of burs in its social, functional and historic context / Jörg Widmaier -- Liturgical activation of the stone choir in Santiago de Compostela : looking at material through the immaterial / Erika Loïc -- Materiality and reflexivity between Sedilia and choir stalls in medieval England / James Alexander Cameron -- The role of choir stalls made by foreign craftsmen in Spanish renaissance sculpture / María Teresa Rodríguez Bote -- An international entrepreneur in Spain around 1500 : the carver Rodrigo Alemán and his choir stalls / Dorothee Heim -- Jan Borchman and his fellow craftsmen : the creation of choir stalls in the low countries / Christel Theunissen -- The choir stalls of the monasteries of Pöhlde and St Alexander's in Einbeck : observations on their time of origin from an epigraphical and historical point of view / JÖRG H. Lampe -- Choir stalls and other thirteenth century furnishings in the Cistercian monastery of Doberan / Kaja Von Cossart -- choir stalls and their workshops the Anklam stall-ends : an example of stalls in parish churches in Pomerania / Detlef Witt -- The Bilobate Misericords of the Lower Rhine area : a local phenomenon? / Willy Piron |
| Summary |
Misericordia International was founded by Elaine C. Block as an association dedicated to the study of choir stalls and their relation to other artistic manifestations during the Middle Ages, and the dissemination of research. From its beginnings, Misericordia International has promoted a bi-annual international conference as a place of scientific exchange among members of the research community interested in this topic from a multidisciplinary perspective. The most recent conference was held from 23 to 26 June 2016 at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University in Greifswald, Germany. The theme of the conference was the workshop context of medieval choir stalls in its broadest sense. Where the iconography of choir stalls has enjoyed a lot of attention from researchers, the process and circumstances of the making of these complex objects have often been rather neglected. Choir stalls were not produced by an individual artist, but were created by a group of craftsmen. This factor raises all kinds of questions. The conference in Greifswald covered an obvious need for research and therefore included much hitherto unknown research material and additional first results based on initial research. In addition to questions about substantive and economic mechanisms of the production of choir stalls, the conference dealt with basic knowledge of craftsmanship. This publication presents the papers held at the conference and is divided into five thematic parts, namely Workshop practices; Early modern choir stalls - Traditions or restart?; Stalls of stone - A forgotten furniture; Travelling craftsmen; and Group of works |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Choir stalls -- Design and construction -- Congresses
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Wood-carving -- Congresses
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Religious.
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Wood-carving
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Seliger, Anja, editor.
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Piron, Willy, editor
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| ISBN |
9781527504288 |
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152750428X |
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