The Body in Motion and the Wandering Mind. The Visual Arts in the Service of Late Medieval Virtual Pilgrims

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Body in Motion and the Wandering Mind. The Visual Arts in the Service of Late Medieval Virtual Pilgrims

Original language description

The journey and travel itself represented a popular allegory in ancient as well as Chris-tian culture and mysticism of a human struggle for attaining eternal life or heavenly delights. Physical travel during the Middle Ages represented a long, dangerous and arduous activity. Apart from the physical dangers connected with travel as such, there was the immense threat of sudden death lurking nearby with its potential to cause not only the physical end of the traveler’s body but worse, that of his soul, leading it to eternal damnation. In order to protect the medieval traveler on his journey, fine art played an important role as some of its iconography was believed to have protective power and played an important role in the medieval Art of dying well (ars moriendi). Well-known examples of artwork protecting travelers from the physical dangers in-cluded images of St. Christopher, the Holy Face (Vera icon), the Virgin Mary etc. However, there also were images that were supposed to turn the traveler’s mind to-wards spiritual and moral matters. The article attempts to present a closer view of the specific iconography accompanying travelling people of the Late Middle Ages as well as to address the phenomena of the non-corporeal pilgrimage and the concept of the wandering and erring soul.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA18-20335S" target="_blank" >GA18-20335S: Beguines and Preachers. Between the Moral Ideal, Homiletics and Pastoral Care in the Czech Lands in the period of the 14th – 16th Century</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Modestia est signum Sapientiae Studie nejen o středověk m uměn  k poctě Dalibora Prixe

ISBN

978-80-88283-46-1

Number of pages of the result

17

Pages from-to

143-159

Number of pages of the book

423

Publisher name

Artefactum, nakladatelství ústavu dějin uměn AV ČR, v. v. i.,

Place of publication

Praha ? Opava

UT code for WoS chapter

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