Sola Superbia Destruit Omnia: The Female Monster in Liber Depictus as a Polysemantic Image of the Spiritual Malformation and the Fallen World
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.32028/9781803273242" target="_blank" >10.32028/9781803273242</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Sola Superbia Destruit Omnia: The Female Monster in Liber Depictus as a Polysemantic Image of the Spiritual Malformation and the Fallen World
Original language description
Liber depictus (cod. 370, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) is the mid-14th century pen-draw illustrated manuscript of Bohemian origin commissioned by the Rosenberg family for the Friar Minor and Poor Clares double monastery in Český Krumlov. The verso of folio 155 bares a unique so-called Frau Welt image in form of female monster with grotesque, deformed body symbolizing the spiritual and moral deformity; personifying the Seven Deadly Sins. The monster is depicted as a woman with animal features, following the iconographic tradition of associating the individual sins with animal body parts. Uniquely the image also reflects peccatum linguae, the sin of tongue described as the eighth sin by William Peraldus in his Summa de vitiis. The polysemantic image is analysed from multiple aspects: Visual – as the animal-like monster inspired by wider iconographic medieval tradition; Religious – as the antipode of cloistered; Moral – as the personification of eight sins; Hermetic – in the context of period alchemy ideas and tracts; Gender – as the example of visual distortion and manipulation with feminity and female body leading to monstrous forms.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60401 - Arts, Art history
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
(Trans)missions Monasteries as Sites of Cultural Transfers
ISBN
978-1-80327-324-2
Number of pages of the result
19
Pages from-to
1-19
Number of pages of the book
188
Publisher name
Archaeopress
Place of publication
Oxford
UT code for WoS chapter
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