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Signs of Change
Transformations of Christian Traditions
and their Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000
Edited by Nils Holger Petersen, Claus Clüver and Nicolas Bell
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. xvi, 490 pp. with 16 pages of colour
illustrations
(Textxet, Studies in comparative literature 43)
ISBN: 90-420-0999-3 Bound €
100,-/US$ 125.-
Signs of Change: Transformations of Christian Traditions and their
Representation in the Arts, 1000–2000 focuses on the changing relationships
between what gradually emerged as the Arts and Christianity, the latter term
covering both a stream of ideas and its institutions. The book as a whole is
addressed to a general academic audience concerned with issues of cultural
history, while the individual essays are also intended as scholarly
contributions within their own fields. A collaborative effort by twenty-five
European and American scholars representing disciplines ranging from
aesthetics to the history of art and architecture, from literature, music
and the theatre to classics, church history, and theology, the volume is an
interdisciplinary study of intermedial phenomena, generally in larger
cultural and intellectual contexts. The focus of topics extends from single
concrete objects to sets of abstract concepts and values, and from a single
moment in time to an entire millennium. While Signs of Change acknowledges
the importance of synthesizing efforts essential to hermeneutically informed
scholarship, in order to counterbalance generalized historical narratives
with detailed investigations, broad accounts are juxtaposed with specialized
research projects. The deliberately unchronological grouping of
contributions underlines the effort to further discussion about
methodologies for writing cultural history.
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