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Congresses/Talks by Manfred Luchterhandt

Conference: "Rhythms and Resonances: Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages". International Conferen... more Conference: "Rhythms and Resonances: Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages". International Conference, Paris, 18 - 20 May 2022, German Forum for the History of Art

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016 “Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (si... more LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016

“Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (sixth to ninth centuries)”
Two sessions convened by Vincent Debiais and Francesca Dell’Acqua

By involving scholars from various disciplines, these two sessions will explore: 1) the ability of late antique and medieval authors to create images throughout their written words, blurring the borders between visual and literary arts; 2) investigate how the written and oral dissemination of textual imagery interacted with the conception, production, and perception of visual arts in the same period.
Using their stylus as a painting brush, late antique and medieval authors composed texts in which the arrangement of words and the display of rhetorical devices transformed words in literary images/icons, making them part of a wider visual culture. Works of art described or evoked might have existed in their “physical” dimension, but, most of the time, textual imagery remained “literary works of art” in a poetic space of creation, a fiction of shapes and colors, depicted or shaped under the readers’ eyes.
Not willing to rely on the common assumption that inspiration, creation, and innovation are no more separate than the realms of literature and visual arts, and expanding the common assumption of “texts influencing visual arts,” the two sessions will reconsider the elaboration of textual and physical images/icons through the written circulation of texts among the literate, and the oral circulation of liturgical or poetic texts among a wider audience. In fact, what usually escapes the attention of scholars is how the oral transmission of texts eventually influenced visual culture, specific “mental visions” of art patrons and artisans, and the imagery produced by the latter. Therefore the relation between text and image – one of the oldest issues in art history – needs to be broken into a more complex sequence of: literary and theological tradition – current circumstances (theological debate, political situation, current mentality) – production of texts – written transmission of texts – verbal transmission of texts – reception of texts – consequent shaping of religious and lay mentality and mental imagery – shaping of visual imagery.
Through case-studies, these sessions will consider the “visual” dimension of late antique and early medieval texts, and will help understand how the circulation of ideas and mental images among writers and artists shaped the representation of certain subjects in lay and religious art. Connecting textual and visual works of art, this workshop offers an opportunity to take a broad look at the notion of “creation”.

Keywords:
Iconic mentality; visual rhetoric; mental images; textual images; liturgical texts; narrative texts; poetry; late antique to Carolingian/middle Byzantine period

Deadline
Please, send a 100-word abstract by the 20th of September 2015 to:
vincent.debiais@univ-poitiers.fr and F.DellAcqua@bham.ac.uk

Books by Manfred Luchterhandt

Corvey und das Erbe der Antike/Corvey and the legacy of antiquity, ed. H. Kempkens and C. Ruhmann... more Corvey und das Erbe der Antike/Corvey and the legacy of antiquity, ed. H. Kempkens and C. Ruhmann, Petersberg 2024, Catalogue of the Exhibition, Paderborn 2024. With contributions from I. Herklotz, M. de Jong, B. Schellewald, M. Luchterhandt, S. de Blaauw, P. Carmassi, J. Driscoll, H. Röckelein, and others.

Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to... more Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to 18th cent. on the formation of Antiquarian European knowledge culture and investigates the use of reproductions by Christian Gottlob Heyne in the beginnings of archeology as an academic discipline.

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Papers by Manfred Luchterhandt

This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Mag... more This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Maggiore, attested in the Basilica barely a decade after the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Reconstructing the political, economic and ecclesiastical networks in the 7th century, that made such a transfer possible, it discusses the role of relic transfers in the political upheavals of the eastern Mediterranean at that time and their impact on the early medieval West. The final considerations concern the potential of imported relics to integrate diaspora communities and their fragile identities in common festivals and places of worship.

The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court... more The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court in modern research (historical studies, Islamic studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, art history) as well as in the controversies of sources from Antiquity, Byzantium, Medieval Europe and the premodern Islamic world.

The 'Night of the Icons' in medieval Rome, 2020

On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend... more On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend of the Salvator Icon in the Papal Lateran - the paper revises the genesis of this oldest Roman image legend and its adaption by Nicolaus Maniacutius around 1140. It focuses on the little-noticed practice of reciting such narratives in the nocturnal offices of the great Roman churches, framed by plainsong and other readings. Based of a careful investigation of Roman Legendaries and Passionaries it examines the genesis of this ritual and its importance for the transformation of narratives on cult images from oral to written tradition.

Abgekupfert. Rom Antiken in den Reproduktionsmedien der Frühen Neuzeit, 2013

Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), th... more Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), the ecclestiastical career of the Pope as former supervisor of the Saint's cults in St. Peter's, and his relation to the pontificate of Leo III. (795-816). Proposes an original dedication of the reliquaries in the Sancta Sanctorum Chapel to S. Maria Maggiore, where a private domus of the Pope motivated his reconstruction of S. Prassede as well as his intervention in the Marian Basilica.

The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected ... more The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected by the Popes from ca. 600 to 900 A. D. Using statistical analysis it is designed to answer the following questions: (1) What information does the Lateran treasure provide concerning the way relics were acquired in early Islamic Palestine and the practices of post-antique pilgrimage? (2) What conclusions regarding their agents and bearers can be drawn from the quality, accessibility, and topographical distribution of these relics? (3) Through what ways and political channels did the relics come to Rome and to the papal court? (4) What were the prevailing political, social, and economic conditions that allowed for the high mobility of relics between Jerusalem and Rome in the early Middle Ages?

Conference: "Rhythms and Resonances: Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages". International Conferen... more Conference: "Rhythms and Resonances: Sounding Objects in the Middle Ages". International Conference, Paris, 18 - 20 May 2022, German Forum for the History of Art

LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016 “Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (si... more LEEDS INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2016

“Stylus as a Paint Brush – Writing and Artistic Creation (sixth to ninth centuries)”
Two sessions convened by Vincent Debiais and Francesca Dell’Acqua

By involving scholars from various disciplines, these two sessions will explore: 1) the ability of late antique and medieval authors to create images throughout their written words, blurring the borders between visual and literary arts; 2) investigate how the written and oral dissemination of textual imagery interacted with the conception, production, and perception of visual arts in the same period.
Using their stylus as a painting brush, late antique and medieval authors composed texts in which the arrangement of words and the display of rhetorical devices transformed words in literary images/icons, making them part of a wider visual culture. Works of art described or evoked might have existed in their “physical” dimension, but, most of the time, textual imagery remained “literary works of art” in a poetic space of creation, a fiction of shapes and colors, depicted or shaped under the readers’ eyes.
Not willing to rely on the common assumption that inspiration, creation, and innovation are no more separate than the realms of literature and visual arts, and expanding the common assumption of “texts influencing visual arts,” the two sessions will reconsider the elaboration of textual and physical images/icons through the written circulation of texts among the literate, and the oral circulation of liturgical or poetic texts among a wider audience. In fact, what usually escapes the attention of scholars is how the oral transmission of texts eventually influenced visual culture, specific “mental visions” of art patrons and artisans, and the imagery produced by the latter. Therefore the relation between text and image – one of the oldest issues in art history – needs to be broken into a more complex sequence of: literary and theological tradition – current circumstances (theological debate, political situation, current mentality) – production of texts – written transmission of texts – verbal transmission of texts – reception of texts – consequent shaping of religious and lay mentality and mental imagery – shaping of visual imagery.
Through case-studies, these sessions will consider the “visual” dimension of late antique and early medieval texts, and will help understand how the circulation of ideas and mental images among writers and artists shaped the representation of certain subjects in lay and religious art. Connecting textual and visual works of art, this workshop offers an opportunity to take a broad look at the notion of “creation”.

Keywords:
Iconic mentality; visual rhetoric; mental images; textual images; liturgical texts; narrative texts; poetry; late antique to Carolingian/middle Byzantine period

Deadline
Please, send a 100-word abstract by the 20th of September 2015 to:
vincent.debiais@univ-poitiers.fr and F.DellAcqua@bham.ac.uk

Corvey und das Erbe der Antike/Corvey and the legacy of antiquity, ed. H. Kempkens and C. Ruhmann... more Corvey und das Erbe der Antike/Corvey and the legacy of antiquity, ed. H. Kempkens and C. Ruhmann, Petersberg 2024, Catalogue of the Exhibition, Paderborn 2024. With contributions from I. Herklotz, M. de Jong, B. Schellewald, M. Luchterhandt, S. de Blaauw, P. Carmassi, J. Driscoll, H. Röckelein, and others.

Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to... more Studies the impact of plaster casts and graphic reproductions of Roman Antiquies from the 16th to 18th cent. on the formation of Antiquarian European knowledge culture and investigates the use of reproductions by Christian Gottlob Heyne in the beginnings of archeology as an academic discipline.

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This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Mag... more This contribution focuses on Eastern relics in Rome, in particular the crib relic of S. Maria Maggiore, attested in the Basilica barely a decade after the Islamic conquest of Jerusalem. Reconstructing the political, economic and ecclesiastical networks in the 7th century, that made such a transfer possible, it discusses the role of relic transfers in the political upheavals of the eastern Mediterranean at that time and their impact on the early medieval West. The final considerations concern the potential of imported relics to integrate diaspora communities and their fragile identities in common festivals and places of worship.

The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court... more The paper discusses cross-cultural definitions and discourses of the Sacred at the medieval court in modern research (historical studies, Islamic studies, religious studies, cultural anthropology, art history) as well as in the controversies of sources from Antiquity, Byzantium, Medieval Europe and the premodern Islamic world.

The 'Night of the Icons' in medieval Rome, 2020

On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend... more On the basis of new late medieval manuscripts of the 'Tractatus ymaginis Salvatoris' - the legend of the Salvator Icon in the Papal Lateran - the paper revises the genesis of this oldest Roman image legend and its adaption by Nicolaus Maniacutius around 1140. It focuses on the little-noticed practice of reciting such narratives in the nocturnal offices of the great Roman churches, framed by plainsong and other readings. Based of a careful investigation of Roman Legendaries and Passionaries it examines the genesis of this ritual and its importance for the transformation of narratives on cult images from oral to written tradition.

Abgekupfert. Rom Antiken in den Reproduktionsmedien der Frühen Neuzeit, 2013

Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), th... more Discusses the role of the material history in the building projects of Paschalis I. (817-824), the ecclestiastical career of the Pope as former supervisor of the Saint's cults in St. Peter's, and his relation to the pontificate of Leo III. (795-816). Proposes an original dedication of the reliquaries in the Sancta Sanctorum Chapel to S. Maria Maggiore, where a private domus of the Pope motivated his reconstruction of S. Prassede as well as his intervention in the Marian Basilica.

The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected ... more The paper discusses 57 relics from the Holy Land in the Roman Sancta Sanctorum Chapel, collected by the Popes from ca. 600 to 900 A. D. Using statistical analysis it is designed to answer the following questions: (1) What information does the Lateran treasure provide concerning the way relics were acquired in early Islamic Palestine and the practices of post-antique pilgrimage? (2) What conclusions regarding their agents and bearers can be drawn from the quality, accessibility, and topographical distribution of these relics? (3) Through what ways and political channels did the relics come to Rome and to the papal court? (4) What were the prevailing political, social, and economic conditions that allowed for the high mobility of relics between Jerusalem and Rome in the early Middle Ages?

The study investigates the use of Icons in secular ceremonies through a comparative analysis of i... more The study investigates the use of Icons in secular ceremonies through a comparative analysis of images and textual sources frome Rome and Byzantium. Icons were used in much the same way as ancient imperial portraits when honoring dignitaries by acclamation or praying for divine protection, which explains why they often were placed where acclamations typically occurred, such as at palace entrances or in throne rooms. They illustrated the relation between temporal power and transcendental legitimacy in public rituals long before that relation had begun to attain a fixed, iconographic form.

Studies the origin of the idiomatic expression "in medio ecclesiae" in Ps 22 ("in medio ecclesiae... more Studies the origin of the idiomatic expression "in medio ecclesiae" in Ps 22 ("in medio ecclesiae laudabo te") and its application by frankish theologians to Cross-monuments in carolingian churches and the liturgy of their dedication. The increasing use of such crosses in the liturgical hours and for the meditation of the Passion in carolingian prayer books from the 9th century on may be one reason for the change from the aniconic cross depiction to the later crucifixion image and for the following placement of tombs of founders before the cross and its altar around 1000. Examines the relation of this liturgical development to the first monumental crucifixions in Carolingian and Ottonian Art.

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The paper discusses the use of croci dipinte and the first altarpieces in the monastic hours. A t... more The paper discusses the use of croci dipinte and the first altarpieces in the monastic hours. A thorough study of practices in liturgical and other religious sources demonstrates, that from early medieval times the meditation of the Passion was connected to the use of narrative images, which later from the Psalter manuscripts were transferred to painted crosses and altarpieces. This leads to the conclusion, that monastic practices emulated by laic movements were more important for establishing Images on the altar then the often discussed eucharistic liturgy.

Discusses the practice and meaning of the term "palatium sacrum" from Late antiquity until the Ag... more Discusses the practice and meaning of the term "palatium sacrum" from Late antiquity until the Age of Charlemagne. Its use in Law, Ritual and Political Theory was much more restricted than claimed by many scholars, because of changing conceptions of sacred Space and Imperial Rulership in Early Medieval times.

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Investigates the Impact of the main political powers (Bishop, comune, entourage of Matilde di Can... more Investigates the Impact of the main political powers (Bishop, comune, entourage of Matilde di Canossa) on the controversial discussed building history of the Cathedral von Parma 1040-1170