Art and Lived Religion

Medieval and Early Modern
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6864-2
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Art and Lived Religion explores the dynamic relationship between medieval and early modern religion and art, integrating the lived religion approach with Gillian Rose’s critical visual methodology (CVM) to reveal how religious artworks actively shaped cognition, emotion, and action.

Offering a groundbreaking framework for understanding the multisensory and relational nature of religious experience, this book presents case studies spanning Western Christian, Orthodox Christian, Hindu, and Aztec contexts. All chapters highlight the “dynamism of forces” between art, religion and human encounter across diverse temporal, geographic, and cultural settings, emphasizing the interplay of visual, material, social and embodied dimensions in the creation of experience.

Methodologically and conceptually ideal for students and scholars in art history, religious studies, and interdisciplinary research, this book is tailored to those seeking to explore the experiential dynamics of art and devotion across diverse cultural, temporal, and geographic settings.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCluskey, Karen E.

Toivo, Raisa Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen: Religiöse Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Introduction: Art and Lived Religion

Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria Toivo

Lived Religion at the Site of the Image

Ch 1 Objects of Lived Religion: Medieval Birthing Amulets in Nordic Countries

Hólmfríður Sveinsdóttir

Ch 2 The Art of Seeing: St Christopher in Early Modern Venice

Karen McCluskey

Ch 3 Lived Religion in Medieval India: Surasundari on Indian Temple Architecture

Neha Khetrapal

Ch 4 Interacting with Sacred Images at the Multi-Confessional Borderland: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

Tomasz Wislicz

Lived Religion at the Site of Production

Ch 5 Created Through God: Lived Religion and Early Modern Artmaking

Elizabeth Burns-Dans

Ch 6 Authors of Reliquaries: Makers and Commissioners in the Medieval North

Sofia Lahti

Ch 7 Early Modern Illustrated Miracle Books and Embodied Experiences of the Sacred

Jenni Kuuliala

Lived Religion at the Site of Circulation

Ch 8 Haptic Encounters: the Ritual Practice of Dressing Religious Images in Sacred and Secular Contexts

Zuleika Murat

Ch 9 Worshipping the Ugly Goddess: Image and Devotion in the Aztec World

Patrizia Granziera

Ch 10 Unseen Angels and Ambiguous Experiences of Lived Religion in Early Modern Finland Raisa Toivo

Lived Religion at the Site of Audiencing

Ch 11 Experiencing the Pizzicaiuoli Altarpiece in Fifteenth-Century Siena

Susan Nolan

Ch 12 Chasing Miracles: Practices and Objects of the Disabled in the Venetian Terraferma Silvia Carraro

Ch 13 The Rich Man and the Prostitute in Moissac: the Public Function of Romanesque Sculpture

Ana Munk

Conclusions and Observations

Karen E. McCluskey and Raisa Maria Toivo

Über Autor(innen)

Karen E. McCluskey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame, Australia. Her research investigates how art shapes and is shaped by lived experience. Recent publications: New Saints in Late-Mediaeval Venice (2020).

Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland. She works on the history of religious conflicts and witchcraft in early modern Europe and experience as an approach to history. Recent publications include Lived Religion and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (co-authored with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2021, Routledge) and Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion (co-edited with Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, 2022).