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This study is the first fundamental analysis and synopsis of the printed relic-book genre. Printed relic books represent, both by image and text, precious reliquaries, which were presented to the faithful audience during special liturgical feasts, the display of relics. This study brings into focus the specific aesthetics of these relic books and explores the immense influence that patrons had on figuration as well as on the forms of these books.
The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance.
This book is a translation of Die Textur des Bildes: Das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters (De Gruyter, 2013).
The analysis focuses on the interaction of image and text as manifestation of authenticity. This book then contributes to clarifying the complex medial role of printing with movable type in its early period and offers a novel interpretation of the cultural significance of artefacts in the Renaissance.
This book is a translation of Die Textur des Bildes: Das Heiltumsbuch im Kontext religiöser Medialität des Spätmittelalters (De Gruyter, 2013).
Price: $223.00
Pages: 550
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Publication Date:
11 December 2020
ISBN: 9789004404489
Format: Other
"This book should be of great interest to book historians, art historians, and others interested in the thought and art of the late medieval and early Reformation period." - John L. Flood, University of London, in: The Library, 7.22.3 (September 2021), pp. 390–392
"Cárdenas’s study makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relic book as well as to the general discussion of the nature of the book in early sixteenth-century culture, religion, and politics." - Jonathan Trayner, Solent University, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 53, No. 4 (2022), pp. 1090–1092
"By providing descriptions and images of the relic books, laying out the historiographic tradition surrounding them, and creating a platform for further study of this important and impressive genre, Cárdenas gives scholars much of value in this monograph." - Nikolas O. Hoel, Northeastern Illinois University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1176–1177
"Cárdenas’s study makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relic book as well as to the general discussion of the nature of the book in early sixteenth-century culture, religion, and politics." - Jonathan Trayner, Solent University, in: Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 53, No. 4 (2022), pp. 1090–1092
"By providing descriptions and images of the relic books, laying out the historiographic tradition surrounding them, and creating a platform for further study of this important and impressive genre, Cárdenas gives scholars much of value in this monograph." - Nikolas O. Hoel, Northeastern Illinois University, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3 (Fall 2023), pp. 1176–1177
Livia Cárdenas (PhD 2011, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), art historian, is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Basel and Leuphana University Lüneburg. She has published on medieval and premodern art and culture.