Temporality and Mediality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture

This interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which time is staged at the threshold between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Proceeding from the reality that all cultural forms are inherently and inescapably temporal, it seeks to discover the significance of time in mediations and communications of all kinds. By showing how time is displayed in diverse cultural strategies and situations, the essays of this volume show how time is intrinsic to the very concept of tradition. In exploring a variety of medial forms and communicative practices, they also reveal that while the beginning of the age of printing (around 1500) may mark a fundamental change in terms of reproduction and circulation, artefacts and other historical traditions continue to employ earlier systems and practices relating time and space. The volume features articles by leading researchers in their respective fields, including studies on mosaics as a medium reflecting space and time; the triptych’s potential as a time machine; winged altarpieces mediating eternity; texts and images of the passion of Christ permeating past, present, and future; dimensions of time embedded in maps; a compendium of world knowledge organized by forms of time and temporality; the figuration of prophecy in times of crisis; the portrayal of time in architecture. The volume thus provides a new approach to media and mediality from the perspective of cultural history. "This interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which time is staged at the threshold between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Proceeding from the reality that all cultural forms are inherently and inescapably temporal, it seeks to discover the significance of time in mediations and communications of all kinds. By showing how time is displayed in diverse cultural strategies and situations, the essays of this volume show how time is intrinsic to the very concept of tradition. In exploring a variety of medial forms and communicative practices, they also reveal that while the beginning of the age of printing (around 1500) may mark a fundamental change in terms of reproduction and circulation, artefacts and other historical traditions continue to employ earlier systems and practices relating time and space. The volume features articles by leading researchers in their respective fields, including studies on mosaics as a medium reflecting space and time; the triptych's potential as a time machine; winged altarpieces mediating eternity; texts and images of the passion of Christ permeating past, present, and future; dimensions of time embedded in maps; a compendium of world knowledge organized by forms of time and temporality; the figuration of prophecy in times of crisis; the portrayal of time in architecture."--Back cover This interdisciplinary volume explores the ways in which time is staged at the threshold between the Middle Ages and the early modern period. Proceeding from the reality that all cultural forms are inherently and inescapably temporal, it seeks to discover the significance of time in mediations and communications of all kinds.0By showing how time is displayed in diverse cultural strategies and situations, the essays of this volume show how time is intrinsic to the very concept of tradition. In exploring a variety of medial forms and communicative practices, they also reveal that while the beginning of the age of printing (around 1500) may mark a fundamental change in terms of reproduction and circulation, artefacts and other historical traditions continue to employ earlier systems and practices relating time and space.0The volume features articles by leading researchers in their respective fields, including studies on mosaics as a medium reflecting space and time; the triptych?s potential as a time machine; winged altarpieces mediating eternity; texts and images of the passion of Christ permeating past, present, and future; dimensions of time embedded in maps; a compendium of world knowledge organized by forms of time and temporality; the figuration of prophecy in times of crisis; the portrayal of time in architecture Front Matter ("Contents", "List of Illustrations"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 Christian Kiening, Martina Stercken https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114019 Temporality versus Transcendence: Mosaic as a Medium beyond Perspective, p. 15 Barbara Schellewald https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114020 The Triptych and its Time Folds: Artistic Explorations around 1500, p. 41 Marius Rimmele https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114021 Presence as Display: Carved Altarpieces on the Threshold to Eternity, p. 75 Britta Dümpelmann https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114022 Mediating the Passion in Time and Space, p. 115 Christian Kiening https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114023 Mapping Time at the Threshold of Modernity, p. 147 Martina Stercken https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114024 Vide infra [...] vide supra: Flipping through Times in the Rudimentum Novitiorum (1475), p. 177 Anja Rathmann-Lutz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114025 Precarious Times: The Discourse of the Prophet in the Age of Reformation, p. 197 Marcus Sandl https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114026 Lingering: Visions of Past and Future in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, p. 229 Aleksandra Prica https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CURSOR-EB.5.114027 Back Matter, p. 255