Reproducing Miracles (Sammelband)

On Media and the Miraculous in Early Modern Europe


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Herausgeber

Rogier Gerrits

Verlag
Fink
Stadt
Paderborn
Publikationsdatum
2025
Reihe
Poesis 9
Art der Publikation
https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846768983
Thematik nach Sprachen
Französisch, Italienisch, Spanisch
Disziplin(en)
Literaturwissenschaft, Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft
Schlagwörter
Wunder, Medien

Exposé

The early modern world abounded with representations of miracles. Departing from the view that miracles are fundamentally media events, the chapters of this volume examine how miraculous occurrences were reproduced across various cultural productions of the time, including epic poetry, painting, theatre, hagiographies, ego documents, and philosophical treatises. From an interdisciplinary perspective, scholars from literary studies, art history, and history analyse the strategies employed by creators to capture the ephemeral nature of miracles. The chapters show that these strategies ranged from brevity and matter-of-factness to material abundance and polysensoric performances. By discussing the early modern miraculous from a medial standpoint, the volume demonstrates that the reproduction of miracles served not only to validate their veracity but, more importantly, to disseminate them as perceived deviations from the laws of nature, allowing humans to glimpse the transcendent.

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Ersteller des Eintrags
Rogier Gerrits
Erstellungsdatum
Mittwoch, 01. Oktober 2025, 00:33 Uhr
Letzte Änderung
Mittwoch, 01. Oktober 2025, 00:33 Uhr