Vénération et utilisation apotropaïque de l'image à Reichenau vers la fin du Xe siècle : un témoignage des Gesta de l'abbé Witigowo

Sansterre, Jean-Marie

doi:10.3406/rbph.1995.4013

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“…Pour le moine cistercien, l'image de la Croix et celle du Crucifix ont un rôle semblable et stimulent le processus visionnaire : le Christ en croix est là, présent, invitant le spectateur qui assiste à sa passion à l'imiter 47 . Ce changement d'attitude à l'égard de certaines images plastiques, qui jouent un rôle important de médiation dans l'accès au divin, est d'ailleurs attesté dans les Gesta witigowonis, texte contemporain des peintures de la crypte de Reichenau-Oberzell 48 . Les Gesta rapportent, en effet, que dans l'église voisine de Mittelzell -également sur l'île monastique de Reichenau -, une Vierge à l'Enfant peinte sur la paroi de l'oratoire de Saint-Janvier était régulièrement touchée par les moines puis baisée.…”

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La Crucifixion : iconographie et spatialisation des peintures murales entre le ixe et le début du xie siècl

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Foi et Croyance au Moyen age Les médiations liturgiques

Palazzo

1998

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International audienceThe article examines the different liturgical modes of transmission of faith in the Middle Ages. The inquiry leaves the impression of a liturgical triptych wich describes the actual reception of faith by the faithful. The first panel is made up of the liturgical texts themselves which express the orthodoxy of faith as defined by the Church. The second panel contains the normative texts by which the ecclesiastical authorities attempt to harmonise liturgical practice with the content of the sacred pieces. The third panel of the triptych, containing diverse texts (hagiographical...) and images, opens the dimension of the senses by which the liturgy is ' lived", a dimension indispensable for the transmission of faith

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Omnes qui coram hac imagine genua flexerint... La vénération d'images de saints et de la Vierge d'après les textes écrits en Angleterre du milieu du XIe siècle aux premières décennies du XIIIe siècle

Sansterre¹

2006

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Much remains to be said about the contribution of the texts to the history of the veneration of images in the Middle Ages. The paper contains the first results of a study based on the written sources in England just before the Conquest and under the Norman and the first Angevin kings. The impressive corpus collected by Lehmann-Brockhaus has been used as a starting point, but the heuristics has been updated and widened. This documentation, which is mainly hagiographical and liturgical, enables the historian to reveal a set of little known facts concerning the Virgin's and the various saints' images (a later study will be devoted to Christ's images, in particular to the crucifix). Most of these generally three-dimensional images were located in churches. Not only were they meant to attest to the saint's presence and to transmit the virtus contained in corporal relies or sometimes in the empty tomb nearby, but, from the 11th century onwards, some of them were even considered to work autonomously as cult figures and sacred mediators. To ensure the prototype 's effective intercession at the place where the image stands and to control the cult, the bishops resorted to benedictiones, which originally consisted in real consecrations. The paper examines for the first time these surprising liturgical compositions, from which extensive extracts, including some previously unpublished material, are quoted. The inquiry also proved interesting because of its unveiling of the multiple ways of conceiving, suggesting, or, less often, of expressing the relationships between the image and the heavenly prototype, without considering the confusion between the model and the representation as a risk of major importance. Finally, this research leads to a questioning of the originality of certain aspects of the cult of the images in England and calls for the creation of a database for « l'espace français ».

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Vénération et utilisation apotropaïque de l'image à Reichenau vers la fin du Xe siècle : un témoignage des Gesta de l'abbé Witigowo

Cited by 3 publications

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La Crucifixion : iconographie et spatialisation des peintures murales entre le ixe et le début du xie siècl

La Crucifixion : iconographie et spatialisation des peintures murales entre le ixe et le début du xie siècl

Foi et Croyance au Moyen age Les médiations liturgiques

Omnes qui coram hac imagine genua flexerint... La vénération d'images de saints et de la Vierge d'après les textes écrits en Angleterre du milieu du XIe siècle aux premières décennies du XIIIe siècle

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