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Agency and Miraculous Images [PDF]
, 2017 Book synopsis: This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged,
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Religions, 2023 As a famous “miraculous monk” dating from the Tang Dynasty, Wanhui (632–712) was favored by four emperors, Gaozong (r. 649–683), Empress Wu (regency: 684–690; reign: 690–705), Zhongzong (r. 683–684, r. 705–710) and Ruizong (r. 684–690, r.
Jiajia Zheng
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The struggle for the possession of miraculous and revered icons after 1917 [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной ЦерквиThe article is devoted to the struggle for the possession of miraculous and revered icons after the 1917 revolution. After the fall of the autocracy, the confrontation over the location of one or another revered relic became very acute.
Pavel Rogozny
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Lo santo y lo visible en El Príncipe constante de Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Criticón, 2020 Our focus is the analysis of the role of the visual within a remarkable comedia de santos, Calderon’s The Constant Prince. In this work, the playwright does not proffer to stage the supernatural elements in a sensational way, i.e.
Yannick Barne
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, 2011 The prevalence of colourful metaphors and figurative language in critics' descriptions of artworks has long attracted attention. Talk of ‘liquid melodies,’ ‘purple prose,’ ‘soaring arches,’ and the use of still more elaborate figurative descriptions, is ...
Grant, James
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Miraculous Images of Mongolia from the Sixteenth Century to the Present [PDF]
Ars Orientalis, 2020 In Mongolia, as in other parts of Buddhist Asia, a few special images inspired devotees to undertake pilgrimages to worship them. These images often have a miraculous origin, are credited with volitional agency, and are said to perform miracles. They frequently became “tutelary deities” of local groups and played a role in the “Buddhist conquest” of ...
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THEME OF MIRACULOUS BIRTH IN KARAKALPAK FOLK LEGENDS AND ITS HISTORICAL BASES
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2018 The present article deals with the analysis of leading motives of legend character’s miraculous birth. Historical bases of the motif was studied in comparision with the ancient archaic conceptions and with the motifs arising on the base of Moslem and ...
Gulparshin S Kalbaeva
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Illustrative and literary manifestations expression of the Quran verses based on the artistic illustration theory by Seyed Qotb [PDF]
Jilvah-i hunar, 2016 There are many images throughout the holy Quran as the biggest written miracle. One of the reasons for Quran simplicity and understandability is that its subjective concepts are figurative and tangible.
ashrafsadat mousavilar, SEPIDEH yaghooti
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Religions, 2021 The female body in medieval Japanese Buddhist texts was characterized as unenlightened and inherently polluted. While previous scholarship has shown that female devotees did not simply accept and internalize this exclusionary ideology, we do not fully ...
Carolyn Wargula
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Verses of Faith and Devotion. Seeing, Reading, and Touching Monumental Crucifixes with Inscriptions (12th–13th century) [PDF]
, 2016 The paper discusses a group of monumental crucifixes from the 13th-century East Adriatic and Italy, pained or executed in low relief, that display a verse inscriptions on the transverse limb of the cross.
Marušić, Matko Matija
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