The art of healing : painting for the sick and the sinner in a medieval town

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The art of healing : painting for the sick and the sinner in a medieval town

Marcia Kupfer

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2003

  • : cloth

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-196) and index

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Many historians of medieval art now look beyond soaring cathedrals to study the relationship of architecture and image-making to life in medieval society. In The Art of Healing, Marcia Kupfer explores the interplay between church decoration and ritual practice in caring for the sick. Her inquiry bridges cultural anthropology and the social history of medicine even as it also expands our understanding of how clergy employed mural painting to cure body and soul. Looking closely at paintings from ca. 1200 in the church of Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher, a castle town in Central France, Kupfer traces their links to burial practices, the veneration of saints, and the care of the sick in nearby hospitals. Through careful analysis of the surrounding agrarian landscape, dotted with cults targeting specific afflictions, especially ergotism (then known as St. Silvan's fire), Kupfer sheds new light on the role of wall painting in an ecclesiastical economy of healing and redemption. Sickness and death, she argues, hold the key to understanding the dynamics of Christian community in the Middle Ages. The Art of Healing will be important reading for cultural anthropologists and historians of both medicine and religion as well as for medievalists and art historians.

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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: "Confess Your Sins" Part I: The Medieval Site 1. From Castle to Town Inside the Painted Crypt Oppidum and Parish Lord and Borough 2. Chapels, Hospitals, and Healing Cults Chapels The Leprosery The Maison-Dieu The Porticus of Noyers 3. From Spatialized Body to Painted Crypt Saint Silvanus's Fire Local Cults: An Epidemiological Basis? Local Cults: A System of Representation Images and the Recapture of Therapeutic Powers Part II: The Collegiate Church 4. The Architectural Framework: Spatial Disjunction, Social Displacement Architectural Design and Building Chronology The Crypt Redefined Pilgrimage as Penance 5. The Paintings: The Saints in the Crypt The Apsidal Theophany and the Altar of Saint James The South Chapel: The Life of Saint Giles The Axial Chapel: Lazarus, Mary Magdalen, and Martha From Micro- to Macrocosm Pictorial Resonance, Programmatic Texture 6. Image and Audience: Infirmity, Charity, and Penance in the Community Exchange and Mediation Gender Roles, Body Politics Infirmity as Social Boundary Conclusion: The Art of Healing Epilogue: The Late Medieval Paintings Notes Bibliography Index

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