59-201 Konferenz GRK 2008: Engel. Intermediale und interkonfessionelle Konstellationen in geistlicher Literatur, Kunst und Musik der Frühen Neuzeit

Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Markus Friedrich; Prof. Dr. Marc Andreas Föcking; Prof. Dr. Lina Herz; Prof. Dr. Oliver Huck; Prof. Dr. Bernhard Jahn; Prof. Dr. Margit Kern; Prof. Dr. Ulrich Moennig; Prof. Dr. Susanne Rupp; Prof. Dr. Jürgen Sarnowsky; Prof. Dr. Claudia Schindler; Prof. Dr. Johann Anselm Steiger

Veranstaltungsart: Workshop

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Unterrichtssprache: Deutsch

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The aim of this conference is to discuss early modern literary, musical, and visual representations of angels that have received relatively little scholarly attention to date on the basis of a wide range of media sources. The conference will pay special attention, firstly, to intermedial constellations in which the media involved can be seen to mutually reinforce each other (images and texts, music and texts, etc.). The goal here is to examine and meticulously analyze artifacts and phenomena from the fields of spiritual (not least polychoral) music and spiritual drama, and combinations of image and text, for example, in church furnishings, paintings, books, pamphlets, and printed graphics, including the ars emblematica and church services, as well as liturgies of the hours and processions.
It will also take materializations of early modern interconfessionality into consideration. We welcome both comparatist perspectives on the specific confessional features of the angel theme as well as contributions on phenomena of interconfessional consensus as well as transconfessional aspects potentially resulting from the desire to weaken the boundaries between the confessions or to even partially transcend them. Of particular interest will be manifestations of spiritual intermediality that have been either implicitly or explicitly shaped by interconfessionality.
One of the questions guiding the conference will be to which extent the extremely intensive dissemination and (inter)medial differentiation of the angel theme can be seen to indicate transconfessional respect for angels as vertical intermedia between heaven and earth, the holy trinity and humans, and thus between transcendence and immanence. In concentrated, transdisciplinary collaboration, we will examine the extent to which the vertical intermediality, or mediality of salvation, that accompanies angels motivated, intensified, and led to the development of different horizontal intermedial representations of angels.