TY - BOOK ID - 66109049 TI - Treasure, memory, nature : Church objects in the Middle Ages PY - 2020 SN - 9781912554614 1912554615 PB - Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Art objects, Medieval. KW - Liturgical objects. KW - Reliquaries, Medieval. KW - Relics. KW - Devotional objects KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Catholic Church. KW - Objets rituels KW - Trésors d'églises KW - Objets d'art médiévaux KW - Émerveillement KW - Mémoire KW - Église catholique KW - Objets liturgiques KW - Christian church history KW - Applied arts. Arts and crafts KW - church plate KW - religious objects KW - anno 500-1499 KW - 930.85 KW - 904 KW - 7.046 KW - 27 "04/14" KW - 27 "04/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen KW - 27 "04/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen KW - Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen KW - Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen KW - 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden KW - Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden KW - 904 Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates KW - Culturele overblijfselen uit historische tijden. Antiquitates KW - 930.85 Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis. Kultuurgeschiedenis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:66109049 AB - This book traces the origins, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and function of these objects of memory and wonder. Precious metalwork, relics, chess pieces, ostrich eggs, unicorn horns, and bones of giants were among the treasury objects accumulated in churches during the Middle Ages. The material manifestations of a Christian worldview, they would only later become naturalia and objets d'?art, from the sixteenth and the nineteenth century onwards, respectively. Philippe Cordez traces the rhetorical origination, economic development, and later history of church treasures, and explores the forms and functions of the memorial objects that constituted them. Such objects were a source of wonder for their contemporaries and remain so today, albeit for quite different reasons. Indeed, our fascination relates primarily to their epistemic and aesthetic qualities. Dealing also with these paradigm shifts, this study opens up new paths toward an archeology of current scholarly and museum practices. Philippe Cordez is Deputy Director of the German Center for Art History in Paris. ER -