AnastasisPub Date : 2019-05-30DOI: 10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.01
C. Ciobanu
{"title":"Some notes on the iconography of the Vita cycle of Gerasimus of the Jordan in Romanian painting","authors":"C. Ciobanu","doi":"10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77125753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2019-05-30DOI: 10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.04
Laura Mesina
{"title":"To Believe and to Govern or the Oikonomic Sense of the Image of Power","authors":"Laura Mesina","doi":"10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.04","url":null,"abstract":"The medieval imaginary emerged as a corpus of discursive formations, which do not always have a strictly Byzantine source. Some elements of ethics and justice, of social organization or relationship between the perceptible and the non-perceptible, of understanding the divine and correlation with ethical faith and duty, have their roots in the philosophical imaginary of the ancient political system, the first system that aimed at the construction of a model of civic society. The ′′inheritance′′ at the level of the collective imaginary is, thus, not only Christian, but also ancient. Without having established an unmediated scientific relationship with the ancient texts whence the philosophical imaginary of the political can be extracted the medieval Romanian power followed the natural community formation routes, which were derived from a social model. This type of organization was re-interpreted by the philosophers of Christian power and theologically included in the oikonomic plan. The practical interpretation given by Romanian lawmakers to some of the post-Byzantine political ideas aimed at an adaptation of those discursive formations, which governed the trans-state collective imaginary in the area of influence of the empire. The Romanian imaginary itself will spring from these intersections between a normal line of socio-economic coalescence and a political plan for the formation of a state unit with its own acknowledged ′′national′′ identity, under the influence of the ′′basileic chimera′′. Finally, the ′′history of the imperial idea for the Romanians will be that of a compromise between a political ideal and practical realities′′.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"0 0 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86051960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2019-05-30DOI: 10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.12
S. Cristea, G. Enescu
{"title":"Matter and Spirit in the Work of the Sculptor Silvia Radu","authors":"S. Cristea, G. Enescu","doi":"10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35218/ARMCA.2019.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88036003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AnastasisPub Date : 2014-01-01DOI: 10.61302/hour8146
Genevra Kornbluth
{"title":"Active Optics: Carolingian Rock Crystal on Medieval Reliquaries","authors":"Genevra Kornbluth","doi":"10.61302/hour8146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.61302/hour8146","url":null,"abstract":"It may be useful to begin this essay with a very basic observation.Aside from kinetic sculpture, objects are only as active as viewers allow them to be.They shape our perceptions, and direct the physical, intellectual, and perhaps spiritual movements that we make in response to them, only insofar as we agree to be influenced.Some years ago I ordered a photograph of the Majest de Sainte Foi (Conques) from the official archive of the Caisse Nationale des Monuments Historiques et des Sites in Paris (Figures 1a,b).When it arrived I was surprised to see a modern screwdriver held in the figure's left hand.The screwdriver is of course not part of the reliquary, nor present in its current display or published images.A technician involved in producing the CNMHS photo must have parked his tool there temporarily, and then forgotten to remove it before the photographer began shooting.It was therefore immortalized as evidence of one viewer's response to an object that is still the focus of regular pilgrimage, both spiritual and art historical.That one person, at least, refused to be awed.His act echoes the first response of Bernard of Angers who, before being converted by the holy power of the saints, famously regarded such figures as works of human artifice without spiritual significance: \"Brother, what do you make of this idol?\"[1]Other recorded responses, however, suggest that many medieval viewers did fall under the spell of religious art, and we are therefore justified in asking how they allowed themselves to be directed.This essay presents some answers based on empirical observation.","PeriodicalId":37287,"journal":{"name":"Anastasis","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://differentvisions.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1356/2023/04/Issue-4-Kornbluth.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147915284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}