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Title
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Small pipe-clay devotional figures : touch, play and animation
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Author
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Abstract
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| Small, mass-produced pipe-clay figurines were popular devotionalia in the late medieval Low Countries. In this paper, focusing on representations of the Christ Child, I study the sensory and playful ways in which such objects were used as ‘props of perception’ in spiritual games of make-believe or role-play. Not only does this particular iconography invite tactile and playful behaviour, the figurines fit within a larger context of image practices involving visions and make-believe. Through such practices images were animated and imbued with a divine power. Contemporary written sources suggest that, especially for women, ownership of and sensory engagement with small-scale figures provided them with agency. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Das Mittelalter : Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung / Mediävistenverband [Frankfurt am Main] - Frankfurt am Main, 1996, currens
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Das Mittelalter
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Publication
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Frankfurt am Main
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2020
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ISSN
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0949-0345
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2196-6869
[online]
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DOI
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10.1515/MIAL-2020-0044
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Volume/pages
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25
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(2020)
, p. 397-423
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Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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Full text (open access)
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