Session:
Images of Corporal Mortification and Corruption, Martyrdom and Mercy: 1250-1550.
The psychological implications of the new religiosity with which the devotional image was in accord are just as complex as the social conditions from which the religious individual developed his self-awareness. What took place in the thirteenth century was one of the most comprehensive transformations European society ever underwent. While the symptoms were often only visible in images at a later (...)