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Fortidskult, status og identitet: SorĂž Kloster som kollektivt erindringssted i senmiddelalderen og renĂŠssancen
Cult of the Past, Status and Identity at SorĂž.The Cistercian Monastery as a Collective Site of Memory during the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance.By Birgitte BĂžggild JohannsenIn recent decades the paradigmatic concept of lieu de mĂ©moire, elaborated by the French historian Pierre Nora in his monumental work, Les lieux de mĂ©moire (1984- 1992) has proven inspirational to almost all branches of the cultural sciences. The article takes its point of departure in Noraâs definition of a site of memory, referring partly to an actual locality (i.e. SorĂž Abbey) and a complex of monuments (funeral memorials to the founder, Absalon, his kin and members of the royal family from Christoffer II (â 1332) to Margrete (â 1412)). In a figurative sense, the concept is also used in relation to incidents, persons, institutions or activities whose values are regularly renegotiated or reinterpreted, in particular during discourses on national or collective identity, values or symbols. The article focuses upon a discussion of both meanings of the word, with reference to the targeted production of memory in SorĂž during the late 15th and the 16th centuries, materialized in various texts and monuments written or erected at the instigation of the Catholic and Post- Reformation abbots, principals or readers at the monastery (Henrik Christiernsen Tornekrands, Morten Pedersen, Ivar Bertelsen and Christiern MacchabĂŠus). Using a term coined by the German historian Oluf B. Rader (2003, 2007) the recycling of memory, in particular as concretized in funeral monuments (or the re-gistration of tombs) is to be considered as a âgenerator of legitimacyâ, creating meaning, status and identity, not least during moments of crisis or times of political and religious upheaval. In cases like these, the cult of past glory and venerable traditions would be explored as a safe haven of stability and power. This agenda appears most relevant at the famous centre of learning at SorĂž Abbey, which looked back during the period in question to former days of glory in order to confront a changed, still unclarified future
Döden som katharsis. Nordiska perspektiv pÄ dödens kultur och mentalitetshistoria
Döden Ă€r ett evigt tema. Men diskursen runt döden i dess mĂ„ngskiftande former Ă€r underkastad stĂ€ndig förĂ€ndring. Döden kan ses som ett hot och ett gissel men ocksĂ„ som en befrielse, ett straff eller som ett redskap för att befria samhĂ€llet frĂ„n oönskade individer. I samtliga fall kan man tala om döden som en reningsprocess â som katharsis. Det Ă€r denna förĂ€nderliga diskurs som tas upp i denna bok. I centrum stĂ„r frĂ„gan om hur man hanterat dödsproblematiken under olika tider och hur man anvĂ€nt sig av döden som ett redskap i samhĂ€llets tjĂ€nst. Vidare diskuteras hur döden relaterats till individ och samhĂ€lle och vilken funktion samhĂ€llets religiöst eller ideologiskt motiverade vĂ€rdegrund haft i detta sammanhang. Bokens Ă„tta artiklar belyser synen pĂ„ döden i VĂ€sterlandet i ett historiskt perspektiv
Genealogical representation in gendered perspective:the funeral complex of Queen Christine at Odense
Fortidskult, status og identitet:SorĂž Kloster som kollektivt erindringssted i senmiddelalderen og renĂŠssancen
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