POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška and Jan KLÍPA. Tabulae cum portis, vela, cortinae and sudaria : Remarks on the liminal zones in the liturgical and para-liturgical contexts in the late Middle Ages. Convivium : Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Seminarium Kondakovianum Series Nova. Brno: Seminář dějin umění, Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, 2019, vol. 6, Suppl., p. 112-133. ISSN 2336-3452.
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Original name Tabulae cum portis, vela, cortinae and sudaria : Remarks on the liminal zones in the liturgical and para-liturgical contexts in the late Middle Ages
Authors POLÁČKOVÁ, Eliška (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jan KLÍPA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Convivium : Exchanges and Interactions in the Arts of Medieval Europe, Byzantium, and the Mediterranean. Seminarium Kondakovianum Series Nova, Brno, Seminář dějin umění, Filozofické fakulty Masarykovy univerzity, 2019, 2336-3452.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 60400 6.4 Arts
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/19:00111934
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
UT WoS 000508612500005
Keywords in English Altarpiece; liminal zone; retable; Eucharist; transubstantiaton; Utraqiust; Lutheran; Officium visitationis sepulchrum; Visitation of the Holy Sepulchre; liturgical textiles; liturgical cloths; liturgical performances
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
In the Middle Ages the altar and retable had an evidently liminal status. It defined and delimitated the place of the Eucharist and the transubstantiation of the host to the Corpus Christi. Besides, the lateral altar curtains performed similarly to the winged altarpiece as documented by numerous contemporary illustrations. Thus dogma of transubstantiation is necessary condition for the conception of the altarpiece as a liminal zone. This is confirmed by the case of Lutheran altarpieces which, unlike “Catholic” or Utraquist retables, operate practically like an abolisher of liminality. The liminal function of the altarpiece manifests itself also in the dramatic performances accompanying the Mass proper during the great liturgical feasts, especially during the Easter in the Officium visitationis sepulchrum. The liminal nature of the altar, and Christ the Saviour in the three-days momentum of his death, is underlined, among other things, by the ephemeral and provisional nature of the liturgical textiles used in the performance of the office.
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