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John Friedman Lecture: “’Dressed to Kill:’ The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript”

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October 19, 2017
3:00PM - 4:30PM
Enarson Classroom Building 160

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Add to Calendar 2017-10-19 15:00:00 2017-10-19 16:30:00 John Friedman Lecture: “’Dressed to Kill:’ The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript” “’Dressed to Kill:’ The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript”A Lecture by John FriedmanThursday, October 19, 20173:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.Enarson Classroom Building 160A Polish Studies Initiative EventThe Dominican Meditations is an illuminated devotional manuscript made in Krakow, Poland in 1532. Many of its miniatures show extremely realistic and detailed non-canonical tormentors of Christ, whose clothing instead of representing Roman era garb, reflects certain documentable trends in early sixteenth- century European fashion history. The artist consciously borrowed the striped, tattered hose, contrastively slashed doublets, and ostrich feathers of the landsknechten or mercenaries of Emperor Maxmilian I, and well known in Poland through a series of battles of the 1500s, in order to enhance the brutality of these Jewish and Roman torturers and to make it seem more immediate and contemporary by tying it to a social group already well-established in Poland as despised and outrageous. There will be many images from Polish "Golden Age" illuminated manuscripts offered in the talk.Co-Sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Center for the Study of Religion Enarson Classroom Building 160 Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies cmrs@osu.edu America/New_York public

“’Dressed to Kill:’ The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript”

A Lecture by John Friedman

Thursday, October 19, 2017
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Enarson Classroom Building 160

A Polish Studies Initiative Event

The Dominican Meditations is an illuminated devotional manuscript made in Krakow, Poland in 1532. Many of its miniatures show extremely realistic and detailed non-canonical tormentors of Christ, whose clothing instead of representing Roman era garb, reflects certain documentable trends in early sixteenth- century European fashion history. The artist consciously borrowed the striped, tattered hose, contrastively slashed doublets, and ostrich feathers of the landsknechten or mercenaries of Emperor Maxmilian I, and well known in Poland through a series of battles of the 1500s, in order to enhance the brutality of these Jewish and Roman torturers and to make it seem more immediate and contemporary by tying it to a social group already well-established in Poland as despised and outrageous. There will be many images from Polish "Golden Age" illuminated manuscripts offered in the talk.

Co-Sponsored by the Department of History, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and the Center for the Study of Religion