Cappenberg - der Kopf, das Kloster und seine Stifter
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Gottfried von Cappenberg
Johannes der Taufer
Norbert von Xanten
Otto von Cappenberg
Premonstratensians
Reliquary
Staufer
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- ISBN 9783795436124
- Weight: 2231g
- Dimensions: 210 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Schnell & Steiner GmbH, Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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The so-called Cappenberger Barbarossakopf is one of the most famous and well-known monuments of 12th century art. It is now kept in the former monastery church of the Premonstratensian monastery of Cappenberg, the collegiate church of St. John the Evangelist. This book sheds new light on the importance of Cappenberg for the spread of the Premonstratensians, but above all it explains the origin, function and significance of the Cappenberg head.
The head raises many questions: Who does the head actually represent? What is its liturgical function? How can the head be historically contextualized? How can the identification of the head with the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick Barbarossa be explained? Does this attribution still hold true? A conference in Cappenberg in 2019 attempted to answer these questions; this book publishes the papers presented at that conference.
The head has long been regarded as a portrait of the Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (1122–1190). However, previously unpublished results of a material engineering investigation from 1977/78 require a new definition of the context in which the work was created. What are the consequences for the understanding of the head? In addition to the consistent reference to the object, the foundation of the Premonstratensian monastery of Cappenberg is the focus of many of the contributions to the book. What influence did Otto von Cappenberg’s godparenthood of Friedrich Barbarossa have on the furnishings of the monastery? The contributions shed new light on the importance of Cappenberg for the spread of the Premonstratensians.
Mit Beiträgen von Clemens M. M. Bayer, Wolfgang Bockhorst, Wibke Bornkessel, Michael Brandt, Jürgen Dendorfer, Knut Görich, Henrike Haug, Ingrid Ehlers-Kisseler, Bernhard Jussen, Jan Keupp, Lothar Lambacher, Gerhard Lubich, Joanna Olchawa, Ferdinand Opll, Boaz Paz, Ulrich Rehm, Hedwig Röckelein und Maria Burgard.
