Medieval Sculptures of the Virgin in Performative Contexts: Gold, Silver, Lead and Other Metals (Heisenberg-Project). Project-specific Workshops

作为海森堡项目“表演语境中的中世纪圣母雕塑：金、银、铅和其他金属”的一部分，将资助两个特定项目的工作室。该项目分析了带有金属表面的中世纪处女雕塑。这些物品可以追溯到10世纪到13世纪。它们由金、银、铅和其他金属制成，通常采用混合介质组合。关键的作品是埃森的金色圣母像（约980年），沃尔科特的银色圣母像（11世纪初）或巴罗耶宫（巴黎，卢浮宫的mus<s:1> e du Louvre）。研究设计基于中世纪的物体历史和金、银、铅等物质的历史，这些历史与表演实践和空间有关：在项目分析的表演背景中，有中世纪的多感官教堂空间，以及中世纪后作为祭坛、博物馆、临时展览或生活宗教实践的单一物体的舞台。两个跨学科研讨会将是项目的一部分：“古代晚期和中世纪女性神圣性的视觉和物质文化”和“中世纪圣母雕塑：表演空间和实践”。将为这些具体项目的讲习班提供资金。这两个研讨会都是项目成功的核心，因为它们提供了在跨学科和国际中世纪环境中批判性地反思结果和进展的机会。修复学、文化人类学和宗教科学应探索在“物质宗教”领域的合作新形式。

As part of the Heisenberg-project „Medieval Sculptures of the Virgin in Performative Contexts: Gold, Silver, Lead and Other Metals” two project-specific workhops shall be funded.The project analyses medieval sculptures of the virgin with metallic surfaces. The objects date from the 10th to the 13th century. They are made from gold, silver, lead and other metals, often in mixed-media combinations. Key pieces are the Golden Madonna in Essen (ca. 980), the silver Madonna in Walcourt (early 11th century) or the Vierge de Baroilles (Paris, Musée du Louvre).The research design is based on object histories and the histories of substances like gold, silver and lead in the Middle Ages, which are set in relation to performative practices and spaces: among the performative contexts analyzed during the project are the medieval multisensorial church space as well as post-medieval stagings of single objects as part of altars, in museums, in temporary exhibitions or in living-religion-practices.Two interdisciplinary workshops will be part of the project: “Visual and material cultures of female sanctity in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” and “Medieval sculptures of the Virgin: Performative spaces and practices”. For these project-specific workshops funding shall be applied.Both workshops are central to the project’s success, as they offer opportunities to reflect critically on results and progresses in an interdisciplinary and international medievalist environment. New forms of cooperations in the field of „material religion” shall be explored between Restoration Sciences, Cultural Anthropology and Religious Sciences.