Benutzerspezifische Werkzeuge

Romanesque sculpture in Bavaria seldom conforms to the formal and iconographic standards set elsewhere on the continent, resulting in an unfair devaluation of its underlying sophistication. As part of a wider project on the role of art in twelfth-century Bavarian colonization, this talk contextualizes the famed Freising Bestiensäule in its intellectual and theological milieu to suggest it be seen as a studied commentary on human ontological boundaries. The violent intermixing of human and beastly bodies visualizes the messy business of defining in and out in a medieval anthropology built on continuity.