Choir stalls and their workshops: proceedings of the Misericordia International Colloquium 2016

Contents

Introduction / Anja Seliger, Willy Piron -- Getting the idea : the role of drawings in the manufacturing process of choir stalls / Anja Seliger -- Module as model for early modem choir stalls / Angela Glover -- Big seats for fat Benedictines, small ones for slender Cistercians? some statistics on choir stall sizes / Kristiane Lemé-Hébuterne -- The choir stalls of 1537 from Tobsdorf/Dupuş in Transylvania, Romania : aspects of the workshop technique and connections to Master Johannes Reychmut of Schässburg/Sighişoara / Ralf Buchholz, Susanne Karius, Gerdi Maierbacher-Legl -- The choir stalls of the Cistercian abbey at Salem from 1588-1593 : aspects of their creation in the context of liturgical and economic reform / Ulrich Knapp -- Set in stone : the stone bench of Burs in its social, functional and historic context / Jörg Widmaier -- Liturgical activation of the stone choir in Santiago de Compostela : looking at material through the immaterial / Erika Loïc -- Materiality and reflexivity between sedilia and choir stalls in medieval England / James Alexander Cameron -- The role of choir stalls made by foreign craftsmen in Spanish renaissance sculpture / María Teresa Rodríguez Bote -- An international entrepreneur in Spain around 1500 : the carver Rodrigo Alemán and his choir stalls / Dorothee Heim -- Jan Borchman and his fellow craftsmen : the creation of choir stalls in the Low Countries / Christel Theunissen -- The choir stalls of the monasteries of Pöhlde and St Alexander's in Einbeck : observations on their time of origin from an epigraphical and historical point of view / Jörg H. Lampe -- Choir stalls and other thirteenth century furnishings in the Cistercian monastery of Doberan / Kaja von Cossart -- The Anklam stall-ends : an example of stalls in parish churches in Pomerania / Detlef Witt -- The Bilobate misericords of the Lower Rhine area : a local phenomenon? / Willy Piron.