edited by Carolin Behrmann and Helene Seewald

Spaces of negotiation in politics, law, education and administration are shaped by their architectural settings, artworks, interior designs as well as by rituals, ceremonies and processes of imagination. Drawing on art history, legal history and literary studies, this volume analyses the virtual potential of spaces that require both a normative framework and an imaginative dimension to allow different outcomes to be envisaged. The contributions explore the dynamics of premodern virtuality, offering insights into collective spaces such as town halls, churches and courtrooms, as well as into imaginary environments evoked through sculpture, painting, print media and architectural models.

Contributions:

Carolin Behrmann and Helene Seewald: (Im)possible Spaces of Negotiations: Reflections on Premodern Virtuality

Leonie Ullmann
Performing Justice: Space, Gesture, and Authority in Derick Baegert!s The Swearing of the Oath

Jonas Leysieffer
The Duke, the Landschaft, and the Tapestries: Reflections on the Virtual Power of the Munich
Town Hall Decoration

Julian Blunk
Negotiating the Mission: Andrea Pozzo’s Theology of Illusionism and the Vault of Sant!Ignazio

Armin Schäfer
Simulation und Virtuality in Jakob Bidermann’s Cenodoxus

Carolin Behrmann
Virtus and Totality: The Virtuality of Shame in Legal Spaces

Mariam Hammami
Aesthetic Negotiations of the Res Publica: Art and Civic Self-Representation in the Burgomasters!“
Cabinet of Amsterdam Town Hall

Stijn Bussels
Learn to Dwell on Earth as in Heaven: Experiencing Civic Virtue in the Amsterdam Town Hall with
Huygens

Helene Seewald
The Virtuous Perception of Happiness: Six Premodern Variations of the Tabula Cebetis

Oscar Seip
Giulio Camillo!s Theatre as a Virtual Lifeworld of Intra-Action and Becoming

Barbara Welzel
A Medieval Church in a 21st Century City: The Concept of Points of Presence

Published at transcript Verlag, downloadlink here.