Representing Devotional Economy: Agricultural and Liturgical Labor in the Luttrell Psalter

• Autores: Ellen K. Rentz
• Localización: Studies in iconography, ISSN 0148-1029, Nº. 31, 2010, págs. 69-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An image of the plowman in the Luttrell Psalter inaugurates a far more extended metaphorical treatment of manual labor as a spiritual endeavor, from sowing and harrowing to weed pulling and sheaf gathering. The Luttrell Psalter takes its lead from other early 14th-century treatments of agricultural metaphors that depict the work of the land as the work of the spirit, and even the work of the liturgy. Images of a productive harvest and heraldic splendor are prominent in the psalter's farming and feasting sequences, but the main theme engineered on these pages is one of labor as devotion. In effect, its comprehensive depiction of liturgical, agricultural, and domestic piety unites the household's labors into one devotional economy.