Temporality and Mediality in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Christian Kiening and Martina Stercken, eds. Cursor Mundi 32. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. x + 258 pp. €75

The editors’ introduction summarizes their approach as follows: “Looking at the multiple ways in which time and temporality were mediated in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries promises to produce fresh ideas, not only on the ways time and media are connected but also on the ways the historical profile of an era of transition can be grasped … by scrutinizing the actual practices used to shape and negotiate issues of time and temporality” (9). Beyond content analysis he is interested in the function of the picture to generate religious experience or serve memory culture. [...]he classifies functions as “representing time, actively structuring time, or manipulating a feeling for time” (43). [...]he revisits documents that refer to the reenactments of the Passion in which the narrative becomes a dramatic performance.