Chivalry, Piety and Empire

Sir Galahad as motif in the work of the English Methodist artist Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7213/2175-1838.15.002.AO03

Keywords:

Linguagens da religião, cultura visual religiosa, Frank Owen Salisbury, metodismo inglês, cavaleiro Galahad.

Abstract

The article presents an English evangelical reading of the Knight Galahad motif of King Arthur's Round Table in the first part of the twentieth century, focusing on the special approach of the English Methodist painter Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962). The context of this English mythological figure's integration into religious discourses, part of his literary rediscovery around 1850, goes through his link with Catholic eucharistic theology and arrives in English Protestantism as a symbol of a virtuous man and is found in paintings, lithographs and stained glass. Among the various Methodist artists, Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962) stood out at the time, nationally and internationally. Within the Methodist Church in England, the Knight Galahad motif is cherished by the British Methodist youth association, the "Wesley's Guild", founded in 1895, where it serves as a model of piety and holiness. Under this Methodist influence, Salisbury used the motif in his home ornamentation (1932 painting), in a stained glass window in John Wesley Church, London (1932), in a Congregational Youth Chapel (1932) and in a book on the Father Ours (1948). A national myth was integrated into the biblical-Christian and denominational narrative to strengthen the British Methodist denominational identity and this process was accompanied and consolidated by the creation and acceptance of the respective visual culture created by Francis Owen Salisbury.

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Author Biography

Helmut Renders, Metodista

Graduação em teologia - Theologisches Seminar der Evangelisch-methodistischen Kirche in Deutschland (RFA, 1987 / convalidado pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo [Umesp] em 2001) e curso de hebraico - Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal (RFA, 1984).  Doctor of Ministry - Wesley Seminary Washington, DC (EUA, 1998). Lato Sensu em Ciências da Religião - Umesp (BRA, 2003). Iniciou em 2003 um mestrado em Ciências da Religião (Umesp, BRA), na qualificação transformado em doutorado direto (2004), Doutorado em Ciências da Religião - Umesp (BRA, 2006). Pós-doutorado em Ciência da Religião - Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora [UFJF] (BRA, 2012). É coordenador e professor associado I do Programa da Pós-graduação em Ciências da Religião da Universidade Metodista de São Paulo e da Faculdade de Teologia (Graduação). Tem experiência na área da Teologia e Ciências de Religião e concentra sua pesquisa nas linguagens da religião e suas expressões simbólicas, narrativas, rituais, doutrinais, éticas cultura e os aspectos sociais das culturas visuais religiosas desde o Brasil colônia até hoje. Financiamentos concedidos: Ago. 2014: FAPESP [reunião no exterior]; Set. até Out. 2014: Luce Fellow e Visiting Professor na Candler School of Theology da Universidade Emory, Atlanta, GA, EUA. Fev. 2015: PAEX da CAPES [reunião no exterior]; Jul. 2016: FAPESP [reunião no Brasil]; 2017: FAPESP [reunião no exterior]; 2017-2019: FAPESP Projeto Regular. Assessorias técnico-administrativas: CAPES, FAPESP; Universidades Mackenzie e PUC-PR. (Texto informado pelo autor)

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Published

2023-08-30

How to Cite

Renders, H. (2023). Chivalry, Piety and Empire: Sir Galahad as motif in the work of the English Methodist artist Frank Owen Salisbury (1874-1962). Pistis Praxis, 15(2), 315–338. https://doi.org/10.7213/2175-1838.15.002.AO03