Seeing And Being Seen In The Later Medieval World
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Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World
Author | : Dallas G. Denery II |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2005-04-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781139443814 |
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During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the world and to God. Exploring the writings of Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, Peter Aureol and Nicholas of Autrecourt in light of an assortment of popular religious guides for preachers, confessors and penitents, including Peter of Limoges' Treatise on the Moral Eye, he illustrates how the question preoccupied medieval men and women on both an intellectual and practical level. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary examination of the interplay between religious life, perspectivist optics and theology. Denery presents significant new insights into the medieval psyche and conception of the self, ensuring that this book will appeal to historians of medieval science and those of medieval religious life and theology.
Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World
Author | : Dallas George Denery (II) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Vision |
ISBN | : OCLC:848750350 |
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Touching the Passion Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith
Author | : Donna L. Sadler |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9789004364370 |
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Touching the Passion considers the ways that the Passion in late medieval retables touched worshipers. The author explores the “aesthetics of immersion” through different lenses, such as scale, medium, the five senses, the effect of the frame, and medieval mnemonics.
The Senses in Late Medieval England
Author | : C. M. Woolgar,Christopher Michael Woolgar |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300118716 |
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Oxbow says: This fascinating study of how people understood and used their senses in the late medieval period draws on evidence from a range of literary texts, documents and records, as well as material culture and architectural sources.
Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany 1250 1380
Author | : Dr Assaf Pinkus |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-09-28 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781472422651 |
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This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt to theorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothic sculpture and trace the high and late medieval notions of the ‘living statue’ and the simulacrum in religious, lay and travel literature. In addressing a range of works, from the oeuvre of the Naumburg Master through Freiburg-im-Breisgau to the imperial art of Vienna and Prague, Pinkus offers a new understanding of the function, production, and use of three-dimensional images in late-medieval Germany.
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry
Author | : Julie Singer |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781843842729 |
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An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and Charles d'Orléans, exploit scientific models as a broad framework within which to redefine the limits of the lyric subject and his body. Just as humoraltheory depends upon principles of likes and contraries in order to heal, poetry makes possible a parallel therapeutic system in which verbal oppositions and substitutions counter or rewrite received medical wisdom. The specific case of blindness, a disability that according to the theories of love that predominated in the late medieval West foreclosed the possibility of love, serves as a laboratory in which to explore poets' circumvention of the logical limits of contemporary medical theory. Reclaiming the power of remedy from physicians, these late medieval French and Italian poets prompt us to rethink not only the relationship between scientific and literary authority at the close of the middle ages, but, more broadly speaking, the very notion of therapy. Julie Singer is Assistant Professor of French at Washington University, St Louis.
Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200 1450
Author | : Constant J Mews,Anna Welch |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2016-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317077084 |
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Ever since the time of Francis of Assisi, a commitment to voluntary poverty has been a controversial aspect of religious life. This volume explores the interaction between poverty and religious devotion in the mendicant orders between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. While poverty has often been perceived more as a Franciscan than as a Dominican emphasis, this volume considers its role within a broader movement of evangelical renewal associated with the mendicant transformation of religious life. At a time of increased economic prosperity, reformers within the Church sought new ways of encouraging identification with the person of Christ. This volume considers the paradoxical tension between voluntary poverty as a way of emulating Christ and involuntary poverty as situation demanding a response from those with the means to help the poor. Drawing on history, literature and visual arts, it explores how the mendicant orders continued to transform religious life into the time of the renaissance. The papers in this volume are organised under three headings, prefaced with an introductory essay by the editors: Poverty and the Rule of Francis, exploring the interpretation of poverty in the Franciscan Order; Devotional Cultures, considering aspects of devotional life fostered by mendicant religious communities, Franciscan, Augustinian and Dominican; Preaching Poverty, on the way poverty was promoted and practiced within the Dominican Order in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Author | : Richard Newhauser,Susan Janet Ridyard |
Publsiher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781903153413 |
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This volume offers a fresh consideration of role played by the enduring tradition of the seven deadly sins in Western culture, showing its continuing post-mediaeval influence even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant Reformation. It enhances our understanding of the multiple uses and meanings of the sins tradition.