Seeing And Being Seen In The Later Medieval World

Author : Dallas G. Denery II
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113944381X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World written by Dallas G. Denery II and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-28 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dallas George Denery (II)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World written by Dallas George Denery (II) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donna L. Sadler
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004364374
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Touching the Passion — Seeing Late Medieval Altarpieces through the Eyes of Faith written by Donna L. Sadler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : C. M. Woolgar
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300118711
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Senses in Late Medieval England written by C. M. Woolgar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Dr Assaf Pinkus
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472422651
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sculpting Simulacra in Medieval Germany, 1250-1380 written by Dr Assaf Pinkus and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-09-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Julie Singer
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842726
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry written by Julie Singer and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Constant J Mews
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317077083
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Devotion in Mendicant Cultures 1200-1450 written by Constant J Mews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Richard Newhauser
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153417
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture written by Richard Newhauser and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alister E. McGrath
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111850318X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis written by Alister E. McGrath and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marking the 50th anniversary of Lewis’ death, The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis sees leading Christian thinker Alister McGrath offering a fresh approach to understanding the key themes at the centre of Lewis’ theological work and intellectual development. Brings together a collection of original essays exploring important themes within Lewis’ work, offering new connections and insights into his theology Throws new light on subjects including Lewis’ intellectual development, the uses of images in literature and theology, the place of myth in modern thought, the role of the imagination in making sense of the world, the celebrated 'argument from desire', and Lewis’ place as an Anglican thinker and a Christian theologian Written by Alister McGrath, one of the world’s leading Christian thinkers and authors; this exceptional pairing of McGrath and Lewis brings together the work of two outstanding theologians in one volume

Author : John Arnold
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199582130
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity written by John Arnold and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2014 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity is about the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Roman Church between 400 and 1500AD, and brings together in one volume a host of cutting-edge analysis. The book does not primarily provide a chronological narrative, but rather seeks to demonstrate the variety, change, and complexity of religion across this long period, and the numerous different ways in which modern scholarship can approach it. It presents the work of thirty academic authors, from the US, the UK, and Europe, addressing topics that range from early medieval monasticism to late medieval mysticism, from the material wealth of the Church to the spiritual exercises through which certain believers might attempt to improve their souls. Each chapter tells a story, but seeks also to ask how and why "Christianity" took on a particular shape at a particular moment, paying attention to both the spiritual and otherwordly aspects of religion, and the very material and political contexts in which they were often embedded. The book aims to be an indispensable guide to future discussion in the field--Publisher description.