Looking beyond : visions, dreams, and insights in medieval art & history / edited by Colum Hourihane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hourihane, Colum, 1955-

Series:

Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 11.

Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams in art.

Visions in art.

Art, Medieval--Themes, motives.

Art, Medieval.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Physical Description:

xx, 314 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Princeton, N.J.] : Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University ; [University Park, Pa.] : In association with Princeton University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"A collection of essays examining the the concept of representing visions and dreams in the medieval period. Includes discussions of modern visions which highlight how our belief in the non-corporal world still exists"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Saint Francis and the body as image : an anthropological approach / Hans Belting

Visions and liturgical experience in the early middle ages / Eric Palazzo

Looking like Christians : the material environment of religious visions in early modern Europe / Lisa M. Bitel

Making use of Paradise : church benefactors, heavenly visions, and the late antique commemorative imagination / Ann Marie Yasin

Death in the flesh : picturing death's body and abode in late antiquity / Georgia Frank

The vision of Bernhard of Petershausen : an image in a reformed landscape / Alison I. Beach

Finding faith underground : visions of the forty martyrs oratory at Syracuse / Glenn Peers

Deus-homo-imago : representing the divine in the twelfth century / Nino Zchomelidse

A faithful witness in heaven : keeping vigil with Saint Apollinaris / Peter Jeffery

Visualizing the visionary : John in his Apocalypse / Richard K. Emmerson

Visionary experience and corporeal seeing in thirteenth-century English apocalypses : John as external witness and the rise of gothic marginal images / Peter K. Klein

The tactile and the visionary : notes on the place of sculpture in the medieval religious imagination / Jaqueline E. Jung

I saw him! Visions of the saints in miracle stories in Cataluña / Michelle Garceau

Visions and the soul's ascent to God in Spanish mysticism / Luis R. Corteguera

Image, art, and inspiration in modern apparitions / David Morgan

Scenes from a cult in the making : Lady of the Rock, 2008 / Lisa M. Bitel and Matt Gainer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780976820284

0976820285

OCLC:

503594866