Imago exegetica : visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700 / edited by James Clifton, Walter S. Melion, and Michel Weemans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clifton, James, 1958-

Melion, Walter S.

Weemans, Michel.

Series:

Intersections ; 33.

Intersections ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Hermeneutics.

Bible.

Hermeneutics.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible--Illustrations.

Theology.

History.

Visual communication.

Christian art and symbolism.

Europe.

Christian art and symbolism--Europe--History.

Visual communication--Europe--History.

Theology--Europe--History.

Hermeneutics--History.

Europe--Religious life and customs.

Europe--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

Illustrated works.

Pictures.

Physical Description:

iv, 1008 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, 2014.

Summary:

This volume of 'Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture', consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary, following from Scripture itself, which is replete with verbal images and rhetorical figures, exegesis has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. In turn, visual exegesis, since it concerns the most authoritative of texts, supplied a template for the interpretation of other kinds of significant text by means of images. Seen in this light, exegetical images prove crucial to understanding how meaning was constituted visually, not only in the sacred sphere but also in the secular.00.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004262003

9004262008

OCLC:

857806999