Jesuit image theory / edited by Wietse de Boer, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Walter S. Melion.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boer, Wietse de, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; VOLUME 45.

Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; VOLUME 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jesuits--History.

Jesuits.

History.

Image (Philosophy).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 497 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order's defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented, the question of Jesuit image theory has yet to be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective that examines how the image was defined, conceived, produced, and interpreted within the various fields of learning cultivated by the Society: sacred oratory, pastoral instruction, scriptural exegesis, theology, collegiate pedagogy, poetry and poetics, etc. The papers published in part 1 investigate texts that purport explicitly to theorize about the imago and to analyze its various forms and functions. Part 2 examines what one might call expressions of embedded image theory, that is, various instances where Jesuit authors and artists use images implicitly to explore the status and functions of such images as indices of image-making. This series of publications brings together new material on well-considered themes within the wide area of Early Modern Studies. Contributions may come from any of the disciplines within the humanities: history, art history, literary history, book history, church history, social history, history of the humanities, of the theatre, of cultural life and institutions. Each volume addresses a single theme and articles are selected for the freshness of their approach and for the extent to which they elucidate aspects of the theme of the volume. The themes are carefully selected on the basis of a number of criteria, the most important of which are that they should address issues about which there is a lively debate within the international community of scholars and that they should be of interest to a variety of disciplines. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image / Walter S. Melion Melion, Walter S. 1

Part 1 Jesuit Image Theory-Rhetorical and Emblematic Treatises, and Theoretical Debates

2 The Early Jesuits and the Catholic Debate about Sacred Images / Wietse de Boer Boer, Wietse de 53

3 The Jesuit Ars and Scientia Symbolical From Richeome and Sandaeus to Masen and Ménestrier / Ralph Dekoninck Dekoninck, Ralph 74

4 The Theory of Figurative Language in Maximilian van der Sandt's Writings / Agnès Guiderdoni Guiderdoni, Agnès 89

5 Writing on the Body and Looking through Its Wounds: The Mnemonic Metaphor of the Stigmata in Emanuele Tesauro's Rhetoric / Andrea Torre Torre, Andrea 102

6 Claude-Francois Ménestrier: The Founder of 'Early Modern Grounded Theory' / David Graham Graham, David 119

7 Enargeia Fireworks: Jesuit Image Theory in Franciscus Neumayr's Rhetorical Manual (Idea Rhetoricae, 1748) and His Tragedies / Karl A.E. Enenkel Enenkel, Karl A.E. 146

Part 2 Embedded Jesuit Image Theory

8 Libellus piarum precum (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook / Walter S. Mellon Mellon, Walter S. 189

9 Interior Sight in Peter Canisius' Meditations on Advent / Hilmar M. Pabel Pabel, Hilmar M. 254

10 Le pacte précaire de l'image et de l'ecrit dans le livre illustré d'époque moderne: Le cas de La peinture spirituelle (1611) de Louis Richeome / Pierre Antoine Fabre Fabre, Pierre Antoine 289

11 A Variety of Spiritual Pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert's Glorification of the Name of Jesus / James Clifton Clifton, James 318

12 Marvels and Marbles in the Antwerp Jesuit Church: Hendrick van Balen's Stone Paintings of the Life of the Virgin (1621) / Anna C. Knaap Knaap, Anna C. 352

13 The Simulacra Avorum in Jesuit Latin Poems by Wallius and Carrara: From Virgilian Imitation to Scholastic Philosophy and Art Theory / Aline Smeesters Smeesters, Aline 394

14 'To Make Yourself Present': Jesuit Sacred Space as Enargetic Space / Steffen Zierholz Zierholz, Steffen 419

15 The Jesuit Strategy of Accommodation / Jeffrey Muller Muller, Jeffrey 461.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Jesuit image theory.

ISBN:

9789004319110

9004319115

OCLC:

942382416