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The authority of the word : reflecting on image and text in northern Europe, 1400-1700 / edited by Celeste Brusati, Karl Enenkel, Walter Melion.

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Book
Conference/Event
Author/Creator:
Lovis Corinth Colloquium, Corporate Author.
Contributor:
Brusati, Celeste.
Enenkel, K. A. E.
Melion, Walter S.
Conference Name:
Lovis Corinth Colloquium (3rd : 2009 : Emory University)
Lovis Corinth Colloquium
Series:
Intersections 20.
Intersections ; v. 20
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Authority in literature--Congresses.
Authority in literature.
Authority in art--Congresses.
Authority in art.
Symbolism in communication--Europe, Northern--Congresses.
Symbolism in communication.
Bible--Evidences, authority, etc--Congresses.
Bible.
Bible--Illustrations--Congresses.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (772 p.)
Place of Publication:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, c2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700. Like texts, images partook of rhetorical forms and hermeneutic functions – typological, paraphrastic, parabolic, among others – based largely in illustrative traditions of biblical commentary. If the specific relation between biblical texts and images exemplified the range of possible relations between texts and images more generally, it also operated in tandem with other discursive paradigms – scribal, humanistic, antiquarian, historical, and literary, to name but a few – for the connection, complementary or otherwise, between verbal and visual media. The Authority of the Word discusses the ways in which the mutual form and function, manner and meaning of texts and images were conceived and deployed in early modern Europe. Contributors include James Clifton, John R. Decker, Maarten Delbeke, Wim François, Jan L. de Jong, Catherine Levesque, Andrew Morrall, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Carolyn Muessig, Bart Ramakers, Kathryn Rudy, Els Stronks, Achim Timmermann, Anita Traninger, Peter van der Coelen, Geert Warnar, and Michel Weemans.
Contents:
Preliminary Material
Introduction: Scriptural Authority in Word and Image / Walter S. Melion , Celeste Brusati and Karl A.E. Enenkel
The Dominican, the Duke and the Book. The Authority of the Written Word in Dirc van Delft’s Tafel van den kersten gelove (ca. 1400) / Geert Warnar
Producing Texts for Prints: Artists, Poets and Publishers / Peter van der Coelen
Embodying Hermeneutics: Rabelais and the Pythagorean Symbola / Anita Traninger
Nature Discerned: Providence and Perspective in Gilles van Coninxloo’s Sylva / Catherine Levesque
The Author’s Portrait as Reader’s Guidance: The Case of Francis Petrarch / Karl A.E. Enenkel
Solomon Writing and Resting: Tradition, Words and Images in the 1548 Dutch “Louvain Bible” / Wim François
Eloquent Presence: Verbal and Visual Discourse in the Ghent Plays of 1539 / Bart Ramakers
The Earthly Paradise: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis of Genesis 1–3 / Michel Weemans
Representations of Adam and Eve in Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Embroidery / Andrew Morrall
“Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul / John R. Decker
Highways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape / Achim Timmermann
Images, Rubrics and Indulgences on the Eve of the Reformation / Kathryn M. Rudy
The Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art in the Late Middle Ages / Carolyn Muessig
Towards a Transconfessional Dialogue on Pre-Modern Theological Texts and Images: Some Adnotationes on Nadal, Lipsius and Rubens / Birgit Ulrike Münch
Responding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in Rome (1587–1588) / Jan L. de Jong
Miracle Books and Religious Architecture in the Southern Netherlands. The Case of Our Lady of Hanswijk in Mechelen / Maarten Delbeke
Prayerful Artifice: The Fine Style as Marian Devotion in Hieronymus Wierix’s Maria of circa 1611 / Walter S. Melion
Secret Wisdom: Antoon Wierix’s Engravings of a Carmelite Mystic / James Clifton
Working the Senses with Words: The Act of Religious Reading in the Dutch Republic / Els Stronks
Index Nominum
Colour Plates.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
1-283-33490-9
9786613334909
90-04-22643-5
OCLC:
769190415
Publisher Number:
10.1163/9789004226432 DOI

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