Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-508).
Contents:
The Kabbalistic tree / J. H. Chajes. IV. Diagrammatic Traditions. Geometries for thinking creatively / Mary Carruthers -- Visualization of a universal knowledge : images and rhetorical machines in Giulio Camillo's Theatre of memory / Lina Bolzoni -- Mindmapping : the diagram paradigm in medieval art - and beyond / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- II. The iconicity of text. Traming the Gospels, c. 1000 : iconicity, textuality, and knowledge / Beatrice Kitzinger -- Biblical gloss and commentary : the scaffolding of scripture / Lesley Smith -- The topography of the Talmudic page / David Stern -- Seeing the forest beyond the trees : a preliminary overview of a scholastic habit of visualization / Ayelet Even-Ezra -- Functional paratexts and the transmission of knowledge in medieval and early modern Jewish manuscripts of magic / Yuval Harari -- More than meets the eye : what made the printing revolution revolutionary / A. Mark Smith -- III. Graphic Vehicles of Scientia. The idea of a spherical universe and its visualization in the earlier middle ages (seventh-twelfth Centuries) / Barbara Obrist -- The rhetoric of world maps in late antiquity and the middle ages / Marcia Kupfer -- Visualizing knowledge in medieval calendar science : a twelfth-century family of 'graphic glosses' on Bede's De temporum ratione / Faith Wallis -- The visualization of music in the middle ages : three case studies / John Haines -- Visualization in medicine between script and print, c. 1375-1550 / Peter Murray Jones -- IV. Diagrammatic Traditions. A prolegomenon to Byzantine diagrams / Linda Safran -- Diagramming the diagrammatic : twelfth-century Europe / Adam S. Cohen -- Templates for knowledge : geometric ordering of the built environment, monumental decoration, illuminated page / Madeline H. Caviness -- Religious instruction and devotional study : the pictorial and the textual in Gothic diagrams / Lucy Freeman Sandler -- The Kabbalistic tree / J. H. Chajes.
Summary:
All of us are exposed to graphic means of communication on a daily basis. Our life seems flooded with lists, tables, charts, diagrams, models, maps, and forms of notation. Although we now take such devices for granted, their role in the codification and transmission of knowledge evolved within historical contexts where they performed particular tasks. The medieval and early modern periods stand as a formative era during which visual structures, both mental and material, increasingly shaped and systematized knowledge. Yet these periods have been sidelined as theorists interested in the epistemic potential of visual strategies have privileged the modern natural sciences. This volume expands the field of research by focusing on the relationship between the arts of memory and modes of graphic mediation through the sixteenth century. Chapters encompass Christian (Greek as well as Latin) production, Jewish (Hebrew) traditions, and the transfer of Arabic learning. The linked essays anthologized here consider the generative power of schemata, cartographic representation, and even the layout of text: more than merely compiling information, visual arrangements formalize abstract concepts, provide grids through which to process data, set in motion analytic operations that give rise to new ideas, and create interpretive frameworks for understanding the world. -- Publisher's website.
Series:
Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; vol. 16
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