Seeing the invisible in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages : papers from "Verbal and pictorial imaging: representing and accessing experience of the invisible, 400-1000" : (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003) / edited by Giselle de Nie, Karl F. Morrison, and Marco Mostert.
Publisher:
Brepols,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
x, 545 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Papers presented at an international colloquium held at the University of Utrecht under the auspices of the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
"Truly visible things are manifest images of invisible things" : Dionysios the Areopagite on knowling [i.e. knowing] the invisible / Andrew Louth -- Relics, rhetoric, and mental spectacles in late ancient Christianity / Patricia Cox Miller -- Augustine and the return of the senses / M.B. Pranger -- "Divinos concipe sensus" : envisioning divine wonders in Paulinus of Nola and Gregory of Tours / Giselle de Nie -- Ideals of community in late antiquity : John Cassian and Gregory the Great on communicating sanctity / Willemien Otten -- Visibility and (partial) invisibility of early Christian images / Beat Brenk -- The holy in the dust : a Japanese view of Christendom's cult of the non-representational / Shigebumi Tsuji -- The vocabulary of vision and worship in the early Carolingian period / Thomas F.X. Noble -- Metaphor and meaning in early medieval reliquaries / Cynthia Hahn -- Materializing the invisible in early medieval art : the mosaic of Santa Maria in Domnica in Rome / Erik Thunœ -- "Hoc visible imaginatum figurat illud invisibile verum" : imagining God in pictures of Christ / Herbert L. Kessler -- Amalarius's Liber officialis : spirit and vision in Carolingian liturgical thought / Celia Chazelle -- Carolingian diagrams, images of the invisible / Bianca Kühnel -- The city built in heaven / Sabine MacCormack -- The Carolingian idol : exegetes and idols / William Diebold -- Carolingian invisibles and Eriugena's lost Vision of God / Paul Edward Dutton -- Nudity lost and regained in Eriugena's history of the world / Karl F. Morrison.
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