Speaking to the eye : sight and insight through text and image (1150-1650) / edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne, Veerle Fraeters, and María Eugenia Góngora.
Reading blindly: Huygens in the wake of Augustine / Lise Gosseye and Jürgen Pieters. Image of thought: Hugh of Saint-Victor and Richard of Saint-Victor on thinking / Ineke Van'T Spijker -- Seeing and knowing, reading and imagining in the Liber divinorum operum by Hildegard of Bingen / María Eugenia Góngora -- The appearance of Queen Reason: construction and pragmatics of the imagery in Vision 9 of Hadewijch / Veerle Fraeters -- How gendered was clairvoyance in the thirteenth century? The case of Simon of Aulne / Jeroen Deploige -- Visualizing the spiritual: images in the life and teachings of Henry Suso (c. 1295-1366) / José Van Aelst -- Programming women's prayer: textual and pictorial components in Middle Dutch psalters / Youri Desplenter -- The Cloaked Lady of Floreffe: allegorizing monastic history in the fifteenth-century Chronique de Floreffe / Steven Vanderputten -- Nourished by inwardness: the Beato Chiarito tabernacle (c.1340) / Barbara Baert -- The diptych of the Lentulus Letter: building textual and visual evidence for Christ's appearance / Stijn Bussels -- Groaning paintings and weeping viewers: a Gellian perspective on visual persuasion / Caroline Van Eck -- Reading blindly: Huygens in the wake of Augustine / Lise Gosseye and Jürgen Pieters.
Summary:
This volume takes as its focus the paradoxical double-bind of textuality and visuality in the culture of the high and late Middle Ages and early modernity. In a series of case studies contributors explore the historical and theoretical implications of the idea that texts and images alike 'speak to the eye.' Some scholars have proclaimed the coming of a 'visual turn' to explain the boom in conferences, books, and even specialized journals that take as their topic the theoretical or historical study of visual culture. The notion of visual culture may seem self-evident, not merely from our own twenty-first-century perspective but also when applied to earlier periods of western European history. However, the nature and status of the visual media, as well as the ways in which these were received, experienced, and appropriated, underwent several major changes between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries.
Series:
Medieval identities : socio-cultural spaces ; v. 2
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