The mind's eye : art and theological argument in the Middle Ages

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The mind's eye : art and theological argument in the Middle Ages

edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Anne-Marie Bouché

Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, c2006

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: cloth ISBN 9780691124759

Description

"The Mind's Eye" focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature - issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jeffrey F. Hamburger The Place of Theology in Medieval Art History: Problems, Positions, Possibilities by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Anthropology and the Use of Religious Images in the Opus Caroli Regis (Libri Carolini) by Karl F. Morrison Replica: Images of Identity and the Identity of Images in Prescholastic France by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak Is There a Theology of the Gothic Cathedral? A Re-reading of Abbot Suger's Writings on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis by Andreas Speer Christ and the Vision of God: The Biblical Diagrams of the Codex Amiatinus by Celia Chazelle Raban Maur, Bernard de Clairvaux, Bonaventure: expression de l'espace et topographie spirituelle dans les images medievales by Christian Heck Typology and Its Uses in the Moralized Bible by Christopher Hughes L'Exception corporelle: a propos de l'Assomption de Marie by Jean-Claude Schmitt Theologians as Trinitarian Iconographers by Bernard McGinn Seeing and Seeing Beyond: The Mass of St. Gregory in the Fifteenth Century by Caroline Walker Bynum Porous Subject Matter and Christ's Haunted Infancy by Alfred Acres Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion by Barbara Newman Moving Images in the Mind's Eye by Marty Carruthers Vox Imaginis: Anomaly and Enigma in Romanesque Art by Anne-Marie Bouche Seeing as Action and Passion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Katherine H. Tachau "As far as the eye can see...": Rituals of Gazing in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas Lentes The Medieval Work of Art: Wherein the "Work"? Wherein the "Art"? by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Turning a Blind Eye: Medieval Art and the Dynamics of Contemplation by Herbert L. Kessler
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780691124766

Description

The Mind's Eye focuses on the relationships among art, theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and the place of vision and the visual in theological thought. At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles, not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jeffrey F. Hamburger The Place of Theology in Medieval Art History: Problems, Positions, Possibilities by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Anthropology and the Use of Religious Images in the Opus Caroli Regis (Libri Carolini) by Karl F. Morrison Replica: Images of Identity and the Identity of Images in Prescholastic France by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak Is There a Theology of the Gothic Cathedral? A Re-reading of Abbot Suger's Writings on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis by Andreas Speer Christ and the Vision of God: The Biblical Diagrams of the Codex Amiatinus by Celia Chazelle Raban Maur, Bernard de Clairvaux, Bonaventure: expression de l'espace et topographie spirituelle dans les images medievales by Christian Heck Typology and Its Uses in the Moralized Bible by Christopher Hughes L'Exception corporelle: a propos de l'Assomption de Marie by Jean-Claude Schmitt Theologians as Trinitarian Iconographers by Bernard McGinn Seeing and Seeing Beyond: The Mass of St. Gregory in the Fifteenth Century by Caroline Walker Bynum Porous Subject Matter and Christ's Haunted Infancy by Alfred Acres Love's Arrows: Christ as Cupid in Late Medieval Art and Devotion by Barbara Newman Moving Images in the Mind's Eye by Marty Carruthers Vox Imaginis: Anomaly and Enigma in Romanesque Art by Anne-Marie Bouche Seeing as Action and Passion in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by Katherine H. Tachau "As far as the eye can see...": Rituals of Gazing in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas Lentes The Medieval Work of Art: Wherein the "Work"? Wherein the "Art"? by Jeffrey F. Hamburger Turning a Blind Eye: Medieval Art and the Dynamics of Contemplation by Herbert L. Kessler

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