Allegory
Altarpiece
Antiphonary
Apocalypticism
Apparitions (TV series)
Arma Christi
Art history
Banderole
Basilica
Bible Historiale
Blood of Christ
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Christ in Majesty
Christian art
Church Fathers
Cistercians
Consecration
Consubstantiality
Counter-Reformation
Depiction
Desco da parto (Masaccio)
Doubting Thomas
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Exegesis
Franciscans
God
Heresy
Hugo van der Goes
Iconoclasm
Iconography
Idolatry
Illustration
Image of God
Incorruptibility
Indulgence
Joachim of Fiore
Libri Carolini
Mass of Saint Gregory
Massacre of the Innocents
Medieval art
Meister Eckhart
Meyer Schapiro
Monstrance
Ms.
Necromancy
Neoplatonism
Old Testament
Panarion
Piety
Popular piety
Pseudo-Bonaventura
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Purgatory
Responsory
Rhetoric
Roger Bacon
Sacred history
Scholasticism
Scriptorium
Sic et Non
Speculum Humanae Salvationis
Spiritual Communion
Spirituality
Suger
Theology
Tiburtine Sibyl
Titulus (inscription)
Transubstantiation
Treatise
Veil of Veronica
Work of art
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691124766
- Weight: 1049g
- Dimensions: 216 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2005
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger is Professor in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University. His books include "St. John the Divine: The Deified Evangelist in Medieval Art and Theology" and "The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany". Anne-Marie Bouche is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University.
