Emblemata sacra: the rhetoric and hermeneutics of illustrated sacred discourse

Emblemata sacra: the rhetoric and hermeneutics of illustrated sacred discourse PDF Author: Ralph Dekoninck
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Book Description
This volume of essays follows a conference that took place in January 2005 in Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to the close collaboration between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Literature Department) and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (the research group 'Figures et formes de la spiritualite dans la litterature et les expressions artistiques').

Emblemata sacra: the rhetoric and hermeneutics of illustrated sacred discourse

Emblemata sacra: the rhetoric and hermeneutics of illustrated sacred discourse PDF Author: Ralph Dekoninck
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Book Description
This volume of essays follows a conference that took place in January 2005 in Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to the close collaboration between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Literature Department) and the Universite Catholique de Louvain (the research group 'Figures et formes de la spiritualite dans la litterature et les expressions artistiques').

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits

The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits PDF Author: Ines G. Zupanov
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190639652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 864

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Book Description
Through its missionary, pedagogical, and scientific accomplishments, the Society of Jesus-known as the Jesuits-became one of the first institutions with a truly "global" reach, in practice and intention. The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits offers a critical assessment of the Order, helping to chart new directions for research at a time when there is renewed interest in Jesuit studies. In particular, the Handbook examines their resilient dynamism and innovative spirit, grounded in Catholic theology and Christian spirituality, but also profoundly rooted in society and cultural institutions. It also explores Jesuit contributions to education, the arts, politics, and theology, among others. The volume is organized in seven major sections, totaling forty articles, on the Order's foundation and administration, the theological underpinnings of its activities, the Jesuit involvement with secular culture, missiology, the Order's contributions to the arts and sciences, the suppression the Order endured in the 18th century, and finally, the restoration. The volume also looks at the way the Jesuit Order is changing, including becoming more non-European and ethnically diverse, with its members increasingly interested in engaging society in addition to traditional pastoral duties.

Scientific Visual Representations in History

Scientific Visual Representations in History PDF Author: Matteo Valleriani
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031113179
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Book Description
This book explores continuity and ruptures in the historical use of visual representations in science and related disciplines such as art history and anthropology. The book also considers more recent developments that attest to the unprecedented importance of scientific visualizations, such as video recordings, animations, simulations, graphs, and enhanced realities. The volume collects historical reflections concerned with the use of visual material, visualization, and vision in science from a historical perspective, ranging across multiple cultures from antiquity until present day. The focus is on visual representations such as drawings, prints, tables, mathematical symbols, photos, data visualizations, mapping processes, and (on a meta-level) visualizations of data extracted from historical sources to visually support the historical research itself. Continuity and ruptures between the past and present use of visual material are presented against the backdrop of the epistemic functions of visual material in science. The function of visual material is defined according to three major epistemic categories: exploration, transformation, and transmission of knowledge.

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 PDF Author: Christopher D. Fletcher
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900468056X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 817

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Book Description
Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400‒1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical structure of their book, through insertion or interpolation, subtraction or deletion, adjustments in the ordering of folios or quires, amendments of image or text. Although our primary interest is in printed books and print series bound like books, we also consider selected manuscripts since meaningful alterations made to incunabula and early printed books often followed the patterns such changes took in late fourteenth- and fifteenth-century codices. Throughout Customised Books the emphasis falls on the hermeneutic functions of the modifications made by makers and users to their manuscripts and books. Contributors: B. Boler Hunter, T. Cummins, A. Dlabačova, K.A.E. Enenkel, C.D. Fletcher, P.F. Gehl, P. Germano Leal, J. Kiliańczyk-Zięba, J. Koguciuk, A. van Leerdam, S. Leitch, S. McKeown, W.S. Melion, K. Michael, S. Midanik, B. Purkaple, J. Rosenholtz-Witt, B.L. Rothstein, M.R. Wade, and G. Warnar.

Ut pictura amor

Ut pictura amor PDF Author: Walter Melion
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004346465
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Book Description
An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.

Meditatio – Refashioning the Self

Meditatio – Refashioning the Self PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004210563
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Book Description
The late medieval and early modern period is a particularly interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. The volume aims at examining its forms, functions and strategies, from a variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, art history, history of religion, philosophy, and theology.

Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries)

Books and Prints at the Heart of the Catholic Reformation in the Low Countries (16th – 17th centuries) PDF Author: Renaud Adam
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900451015X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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Book Description
Twelve contributors offer new perspectives on the efficacy of the handpress book industry to support the Catholic strategy of the Spanish Low Countries.

Jesuit Image Theory

Jesuit Image Theory PDF Author: Wietse de Boer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004319123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 517

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Book Description
This volume investigates how Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773, in rhetorical and emblematic treatises, theoretical debates, and embedded in various instances where Jesuit authors and artists implicitely explored the status and functions of images.

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography

The Routledge Companion to Medieval Iconography PDF Author: Colum Hourihane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315298368
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Book Description
Sometimes enjoying considerable favor, sometimes less, iconography has been an essential element in medieval art historical studies since the beginning of the discipline. Some of the greatest art historians – including Mâle, Warburg, Panofsky, Morey, and Schapiro – have devoted their lives to understanding and structuring what exactly the subject matter of a work of medieval art can tell. Over the last thirty or so years, scholarship has seen the meaning and methodologies of the term considerably broadened. This companion provides a state-of-the-art assessment of the influence of the foremost iconographers, as well as the methodologies employed and themes that underpin the discipline. The first section focuses on influential thinkers in the field, while the second covers some of the best-known methodologies; the third, and largest section, looks at some of the major themes in medieval art. Taken together, the three sections include thirty-eight chapters, each of which deals with an individual topic. An introduction, historiographical evaluation, and bibliography accompany the individual essays. The authors are recognized experts in the field, and each essay includes original analyses and/or case studies which will hopefully open the field for future research.

Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press (2 Vols.)

Jan Moretus and the Continuation of the Plantin Press (2 Vols.) PDF Author: Dirk Imhof
Publisher: Hotei Publishing
ISBN: 9004287884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1099

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Book Description
This extensive bibliography contains 704 descriptions of the Jan Moretus editions and lists over 500 announcements that he printed for the city of Antwerp.