Walter Melion

Stijn Bussels

Gijs Versteegen

This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe.

Performing Splendour in Catholic and Protestant Contexts

Magnificence in the Seventeenth Century

Lee Palmer Wandel

Elizabeth Carson Pastan

An investigation into how sacred mysteries (in Latin, sacramenta or mysteria) were visualized in a wide range of media, including illustrated religious literature, produced in Italy, France, and the Low Countries between ca. 1500 and 1700.

Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700

Quid est sacramentum?

Karl A. E.. Enenkel

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.

Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture

Meditatio – Refashioning the Self

Celeste Brusati

This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700.

Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700

The Authority of the Word

Ralph Dekoninck

Agnès Guiderdoni

"Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400-1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one examines a wider range of secret subjects. The book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it. In the early modern period, the discursive and symbolical sites for the representation of secrets were closely related to epistemic changes that transformed conceptions of the transmissibility of knowledge"--éd.

Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Quid Est Secretum?

Arthur J. DiFuria

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

Ekphrastic Image-making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Karl A.E. Enenkel

Wietse de Boer

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.

Jesuit Image Theory

Dr Bart Ramakers

The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries

Embodying Meaning and Emotion

Personification

This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.

Landscape and the Visual Hermeneutics of Place, 1500–1700

Jürgen Pieters

Youri Desplenter

This collection of essays charts the rise to prominence of the Ten Commandments in religious and artistic developments in the culture of late-medieval Western Europe (13th-15th centuries). Contributions include discussions of catechetical texts as well as literary writings.

The Ten Commandments in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Michael Zell

Joanna Woodall

The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700

Ut pictura amor

This book examines how secret knowledge was represented visually in ways that both revealed and concealed the true nature of that knowledge, giving and yet impeding access to it.

Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700

Quid est secretum?

Michel Weemans

Bret Rothstein

Anthropomorphism closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. Exploring the tension inherent in such notions, the essays in this volume address the contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought, that anthropomorphism entails.

Anthropomorphism, Microcosmism and Analogy in Early Modern Thought and Visual Arts

The Anthropomorphic Lens

James Clifton

Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. This volume examines the many ways in which images functioned as instruments of scriptural hermeneutics in early modern Europe.

Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700

Imago Exegetica

These essays explore various inflections of the relation between image-making and incarnation doctrine. They illumine ways this fundamental mystery was construed as representable, and how it was seen to license the representation of other mysteries of faith.

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