Faces of charisma : : image, text, object in Byzantium and the medieval West / / edited by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Martha Dana Rust.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte.; Rust, Martha Dana.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 422 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Faces and Surfaces of Charisma. An Introductory Essay /; 1 The Mask of Grace. On Body and Beauty of Soul between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages /; 2 Compassion as Moral Virtue: Another Look at the Wise and Foolish Virgins in Gothic Sculpture /; 3 Charisma and Material Culture /; 4 Charismatic Art and Biography in the Carolingian World /; 5 The Saint’s Life as a Charismatic Form: Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi /; 6 Charismatic Rulers in Civic Guise: Images of the Nine Worthies in Northern European Town Halls of the 14th to 16th Centuries /; 7 Charisma and the Ideal Viewer in Nicetas Choniates’s De signis /; 8 Disenchantment: Hoccleve’s Tale of Jonathas and Male Revenge Fantasy /; 9 The Emperorship of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1410-37): Charisma and Government in the Later Medieval Holy Roman Empire /; 10 Medieval Franciscan Architecture as Charismatic Space /; 11 Precious-Metal Figural Sculpture, Medium, and Mimesis in the Late Middle Ages /; 12 “I’ll make the statue move indeed”: Charismatic Motion and the Disenchanted Image in Early Modern Drama /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004363807
• ISSN: 2352-0299
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak, Martha Dana Rust.

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West , a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, this volume shows that to study charismatic art is to experiment with a theory of representation that allows for the possibility of nothing less than a breakdown between art and viewer and between art and lived experience. The volume examines charismatic works of literature, visual art, and architecture from England, Northern Europe, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Constantinople and from time periods ranging from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period. Contributors are Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Paul Binski, Paroma Chatterjee, Andrey Egorov, Erik Gustafson, Duncan Hardy, Stephen Jaeger, Jacqueline E. Jung, Lynsey McCulloch, Martino Rossi Monti, Gavin Richardson, and Andrew Romig.