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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Faces and Surfaces of Charisma. An Introductory Essay / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Martha D. Rust -- 1 The Mask of Grace. On Body and Beauty of Soul between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages / Martino Rossi Monti -- 2 Compassion as Moral Virtue: Another Look at the Wise and Foolish Virgins in Gothic Sculpture / Jacqueline E. Jung -- 3 Charisma and Material Culture / Paul Binski -- 4 Charismatic Art and Biography in the Carolingian World / Andrew Romig -- 5 The Saint’s Life as a Charismatic Form: Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi / Stephen Jaeger -- 6 Charismatic Rulers in Civic Guise: Images of the Nine Worthies in Northern European Town Halls of the 14th to 16th Centuries / Andrey Egorov -- 7 Charisma and the Ideal Viewer in Nicetas Choniates’s De signis / Paroma Chatterjee -- 8 Disenchantment: Hoccleve’s Tale of Jonathas and Male Revenge Fantasy / Gavin Richardson -- 9 The Emperorship of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1410-37): Charisma and Government in the Later Medieval Holy Roman Empire / Duncan Hardy -- 10 Medieval Franciscan Architecture as Charismatic Space / Erik Gustafson -- 11 Precious-Metal Figural Sculpture, Medium, and Mimesis in the Late Middle Ages / Joseph Salvatore Ackley -- 12 “I’ll make the statue move indeed”: Charismatic Motion and the Disenchanted Image in Early Modern Drama / Lynsey McCulloch -- Index / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Martha Dana Rust.