Jesuit image theory /

Jesuit image theory / / edited by Wietse de Boer, Karl A. E. Enenkel, Walter S. Melion ; contributors James Clifton [and nine others].

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The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order’s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art histori...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Boer, Wietse de,
Enenkel, K. A. E.,
Melion, Walter S.,
Clifton, James,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Intersections 45.
Physical Description:1 online resource (517 pages) :; illustrations.
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image / Walter S. Melion
  • 2 The Early Jesuits and the Catholic Debate about Sacred Images / Wietse de Boer
  • 3 The Jesuit Ars and Scientia Symbolica: From Richeome and Sandaeus to Masen and Ménestrier / Ralph Dekoninck
  • 4 The Theory of Figurative Language in Maximilian van der Sandt’s Writings / Agnès Guiderdoni
  • 5 Writing on the Body and Looking through Its Wounds: The Mnemonic Metaphor of the Stigmata in Emanuele Tesauro’s Rhetoric / Andrea Torre
  • 6 Claude-François Ménestrier: The Founder of ‘Early Modern Grounded Theory’ / David Graham
  • 7 Enargeia Fireworks: Jesuit Image Theory in Franciscus Neumayr’s Rhetorical Manual (Idea Rhetoricae, 1748) and His Tragedies / Karl A.E. Enenkel
  • 8 Libellus piarum precum (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook / Walter S. Melion
  • 9 Interior Sight in Peter Canisius’ Meditations on Advent / Hilmar M. Pabel
  • 10 Le pacte précaire de l’image et de l’écrit dans le livre illustré d’époque moderne: Le cas de La peinture spirituelle (1611) de Louis Richeome / Pierre Antoine Fabre
  • 11 A Variety of Spiritual Pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert’s Glorification of the Name of Jesus / James Clifton
  • 12 Marvels and Marbles in the Antwerp Jesuit Church: Hendrick van Balen’s Stone Paintings of the Life of the Virgin (1621) / Anna C. Knaap
  • 13 The Simulacra Avorum in Jesuit Latin Poems by Wallius and Carrara: From Virgilian Imitation to Scholastic Philosophy and Art Theory / Aline Smeesters
  • 14 ‘To Make Yourself Present’: Jesuit Sacred Space as Enargetic Space / Steffen Zierholz
  • 15 The Jesuit Strategy of Accommodation / Jeffrey Muller
  • Index Nominum.

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