The authority of the word : : reflecting on image and text in northern Europe, 1400-1700 / / edited by Celeste Brusati, Karl Enenkel, Walter Melion.

• Author: Lovis Corinth Colloquium
• TeilnehmendeR: Brusati, Celeste.; Enenkel, K. A. E.; Melion, Walter S.; Lovis Corinth Colloquium
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (772 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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. Like texts, images partook of rhetorical forms and hermeneutic functions – typological, paraphrastic, parabolic, among others – based largely in illustrative traditions of biblical commentary. If the specific relation between biblical texts and images exemplified the range of possible relations between texts and images more generally, it also operated in tandem with other discursive paradigms – scribal, humanistic, antiquarian, historical, and literary, to name but a few – for the connection, complementary or otherwise, between verbal and visual media. The Authority of the Word discusses the ways in which the mutual form and function, manner and meaning of texts and images were conceived and deployed in early modern Europe. Contributors include James Clifton, John R. Decker, Maarten Delbeke, Wim François, Jan L. de Jong, Catherine Levesque, Andrew Morrall, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Carolyn Muessig, Bart Ramakers, Kathryn Rudy, Els Stronks, Achim Timmermann, Anita Traninger, Peter van der Coelen, Geert Warnar, and Michel Weemans.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Scriptural Authority in Word and Image / Walter S. Melion , Celeste Brusati and Karl A.E. Enenkel -- The Dominican, the Duke and the Book. The Authority of the Written Word in Dirc van Delft’s Tafel van den kersten gelove (ca. 1400) / Geert Warnar -- Producing Texts for Prints: Artists, Poets and Publishers / Peter van der Coelen -- Embodying Hermeneutics: Rabelais and the Pythagorean Symbola / Anita Traninger -- Nature Discerned: Providence and Perspective in Gilles van Coninxloo’s Sylva / Catherine Levesque -- The Author’s Portrait as Reader’s Guidance: The Case of Francis Petrarch / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Solomon Writing and Resting: Tradition, Words and Images in the 1548 Dutch “Louvain Bible” / Wim François -- Eloquent Presence: Verbal and Visual Discourse in the Ghent Plays of 1539 / Bart Ramakers -- The Earthly Paradise: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis of Genesis 1–3 / Michel Weemans -- Representations of Adam and Eve in Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century English Embroidery / Andrew Morrall -- “Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul / John R. Decker -- Highways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late Medieval Landscape / Achim Timmermann -- Images, Rubrics and Indulgences on the Eve of the Reformation / Kathryn M. Rudy -- The Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art in the Late Middle Ages / Carolyn Muessig -- Towards a Transconfessional Dialogue on Pre-Modern Theological Texts and Images: Some Adnotationes on Nadal, Lipsius and Rubens / Birgit Ulrike Münch -- Responding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in Rome (1587–1588) / Jan L. de Jong -- Miracle Books and Religious Architecture in the Southern Netherlands. The Case of Our Lady of Hanswijk in Mechelen / Maarten Delbeke -- Prayerful Artifice: The Fine Style as Marian Devotion in Hieronymus Wierix’s Maria of circa 1611 / Walter S. Melion -- Secret Wisdom: Antoon Wierix’s Engravings of a Carmelite Mystic / James Clifton -- Working the Senses with Words: The Act of Religious Reading in the Dutch Republic / Els Stronks -- Index Nominum -- Colour Plates.