Angels, Devils
The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation
Published on 1. October 2011
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-615-5053-21-4 (ISBN)
Description
Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or the manifestations of magic attributed to diabolic forces, were contained by a variety of discourses, described and discussed in religion, philosophy, chronicles, literature and fiction, and also in a large number of pictures and material objects. The nine essays in this collection discusses how supernatural phenomena - especially angels and devils - found visual manifestation in Latin and Eastern Christianity as well as Judaism in the late medieval, early renaissance period.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
Hungary
Target group
ELT/ESL
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 174 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-615-5053-21-4 (9786155053214)
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10/2011
1st Edition
Central European University Press
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Person
Gerhard Jaritz is a professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Content
List of Illustrations Preface Norbert Schnitzler: The Beam of Grace and the Ocular Paradigm. Some Remarks on the Relation between Late Medieval Theology and Art Gerhard Jaritz: Visual Images of the Supernatural in the Late Middle Ages, or, How to Make the Entities Recognizable that Are not Part of Our Natural World Alexander E. Makhov: ... In diversas figuras nequitiae: The Devil's Image from the Viewpoint of Rhetoric Helmut Hundsbichler: Devils in Visual Proximity Bela Zsolt Szakacs: Supernatural Figures Incognito Maria Craciun: Guardians or Avengers? Depictions of Angels in Transylvanian Altarpieces from the Late Medieval Period Zsofia Buda: Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art Gyoergy E. Szonyi: The Reincarnations of Enoch from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance Anna Maria Gruia: Images to Influence the Supernatural: Apotropaic Representations on Medieval Stove Tiles List of Contributors Index