Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages English: Papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing ... 14 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy) - Tapa dura

Morrison, Karl F.; Mostert, Marco

 
9782503517599: Seeing the Invisible in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages English: Papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing ... 14 (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy)
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ISBN 10: 2503517595 ISBN 13: 9782503517599
Editorial: Brepols, 2005

Sinopsis

Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first "Europe," the conference explored the dominant conception of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the understanding of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibriums in the collective mentality within elites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.

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Reseña del editor

Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first "Europe," the conference explored the dominant conception of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the understanding of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibriums in the collective mentality within elites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology.

Biografía del autor

Giselle de Nie is a research associate at the Centre for Patristic Research, the Netherlands.

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Editorial
Brepols
Año de publicación
2005
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
2503517595
ISBN 13 
9782503517599
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Número de páginas
555
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