| The Authority of the Word: Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700 Contributor(s): Brusati, Celeste (Editor), Enenkel, Karl A. E. (Editor), Melion, Walter (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004215158 ISBN-13: 9789004215153 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $272.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance - Art | Techniques - General |
| Dewey: 809.935 |
| LCCN: 2011034530 |
| Series: Intersections |
| Physical Information: 1.8" H x 6.7" W x 9.7" (3.05 lbs) 752 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Fran ois, Jan L. de Jong, Catherine Levesque, Andrew Morrall, Birgit Ulrike M nch, Carolyn Muessig, Bart Ramakers, Kathryn Rudy, Els Stronks, Achim Timmermann, Anita Traninger, Peter van der Coelen, Geert Warnar, and Michel Weemans. |
