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Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Giselle de Nie

Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages By Giselle de Nie

Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages by Giselle de Nie


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Our imagination reveals our experience of ourselves and our world. This title offers essays that aim to uncover the dynamic patterns in verbal and pictorial images and to evaluate their potentialities and limitations.

Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Summary

Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Dynamic Patterns in Texts and Images by Giselle de Nie

Our imagination reveals our experience of ourselves and our world. The late philosopher of science and poetry Gaston Bachelard introduced the notion that each image that comes to mind spontaneously is a visual representation of the cognitive and affective pattern that is moving us at the time - often unconsciously. When such a mental image inspires a picture or text, it evokes in the mind of the reader or beholder a replication of the internal pattern that originally inspired the artist or writer. Thus mental images are rarely empty phantasies. Whereas intellectual concepts are conscious constructions of abstracted relations, mental images evoked by texts and pictures often point - like dreams - to pre-verbal experience that patterns itself through multiplying associations and analogies. These mental images can also manifest their own limits, pointing indirectly to experiences beyond what can be expressed and communicated. The six essays in this volume seek to uncover the dynamic patterns in verbal and pictorial images and to evaluate their potentialities and limitations. Thematically ordered according to their specific focus, the essays begin with material images and move on to increasing degrees of immateriality. The subjects treated are: verbal descriptions of an icon and of a statue; imaginative visions and auditions evoked by material depictions; verbal imagery describing imagined sculptures and scenes as compared with drawings of a moving historical pageant; drawings of symbolic figures representing subtle relationships between verbal expositions that cannot be syntactically represented; dream images that precipitate actual healing; and aural patterns in a sounded text that are experienced as 'images' of affective dynamisms.

About Giselle de Nie

Until her retirement, Giselle de Nie was at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Thomas F.X. Noble is Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Movement and Miracle in Michael Pselloss Account of the Blachernae Icon of the Theotokos, Charles Barber; Chapter 2 Images, A Daydream, and Heavenly Sounds in the Carolingian Era: Walahfrid Strabo and Maura of Troyes, Thomas F.X. Noble; Chapter 3 Moving Pictures: Dante and Botticelli (Purgatorio 10, 12, 2833) and the Millennial Celebration of St Romualds Martyrdom (Malines, 1775), Karl F. Morrison; Chapter 4 Image as Insight in Joachim of Fiores Figurae, Bernard McGinn; Chapter 5 1The present study is an adapted and expanded part of a chapter in my book Poetics of Wonder. Testimonies of the New Christian Miracles in the Late Antique Latin World. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 31 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)., Giselle de Nie; Chapter 6 1The ideas in this chapter were tested out not only at Notre Dame but also at the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College and in my Augustine seminar at Bryn Mawr. My thanks to these several audiences for their engaged reception, and especially to Steven Levine, Bernard McGinn (the happy phrase endlessly fertile is his), and Betsy Spear (to whom I owe the notion of amateurs variatio)., Catherine Conybeare;

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NPB9781409439486
9781409439486
1409439488
Envisioning Experience in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Dynamic Patterns in Texts and Images by Giselle de Nie
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Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2012-05-03
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