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Author Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam

Title Faces of Charisma
Published Boston : BRILL, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (436 pages)
Series Explorations in Medieval Culture Ser
Explorations in Medieval Culture Ser
Contents Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Brigitte Bedos-Rezak and Martha Rust; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Faces and Surfaces of Charisma: An Introductory Essay; Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Martha D. Rust; From Charisma of Person to Charisma of Art, Via the Sublime and the Aura; Max Weber to C. Stephen Jaeger: From Charisma of Person to Charisma of Art; The Sublime, Charisma, Aura; Enchantment. Charismatic Art, Agency, Materiality; Charismatic Art; Audiences; Effects; Modalities; Charisma. A Face-Lift; The Volume; Part 1
Medieval and Modern: The Hermeneutics of CharismaChapter 1; The Mask of Grace: On Body and Beauty of Soul between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages; Martino Rossi Monti; 1 The Gift of Grace; 2 The Holy Philosophers; 3 The Christian Holy Men; 4 The Middle Ages; 5 The Mask of Grace; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 2 Compassion as Moral Virtue: Virgins in Gothic Sculpture; Compassion as Moral Virtue: Another Look at the Wise and Foolish Virgins in Gothic Sculpture; Jacqueline E. Jung; Introduction; "Virtue made visible": The Wise and Foolish Virgins at Strasbourg Cathedral
The Hidden Oil of Conscience: Making Sense of the Virgins in the Exegetical TraditionCasting Judgment: The Virgins as Emblems of Virtue and Vice; Charisma, Compassion, and the Eloquence of Bodies at Magdeburg Cathedral; Righteous Anger, Justified Sadness, and the Laughter of the Damned: The Strasbourg Virgins Revisited; Chapter 3; Charisma and Material Culture; Paul Binski; Making Magic? Surface and Experience, Gothic Voluptuaries; Bodywork and Conviction; Charisma and Material Culture; Part 2; Charismatic Art; Chapter 4; Charismatic Art and Biography in the Carolingian World; Andrew Romig
AbbreviationsPrimary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 5; The Saint's Life as a Charismatic Form: Bernard of Clairvaux and Francis of Assisi; C. Stephen Jaeger; Life-Writing; Bernard: Grandiosity; Francis: Humility; The "Franciscan Question"; The Wolf of Gubbio and His Relatives; False Fables: Incommensurability; The Truth of the Stigmata; Charisma and the "Historical" Person; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Chapter 6; Charismatic Rulers in Civic Guise: Images of the Nine Worthies in Northern European Town Halls of the 14th-16th Centuries; Andrey Egorov; Part 3
Dazzling Reflections: Charismatic Art and Its AudienceChapter 7; Charisma and the Ideal Viewer in Nicetas Choniates's De signis; Paroma Chatterjee; Charisma in Public Spaces; The Voices of Statues; Epilogue; Chapter 8; Disenchantment: Hoccleve's Tale of Jonathas and Male Revenge Fantasy; Gavin T. Richardson; Chapter 9; The Emperorship of Sigismund of Luxemburg (1410-37): Charisma and Government in the Later Medieval Holy Roman Empire; Duncan Hardy; Introduction: Later Medieval Politics and Culture through the Lens of Charisma; Sigismund of Luxemburg: The Charismatic Ruler in His Lifetime
Notes Sigismund's Charismatic Afterlife: The Idealized Emperor in the 15th- and 16th-Century Holy Roman Empire
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Subject Arts audiences.
Arts -- Psychological aspects
spectators (event observers)
slide viewers (hand held devices)
viewers (observers)
Arts audiences.
Arts -- Psychological aspects.
Form Electronic book
Author Rust, Martha Dana
ISBN 9789004363809
9004363807