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Title Jesuit image theory / edited by Wietse de Boer, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Walter S. Melion
Published Boston : Brill, 2016

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Series Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; VOLUME 45
Contents 1. Introduction: the Jesuit engagement with the status and functions of the visual image / Walter S. Melion -- pt. 1. Jesuit image theory-rhetorical and emblematic treatises, and theoretical debates. 2. The early Jesuits and the Catholic debate about sacred images / Wietse de Boer -- 3. The Jesuit Ars and Scientia Symbolica: from Richeome and Sandaeus to Masen and Ménestrier / Ralph Dekoninck -- 4. The theory of figurative language in Maximilian van der Sandt's writings / Agnès Guiderdoni -- 5. Writing on the body and looking through its wounds: the mnemonic metaphor of the stigmata in Emanuele Tesauro's rhetoric / Andrea Torre -- 6. Claude-Franços Ménestrier: the founder of 'early modern grounded theory' / David Graham -- 7. Enargeia fireworks: Jesuit image theory in Franciscus Neumayr's rhetorical manual (Idea Rhetoricae 1748) and his tragedies / Karl A.E. Enenkel -- pt. 2. Embedded Jesuit image theory. 8. Libellus piarum precum (1575): iterations of the five holy wounds in an early Jesuit prayerbook / Walter S. Melion -- 9. Interior sight in Peter Canisius' Meditations on Advent / Hilmar M. Pabel -- 10. Le pacte précaire de l'image et de l'écrit dans le livre illustré d'époque moderne: Le cas de La peinture spirituelle (1611) de Louis Richeome / Pierre Antoine Fabre -- 11. A variety of spiritual pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert's Glorification of the Name of Jesus / James Clifton -- 12. Marvels and marbles in the Antwerp Jesuit Church: Hendrick van Balen's stone paintings of the Life of the Virgin (1621) / Anna C. Knaap -- 13. The Simulacra Avorum in Jesuit Latin poems by Wallius and Carrara: from Virgilian imitation to scholastic philosophy and art theory / Aline Smeesters -- 14. 'To make yourself present': Jesuit sacred space as enargetic space / Steffen Zierholz -- 15. The Jesuit strategy of accommodation / Jeffrey Muller
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jesuits -- History.
SUBJECT Jesuits fast
Subject Image (Philosophy)
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
Image (Philosophy)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Boer, Wietse de, editor
LC no. 2016016643
ISBN 9789004319127
9004319123