Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-28869-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 422 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Explorations in Medieval Culture

In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, this volume shows that to study charismatic art is to experiment with a theory of representation that allows for the possibility of nothing less than a breakdown between art and viewer and between art and lived experience. The volume examines charismatic works of literature, visual art, and architecture from England, Northern Europe, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Constantinople and from time periods ranging from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period.
Contributors are Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Paul Binski, Paroma Chatterjee, Andrey Egorov, Erik Gustafson, Duncan Hardy, Stephen Jaeger, Jacqueline E. Jung, Lynsey McCulloch, Martino Rossi Monti, Gavin Richardson, and Andrew Romig.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bedos-Rezak, Brigitte Miriam

Rust, Martha Dana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Conventions

Introduction
1 The Dingzhou Discovery
2 The Dingzhou Wenzi
3 The Proto-Wenzi: Date, Protagonists, Author
4 The Proto-Wenzi: Philosophy
5 A New Wenzi
6 The Received Wenzi: Date and Editor
7 The Received Wenzi: Philosophy
8 Wenzi Reception
Epilogue

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak is a Professor of History at New York University (NYU). Her most recent research on seals, signing practices, and imagistic scripts has appeared in a monograph When Ego was Imago. Signs of Identity in the Middle Ages (Brill, 2011) and a co-edited volume (with Jeffrey Hamburger), Sign and Design. Script as Image in a Cross-Cultural Perspective (Dumbarton Oaks/Harvard, 2016).
Martha Dana Rust is an associate professor of English at New York University, specializing in late-medieval English literature and manuscript culture. The author of Imaginary Worlds in Medieval Books: Exploring the Manuscript Matrix (Palgrave, 2007).