Looking beyond : visions, dreams, and insights in medieval art & history /

"A collection of essays examining the the concept of representing visions and dreams in the medieval period. Includes discussions of modern visions which highlight how our belief in the non-corporal world still exists"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hourihane, Colum, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Princeton, N.J.] : [University Park, Pa.] : Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University ; In association with Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Occasional papers (Princeton University. Department of Art and Archaeology. Index of Christian Art) ; 11.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Saint Francis and the body as image : an anthropological approach / Hans Belting
  • Visions and liturgical experience in the early middle ages / Eric Palazzo
  • Looking like Christians : the material environment of religious visions in early modern Europe / Lisa M. Bitel
  • Making use of Paradise : church benefactors, heavenly visions, and the late antique commemorative imagination / Ann Marie Yasin
  • Death in the flesh : picturing death's body and abode in late antiquity / Georgia Frank
  • The vision of Bernhard of Petershausen : an image in a reformed landscape / Alison I. Beach
  • Finding faith underground : visions of the forty martyrs oratory at Syracuse / Glenn Peers
  • Deus-homo-imago : representing the divine in the twelfth century / Nino Zchomelidse
  • A faithful witness in heaven : keeping vigil with Saint Apollinaris / Peter Jeffery
  • Visualizing the visionary : John in his Apocalypse / Richard K. Emmerson
  • Visionary experience and corporeal seeing in thirteenth-century English apocalypses : John as external witness and the rise of gothic marginal images / Peter K. Klein
  • The tactile and the visionary : notes on the place of sculpture in the medieval religious imagination / Jaqueline E. Jung
  • I saw him! Visions of the saints in miracle stories in Cataluña / Michelle Garceau
  • Visions and the soul's ascent to God in Spanish mysticism / Luis R. Corteguera
  • Image, art, and inspiration in modern apparitions / David Morgan
  • Scenes from a cult in the making : Lady of the Rock, 2008 / Lisa M. Bitel and Matt Gainer.