Early modern eyes /
Early modern eyes /
edited by Walter S. Melion and Lee Palmer Wandel.
- 1 online resource.
- Intersections, v. 13 1568-1181 ; Brill ebook titles .
- Intersections 13. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004222861. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / The Politics of Light: Al-Kindī’s Geometrical Optics and the Vindication of the American Tropics in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Apologética historia sumaria (1527–1561) / A Topographer’s Eye: From Gilles Corrozet To Pieter Apian / The Ethnographic Lens In The New World: Staden, De Bry, And The Representation Of The Tupi In Brazil / Depicting Perspective: The Return Of The Gaze In Codex Telleriano-Remensis (C. 1563) / John Calvin And Michel De Montaigne On The Eye / Quel rapport entre un jeu de paume et le roi David ? Analogie et Exégèse Visuelle dans le David et Bethsabée de Herri met de Bles / ‘Quae lecta Canisius offert et spectata diu’: The Pictorial Images in Petrus Canisius’s De Maria Virgine of 1577/1583 / Index Nominum / W. Melion and L. Palmer Wandel -- Lee Palmer Wandel -- Nicolás Wey Gómez -- Tom Conley -- Neil L. Whitehead -- José Rabasa -- Lee Palmer Wandel -- Michel Weemans -- Walter S. Melion -- W. Melion and L. Palmer Wandel.
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In bringing together work on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume offers a sense of the richness and the complexity of early modern thinking about the human eye. The seven case studies explore the relationship between vision and knowledge, taking up such diverse artifacts as an emblem book, a Jesuit mariological text, Calvin’s Institutes, Las Casas’s Apologia , Hans Staden’s True History , the Codex Telleriano-Remensis , and an exegetical painting by Herri met de Bles. Argued from different disciplinary perspectives, these essays pose crucial questions about the eyes, asking how they were construed as instruments of witnessing, perception, representation, cognition, and religious belief. Contributors include: Tom Conley, Walter Melion, José Rabasa, Lee Palmer Wandel, Michel Weemans, Nicolás Wey Gómez, and Neil Whitehead.
Essays chiefly in English; one essay in French.
9789047444046
10.1163/ej.9789004179745.i-272 DOI
2009039183
Visual perception--History.
Perception (Philosophy)--History.
BF241 / .E17 2010
153.7/09
2010 I-833 BF 241
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / The Politics of Light: Al-Kindī’s Geometrical Optics and the Vindication of the American Tropics in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Apologética historia sumaria (1527–1561) / A Topographer’s Eye: From Gilles Corrozet To Pieter Apian / The Ethnographic Lens In The New World: Staden, De Bry, And The Representation Of The Tupi In Brazil / Depicting Perspective: The Return Of The Gaze In Codex Telleriano-Remensis (C. 1563) / John Calvin And Michel De Montaigne On The Eye / Quel rapport entre un jeu de paume et le roi David ? Analogie et Exégèse Visuelle dans le David et Bethsabée de Herri met de Bles / ‘Quae lecta Canisius offert et spectata diu’: The Pictorial Images in Petrus Canisius’s De Maria Virgine of 1577/1583 / Index Nominum / W. Melion and L. Palmer Wandel -- Lee Palmer Wandel -- Nicolás Wey Gómez -- Tom Conley -- Neil L. Whitehead -- José Rabasa -- Lee Palmer Wandel -- Michel Weemans -- Walter S. Melion -- W. Melion and L. Palmer Wandel.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
In bringing together work on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume offers a sense of the richness and the complexity of early modern thinking about the human eye. The seven case studies explore the relationship between vision and knowledge, taking up such diverse artifacts as an emblem book, a Jesuit mariological text, Calvin’s Institutes, Las Casas’s Apologia , Hans Staden’s True History , the Codex Telleriano-Remensis , and an exegetical painting by Herri met de Bles. Argued from different disciplinary perspectives, these essays pose crucial questions about the eyes, asking how they were construed as instruments of witnessing, perception, representation, cognition, and religious belief. Contributors include: Tom Conley, Walter Melion, José Rabasa, Lee Palmer Wandel, Michel Weemans, Nicolás Wey Gómez, and Neil Whitehead.
Essays chiefly in English; one essay in French.
9789047444046
10.1163/ej.9789004179745.i-272 DOI
2009039183
Visual perception--History.
Perception (Philosophy)--History.
BF241 / .E17 2010
153.7/09
2010 I-833 BF 241