1st Edition
Angels, Devils The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation
Edited By Gerhard Jaritz
Copyright 2011
216 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Supernatural phenomena and causalities played an important role in medieval society. Religious practice was relying upon a set of cult images and the sacral status of these depictions of divine or supernatural persons became the object of heated debates and provoked iconoclastic reactions.The miraculous intervention of saints or other divine agents, the wondrous realities beyond understanding, or... Read more
List of Illustrations, Preface, Norbert Schnitzler: The Beam of Grace and the Ocular Paradigm. Some Remarks on the Relation between Late Medieval Theology and Art, Gerhard Jaritz: Visual Images of the Supernatural in the Late Middle Ages, or, How to Make the Entities Recognizable that Are not Part of Our Natural World, Alexander E. Makhov: … In diversas figuras nequitiae: The Devil’s Image from the Viewpoint of Rhetoric, Helmut Hundsbichler: Devils in Visual Proximity Béla Zsolt Szakács: Supernatural Figures Incognito, Maria Craciun: Guardians or Avengers? Depictions of Angels in Transylvanian Altarpieces from the Late Medieval Period, Zsófia Buda: Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art, György E. Szonyi: The Reincarnations of Enoch from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Anna Maria Gruia: Images to Influence the Supernatural: Apotropaic Representations on Medieval Stove Tiles, List of Contributors, Index
Biography
Gerhard Jaritz is a professor of Medieval Studies at Central European University and senior research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
