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Book SynopsisThis volume investigates how Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773, in rhetorical and emblematic treatises, theoretical debates, and embedded in various instances where Jesuit authors and artists implicitely explored the status and functions of images.
Table of Contents1 Introduction. The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image Walter S. Melion Part I. Jesuit Image Theory – Rheorical 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-FRANÇOIS 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 Part II: 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 Pabel 10 LE PACTE PRÉCAIRE DE L’IMAGE ET DE L’ECRIT DANS LE LIVRE ILLUSTRE D’EPOQUE 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 VERGILIAN 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 Index
