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Book SynopsisIntermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside more traditional fields such as literature, art history and cultural history. Focusing on religious texts and images between 1400 and 1700, the essays gathered in this volume contribute to these developments by grounding their case studies in methodology. In considering various relations between the visual and the verbal, the editors have adopted the broadest position possible, emphasizing the phenomenological point of view from which the objects under discussion are examined. Contributors to this volume: Ralph Dekoninck, Anna Dlabačová, Grégory Ems, Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni, Walter S. Melion, Kees Schepers, Paul J. Smith, and Elliott D. Wise.
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Ingrid Falque and Agnès Guiderdoni 2 Framing the Text-Image Relationship(s) in Henry Suso’s Exemplar Ingrid Falque 3 How to Read the Drawings of Gielis vander Hecken (1491–1538) Kees Schepers 4 The Adventures of the Soul in a Wonderful Emblematic Manuscript of the Belgium Royal Library Grégory Ems 5 Sese oblectari in dies: Tropes of Materiality and Artisanship in the Paradisus precum selectarum (1610) of the Cistercian Sub-prior Martin Boschman Walter S. Melion 6 “Hidden Sons”, Baptism, and Vernacular Mysticism in Rogier van der Weyden’s St. John Triptych Elliott D. Wise 7 The Art of Observance. Jan Provoost’s Diptych of a Franciscan Friar as an Exponent of the Spirituality and Position of the Franciscan Order in the Low Countries, c.1520 Anna Dlabačová 8 Jan Brueghel the Elder’s First Paradise Landscape (1594) Paul J. Smith
