Title: Looking beyond : visions, dreams, and insights in medieval art & history /
Authors: Hourihane, Colum, 1955-; Yasin, Ann Marie.; Belting, Hans.; Peers, Glenn.
Publisher: Index of Christian Art, Dept. of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University ; In association with Penn State University Press,
Year: 2010
Subjects: Dreams in art.; Visions in art.; Art, Medieval Themes, motives; Philosophy, Medieval.
Abstract: "A collection of essays examining 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.
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.