What is an image in medieval and early modern England?
By: edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar and Olga Timofeeva
Contributors: Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. Conference
Series: SPELL : Swiss papers in English language and literature -- volume 34; Swiss papers in English language and literature -- 34.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9783823381501
Subjects: Medieval Arts; Congresses; Renaissance Arts; Image (Philosophy)
Description: The premise that Western culture has undergone a pictorial turn (W.J.T. Mitchell) has prompted renewed interest in theorizing the visual image. In recent decades researchers in the humanities and social sciences have documented the function and status of the image relative to other media, and have traced the history of its power and the attempts to disempower it. What is an Image in Medieval and Early Modern England? engages in this debate in two interrelated ways: by focusing on the (visual) image during a period that witnessed the Reformation and the invention of the printing press, and by exploring its status in relation to an array of texts including Arthurian romance, saints lives, stage plays, printed sermons, biblical epic, pamphlets, and psalms.
Notes: Based on papers delivered at the 5th Conference of the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General editor's preface  -- Lukas Erne; title: Introduction  -- Antoinina Bevan Zlatar; title: Visual and verbal vernacular translations of Bede's Prose life of St Cuthbert in fifteenth-century northern England : the Carlisle panel paintings  -- Christiana Whitehead; title: Theory transposed : idols, knights and identity  -- Nicolette Zeeman; title: The art of iconoclasm and the afterlife of the English reformation  -- Alexandra Walsham; title: Devils on stage : dramatic representations of the supernatural in Doctor Faustus  -- Kilian Schindler; title: "Where there is a frequent preaching, there is no necessity of pictures: : the fluit images of John Donne's preaching as substitutes for visual representations  -- Sonia Pernet; title: "The text and the occasion mingled together to make a chequer-worke, a mixture of black and white, mouring and joy" : visual elements of the printed funeral sermon in early modern England  -- Hannah Yip; title: Sensing the visual (mis)representation of William Laud  -- Rachel Willie; title: "On the picture of the king Charles the First . . . written in Psalms" : devotion, commemoration and the micrographic portrait  -- Andrew Morrall; title: "The image of their glorious maker" : looking at representation and similitude in Milton's Paradise lost  -- Antoinina Bevan Zlatar; title: Samuel Richardson's visual rhetoric of improvement  -- Erzsi Kukorelly; title: Afterword : words and images -- Brian Cummings.