The Authority of the Word
Reflecting on Image and Text in Northern Europe, 1400-1700
Edited by Celeste Brusati, Karl Enenkel and Walter Melion
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Scriptural Authority in Word and Image
WALTER S. MELION, CELESTE BRUSATI AND KARL ENENKEL
I. VERBUM VISIBLE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE VISIBLE WORD
The Dominican, the Duke and the Book.
The Authority of the Written Word in Dirc van Delft’s Tafel vanden kersten gelove
GEERT WARNAR
Producing Texts for Prints: Artists, Poets and Publishers
PETER VAN DER COELEN
Embodying Hermeneutics: Rabelais and the Pythagorean Symbola
ANITA TRANINGER
Nature Discerned: Providence and Perspective in Gilles van Coninxloo’s Sylva
CATHERINE LEVESQUE
II. THE AUTHORITY OF VISUAL PARATEXTS
The Author’s Portrait as Reader’s Guidance:
The Case of Francis Petrarch
KARL A.E. ENENKEL
Solomon Writing and Resting: Tradition, Words and Images in the 1548 Dutch
“Louvain Bible”
WIM FRANÇOIS
III. READING SCRIPTURE THROUGH IMAGES
Eloquent Presence: Verbal and Visual Discourse in the Ghent Plays of 1539
BART RAMAKERS
The Earthly Paradise: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis of Genesis 1-3
MICHEL WEEMANS
Representations of Adam and Eve in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English
Embroidery
ANDREW MORRALL
IV. VERBAL AND VISUAL INSTRUMENTS OF DEVOTIONAL AUTHORITY
“Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul
JOHN R. DECKER
Highways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late Medieval
Landscape
ACHIM TIMMERMANN
Images, Rubrics and Indulgences on the Eve of the Reformation
KATHRYN M. RUDY
The Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art in the Late Middle Ages
CAROLYN MUESSIG
Towards a Transconfessional Dialogue on Pre-Modern Theological Texts and Images:
Some Adnotationes on Nadal, Lipsius and Rubens
BIRGIT ULRIKE MÜNCH
Responding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in
Rome (1587 – 1588)
JAN L. DE JONG
Miracle Books and Religious Architecture in the Southern Netherlands.
The Case of Our Lady of Hanswijk in Mechelen
MAARTEN DELBEKE
V. PICTORIAL ARTIFICE AND THE WORD
Prayerful Artifice: The Fine Style as Marian Devotion in Hieronymus Wierix’s
Maria of ca. 1611
WALTER S. MELION
Secret Wisdom: Antoon Wierix’s Engravings of a Carmelite Mystic
JAMES CLIFTON
Working the Senses with Words: The Act of Religious Reading in the Dutch Republic
ELS STRONKS
Notes on the Editors
Notes on the Contributors
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Scriptural Authority in Word and Image
WALTER S. MELION, CELESTE BRUSATI AND KARL ENENKEL
I. VERBUM VISIBLE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE VISIBLE WORD
The Dominican, the Duke and the Book.
The Authority of the Written Word in Dirc van Delft’s Tafel vanden kersten gelove
GEERT WARNAR
Producing Texts for Prints: Artists, Poets and Publishers
PETER VAN DER COELEN
Embodying Hermeneutics: Rabelais and the Pythagorean Symbola
ANITA TRANINGER
Nature Discerned: Providence and Perspective in Gilles van Coninxloo’s Sylva
CATHERINE LEVESQUE
II. THE AUTHORITY OF VISUAL PARATEXTS
The Author’s Portrait as Reader’s Guidance:
The Case of Francis Petrarch
KARL A.E. ENENKEL
Solomon Writing and Resting: Tradition, Words and Images in the 1548 Dutch
“Louvain Bible”
WIM FRANÇOIS
III. READING SCRIPTURE THROUGH IMAGES
Eloquent Presence: Verbal and Visual Discourse in the Ghent Plays of 1539
BART RAMAKERS
The Earthly Paradise: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis of Genesis 1-3
MICHEL WEEMANS
Representations of Adam and Eve in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century English
Embroidery
ANDREW MORRALL
IV. VERBAL AND VISUAL INSTRUMENTS OF DEVOTIONAL AUTHORITY
“Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the Soul
JOHN R. DECKER
Highways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late Medieval
Landscape
ACHIM TIMMERMANN
Images, Rubrics and Indulgences on the Eve of the Reformation
KATHRYN M. RUDY
The Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art in the Late Middle Ages
CAROLYN MUESSIG
Towards a Transconfessional Dialogue on Pre-Modern Theological Texts and Images:
Some Adnotationes on Nadal, Lipsius and Rubens
BIRGIT ULRIKE MÜNCH
Responding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in
Rome (1587 – 1588)
JAN L. DE JONG
Miracle Books and Religious Architecture in the Southern Netherlands.
The Case of Our Lady of Hanswijk in Mechelen
MAARTEN DELBEKE
V. PICTORIAL ARTIFICE AND THE WORD
Prayerful Artifice: The Fine Style as Marian Devotion in Hieronymus Wierix’s
Maria of ca. 1611
WALTER S. MELION
Secret Wisdom: Antoon Wierix’s Engravings of a Carmelite Mystic
JAMES CLIFTON
Working the Senses with Words: The Act of Religious Reading in the Dutch Republic
ELS STRONKS
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