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The visualization of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe
Title
The visualization of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe / [edited by] Marcia Kupfer, Adam S. Cohen, J.H. Chajes.
ISBN
9782503583037
2503583032
Publication
Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
520 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Summary
"All of us are exposed to graphic means of communication on a daily basis. Our life seems flooded with lists, tables, charts, diagrams, models, maps, and forms of notation. Although we now take such devices for granted, their role in the codification and transmission of knowledge evolved within historical contexts where they performed particular tasks. The medieval and early modern periods stand as a formative era during which visual structures, both mental and material, increasingly shaped and systematized knowledge. Yet these periods have been sidelined as theorists interested in the epistemic potential of visual strategies have privileged the modern natural sciences. This volume expands the field of research by focusing on the relationship between the arts of memory and modes of graphic mediation through the sixteenth century. Chapters encompass Christian (Greek as well as Latin) production, Jewish (Hebrew) traditions, and the transfer of Arabic learning. The linked essays anthologized here consider the generative power of schemata, cartographic representation, and even the layout of text: more than merely compiling information, visual arrangements formalize abstract concepts, provide grids through which to process data, set in motion analytic operations that give rise to new ideas, and create interpretive frameworks for understanding the world." -- Publisher's website.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 10, 2021
Series
Studies in the visual cultures of the Middle Ages ; vol. 16
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-508).
Contents
Introduction / Marcia Kupfer
I. Visualization between mind and hand: Geometries for thinking creatively / Mary Carruthers
Visualization of a universal knowledge: images and rhetorical machines in Giulio Camillo's Theatre of memory / Lina Bolzoni
Mindmapping: the diagram paradigm in medieval art - and beyond / Jeffrey F. Hamburger
II. The iconicity of text: Framing the Gospels, c. 1000: iconicity, textuality, and knowledge / Beatrice Kitzinger
Biblical gloss and commentary: the scaffolding of Scripture / Lesley Smith
The topography of the Talmudic page / David Stern
Seeing the forest beyond the trees: a preliminary overview of a scholastic habit of visualization / Ayelet Even-Ezra
Functional paratexts and the transmission of knowledge in medieval and early modern Jewish manuscripts of magic / Yuval Harari
More than meets the eye: what made the printing revolution revolutionary / A. Mark Smith
III. Graphic vehicles of Scientia: The idea of a spherical universe and its visualization in the earlier middle ages (seventh-twelfth Centuries) / Barbara Obrist
The rhetoric of world maps in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Marcia Kupfer
Visualizing knowledge in medieval calendar science: a twelfth-century family of 'graphic glosses' on Bede's De temporum ratione / Faith Wallis
The visualization of music in the Middle Ages: three case studies / John Haines
Visualization in medicine between script and print, c. 1375-1550 / Peter Murray Jones
IV. Diagrammatic traditions: A prolegomenon to Byzantine diagrams / Linda Safran
Diagramming the diagrammatic: twelfth-century Europe / Adam S. Cohen
Templates for knowledge: geometric ordering of the built environment, monumental decoration, illuminated page / Madeline H. Caviness
Religious instruction and devotional study: the pictorial and the textual in Gothic diagrams / Lucy Freeman Sandler
The Kabbalistic tree / J.H. Chajes.
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