Image as insight : visual understanding in Western Christianity and secular culture, Margaret R. Miles

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Image as insight : visual understanding in Western Christianity and secular culture, Margaret R. Miles

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visual understanding in Western Christianity and secular culture

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Margaret R. Miles

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• Image as insight : visual understanding in Western Christianity and secular culture

Publication

• Boston, Beacon Press, ©1985

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index

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Contents

Introduction -- Hermeneutics and the History of Image Users -- History and the Historian -- Language and the Historian -- Language and Power -- Interest and Historical Method -- A Hermeneutics of Visual Images -- Images and Text -- Images and the Life of the Body -- "The Evidence of our Eyes": Fourth-Century Roman Churches -- Images in the Early Church: Two Unusuable Approaches -- Architecture and Images Before the Peace of the Church -- The Fourth Century: Architecture, Images, and Liturgy -- Fourth-Century Images and Theological Language -- The Late Fourth Century: Reevaluation of the Via Universalis -- Images of Women in Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Painting -- The Importance of Vision in Fourteenth-Century Italy -- Images and Texts -- The Virgin and Mary Magdalene -- Images of Women in Fourteenth-Century Italian Communitites -- Historical Images of Women and Hermeneutics -- Vision and the Sixteenth-Century Protestant and Roman Catholic Reforms -- Vision in Late-Medieval Litury: Theory and Practice -- Architecture, Images, and the Reform of Liturgy -- Protestant Vision -- Catholic Reform -- Images, Education, and Propaganda: The Protestant Reform -- Images, Education, and Propaganda: The Roman Catholic Reform -- The Success of the Sixteenth Reformations -- Image and Language in Our Culture -- Language and Images: A Theory -- Training in Image Use -- Images and Religion -- "To Understand through the Eyes."

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11785946

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26 cm

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xiii, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates

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9780807010075

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85047528

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illustrations

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.b10941654

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(OCoLC)11785946