Jesuit Image Theory.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image -- Part 1 Jesuit Image Theory-Rhetorical and Emblematic Treatises, and Theoretical Debates -- Chapter 2 The Early Jesuits and the Catholic Debate about Sacred Images -- Chapter 3 The Jesuit Ars and Scientia Symbolica: From Richeome and Sandaeus to Masen and Ménestrier -- Chapter 4 The Theory of Figurative Language in Maximilian van der Sandt's Writings -- Chapter 5 Writing on the Body and Looking through Its Wounds: The Mnemonic Metaphor of the Stigmata in Emanuele Tesauro's Rhetoric -- Chapter 6 Claude-François Ménestrier: The Founder of 'Early Modern Grounded Theory' -- Chapter 7 Enargeia Fireworks: Jesuit Image Theory in Franciscus Neumayr's Rhetorical Manual (Idea Rhetoricae, 1748) and His Tragedies -- Part 2 Embedded Jesuit Image Theory -- Chapter 8 Libellus piarum precum (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook -- Chapter 9 Interior Sight in Peter Canisius' Meditationson Advent -- Chapter 10 Le pacte précaire de l'image et de l'écrit dans le livre illustré d'époque moderne : Le cas de La Peinture Spirituelle (1611) de Louis Richeome -- Chapter 11 A Variety of Spiritual Pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert's Glorification of the Name of Jesus -- Chapter 12 Marvels and Marbles in the Antwerp Jesuit Church: Hendrick van Balen's Stone Paintings of the Life of the Virgin (1621) -- Chapter 13 The Simulacra Avorum in Jesuit Latin Poems by Wallius and Carrara: From Virgilian Imitation to Scholastic Philosophy and Art Theory -- Chapter 14 'To Make Yourself Present': Jesuit Sacred Space as Enargetic Space -- Chapter 15 The Jesuit Strategy of Accommodation -- Index Nominum.

This volume investigates how Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773, in rhetorical and emblematic treatises, theoretical debates, and embedded in various instances where Jesuit authors and artists implicitely explored the status and functions of images.

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