Interruptions and Transitions : Essays on the Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Visual Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Copyrights -- First Publication -- Introduction or Thresholds -- 1 Medieval Visual Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- 2 Interruptions and Transitions: Essays on the Senses -- Chapter 1 -- Pentecost and the Senses -- 1 Pentecost and the Visual Medium: Hermeneutical Reflections -- 2 The Pentecost Iconography in the Codex Egberti (ca. 980) -- 3 Vision and Speech in the Codex Egberti -- 4 The Benedictional of Robert of Jumièges (end 10th century) -- 5 Pentecost and Scent: A Hermeneutical Detour -- Coda -- Chapter 2 -- An Odour, a Taste, a Touch -- 1 Me mou haptou and Tactility -- 2 From the Ban on Touch to Spiritual Seeing -- 3 The 'Sonoric' Moment: First Hearing, Then Seeing -- 4 The Gaze in the Garden -- Chapter 3 -- "Who Touched Me and My Clothes?" -- 1 Text and Intertext -- 2 Crowd and Hem: Narrative and Iconic Space -- 3 Healing and Magic -- 4 Blood, Touch and Space -- 5 Statue, Hem and Stone -- 6 Conclusion: Eruption - Interruption - Rupture. -- Chapter 4 -- The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild -- 1 The Johannesschüssel: Quid? -- 2 The Johannesschüssel as Andachtsbild -- 3 The Epigraphy of the Johannesschüssel -- 4 The Absorbing Gaze -- 5 Apotropaion and the Senses -- 6 The Phenomenological Tension between Head and Face -- Coda -- Chapter 5 -- "When the Daughter Came in and Danced" -- 1 Dance #1. Filia saltasset -- 2 Dance #2. Cum festinatione. Decapitation and pinax -- 3 Dance #3. Allodeixis and Membrane -- 4 Dance #4. Head² -- 5 Dance #5. "A Horrific Couple" -- 6 Dance #6. Death is in the Corner -- 7 Dance #7. The Butcher's Elbow. Ekphrasis and paragone -- 8 Die Liebe Gottes steckt im Detail -- Chapter 6 -- Wild is the Wind -- 1 Wind and Hermeneutics -- 2 The Wind as a Pathosformel: The Warburg Paradigms -- 3 Pneuma and the Annunciation -- 4 Infused with Matter and Deliquescence.

5 Some Concluding Thoughts: Wind/Web/Membrane or Arachne's Wendepunkt -- Conclusions -- 1 Interruptions and Transitions Revisited -- 2 The Hermeneutical Dance -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Interruptions and Transitions Barbara Baert discusses the in-between space where humans and their artistic expression meet by linking the sensory experiences in medieval and early modern visual culture, the hermeneutics of imagery, and the interdisciplinarity of contemporary Art Sciences.

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