"The Mind's Eye" focuses on the relationships among art,
theology, exegesis, and literature--issues long central to the
study of medieval art, yet ripe for reconsideration. Essays by
leading scholars from many fields examine the illustration of
theological commentaries, the use of images to expound or
disseminate doctrine, the role of images within theological
discourse, the development of doctrine in response to images, and
the place of vision and the visual in theological thought.
At issue are the ways in which theologians responded to the
images that we call art and in which images entered into dialogue
with theological discourse. In what ways could medieval art be
construed as argumentative in structure as well as in function? Are
any of the modes of representation in medieval art analogous to
those found in texts? In what ways did images function as vehicles,
not merely vessels, of meaning and signification? To what extent
can exegesis and other genres of theological discourse shed light
on the form, as well as the content and function, of medieval
images? These are only some of the challenging questions posed by
this unprecedented and interdisciplinary collection, which provides
a historical framework within which to reconsider the relationship
between seeing and thinking, perception and the imagination in the
Middle Ages.
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