Item Number: 146164 Title: Optics, Ethics, and Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Looking into Peter of Limoges's Moral Treatise on the Eye Author: Kessler, Herber L. ; Richard G. Newhauser (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9780888442093 Description: Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018. 26cm., hardcover, 212pp. illus. Contents: Richard G. Newhauser, Morals, Science, and the Edification of the Senses ; Carolyn Muessig, "Can't take my eyes off of you": Mutual Gazing Between the Divine and Humanity in Late Medieval Preaching ; Donal Cooper, Preaching amidst Pictures: Visual Contexts for Sermons in Late Medieval Tuscany ; Aden Kumler, Seeing the Worldly with a Moral Eye: Illuminated Observation as Introspection ; Jacques Berlioz, Eyes in the Back of the Head: Exempla and Vision in The Moral Treatise on the Eye by Peter of Limoges ; Larry Scanlon, Is the Exemplum a Mirror? ; A. Mark Smith, Skating on Thin Eyes: Hans Belting on the Optics of Arabic and Western Art ; Christopher R. Lakey, "To See Clearly" - The Place of Relief in Medieval Visual Culture ; Herbert L. Kessler, Fenestra obliqua: Art and Peter of Limoges's Modes of Seeing.
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