Authority of the Word

Celeste Brusati is Professor of the History of Art and Professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has published on the relations between visual and literary discourses on art in the early modern Netherlands, particularly in still life, self-imagery, perspective, and trompe l’oeil, and on the artists Samuel van Hoogstraten, Pieter Saenredam, and Johannes Vermeer.Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Münster, Germany, and member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He has published on international Humanism, the reception of Classical Antiquity, the history of ideas, literary genres and emblem studies.Walter Melion is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University in Atlanta, where he has taught since 2004. He has published extensively on Dutch and Flemish art and art theory of the 16th and 17th centuries, on Jesuit image-theory, on the relation between theology and aesthetics in the early modern period, and on the artists Otto van Veen and Hendrick Goltzius.

"The value of this volume goes beyond a traditional method’s careful limning of an academic specialization. Method and tradition aside, the papers all scrutinize a very significant period in the history of visual production and consumption in Europe [..] many of these [essays] make a point of socially locating their subject matter and giving the reader a concrete sense of the material relationship of text and image to the surrounding world." – David Morgan, Duke University, in: Renaissance Quarterly 65/3 (Fall 2012), p. 897"One of the edges of current scholarship interrogates the constructed boundary between words and images. This collection of twenty essays […] is a lovely sampling of the state of the question." – Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in: HNA Review of Books

• Acknowledgements Notes on the EditorsNotes on the ContributorsList of IllustrationsIntroduction: Scriptural Authority in Word and ImageWALTER S. MELION, CELESTE BRUSATI AND KARL ENENKELI. VERBUM VISIBLE: THE AUTHORITY OF THE VISIBLE WORDThe Dominican, the Duke and the Book.The Authority of the Written Word in Dirc van Delft’s Tafel vanden kersten geloveGEERT WARNARProducing Texts for Prints: Artists, Poets and PublishersPETER VAN DER COELENEmbodying Hermeneutics: Rabelais and the Pythagorean SymbolaANITA TRANINGERNature Discerned: Providence and Perspective in Gilles van Coninxloo’s SylvaCATHERINE LEVESQUEII. THE AUTHORITY OF VISUAL PARATEXTSThe Author’s Portrait as Reader’s Guidance:The Case of Francis PetrarchKARL A.E. ENENKELSolomon Writing and Resting: Tradition, Words and Images in the 1548 Dutch“Louvain Bible”WIM FRANÇOISIII. READING SCRIPTURE THROUGH IMAGESEloquent Presence: Verbal and Visual Discourse in the Ghent Plays of 1539BART RAMAKERSThe Earthly Paradise: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis of Genesis 1-3MICHEL WEEMANSRepresentations of Adam and Eve in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century EnglishEmbroideryANDREW MORRALLIV. VERBAL AND VISUAL INSTRUMENTS OF DEVOTIONAL AUTHORITY“Practical Devotion”: Apotropaism and the Protection of the SoulJOHN R. DECKERHighways to Heaven (and Hell): Wayside Crosses and the Making of Late MedievalLandscapeACHIM TIMMERMANNImages, Rubrics and Indulgences on the Eve of the ReformationKATHRYN M. RUDYThe Stigmata Debate in Theology and Art in the Late Middle AgesCAROLYN MUESSIGTowards a Transconfessional Dialogue on Pre-Modern Theological Texts and Images:Some Adnotationes on Nadal, Lipsius and RubensBIRGIT ULRIKE MÜNCHResponding to Tomb Monuments: Meditations and Irritations of Aernout van Buchel in Rome (1587 – 1588)JAN L. DE JONGMiracle Books and Religious Architecture in the Southern Netherlands.The Case of Our Lady of Hanswijk in MechelenMAARTEN DELBEKEV. PICTORIAL ARTIFICE AND THE WORDPrayerful Artifice: The Fine Style as Marian Devotion in Hieronymus Wierix’sMaria of ca. 1611WALTER S. MELIONSecret Wisdom: Antoon Wierix’s Engravings of a Carmelite MysticJAMES CLIFTONWorking the Senses with Words: The Act of Religious Reading in the Dutch RepublicELS STRONKS