Seeing and being seen in the later medieval world : optics, theology, and religious life /
During the later Middle Ages people became increasingly obsessed with vision, visual analogies and the possibility of visual error. In this book Dallas Denery addresses the question of what medieval men and women thought it meant to see themselves and others in relation to the world and to God. Expl...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 63. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Ponderare Statera Meditationis : self as self-presentation in early Dominican religious life
- The devil in human form : confession, deception, and self-knowledge
- Peter of Limoges, perspectivist optics, and the displacement of vision
- Normalizing error : Peter Aureol on the importance of appearances
- Probability and perspective : Nicholas of Autrecourt and the fragmentation of vision.
