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Early Modern Eyes
Contributor(s): Melion, Walter, Palmer Wandel, Lee

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 ISBN: 9004179747     ISBN-13: 9789004179745
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $157.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Language: French
Published: December 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- History | Europe - Renaissance
Dewey: 153.709
LCCN: 2009039183
Series: Intersections
Physical Information: 292 pages
Features: Bibliography, Bilingual, Illustrated, Index
 
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In bringing together work on optic theory, ethnography, and the visual cultures of Christianity, this volume offers a sense of the richness and the complexity of early modern thinking about the human eye. The seven case studies explore the relationship between vision and knowledge, taking up such diverse artifacts as an emblem book, a Jesuit mariological text, Calvin's Institutes, Las Casas's Apologia, Hans Staden's True History, the Codex Telleriano-Remensis, and an exegetical painting by Herri met de Bles. Argued from different disciplinary perspectives, these essays pose crucial questions about the eyes, asking how they were construed as instruments of witnessing, perception, representation, cognition, and religious belief.

Contributors include: Tom Conley, Walter Melion, Jos Rabasa, Lee Palmer Wandel, Michel Weemans, Nicol s Wey G mez, and Neil Whitehead.
 
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