TY - BOOK ID - 15929312 TI - Seeing the invisible in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages: papers from "Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000" (Utrecht, 11-13 December 2003) AU - de Nie, Giselle AU - Morrison, Karl F. AU - Mostert, Marco AU - Verbal and Pictorial Imaging: Representing and Accessing Experience of the Invisible, 400-1000 PY - 2005 VL - 14 SN - 2503517595 9782503517599 9782503539348 PB - Turnhout Brepols DB - UniCat KW - 930.85.42 KW - 930.85.42 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis: Middeleeuwen KW - Christian spirituality KW - anno 400-499 KW - anno 500-1199 KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Art, Medieval KW - Christianity and art KW - Spirituality in art KW - Art et symbolisme chrétiens KW - Art médiéval KW - Christianisme et art KW - Spiritualité dans l'art KW - Congresses. KW - History KW - Congrès KW - Histoire KW - Art and Christianity KW - Art KW - Art, Christian KW - Art, Ecclesiastical KW - Arts in the church KW - Christian symbolism KW - Ecclesiastical art KW - Symbolism and Christian art KW - Religious art KW - Symbolism KW - Church decoration and ornament KW - Symbolism in art KW - Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500 - Congresses. KW - Christian art and symbolism - To 500 - Congresses. KW - Art, Medieval - Congresses. KW - Christianity and art - Congresses. KW - Spirituality in art - Congresses. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15929312 AB - Limiting itself to the vital centuries when the late Roman West reshaped itself into a first “Europe”, the conference on which the volume is based explored the dominant understanding of human nature in that era: that human existence was both body (in the visible world of material things) and soul (in the invisible world of spirit). This was a legacy of pre-Christian elements handed down from Greek philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures. Assimilating it to indigenous cultures in the Roman West, many alien to the ancient Mediterranean world, precipitated sea-changes in the conception of human psychology. Ensuing frictions sparked extraordinary expressions of creativity in words and visual images. It also created dangerously subversive disequilibria in the collective mentality within élites and between them and majority cultures. The papers in this volume investigate numerous configurations of a new culture taking shape in that volatile environment. They contribute to continuing debates about the cognitive co-ordination of words and pictorial images, and to cross-disciplinary dialogues in such disparate fields as art history, religious literature, mysticism, and cultural anthropology. ER -