Dallas G. Denery II

Seeing and Being Seen in the Later Medieval World

Optics, Theology and Religious Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the later medieval concept of seeing and being seen which led to a unique concept of self.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108935
• ISBN-10: 0521108934
• Artikelnr.: 26105018

Autorenporträt

Dallas G. Denery II is Assistant Professor of History at Bowdoin College. He was awarded an NEH Award for Summer 2004 and is a member of the Medieval Association of America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Ponderare statera meditationis: self as self-presentation in early Dominican religious life
2. The devil in human form: confession, deception and self-knowledge
3. Peter of Limoges, perspectivist optics and the displacement of vision
4. Normalizing error: Peter Aureol on the importance of appearances
5. Probability and perspective: Nicholas of Autrecourt and the fragmentation of vision
Conclusion: vision, promise deferral.