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This volume takes as its focus the paradoxical double-bind of textuality and visuality in the culture of the high and late Middle Ages and early modernity. In a series of case studies contributors explore the historical and theoretical implications of the idea that texts and images alike ‘speak to the eye’. Some scholars have proclaimed the coming of a ‘visual turn’ to explain the boom in conferences, books, and even specialized journals that take as their topic the theoretical or historical study of visual culture. The notion of visual culture may seem self-evident, not merely from our own twenty-first-century perspective but also when applied to earlier periods of western European history. However, the nature and status of the visual media, as well as the ways in which these were received, experienced, and appropriated, underwent several major changes between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries. Contemporary sources describe and define the experience of reading texts and images as involving a mixture of visual and aural impulses that address both the inner eye and the outer senses. This volume sets out explicitly to investigate the specific, sensuous nature of this experience. It also addresses the question of whether, and if so to what extent and in which ways, this ‘reading experience’ was engendered.

Art et littérature --- Ecphrasis --- Ekfrasis --- Ekphrasis --- Kunst en literatuur --- Peinture et littérature --- Représentations (Psychologie) --- Schilderkunst en literatuur --- Voorstellingen (Psychologie) --- Art and literature. --- Ekphrasis. --- Imagerie (Psychologie) --- Imagerie (psychologie) --- Littérature de la Renaissance --- Textualität. --- Visuelle Kommunikation. --- Imagery (Psychology). --- 091.31:7.04 --- 091 "04/14" --- 091.31:7.04 Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- Verluchte handschriften: iconografie --- 091 "04/14" Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Middeleeuwen --- Literature --- Iconography --- Religious studies --- anno 500-1499 --- Literature, Medieval --- Literature, Modern --- Visual communication --- Psychological aspects. --- History --- Communication visuelle --- Littérature médiévale --- Histoire --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Christian art and symbolism --- Littérature médiévale --- Littérature --- Art et symbolisme chrétiens --- Art et littérature --- Psychological aspects --- Early works to 1800. --- Aspect psychologique --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- To 1500 --- 16th century --- Literature [Medieval ] --- Literature [Modern ] --- 15th and 16th centuries --- Early works to 1800 --- Art et littérature. --- Histoire.