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The present volume of essays, Emblemata Sacra. The Rhetoric and Hermeneutics of Illustrated Sacred Discourse, follows a conference that took place in January 2005 in Leuven and Louvain-la-Neuve, thanks to the close collaboration between the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Literature Department) and the Université Catholique de Louvain (the research group ‘Figures et formes de la spiritualité dans la littérature et les expressions artistiques’). The 38 essays have been organised in seven sections. The first section (‘Historical and methodological issues’) presents methodological bases for the study of emblematics and spiritual images, as well as the elements necessary for the Christian contextualisation of the corpus. The second section (‘Exegesis of the Scriptures and the Creation’), complementary to the first section, is devoted to exegetical processes developed in different contexts and seeks to emphasise the correspondence between the exegesis of Sacred Scripture and the exegesis of the Creation, which are the two central symbolisms in Christianity. The third section (‘The image in absentia’) focuses on the most critical aspect of the encounter between the Word and the Image, in the form of a paradoxical iconoclastic image, already mentioned in the first section. The fourth section (‘Rhetoric and poetics of the image’) exposes the mutual exchanges between the word of the images and the images of the word. The last three sections all deal with the uses of figures in determined contexts. Thus, the fifth section (‘The image performance’) explores staged, incarnated, and exhibited figures, while the sixth section (‘Circulation of images among different faiths’) gathers studies about different confessional contexts in which spiritual images are used to support and feed the polemics, and the seventh section (‘The efficient image’) opens up the chronology toward the 19th century and then to our own time.

Book history --- Literary semiotics --- Thematology --- Emblems --- Emblems in literature --- Emblems in art --- Emblèmes --- Emblèmes dans la littérature --- Emblèmes dans l'art --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Academic collection --- 246.5 --- Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- Conferences - Meetings --- 246.5 Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- Emblèmes --- Emblèmes dans la littérature --- Emblèmes dans l'art --- Congrès --- Heraldry --- Signs and symbols --- Symbolism --- religious symbolism --- emblems [allegorical pictures] --- Emblems - Congresses --- Emblems in literature - Congresses --- Emblems in art - Congresses

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This volume includes the late Elisabeth Stopp’s previously unpublished study of the emblem book of Adrien Gambart (1660-68), an introductory essay by Agnès Guiderdoni-Bruslè that updates and supplements Stopp’s work, and a facsimile of Gambart’s emblem book. This remarkable book was inspired by the life and writings of St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622), and written for the Sisters of the Visitation monastery of Faubourg Saint-Jacques in Paris, where Gambart, a Vincentian priest, served as chaplain for over thirty years. Gambart’s emblems visualize many of the literary images that Francis employs in his writings, as well as draws on other popular sources of the emblematic tradition. By means of the emblems, Gambart seeks to identify in a tangible and memorable way for the reader the truly remarkable qualities of Francis’s life and the exceptional elements of Salesian spirituality. Such a method, Gambart points out, is in keeping with Francis’s own profuse use of images and symbols to communicate his spiritual doctrine as concretely and clearly as possible. Each emblem invites the reader to reflect on an episode from Francis’s biography or on one of his particular virtues. One emblem is provided for each of the fifty-two weeks of the year and is explained by an explanatory meditation, which is then followed by seven points for prayer and resolution, one for each day of the week. Gambart called these points Fruits et pratiques (Fruits and Practice), a summary, as it were, of what was to be learned from meditation on the emblematic picture. Stopp’s study offers an English translation of the key observations made by Gambart about each of the fifty-two emblems, while the facsimile makes available Gambart’s original French text. Moreover, the facsimile is reproduced in color in order to convey the tonal richness of the original emblems.

Francis of Sales --- Gambart, Adrien --- Emblem books, French --- 235.3 FRANCISCUS DE SALES --- Hagiografie--FRANCISCUS DE SALES --- Christian saints --- 094:82-84 --- 235.3 "16" --- 246.5 --- 246.5 Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- 094:82-84 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Emblemen. Spreuken. Citaten --- French emblem books --- Saints --- Canonization --- Hagiografie--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Francis, --- De Sales, Francis, --- Francesco, --- Francisco, --- Franciscus, --- François, --- François de Sales, --- Franz, --- Proinsias, --- Sales, Francis de, --- Sales, François de, --- Salezy, Franciszek, --- Christian saints - Switzerland - Biography - Pictorial works --- Francis, - de Sales, Saint, - 1567-1622 - Pictorial works --- de Sales, François --- Francis --- François de Sales --- Franciscus de Sales --- Francis de Sales --- Francis van Sales --- Francois de Sales --- Francis, - de Sales, Saint, - 1567-1622

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Etudes sur la spiritualité du jésuite allemand M. Sandaenus (1578-1656) ainsi que sur ses interrogations autour du langage et de la pensée figurée, suivies des annotations du mystique A. Silesius (1624-1677) à sa Pro theologia mystica clavis.

#GBIB: jesuitica --- 246.5 --- 246.5 Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- Emblematiek. Iconologie. Christelijke iconografie. Dodendans --- Christian spirituality --- Christian religious orders --- Iconography --- Sandaeus, Maximilianus --- Society of Jesus --- Jésuites --- Contre-Réforme et littérature --- Counter-Reformation --- Jesuits --- Spiritualité. --- Spiritual life --- Van der Sandt, Maximilian --- Critique et interprétation. --- 271.5-7 --- 271.5-7 Jezuïeten: liturgie en spiritualiteit --- Jezuïeten: liturgie en spiritualiteit --- vander Sandt, Maximilianus --- Sandaeus, Maximilianus, --- Sandaeus, M. --- Jésuites --- Contre-Réforme et littérature --- Spiritualité. --- Critique et interprétation.