History and Images: Towards a New Iconology

✍ Scribed by Axel Bolvig, Phillip Lindley (eds)

• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 448
• Series: Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe - Volume 5
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This versatile collection of essays sets out to underline the new visual agenda in today’s research into history and the history of art. The impact of alternative imagery, of image databases and of computer-generated material has effectively revealed a separate resource-category, offering further definitions of meaning and information and requiring new methodologies of interpretation. The volume’s subtitle, ‘Towards a New Iconology’, makes the point that our conventional approaches towards the image may no longer be adequate. Its nineteen contributions all represent a moving-away from the tradition passed down ever since Gregory the Great famously pronounced images to be the Bible of the illiterate. On the contrary, the authors of this volume demonstrate that images constitute another world altogether, with its own ideology and store of information, and with its own emotional charge and seductive qualities. History and Images contains articles by eminent scholars from Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and USA.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction, p. xxiii
Axel Bolvig

Art and history: the legacy of Johan Huizinga, p. 3
Francis Haskell

Images and the historian, p. 19
Jean-Claude Schmitt

Nostalgia for the real: the troubled relation of art history to visual culture, p. 45
Keith Moxey

Pourquoi élaborer des bases de données d’image? Propositions pour une iconographie sérielle, p. 59
Jérôme Baschet

Image and word: systematic research into the relations between image and word in Dutch culture (1500–1800), p. 107
Jörgen van den Berg, Hans Brandhorst, Peter van Huisstede

Six St Jeromes: notes on the technology and uses of computer lighting simulations, p. 131
Simon Niedenthal

The Lincoln CD-ROM Project: history, theory, conservation, and images, p. 139
Phillip Lindley

Innovative hybride graphische Systeme zur Denkmalüberwachung und -verwaltung am Beispiel historischer Wandmalereien—Ein Erfahrungsbericht, p. 165
Rolf-Jürgen Grote, Annette Hornschuch

Cutting off the king’s head: images and the (dis)location of power, p. 187
Frank Colson, Jean Colson, Ross Parry, Andrew Sawyer

‘Serra ex ferro’—‘Serra ex vitro’: medieval history—computers—image messages reconsidered, p. 209
Gerhard Jaritz

Quantitative image analysis: the Painter of wooden shoes, p. 229
Axel Bolvig

At the sign of the ‘Spinning Sow’: the ‘other’ Chartres and images of everyday life of the medieval street, p. 249
Michael Camille

Les marges à drôleries des manuscrits gothiques: problèmes de méthode, p. 277
Jean Wirth

‘Primitive’ paintings: the visual world of populus rusticus, p. 301
Helena Edgren

Man and picture: on the function of wall paintings in medieval churches, p. 323
Anna Nilsén

Representations of Jews in Danish medieval art—can images be used as source material on their own?, p. 341
Ulla Haastrup

Anti-semitism, image desecration, and the problem of ‘Jewish execution’, p. 357
Norbert Schnitzler

Framing history with salvation, p. 379
Søren Kaspersen

On the epistemology of images, p. 415
Lena Liepe

✦ Subjects

Культурология;История культуры;История европейской культуры Средневековья;