Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular CultureMiles's pathbreaking work shows how art and architecture have shaped religious understanding throughout the history of Christianity. |
Contents
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Hermeneutics and the History of Image Users | 15 |
A Hermeneutics of Visual Images | 27 |
Images and the Life of the Body | 35 |
FourthCentury Roman Churches | 41 |
Architecture Images and Liturgy | 48 |
FourthCentury Images anal Theological Language | 55 |
Images of Women in FourteenthCentury Tuscan Painting | 63 |
Images of Women in FourteenthCentury Italian Cemmunities | 82 |
Historical Images of Women and Hermeneutics | 89 |
Vision and the SixteenthCentury Protestant | 95 |
Image and Language in Contemporary Culture | 127 |
A Theory | 139 |
Notes | 157 |
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The Virgin and Mary Magdalene | 75 |
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