Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West

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In Faces of Charisma: Image, Text, Object in Byzantium and the Medieval West, a multi-disciplinary group of scholars advances the theory that charisma may be a quality of art as well as of person. Beginning with the argument that Weberian charisma of person is itself a matter of representation, this volume shows that to study charismatic art is to experiment with a theory of representation that allows for the possibility of nothing less than a breakdown between art and viewer and between art and lived experience. The volume examines charismatic works of literature, visual art, and architecture from England, Northern Europe, Italy, Ancient Greece, and Constantinople and from time periods ranging from antiquity to the beginning of the early modern period. Contributors are Joseph Salvatore Ackley, Paul Binski, Paroma Chatterjee, Andrey Egorov, Erik Gustafson, Duncan Hardy, Stephen Jaeger, Jacqueline E. Jung, Lynsey McCulloch, Martino Rossi Monti, Gavin Richardson, and Andrew Romig. Contents......Page 5 Brigitte Bedos-Rezak and Martha Rust......Page 7 List of Illustrations......Page 8 List of Abbreviations......Page 11 List of Contributors......Page 12 Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak and Martha D. Rust......Page 15 Max Weber to C. Stephen Jaeger: From Charisma of Person to Charisma of Art......Page 17 The Sublime, Charisma, Aura......Page 26 Enchantment. Charismatic Art, Agency, Materiality......Page 34 Audiences......Page 35 Effects......Page 38 Modalities......Page 40 Charisma. A Face-Lift......Page 47 The Volume......Page 51 Medieval and Modern: The Hermeneutics of Charisma......Page 59 1 The Gift of Grace......Page 61 2 The Holy Philosophers......Page 66 3 The Christian Holy Men......Page 68 4 The Middle Ages......Page 72 5 The Mask of Grace......Page 78 Primary Sources......Page 83 Secondary Sources......Page 85 Introduction......Page 90 “Virtue made visible”: The Wise and Foolish Virgins at Strasbourg Cathedral......Page 94 The Hidden Oil of Conscience: Making Sense of the Virgins in the Exegetical Tradition......Page 99 Casting Judgment: The Virgins as Emblems of Virtue and Vice......Page 105 Charisma, Compassion, and the Eloquence of Bodies at Magdeburg Cathedral......Page 112 Righteous Anger, Justified Sadness, and the Laughter of the Damned: The Strasbourg Virgins Revisited......Page 127 Paul Binski......Page 142 Making Magic? Surface and Experience, Gothic Voluptuaries......Page 144 Bodywork and Conviction......Page 149 Charisma and Material Culture......Page 159 Charismatic Art......Page 169 Andrew Romig......Page 171 Primary Sources......Page 191 Secondary Sources......Page 192 Life-Writing......Page 195 Bernard: Grandiosity......Page 199 Francis: Humility......Page 201 The “Franciscan Question”......Page 204 The Wolf of Gubbio and His Relatives......Page 205 False Fables: Incommensurability......Page 210 The Truth of the Stigmata......Page 211 Charisma and the “Historical” Person......Page 212 Secondary Sources......Page 216 Andrey Egorov......Page 219 Dazzling Reflections: Charismatic Art and Its Audience......Page 255 Paroma Chatterjee......Page 257 Charisma in Public Spaces......Page 262 The Voices of Statues......Page 264 Epilogue......Page 275 Gavin T. Richardson......Page 281 Introduction: Later Medieval Politics and Culture through the Lens of Charisma......Page 302 Sigismund of Luxemburg: The Charismatic Ruler in His Lifetime......Page 310 Sigismund’s Charismatic Afterlife: The Idealized Emperor in the 15th- and 16th-Century Holy Roman Empire......Page 321 Conclusion......Page 328 Published Primary Sources......Page 330 Secondary Sources......Page 331 Mediation: The Intermediary Spaces of Charisma......Page 335 Erik Gustafson......Page 337 Central Italian Franciscan Architecture and Space......Page 340 Bonaventure and Medieval Charismata......Page 347 The Historical Experience of Franciscan Charismata and Charismatic Space......Page 353 Epilogue: Post-Weberian Charisma and the Compulsion of Architectural Space......Page 356 Primary Sources......Page 358 Secondary Sources......Page 359 Introduction: Metal vs. Paint......Page 362 The Charismatic Image......Page 366 The Charismatic Image in Text......Page 371 The Precious-Metal Figural Image......Page 375 The Charismatic Potential of the Precious-Metal Figure......Page 379 Media Hierarchy and Interchangeability......Page 385 Conclusion......Page 394 Lynsey McCulloch......Page 400 Moving Idols in Early Modern Culture......Page 403 Explicating Sculptural Movement......Page 407 Charisma, and the Brazen Head......Page 416 Conclusion......Page 420 Index......Page 425