Image as Speculum
Abstrak
Peter of Limoges (1240–1306), a French theologian based at the University of Paris, composed the Tractatus Moralis de Oculo as a preaching manual that encouraged the use of optical theory to facilitate devotion. He combined contemporary scientific optical theories and new understandings of visual cognition within a religious framework to aid clerics in their moral teaching to the laity. This article examines the relationship between text and image in an early fourteenth-century French manuscript that contains the Tractatus. This manuscript is the only surviving example with an extensive decorative programme of figures shown in the act of “looking” at the text they accompany. This article will investigate the role of these images within the visual strategies employed in picturing sensory experiences as discussed in the Tractatus and how they may have shaped the viewer’s own sensory experiences.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (1)
Roisin Astell
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2023
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.4000/aes.6919
- Akses
- Open Access ✓