Imago exegetica : visual images as exegetical instruments, 1400-1700 / / edited by Walter S. Melion, James Clifton, and Michel Weemans

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464259603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2014]; ©2014
• ISBN: 90-04-26201-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1008 pages ) : illustrations
• Collana: Intersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, , 1568-1181 ; ; volume 33
• Disciplina: 302.2/22
• Soggetti: Christian art and symbolism - Europe - Medieval, 500-1500; Christian art and symbolism - Europe - Modern period, 1500-; Visual communication - Europe - History; Theology - Europe - History; Hermeneutics - History; Electronic books.; Europe Religious life and customs; Europe Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Emory University, Lovis Corinth Colloquium IV."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Visual Exegesis and Pieter Bruegel’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery / Walter S. Melion -- Jan van Eyck’s Typology of Spiritual Knighthood in the Van der Paele Madonna / Jamie L. Smith -- Typology at its Limits: Visual Exegesis and Eschatology in the Sistine Chapel / Giovanni Careri -- Typology – Back with a Vengeance! Texts, Images, and Marginal Glosses in Vorsterman’s 1534 Dutch Bible / Wim François -- L’Épitaphe de Jan Michielsen et Maria Maes de Rubens. Rhétorique et exégèse visuelle / Colette Nativel -- A New Interpretation of Vermeer’s Allegory of Faith: Vividness and Figural Interpretation / Caroline van Eck -- Empathy as a Type of Early Netherlandish Visual Wit / Bret L. Rothstein -- Meditative Exegesis and the Trope of Conversion in Dirk Vellert’s Calling of Peter and Andrew of 1523 / Walter S. Melion -- The Preaching of John the Baptist: Herri met de Bles’s Visual Exegesis and Expanded Typology / Michel Weemans -- ; Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen / Todd M. Richardson -- Becoming Elijah: The Sleep of Elijah by Philippe de Champaigne from the Convent of the Val-de-Grâce / Tatiana Senkevitch -- ‘See the Bridegroom Cometh; Go Out and Meet Him’: On Spiritual Progress and Mystical Union in Early Netherlandish Painting / Ingrid Falque -- Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Ruusbroec: Reading, Rending, and Re-Fashioning the ‘Twice-Dyed’ Veil of Blood in the Escorial Crucifixion / Elliott D. Wise -- Helenus and Dorotheus: Marten de Vos and the Desert Fathers / Leopoldine van Hogendorp Prosperetti -- Lectio Divina and Francis de Sales’s Picturing of the Interconnection of Divine and Human Hearts / Joseph F. Chorpenning -- Illumination of Images and Illumination through the Image – Functions and Concepts of Gospel Illustrations in the Bible of the Nuremberg Patrician Martin Pfinzing / Maria Deiters -- Clades Judaeae Gentis: Patterns of Destruction / Merel Groentjes -- Modes of Scriptural Illustration: The Beatitudes in the Late Sixteenth Century / James Clifton -- Framing Devices and Exegetical Strategies in Northern Illustrated Spiritual Literature / Ralph Dekoninck and Agnès Guiderdoni -- ‘The Glory of the Last House’ (Haggai 2:9): Rembrandt and the Prophets Malachi and Haggai / Shelley Perlove -- Saints Amidst the Inferno: Humanism in Wittenberg’s Pre-Reformation Art: A New Exegesis of Dürer’s Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand / Birgit Ulrike Münch -- Visual Exegesis and Social History: Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525–1596) and His Strategies of Self-Aggrandizement / Wolfgang Neuber -- Gideon, an Old Testament Hero in Action: Burgundian Symbolism and the Visual Language of Protestant Flanders / Dagmar Eichberger -- Maerten van Heemskerck’s Heliodorus Driven from the Temple: Translatio and the Interrogative Print / Arthur J. DiFuria -- Of Churches, Heretics, and Other Guides of the Blind: The Fall of the Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Esthetics of Subversion / Jürgen Müller -- Bruegel’s Biblical Kings / Larry Silver -- From Putti to Angels: The Celestial Creatures in Otto Vaenius’ Paintings and Emblems / Nathalie de BrézéSurname.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary, following from Scripture itself, which is replete with verbal images and rhetorical figures, exegesis has traditionally utilized visual devices of all kinds. In turn, visual exegesis, since it concerns the most authoritative of texts, supplied a template for the interpretation of other kinds of significant text by means of images. Seen in this light, exegetical images prove crucial to understanding how meaning was constituted visually, not only in the sacred sphere but also in the secular. Contributors include Giovanni Careri, Joseph Chorpenning, James Clifton, Nathalie de Brézé, Maria Deiters, Ralph Dekoninck, Arthur diFuria, Caroline van Eck, Dagmar Eichberger, Ingrid Falque, Wim François, Merel Groentjes, Agnès Guiderdoni, Barbara Haeger, Alexander Linke, Walter Melion, Jürgen Müller, Birgit Ulrike Münch, Colette Nativel, Wolfgang Neuber, Shelley Perlove, Leopoldine Prosperetti, Todd Richardson, Bret Rothstein, Tatiana Senkevitch, Larry Silver, Jamie Smith, Trudelien van 't Hof, Michel Weemans, and Elliott Wise

The Saddam tapes : the inner workings of a tyrant's regime, 1978-2001 / / Kevin M. Woods, David D. Palkki, Mark E. Stout [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778953303321
• Autore: Woods Kevin M.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-23055-1; 1-280-56889-5; 1-139-22312-7; 9786613598493; 1-139-06150-X; 1-139-22484-0; 1-139-21832-8; 1-139-21523-X; 1-139-22141-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Classificazione: POL010000
• Disciplina: 956.7044092
• Soggetti: Authoritarianism - Iraq - History - 20th century; Iraq Politics and government 1979-1991 Sources; Iraq Politics and government 1991-2003 Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The United States -- 2. The 'Zionist entity' -- 3. The Arab world -- 4. Qadisiyyah Saddam (the Iran-Iraq War) -- 5. The mother of all battles -- 6. Special munitions -- 7. The embargo and the special commission -- 8. Hussein Kamil.
• Sommario/riassunto: During the 2003 war that ended Saddam Hussein's regime, coalition forces captured thousands of hours of secret recordings of meetings, phone calls and conferences. Originally prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses for the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, this study presents annotated transcripts of Iraqi audio recordings of meetings between Saddam Hussein and his inner circle. The Saddam Tapes, along with the much larger digital collection of ; captured records at the National Defense University's Conflict Records Research Center, will provide researchers with important insights into the inner workings of the regime and, it is hoped, the nature of authoritarian regimes more generally. The collection has implications for a range of historical questions. How did Saddam react to the pressures of his wars? How did he manage the Machiavellian world he created? How did he react to the signals and actions of the international community on matters of war and peace? Was there a difference between the public and the private Saddam on critical matters of state? A close examination of this material in the context of events and other available evidence will address these and other questions.