LEADER 03118oam 22005174a 450 001 9910795651703321 005 20230531225513.0 010 $a0-271-08784-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9780271089034 035 $a(CKB)5590000000442610 035 $a(OCoLC)1244618344 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse97753 035 $a(DE-B1597)585056 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780271089034 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6530571 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000442610 100 $a20210403h20212021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Absent Image$eLacunae in Medieval Books /$fElina Gertsman 210 $cPenn State University Press 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource) 311 $a0-271-08903-2 327 $aIntro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Imaginary Realms -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Phantoms of Emptiness -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Traces of Touch -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Penetrating the Parchment -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 330 $aGuided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui?the fear of empty space?is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures.Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world?s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death.Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages. 606 $aNothing (Philosophy) in art 606 $aEmptiness (Philosophy) in art 606 $aAbsence in art 606 $aManuscripts, Medieval 606 $aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval 615 0$aNothing (Philosophy) in art. 615 0$aEmptiness (Philosophy) in art. 615 0$aAbsence in art. 615 0$aManuscripts, Medieval. 615 0$aIllumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval. 676 $a745.6/700902 700 $aGertsman$b Elina$01518890 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795651703321 996 $aThe Absent Image$93756700 997 $aUNINA