Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)

Backus, Irena

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“…While these results run counter to the idea of a "creativity-cognition" binary proposed at the outset of this project, it would also not be appropriate to label cluster A the "narration" cluster. In accordance with the Latin rhetorical tradition and its tripartite distinction between "false," "verisimilar," and 59 For the theory and methodology of modern narrative history, see works by Ankersmit, 1983 and2001;Munslow, 2003 and "true" narratives, the Renaissance concept of narratio was polyvalent, lending itself equally to the discourses of the poet and the historian. It is therefore impossible to say that one cluster is more closely connected to narration than the other.…”

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Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History

Kluge,

Kristensen-Mclachlan

2023

Renaiss. Q.

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This article aims to reopen discussion of the Renaissance ars historica, a genre that has garnered little attention in modern scholarship. It does so by using a set of computational tools to measure the quantitative occurrence of terms related to artistry and cognition in Johann Wolff's collection of historical-method texts entitled “Artis Historicae Penus” (1579). Like the period's historical writing, which amalgamated aesthetics and historiography, the Renaissance artes historicae belonged to a historiographical paradigm in which the skillful construction of discourse went hand in hand with the search for historical truth. The title of Wolff's anthology accordingly draws an overt connection between the concepts of “ars” and “historia,” yet what did sixteenth-century theorists mean by “art”?

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Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History

Kluge,

Kristensen-Mclachlan

2023

Renaiss. Q.

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“…1295-1378) Life of Christ (1474). 90 Drawing on Lentulus, which he quoted in its entirety, the physician Michele Savonarola (1385-1468), grandfather of the famous Girolamo, linked Jesus with the physiognomy of the normative (temperatus) human, with an emphasis on moderation (mediocritas): moderate height, moderate hands and feet, colour neither too red nor too white. That is, he used the deep ken to extrapolate human-biology norms from Jesus's appearance.…”

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16. Extraordinary Jesus Images

Clossey

2024

Jesus and the Making of the Modern Mind, 1380-1520

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The last of three art chapters looks at example images, especially those which were understood to be especially accurate or powerful. It begins with a statistical overview, using correspondence analysis of the metadata of thousands of Jesus images to chart shifts in subject matter over time and space. We then turn to miraculous images by describing what they depicted, what they achieved, and how they were activated. A small number of Jesus images were considered especially faithful representations, having been either pressed upon his body or created by an eyewitness. These speak to the plain ken, given their interest in the first-century Jesus, and in the mechanisms of replicating an appearance in spacetime. From these developed a tradition of lifelike Jesus portraits that converged with secular representations of individuals. Perhaps the most arresting Jesus images are those visualized as drenched with blood, which the owner could physically lance or use in connection with indulgences.

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The Fathers and the Reformation

Backus¹

2015

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics

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Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)

Cited by 48 publications

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Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History

Ut Poesis Historia? A Computational-Hermeneutic Approach to the Renaissance Art of History

16. Extraordinary Jesus Images

The Fathers and the Reformation

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