Angels, Devils: The Supernatural and Its Visual Representation

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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations ………………………………………………………………… vii Preface ………………………………………………………………………………. 1 Norbert Schnitzler, The Beam of Grace and the Ocular Paradigm. Some Remarks on the Relation between Late Medieval Theology and Art ………… 3 Gerhard Jaritz, Visual Images of the Supernatural in the Late Middle Ages, or, How to Make the Entities Recognizable that Are not Part of Our Natural World ……………………………………………………… 17 Alexander E. Makhov, … In diversas figuras nequitiae: The Devil’s Image from the Viewpoint of Rhetoric ………………………. 29 Helmut Hundsbichler, Devils in Visual Proximity……………………………………… 51 Béla Zsolt Szakács, Supernatural Figures Incognito …………………………………… 75 Maria Crăciun, Guardians or Avengers? Depictions of Angels in Transylvanian Altarpieces from the Late Medieval Period ………………………………. . 93 Zsófia Buda, Heavenly Envoys: Angels in Jewish Art ………………………………… 117 György E. Szőnyi, The Reincarnations of Enoch from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance ………………………………… 135 Anna Maria Gruia, Images to Influence the Supernatural: Apotropaic Representations on Medieval Stove Tiles …………………… 153 List of Contributors ……………………………………………………………… 199 Index ……………………………………………………………………………… 201 ...