Art and Mysticism

Helen Appleton is a Career Development Fellow in Old and Early Medieval English at Balliol College, Oxford. She has published on early medieval poetry and hagiography, and is also a co-organiser of The Oxford Psalms Network. Her principal research area is the relationship between religious devotion and the environment in Anglo-Saxon England. Louise Nelstrop is a lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at York St John University and a College Lecturer in Theology at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford. She is co-editor of several earlier volumes in the series, most recently Mysticism in the French Tradition: Eruptions from France with Bradley B. Onishi. She has published several articles on the English Mystics and is also a convenor of The Mystical Theology Network.

Introduction: Art, Articulation and Incarnation: Mystical Theology and Seeing the Invisible, Helen Appleton and Louise Nelstrop PART I: Art, Aesthetics and Mysticism in Theory and Practice 1 Beneath the Surface: Whose Phenomenology? Which Art? Kate Kirkpatrick 2 Art and Inarticulacy, Bill Prosser 3 Art, Contemplation and intellectus: Aquinas and Gadamer in Conversation, Rik Van Nieuwenhove PART II: Art, Mysticism and the Everyday 4 Jan van Eyck and the Active Mysticism of the Devotio Moderna, Inigo Bocken 5 Art and Mysticism as Horticulture: Late Medieval Enclosed Gardens of the Low Countries in an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Barbara Baert 6 Medieval Pop: Warhol’s Byzantine Iconography, Jewell Homad Johnson Part III: Metaphor, Making and Transcendence 7 An Artist’s Notes on the Art and the Articulation of the Mystical Moment, Sheila Gallagher 8 The Desert of Religion: A Voice and Images in the Wilderness, Anne Mouron 9 « Bon Jhesu, sainctefie ces deux, conjoins ensamble par sacrement de mariage »: le rapport entre le texte et l’image dans le Livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et reconfort des dames mariees de Philippe de Mézières, Anna Loba Part IV: Into the Darkness 10 ‘It’s Not Dark Yet, but It’s Gettin’ There’, Bernard McGinn 11 Visions of the Otherworld: The Accounts of Fursey and Dryhthelm in Bede’s Historia Ecclesiastica and in the Homilies of Ælfric, Roberta Bassi 12 The Gaze of Divine Sorrow: Vision and Mystical Union in Dürer, Cusa, and the Theologia Germanica, Simon D. Podmore