Scholasticism in Early Modern Theories of Literature and Art

Aline Smeesters, Hélène Leblanc, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni (eds)

Pages: approx. 400 p.
Size:156 x 234 mm
Illustrations:20 b/w

Language(s):English
Publication Year:2027

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Offers fresh and groundbreaking perspectives on the connections between scholasticism and the artistic and literary fields during the early modern period

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BIO

The four co-editors of the volume are the leading members of the “Schol’Art” project at UCLouvain (Belgium), and represent the various disciplinary orientations of the project: history of art (Ralph Dekoninck), history of French literature and emblematic studies (Agnès Guiderdoni), history of philosophy (Hélène Leblanc) and Neo-Latin studies (Aline Smeesters). All the contributing authors are experts in one or more of these fields.

Summary

Contrary to what is commonly assumed, early modern thought on literature and art, as developed in the vast quantity of treatises, commentaries, and other texts that were produced in the fields of poetics, rhetoric, symbolism, emblematics, and art theory, was no stranger to scholastic philosophy. Most early modern universities included scholastic philosophy as a significant element of the curriculum. Scholasticism, therefore, provided a common intellectual framework for a systematic rational discourse on literature and the visual arts.

This collected volume aims to examine such borrowings and influences, and to illustrate them with concrete case studies, exploring mainly French, Italian, and Neo-Latin writings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It thus offers fresh and groundbreaking perspectives on the connections between scholasticism and the artistic and literary fields during the early modern period.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
ALINE SMEESTERS and HÉLÈNE LEBLANC

The Presence of Scholasticism in Poetic Theories

The Scholastic Foundations of the Definition of Poetics in Francesco Robortello’s In librum Aristotelis de arte poetica explicationes (1548)
LAURENCE BOULÈGUE

A Practical Application of Aristotelian Psychology: Imaginatio in the Commentaries of Francesco Robortello and Alessandro Piccolomini on Aristotle’s Poetics
FRANCESCO MOLINAROLO

The Perfection of the World and Fixism in Julius Caesar Scaliger’s Poetices libri septem
VIRGINIE LEROUX

The Presence of Sholasticism in Art and Image Theories

Scholastic Hylomorphism and the Italian Renaissance Theory of Art: Materia disposta and intenzione dell’artista in Dante, Alberti, and Varchi
BAPTISTE TOCHON-DANGUY

Federico Zuccari among the Scholastics: Disegno, conceptus, species, and signum formale　
HÉLÈNE LEBLANC

Between Material and Mental Images: Scholastic Underpinnings in the Use of the Term ‘Idol’ in Theories of the Arts and Images at the Turn of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
RALPH　DEKONINCK

The Presence of Scholasticism in the Theory of Symbolic Genres

Anima e corpo: The Influence of Early Modern Scholasticism on the Theory of Devices
ELISE GÉRARDY

From Zabarella to Ripa: The Passion to Define in the Late Cinquecento
ALINE SMEESTERS

The Intersection of Scholastic, Humanist, Rhetorical, Poetic and Symbolic Traditions in Other Corpora

Scholastic Knowledge and the Art of Memory in the Early Modern Period: The Tree by Johannes Host von Romberch (Venice, 1520)
NAÏS VIRENQUE

Syllogism and its Limitations in Lyric Poetry: Ronsard and Desportes as Case Studies
ULLRICH LANGER

The Poetic Practice of Scholastic Discourse: Images of the Divine in the Works of André Mage de Fiefmelin (Saintonge, 1601)
AUDREY DURU

Illustrating Logic: Symbolic Images in Student Lecture Notebooks and Thesis Prints of the Southern Netherlands
GWENDOLINE DE MÛELENAERE

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