Quid est sacramentum?

Walter S. Melion, Ph.D. (1988), is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Art History at Emory University, where he also directs the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. He has published extensively on Northern art and art theory and on Jesuit image theory.Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Ph.D. (1986) is Professor of Art History at Emory University, and President of the American Committee of the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, the body of scholars devoted to the study of stained glass. A medievalist, she has published extensively on stained glass and issues of patronage, as well as the Bayeux Embroidery.Lee Palmer Wandel, Ph.D. (1985), is the WARF Michael Baxandall and Linda and Stanley Sher Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She has published extensively on the Reformation, including books on poor relief, iconoclasm, and the liturgy.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Quid est sacramentum?: IntroductionWalter S. MelionPart 1: Representing the Sacraments2 Counterfeiting the Eucharist in Late Medieval Life and ArtAden Kumler3 Vestments in the MassLee Palmer Wandel4 ‘In the Flesh a Mirror of Spiritual Blessings’: Calvin’s Defence of the Lord’s Supper as a Visual AccommodationAnnMarie M. Bridges5 ‘Mystery’ or ‘Sacrament’: Ephesians 5:32, the Sacrament of Marriage in Early Modern Biblical Scholarship, and Nicolas Poussin’s Visual ExegesisWim François6 Hoc Est Corpus Meum: Whole-Body Catacomb Saints and Eucharistic Doctrine in Baroque BavariaNoria K. Litaker7 Staging Sacramental Consolation in ViennaRobert L. KendrickPart 2: Sacramental Modes of Representation8 Seeing beyond Signs: Allegorical Explanations of the Mass in Medieval Dutch LiteratureAnna Dlabačová9 Representing Architecture in the Altarpiece: Fictions, Strategies, and MysteriesElizabeth Carson Pastan10 Orchestrating Polyphony at the Altar: Passion Altarpieces in Late Medieval FranceDonna L. Sadler11 God’s Design: Painting and Piety in the Vida of Estefanía de la Encarnación (ca. 1597–1665)Tanya J. Tiffany12 Amber, Blood, and the Holy Face of Jesus: the Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval BrugesElliott D. Wise and Matthew Havili13 Anchoring the Appearance of the Sacred: the Abbot of Choisy & His Translation of the Imitatio Christi (1692)Lars Cyril Nørgaard14 Spiritual and Material Conversions: Federico Barocci’s Christ and Mary MagdaleneBronwen WilsonPart 3: Representing Divine Presence and the Mysteries of Faith15 The Fine Art of Dying: Envisioning Death in the Somme le Roi TraditionAlexa Sand16 Christ Child CreatorDavid S. Areford17 Lady Scripture’s Sacred Commitments: Dialogic Understanding in Dutch Religious Literature of the Late Fifteenth CenturyGeert Warnar18 Coemeterium Schola: the Emblematic Imagery of Death in Jan David, S.J.’s Veridicus ChristianusWalter S. Melion19 The Limits of ‘Mute Theology’: Charles Le Brun’s Lecture on Nicolas Poussin’s Ecstasy of Saint Paul RevisitedJames Clifton20 A Private Mystery: Looking at Philippe de Champaigne’s Annunciation for the Hôtel de ChavignyMette Birkedal BruunIndex Nominum