Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Movement and Miracle in Michael Psellos’s Account of the Blachernae Icon of the Theotokos, Charles Barber; Chapter 2 Images, A Daydream, and Heavenly Sounds in the Carolingian Era: Walahfrid Strabo and Maura of Troyes, Thomas F.X. Noble; Chapter 3 Moving Pictures: Dante and Botticelli (Purgatorio 10, 12, 28–33) and the Millennial Celebration of St Romuald’s Martyrdom (Malines, 1775), Karl F. Morrison; Chapter 4 Image as Insight in Joachim of Fiore’s Figurae, Bernard McGinn; Chapter 5 1The present study is an adapted and expanded part of a chapter in my book Poetics of Wonder. Testimonies of the New Christian Miracles in the Late Antique Latin World. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 31 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012)., Giselle de Nie; Chapter 6 1The ideas in this chapter were tested out not only at Notre Dame but also at the Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College and in my Augustine seminar at Bryn Mawr. My thanks to these several audiences for their engaged reception, and especially to Steven Levine, Bernard McGinn (the happy phrase “endlessly fertile” is his), and Betsy Spear (to whom I owe the notion of “amateur’s variatio”)., Catherine Conybeare;

About the Author

Until her retirement, Giselle de Nie was at the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands; Thomas F.X. Noble is Professor and Chair of the Department of History, University of Notre Dame, USA. Charles Barber, Thomas F.X. Noble, Karl F. Morrison, Bernard McGinn, Giselle de Nie, Catherine Conybeare.