Specular Reflections

Specular Reflections
By:Nancy Frelick
Published on 2016-05-31 by


In this interdisciplinary volume, specialists in medieval and early modern history of science, cultural and political history, as well as art history, philosophy, and literature come together to explore the intersections between material and metaphysical mirrors in Europe and the Islamic world. During the time periods studied here, various technologies were transforming the looking glass as an optical device, scientific instrument, and aesthetic object, making it clearer and more readily available, though still a rare and precious commodity. While technical innovations spawned new discoveries and ways of seeing, belief systems were slower to change, as expressed in the natural sciences, mystical writings, art, or literature. Mirror metaphors based on analogies established in the ancient world still retained significant power and authority, not least when related to Aristotelian science, the medieval speculum tradition, religious iconography, secular imagery, Renaissance Neoplatonism, or spectacular Baroque engineering, artistry, and self-fashioning. Texts using mirror effects through myths, metaphors, or rhetorical devices could invite self-contemplation and evoke abstract, intangible, or paradoxical concepts. Whether faithful or deforming, specular reflections often turn out to be ambivalent and contradictory: sometimes sources of illusion, sometimes reflections of divine truth, mirrors invite us to question the very nature of representation.

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