TY - JOUR
AU - Stuard, Susan Mosher
AB - 1250 Reviews of Books At the center of Denery’s argument is the reading of even within optical theory itself from Alhazen through three religious texts (including the Tractatus moralis de Witelo; there is no mention of stimuli to their concep- oculo by Peter of Limoges [c. 1280], which was con- tual development coming from the social and intellec- cerned with comparing—if negatively—the treatment tual dynamic of the university, the city as social setting, of vision in a religious context with vision in the context the monetized and commercialized marketplace, or the of scientific perspective) against the writings of two au- civitas as polity. Denery’s decision to focus on the in- thors Denery takes to be representative of fourteenth- fluence of religion on optical thought is perfectly jus- century developments in perspective and cognition the- tifiable, but the clear recognition of the existence of ory, Peter Aureol (chapter four) and Nicholas of other crucial contributing factors would have consid- Autrecourt (chapter five). erably strengthened his attempt to explain the intellec- To the extent that Denery’s goal is (as he sometimes tual elements at work both in the Dominican explora- formulates it) to indicate broad “structural similarities tion of self and 
TI - Judith B. Steinhoff. Sienese Painting after the Black Death: Artistic Pluralism, Politics, and the New Art Market. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pp. xiv, 264. $85.00
JO - The American Historical Review
DO - 10.1086/ahr.112.4.1250
DA - 2007-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/judith-b-steinhoff-sienese-painting-after-the-black-death-artistic-2ZOSMfVwxh
SP - 1250
EP - 1251
VL - 112
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
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