Appel à contribution : « Objects Beyond the Senses, Convivium VIII/1, 2021 », date limite le 31 janvier 2020
“What is beyond the senses” – ea quae in sensu non cadunt –, writes Thomas Aquinas about the way in which divine truth is to be made known, “cannot be grasped by human understanding except so far as knowledge is gathered of [it] through the senses” (Summa Contra Gentiles, Book 1, ch. 3). How can this statement be explored through contemporary medieval art history? ‘Object’, as is well known, derives from the Latin obiectum, a...