âAbstracto igitur animoâ: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.

Walter S. Melion

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Chapter 14 âAbstracto igitur animoâ: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.

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Designed and engraved by the Galle family of Antwerp, the extensive print series around which Jan David, S.J.âs innovative emblem books are organized all conclude with eschatological images having to do with the spiritual exercise of purgation â the freeing of oneâs bodily and spiritual senses from sinful impulses, in anticipation of oneâs imminent death and of final judgement. These emblems consistently turn on paradoxa that assist the votary visually and affectively to experience something beyond the realm of human experience, to see what cannot be seen, to partake in time of a state of salvation or damnation that is timeless. Having examined the eschatological cosmology adopted by David from JerÃ³nimo Nadal, S.J.âs Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (1595), I then turn to Davidâs emblems focusing on the nature of the relation between present and future experience, between a prevenient and everlasting state of grace, and on the thoughts and emotions, texts and images that preview the eternal future of the embodied soul from the its present contingent circumstances. In particular, my essay looks closely at the images collaboratively designed by the Galles and David to represent how the end of the world and its perpetual aftermath may be imagined.

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The Eschatological Imagination

Space, Time, and Experience (1300â1800)

Series:Â Intersections, Volume: 96

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004688247

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 15 Oct 2024

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Part 1 Cosmology and Eschatology

Part 2 Underlands and Netherworlds

Part 3 Visions of Heaven and Hell

Part 4 Spiritual Reckoning and Refuge

Part 5 Sites of Purgation, Meditation, and Martyrdom

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Chapter 14 âAbstracto igitur animoâ: Eschatological Image-Making in the Emblematic Spiritual Exercises of Jan David, S.J.

Space, Time, and Experience (1300â1800)