aspectus

Also 303n83: "Recall that memory is always described as a type of affectus and inner aspectus." back

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

Note 3: In his Sermons on the Song of Songs (I.V. #75), Bernard of Clairvaux describes the mental and emotional discipline necessary for aspectus (Carruthers, Craft of Thought, 84).

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

In medieval prayer, aspectus represented a concentrated state of "inner seeing" that drew on the sensuousness of physical ornament for its emotional focus (affectus) .3 Though not commonly used, the astronomical connotations persist; for example, the various meanings of aspect include "the relative positions of the heavenly bodies as they appear to an observer on the Earth's surface at a given time."

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

It is at his intellectual conversion in Milan when he “sees” or recognises or appreciates God`s invisible nature: when he hears the voice calling out to him “tolle lege” and his subsequent reaction to reading of another passage from St Paul (pervenit ad id quod est in ictu trepidantis aspectus (Confessions 7.17.23)).

Two Allegories 2009

Heliodorus, l. 4. inflammat mentem novus aspectus, perinde ac ignis materiae admotus, Chariclia, &c. 5653.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Eustathii l. 3. aspectus amorem incendit, ut marcescentem in palea ignem ventus; ardebam interea majore concepto incendio.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Osorius; ubicunque visio et pulchritudo divini aspectus, ibi voluptas ex eodem fonte omnisque beatitudo, nec ab ejus aspectu voluptas, nec ab illa voluptate aspectus separari potest.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

This lack of understanding was due to a disordering of their affectus or will, rather than of their aspectus or reason.

Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007

Cujus erat gratissimus amplexus (whose embrace was so agreeable) as Barnard saith, erit horribilis aspectus; Non redolet, sed olet, quae, redolere solet, As a posy she smells sweet, is most fresh and fair one day, but dried up, withered, and stinks another.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

His vultus minax, torvus aspectus, pallor in facie, in labiis tremor, stridor in dentibus, &c. 1692.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007