How to represent the invisible? Among those who have, throughout the ages, answered this question, the mystic has something special to say. He who has an experiential knowledge of the Other - the divinity, the depths of the soul - seeks languages to express what he has seen, felt, listened to during the experience that transforms his body and soul.The experience passes through various modalities: vision, ecstasy, rapture. In all cases, God speaks beyond the Scriptures and the book of nature. He speaks in words without syllables or vowels and in words that can be seen, said Gregory the Great. He speaks in signs and visions. What he shows and makes hear during the mystical vision must then be translated. The subject seeks to recount what he experiences. The visionary narrative raises the question of the possibility and limits of translating inner images into words, of any linguistic objectification of the subject's subjectivity. It is not by chance that we find a number of verbal images in these narratives or that they become poems, canciones, Sometimes, yet another language emerges, this time pictorial - figures, drawings, paintings, frescoes that represents the mystical experience.The pages of this collective volume propose to consider this relationships between mystical experience, language and image in order to decipher, through concrete examples from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth century, how authors and artists attempted to show the invisible through the verbal image of the narrative, the poetic image of the lyric, and the material image of drawing, painting and sculpture. weiterlesen