Bičovanie v obraznosti a myslení v stredoveku
Flagellation in Medieval Imagination and Thinking

Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to differentiate an image of asceticism from an ascetic image. The first part describes variety of iconographies of the flagellation in Liber depictus from Krumlov as an example of images of asceticism, to define an experiential field for testing of both principal terms (asceticism and image). The second part focusses on theoretical reflection which may possibly affect both the creation and the reception of the images. The third part opens some questions resulting from an effort to interconnect/bridge an empiric approach with a theoretical one. Could there in author’s and recipient’s consciousness exist a specific kind of interconnection between mental images and images/similitudes transcending their consciousness as well as images emerging at the frontiers between images of an ascetic practices various levels and maybe also in philosophical commentaries of an ascetic life and in concrete historical forms of ascetic culture?

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