Williams, Bernard. Shame and Necessity. Berkeley; Los Angeles; Oxford: University of California Press, 1993.
SELECTED WORKS ABOUT VISUALIST TENDENCIES
Anderson, Patricia. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790-1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press of OxfordUniversity Press, 1991.
Barchas, Janine. Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge, England: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2003.
Biernoff, Suzannah. Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages. Basinstoke, England; and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Boman, Thorleif. Hebrew Thought Compared with Greek, translated from the 1960 revised German by Jules L. Moreau. London: SCM Press, 1960. A classic.
Brennan, Teresa and Martin Jay, eds. Vision in Context: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Sight. New York and London: Routledge, 1996.
Bultmann, Rudolf. Gnosis, translated from the original 1933 German by J. R. Coates. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1952. A classic.
Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed. Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
Crossan, John Dominic and Jonathan L. Reed. In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom: A New Vision of Paul's Words & World. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancsco, 2004. Very accessible.
Dimmick, Jeremy; James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman, eds. Images, Idolatry, and Iconoclasm in Late Medieval England: Textuality and Visual Image. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2002.
Elsner, Jas and Ian Rutherford, eds. Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & Early Christian Antiquity: Seeing the Gods. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 2005.
Elsner, Jas. Roman Eyes: Visuality & Subjectivity in Art & Text. Princeton, New Jersey; and Oxford, England: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2007.
Gerard, W. B. Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2006.
Hageman, Marielle and Marco Mostert, eds. Reading Images and Texts: Medieval Images and Texts as Forms of Communication. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005.
Havelock, Eric A. Preface to Plato. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of HarvardUniversity Press, 1963. A classic study of the Homeric oral mentality.
