p.6. Merleau-Ponty – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, La Prose du monde, Gallimard, 1969, 186–70; The Prose of the World, tr. John O'Neill, Heinemann, 1974, 134–7.
pp.9–10. ‘Photography maintains’ – Stanley Cavell, The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, enlarged edn, Harvard University Press, 1979, 23, 26.
p.10. Walter Benjamin – ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, tr. Harry Zohn, Jonathan Cape, 1970, 224–5.
p.12. Donald Davie – Articulate Energy, Penguin Books, 1992 edn, 259–60.
p.15. ‘I feel I was wrong’ – Marcel Proust, ‘Journées de pèlerinage’, in Contre Sainte-Beuve, ed. Pierre Clarac et Yves Sandre, Gallimard, Pléiade, 1971, 84–6; On Reading Ruskin, trans. and ed. Jean Autret, William Burford and Phillip J. Wolfe, Yale University Press, 1987, 16–17.
p.20. ‘Make all men living’ – Aeschylus, Choephoroe, 1. 902. See John Jones, On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy, Chatto & Windus, 1962, 100–103.
p.20. Ezekiel 33 – see Harold Fisch, Poetry With a Purpose: Biblical Poetics and Interpretation, Indiana University Press, 1988, Ch.4.
p.25. Foucault has written eloquently – Les Mots et les choses, Gallimard, 1966, Ch. 1.
p.26. too low in realistic terms – see Craig Harbison, Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism, Reaktion Books, 1991, 34.
p.26. Some have suggested – see, for example, Jill Dunkerton, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, Nicholas Penny, Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery, Yale University Press in Association with National Gallery Publications Limited, 1991, 260.
p.30. an episode – A la recherche du temps perdu, ed. Pierre Clarac et André Ferré, Gallimard, Pléiade, 1954, I. 27–43.
p.33. ‘identical emotions’ – ibid., 155; In Search of Lost Time, tr. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised by D. J. Enright, Chatto & Windus, 1992, I. 186.
p.33. ‘[s]ometimes to the’ – ibid., 157; 187.
p.35. ‘Today the room’ – Georges Perec, La Vie mode d'emploi, Hachette, 1978, 331; Life: A User's Manual, tr. David Bellos, Collins Harvill, 1987, 261.
p.37. Auden – W. H. Auden, New Year Letter, Faber and Faber, 1941, 121.
p.38. ‘sanza speme’ – Dante, Inferno, IV. 42. I have used C. S. Singleton's edition and translation, The Divine Comedy, Princeton University Press, 1970,
p.41. Jill Mann – in an unpublished lecture on Inferno V which she was kind enough to show me
p.42. William Burroughs – Junkie, Penguin edn, 1977.
pp.42–3. Stanley Cavell – op. cit., 102.
p.44. Graham Greene's comments – ‘The Lost Childhood’, in Collected Essays, Penguin Books, 1970, 13.
p.46. ‘And it was then’ – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils, tr. David Magarshack, Penguin Books, 1953, 63.
p.48. ‘Do you know’ – Proust, op. cit., I. 163; I. 195.
p.51. ‘Tell me’ – I have used E. F. Watling's Penguin translation throughout: The Theban Plays, Penguin Books, 1947.
pp.59–60. St John – I have used the King James Bible throughout.
p.60. Peter Brown – The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity, University of Chicago Press, 1981, 88.
p.64. ‘heals the sick’ and ‘He touches’ – Marc Bloch, The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France, tr. J. E. Anderson, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973, 81, 83.
p.64. darshan – E. A. Morinis, Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition: A Case Study of West Bengal, Oxford University Press, 1984, 73. My thanks to Stephen Medcalf for introducing me to this book.
p.65. ‘Peter Brown’ – op. cit., 87.
p.66. ‘the distance’ – ibid.
pp.66–7. ‘The image’ – Morinis, op. cit., 182.
p.67. ‘In Tebessa’ – Brown, op. cit., 87–8.
p.69. Berkeley – A New Theory of Vision, XLI. I am grateful to Bernard Harrison for directing me to Berkeley's essay.
p.70. ‘How many times’ – Proust, ‘Journées de lecture’, in Contre Sainte-Beuve, 194; On Reading Ruskin, 128–9.
p.73. ‘Benares is to the East’ – Morinis, op. cit., 74.
p.73. Craig Harbison – op. cit., 187.
p.73. Eamon Duffy – The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580, Yale University Press, 1992, 199.
p.74. ‘You knight of Christ’ – quoted in ibid., 205.
p.74. A fascinating Lollard text – ‘The Testimony of William Thorpe 1407’, in Two Wycliffite Texts, ed. Anne Hudson, Oxford University Press, 1993. The quotes come from lines 1229–1389. I have modernised the spelling.
p.76. ‘for as moche’ – quoted in Duffy, op. cit., 580.
p.76. ‘By the end’ – ibid., 582.
p.77. It has often been remarked – the classic work is Louis Martz, The Poetry of Meditation, Yale University Press, 1954.
p.79. ‘A hectic trade’ – Brown, op. cit., 88–90.
p.79. ‘His body lay hidden’ – ibid., 91–3.
p.80. ‘the invisible gesture’ – ibid., 97.
p.80. ‘While the relic’ – ibid., 100–101.
p.81. ‘shall not show’ – this and the following quotes in Duffy, op. cit., 584–5.
p.82. ‘The price for such accommodation’ – ibid., 593.
p.85. J. A. Burrow: A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1965.
p.86. Father Zosima – Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, tr. David Magarshack, Penguin Books, 1958,I.46.
p.89. Georg Christoph Stirm – Stephen Greenblatt first drew attention to this letter and published it in ‘A Passing Marvelous Thing’, Times Literary Supplement, 3 Jan., 1992, 14–15.
p.91. Nicholas Thomas – ‘Licensed Curiosity: Cook's Pacific Voyages’, in The Cultures of Collecting, ed. John Eisner and Roger Cardinal, Reaktion Books, 1994, 134.
p.92. Krzystof Pomian – Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800, Cambridge, 1990.
p.92. Humanist popes – see Donald Home, The Great Museum: The Representation of History, Pluto Press, 1984, Ch.1.
p.95. ‘It has been estimated’ – Robert Harris, Selling Hitler: The Story of the Hitler Diaries, Faber and Faber, 1986, 183–4. The other quotes in this paragraph come from pages 184–7.
p.95. ‘included an almost complete set’ – ibid., 111.
p.96. a specific genre of post-war art – see Saul Friedlander, Reflections on Nazism: An Essay on Kitsch and Death, Harper and Row, 1984.
p.96. ‘Why should anyone pay’ – Harris, op. cit., 387.
p.102. the Age of Suspicion – see Nathalie Sarraute's famous essay, ‘L'Ère du soupçon’, in L'Ère du soupçon: Essais sur le roman, Gallimard, 1956.
p.111. ‘Since his illness’ – Jonathan Cole, Pride and a Daily Marathon, Duckworth, 1991, 148.
p. 111. ‘Nothing is granted to me’ – Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena, ed. Willy Haas, tr. T. and J. Stern, Schocken Books, 1953, 219.
p. 127. ‘how everything can be said’ – Franz Kafka, Diaries, ed. Max Brod, Penguin Books, 1972, entry for 23.9.1912.
p.136. Proust – ‘Chardin et Rembrandt’, in Contre Sainte-Beuve, 372–82.
p.137. ‘It is said’ – Denis Diderot, ‘Le Salon de 1767’, in Salons, ed. Jean Seznec and Jean Adhémar, Oxford University Press, 1983, III; there is an English translation by John Goodman, Diderot on Art, Yale University Press, 1995, II. 86.
p.138. ‘When the ancient mythologies’ – Francis Ponge, Nouveau receuil, Gallimard, 1976, 171–3.