A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

Herausgeber: Newhauser, Richard G

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Produktbeschreibung

Understanding the senses is indispensable for comprehending the Middle Ages because both a theoretical and a practical involvement with the senses played a central role in the development of ideology and cultural practice in this period. For the long medieval millennium, the senses were not limited to the five we think of: speech, for example, was categorized among the senses of the mouth. And sight and hearing were not always the dominant senses: for the medical profession, taste was more decisive. Nor were the senses only passive receptors: they were understood to play an active role in the process of perception and were also a vital element in the formation of each individual's moral identity. From the development of specifically urban or commercial sensations to the sensory regimes of holiness, from the senses as indicators of social status revealed in food to the Scholastic analysis of perception, this volume demonstrates the importance of sensory experience and its manifold interpretations in the Middle Ages. A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages presents essays on the following topics: the social life of the senses; urban sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art and the senses; and sensory media.

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Produktdetails

• The Cultural Histories Series
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781350077898
• ISBN-10: 1350077895
• Artikelnr.: 50909650

Autorenporträt

Richard G. Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. He is the author of, among other works, The Early History of Greed (2000); Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007); and co-editor of Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2012). He recently co-edited "Pleasure and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," a special issue of The Senses & Society (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Sensual Middle Ages Richard Newhauser (Arizona State
University, USA)
1. The Social Life of the Senses: Experiencing the Self, Others, and
Environments Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton, UK)
2. Urban Sensations: The Medieval City Imagined Kathryn Reyerson
(University of Minnesota, USA)
3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Markets, Shops, and Shopping in Medieval
Towns Martha Carlin (University of Wisconsin, USA)
4. The Senses in Religion: Liturgy, Devotion, and Deprivation Béatrice
Caseau (University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France)
5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Mechanics of the Body or Activity
of the Soul? Pekka Kärkkäinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
6. Medicine and the Senses: Feeling the Pulse, Smelling the Plague, and
Listening for the Cure Faith Wallis (McGill University, Canada)
7. The Senses in Literature: The Textures of Perception Vincent Gillespie
(University of Oxford, UK)
8. Art and the Senses: Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages Eric Palazzo
(University of Poitiers, France)
9. Sensory Media: From Sounds to Silence, Sight to Insight Hildegard
Elisabeth Keller (Indiana University, USA and University of Zurich,
Switzerland)
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on contributors
Index