S. Biernoff

Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book breaks new ground by bringing postmodern writings on vision and embodiment into dialogue with medieval texts and images: an interdisciplinary strategy that illuminates and complicates both cultures. This is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in the history and theory of visuality, and it is essential reading for scholars of art, science or spirituality in the medieval period.

Produktdetails

• The New Middle Ages
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-42722-2
• 1st ed. 2002
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781349427222
• ISBN-10: 1349427225
• Artikelnr.: 45070116

Autorenporträt

SUZANNAH BIERNOFF in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Medieval Vision in Perspective PART I: CARNAL VISION Flesh The Eye of the Flesh PART II: PERSPECTIVA Scientific Visions The Optical Body PART III: REDEMPTION The Custody of the Eyes Ocular Communion Bibliography Index

Rezensionen

'This is a book which should make us rethink our assumptions relating to the medieval body and ways of seeing.' - Megan Cassidy-Welch, H-France