Roland Betancourt (Irvine University of California)

Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Considering the interrelations between sight, touch, and imagination, this book offers a new approach to how we understand the way that ancient and medieval people believed they saw, and the role that our imagination played in this process. An indispensable contribution to the history of optics, philosophy, and science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9781108440899
• ISBN-10: 1108440894
• Artikelnr.: 62111892

Autorenporträt

Roland Betancourt is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. In the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has co-edited Byzantium/Modernism: The Byzantine as Method in Modernity (2015), and is the author of a forthcoming book on the intersectionality of race, sexuality, and gender identity in the medieval world.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note to the reader
Introduction: can't touch this
Part I. How Sight Is Not Touch: 1. The medium of sight
2. The problem of tactility
3. The commonalities of the senses
Part II. Photios and the Unfolding of Perception: Introduction
4. Has the mind seen?: the language of effluxes
5. Has it grasped?: apprehending the object
6. Has it visualized?, I: the grasp of the imagination
7. Has it visualized?, II: the problem of fantasy
8. Then it has effortlessly ...: judgment and assent
Conclusion
Part III. Mediation, Veneration, Remediation: 9. Medium and mediation
10. Tactility and veneration
11. Synaesthesia and remediation
Conclusion: tempted to touch
Bibliography
Index.