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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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