Title: Rethinking the medieval senses : heritage, fascinations, frames /
Authors: Nichols, Stephen G.; Kablitz, Andreas; Calhoun, Alison, 1979-
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Middle Ages Intellectual life.; Senses and sensation History; Senses and sensation Religious aspects; Senses and sensation in literature; Literature, Medieval History and criticism; Sensation
Abstract: Organised within historical, thematic, and contextual frameworks, this collection of essays examines the psychological, rhetorical, and philological complexities of sensory perception from the classical period to the late Midddle Ages.
Contents: Erudite fascinations and cultural energies : how much can we know about the medieval senses? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Seeing God : Augustine, sensation, and the mind's eye / Eugene Vance -- Common sense : Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen -- "Prae sensibus" : senses, imagination, and literature : some epistemologica considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira -- The critical sense : some Spanish examples / Marina Brownlee -- The place of the senses / Michel Zink -- Seeing and hearing in ancient and medieval epiphany / Rainer Warning -- Perception, cognition, and volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera / Joachim Küpper -- Christian sovereignty and Jewish flesh / David Nirenberg -- Comments on Küpper, Vance and Nirenberg / Gabrielle Spiegel -- Representation and participation : some remarks on medieval French drama / Andreas Kablitz -- Blinding sight : observations on German epics of the 13th century / Jan-Dirk Müller -- Blinded avengers : making sense of invisibility in courtly epic and legal ritual / Hildegard E. Keller -- Cardiosensory impulses in late medieval spirituality / Heather Webb -- "The pupil of your eye" : vision, language and poetry in 13th century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols.