Rethinking the medieval senses
Subtitle: heritage, fascinations, frames
By: edited by Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz, and Alison Calhoun.
Contributors: Nichols, Stephen G.; Kablitz, Andreas.; Calhoun, Alison, 1979-
Series: Parallax
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780801887369; 9780801887376
Subjects: Middle Ages -- Intellectual life; Senses and sensation -- History; Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects; Senses and sensation in literature; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Erudite fascinations and cultural energies : how much can we know about the medieval senses? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; title: Seeing God : Augustine, sensation, and the mind's eye / Eugene Vance; title: Common sense : Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen; title: "Prae sensibus" : senses, imagination, and literature : some epistemologica considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira; title: The critical sense : some Spanish examples / Marina Brownlee; title: The place of the senses / Michel Zink; title: Seeing and hearing in ancient and medieval epiphany / Rainer Warning; title: Perception, cognition, and volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera / Joachim Küpper; title: Christian sovereignty and Jewish flesh / David Nirenberg; title: Comments on Küpper, Vance and Nirenberg / Gabrielle Spiegel; title: Representation and participation : some remarks on medieval French drama / Andreas Kablitz; title: Blinding sight : observations on German epics of the 13th century / Jan-Dirk Müller; title: Blinded avengers : making sense of invisibility in courtly epic and legal ritual / Hildegard E. Keller; title: Cardiosensory impulses in late medieval spirituality / Heather Webb; title: "The pupil of your eye" : vision, language and poetry in 13th century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols.