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; Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
Publisher: 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: value: Erudite fascinations and cultural energies : how much can we know about the medieval senses? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht; value: Seeing God : Augustine, sensation, and the mind's eye / Eugene Vance; value: Common sense : Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen; value: Senses, imagination, and literature : some epistemological considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira; value: The critical sense : some Spanish examples / Marina Brownlee; value: The place of the senses / Michel Zink; value: Seeing and hearing in ancient and medieval epiphany / Rainer Warning; value: Perception, cognition, and volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera / Joachim Küpper; value: Christian sovereignty and Jewish flesh / David Nirenberg; value: Paradoxes of the senses / Gabrielle M. Spiegel; value: Representation and participation : some remarks on medieval French drama / Andreas Kablitz; value: Blinding sight : some observations on German epics of the thirteenth century / Jan-Dirk Müller; value: Blinded avengers : making sense of invisibility in courtly epic and legal ritual / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller; value: Cardiosensory impulses in late medieval spirituality / Heather Webb; value: "The pupil of your eye" : vision, language, and poetry in thirteeth-century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols.