Rethinking the medieval senses : heritage, fascinations, frames / edited by Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz, and Alison Calhoun.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
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ix, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    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
    • Senses, imagination, and literature : some epistemological 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
    • Paradoxes of the senses / Gabrielle M. Spiegel
    • Representation and participation : some remarks on medieval French drama / Andreas Kablitz
    • Blinding sight : some observations on German epics of the thirteenth century / Jan-Dirk Müller
    • Blinded avengers : making sense of invisibility in courtly epic and legal ritual / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller
    • Cardiosensory impulses in late medieval spirituality / Heather Webb
    • "The pupil of your eye" : vision, language, and poetry in thirteeth-century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols.
    ISBN
    • 9780801887369 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 9780801887376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • 0801887364 (hardcover : alk. paper)
    • 0801887372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    LCCN
    2007022614
    OCLC
    140104982
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