Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

Supplementary Content

• Publisher description
• Contributor biographical information

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Additional Authors

• Nichols, Stephen G.
• Kablitz, Andreas.
• Calhoun, Alison, 1979-

Description

ix, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Parallax

Uniform Title

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Subject

• Middle Ages > Intellectual life
• Senses and sensation > History
• Senses and sensation > Religious aspects
• Senses and sensation in literature
• Literature, Medieval > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• 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 -- "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.

Call Number

JFE 08-6485

ISBN

• 9780801887369 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780801887376 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0801887364 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801887372 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007022614

OCLC

140104982

Title

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

Imprint

Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, c2008.

Series

Parallax

Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Publisher description

Contributor biographical information

Added Author

Nichols, Stephen G.

Kablitz, Andreas.

Calhoun, Alison, 1979-

Research Call Number

JFE 08-6485