Rethinking the Medieval Senses

Heritage/Fascinations/Frames
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8018-8737-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 344 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

Reihe: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society

How much can we know about sensory experience in the Middle Ages? While few would question that the human senses encountered a profoundly different environment in the medieval world, two distinct and opposite interpretations of that encounter have emerged—one of high sensual intensity and one of extreme sensual starvation.

Presenting original, cutting-edge scholarship, Stephen G. Nichols, Andreas Kablitz, Alison Calhoun, and their team of distinguished colleagues transport us to the center of this lively debate. Organized within historical, thematic, and contextual frameworks, these essays examine the psychological, rhetorical, and philological complexities of sensory perception from the classical period to the late Middle Ages.

Contributors: Marina Brownlee, Princeton University; Alison Calhoun, Johns Hopkins University; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University; Daniel Heller-Roazen, Princeton University; Andreas Kablitz, Universität zu Köln; Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, University of Zurich; Joachim Küpper, Freie Universität Berlin; Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University; David Nirenberg, University of Chicago; Gabrielle M. Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University; Eugene Vance, University of Washington; Gregor Vogt-Spira, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald; Rainer Warning, University of Munich; Heather Webb, Ohio State University; Michel Zink, Collège de France.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nichols, Stephen G

Kablitz, Andreas

Calhoun, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Völkerwanderung und Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue
Introduction. Erudite Fascinations and Cultural Energies: How Much Can We Know about the Medieval Senses?
Part I: Heritage
Chapter 1. Seeing God: Augustine, Sensation, and the Mind's Eye
Chapter 2. Common Sense: Greek, Arabic, Latin
Chapter 3. Senses, Imagination, and Literature: Some Epistemological Considerations
Part II: Fascinations
Chapter 4. The Critical Sense: Some Spanish Examples
Chapter 5. The Place of the Senses
Chapter 6. Seeing and Hearing in Ancient and Medieval Epiphany
Part III: Hidden Energies
Chapter 7. Perception, Cognition, and Volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera
Chapter 8. Christian Sovereignty and Jewish Flesh
Chapter 9. Paradoxes of the Senses
Chapter 10. Representation and Participation: Some Remarks on Medieval French Drama
Chapter 11. Blinding Sight: Some Observations on German Epics of the Thirteenth Century
Chapter 12. Blinded Avengers: Making Sense of Invisibility in
Courtly Epic and Legal Ritual
Part IV: Frames
Chapter 13. Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality
Chapter 14. "The Pupil of Your Eye": Vision, Language, and Poetry in Thirteenth-Century Paris
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nichols, Stephen G
Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, author of Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography, and editor of The New Philology.

Kablitz, Andreas
Andreas Kablitz is a professor of Romance Philology and head of the Romanisches Seminar of the Philosophische Fakultät of the Universität zu Köln.

Calhoun, Alison
Alison Calhoun is a new faculty fellow and visiting assistant professor of French at Indiana University.

Stephen G. Nichols is James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University, author of Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography, and editor of The New Philology. Andreas Kablitz is a professor of Romance Philology and head of the Romanisches Seminar of the Philosophische Fakultät of the Universität zu Köln. Alison Calhoun is currently pursuing her doctorate in French Literature at the Johns Hopkins University and in 2006–2007 was the Louis Marin Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm) in Paris.