| Physical description |
ix, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Parallax. |
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Parallax (Baltimore, Md.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue / Stephen G. Nichols -- Introduction. Erudite Fascinations and Cultural Energies: How Much Can We Know about the Medieval Senses? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- 1. Heritage -- 1. Seeing God: Augustine, Sensation, and the Mind's Eye / Eugene Vance -- 2. Common Sense: Greek, Arabic, Latin / Daniel Heller-Roazen -- 3. Senses, Imagination, and Literature: Some Epistemological Considerations / Gregor Vogt-Spira -- 2. Fascinations -- 4. The Critical Sense: Some Spanish Examples / Marina Brownlee -- 5. The Place of the Senses / Michel Zink -- 6. Seeing and Hearing in Ancient and Medieval Epiphany / Rainer Warning -- 3. Hidden Energies -- 7. Perception, Cognition, and Volition in the Arcipreste de Talavera / Joachim Kupper -- 8. Christian Sovereignty and Jewish Flesh / David Nirenberg -- 9. Paradoxes of the Senses / Gabrielle M. Spiegel -- 10. Representation and Participation: Some Remarks on Medieval French Drama / Andreas Kablitz -- 11. Blinding Sight: Some Observations on German Epics of the Thirteenth Century / Jan-Dirk Muller -- 12. Blinded Avengers: Making Sense of Invisibility in Courtly Epic and Legal Ritual / Hildegard Elisabeth Keller -- 4. Frames -- 13. Cardiosensory Impulses in Late Medieval Spirituality / Heather Webb -- 14. "The Pupil of Your Eye": Vision, Language, and Poetry in Thirteenth-Century Paris / Stephen G. Nichols. |
| Other author |
Nichols, Stephen G.
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Kablitz, Andreas.
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Calhoun, Alison, 1979-
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| Subject |
Middle Ages -- Intellectual life.
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Senses and sensation -- History.
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Senses and sensation -- Religious aspects.
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Senses and sensation in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780801887369 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9780801887376 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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0801887364 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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0801887372 (paperback: alkaline paper) |
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