Description
Book SynopsisRichard G. Newhauser is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. He is the author of, among other works,
The Early History of Greed (2000); Sin: Essays on the
Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (2007); and co-editor of
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (2012). He recently co-edited Pleasure and Danger in Perception: The Five Senses in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, a special issue of
The Senses & Society (2010).
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Sensual Middle Ages
Richard Newhauser (Arizona State University, USA) 1. The Social Life of the Senses: Experiencing the Self, Others, and Environments
Chris Woolgar (University of Southampton, UK) 2. Urban Sensations: The Medieval City Imagined
Kathryn Reyerson (University of Minnesota, USA) 3. The Senses in the Marketplace: Markets, Shops, and Shopping in Medieval Towns
Martha Carlin (University of Wisconsin, USA) 4. The Senses in Religion: Liturgy, Devotion, and Deprivation
Béatrice Caseau (University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France) 5. The Senses in Philosophy and Science: Mechanics of the Body or Activity of the Soul?
Pekka Kärkkäinen (University of Helsinki, Finland) 6. Medicine and the Senses: Feeling the Pulse, Smelling the Plague, and Listening for the Cure
Faith Wallis (McGill University, Canada) 7. The Senses in Literature: The Textures of Perception
Vincent Gillespie (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Art and the Senses: Art and Liturgy in the Middle Ages
Eric Palazzo (University of Poitiers, France) 9. Sensory Media: From Sounds to Silence, Sight to Insight
Hildegard Elisabeth Keller (Indiana University, USA and University of Zurich, Switzerland) Notes Bibliography Notes on contributors Index
