{"product_id":"the-five-senses-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-9789004315488","title":"The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays collected in The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern England examine the interrelationships between sense perception and secular and Christian cultures in England from the medieval into the early modern periods. They address canonical texts and writers in the fields of poetry, drama, homiletics, martyrology and early scientific writing, and they espouse methods associated with the fields of corpus linguistics, disability studies, translation studies, art history and archaeology, as well as approaches derived from traditional literary studies.   Together, these papers constitute a major contribution to the growing field of sensorial research that will be of interest to historians of perception and cognition as well as to historians with more generalist interests in medieval and early modern England.    Contributors include: Dieter Bitterli, Beatrix Busse, Rory Critten, Javier Díaz-Vera, Tobias Gabel, Jens Martin Gurr, Katherine Hindley, Farah Karim-Cooper, Annette Kern-Stähler, Richard Newhauser, Sean Otto, Virginia Richter, Elizabeth Robertson, and Kathrin Scheuchzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This new collection demonstrates the real coming of age of sensory studies in medieval and early modern English scholarship. Its penetrating close readings of how English men and women wrote and rewrote the senses — in texts ranging from Old English translations of Boethius and Augustine, to Chaucer, Wyclif, and Milton — showcase the kind of deep discussion that is only really achievable when a field has reached a high level of maturity. From perceptual distortion to disability, to divine and human sight, the tactile theatre, the multi-sensorial afterlife, understanding-as-seeing, and the sensory richness of martyrdom — here we are offered a full banquet of sensory delights to whet our scholarly appetites.\"     Matthew Milner, McGill University  “This is a sensational book of profound relevance to scholars interested in the cultural history of the senses. The contributors excavate the shifting understandings of and engagement with the five senses in the medieval and early modern period. Through exploring the roles played by the senses in literature, liturgy and theatre, they provide us with many scintillating insights into the social construction of such categories as sin and salvation, illusion and reality, and self and world.”    David Howes, Miami University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\t Notes on the Editors\t Notes on the Contributors\t List of Illustrations\t  Introduction: The Five Senses in Medieval and Early Modern Cultures\t Annette Kern-Stähler and Kathrin Scheuchzer  PART ONE: SENSING AND UNDERSTANDING  Sight and Understanding. Visual Imagery as Metaphor in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies\t Katherine Hindley  Coming to Past Senses. Vision, Touch and Their Metaphors in Anglo-Saxon Language and Culture\t Javier Enrique Díaz-Vera    PART TWO: VISION AND ITS DISTORTION  Bleary Eyes. Middle English Constructions of Visual Disabilities\t Beatrix Busse and Annette Kern-Stähler  Exterior Inspection and Regular Reason. Robert Hooke’s and Margaret Cavendish’s Epistemologies of the Senses\t Virginia Richter  Hierachies of Vision in John Milton’s Paradise Lost\t Tobias Gabel    PART THREE: THE PERILOUS SENSES  Strange Perceptions. Sensory Experience in the Old English “Marvels of the East” \t Dieter Bitterli  The Perils of the Flesh. John Wyclif’s Preaching on the Five Bodily Senses\t Sean A. Otto  The Senses and Human Nature in a Political Reading of Paradise Lost\t Jens Martin Gurr    PART FOUR: THE MULTISENSUAL  Multisensoriality and the Chaucerian Multisensual\t Richard G. Newhauser  ‘Eate not, taste not, touch not’. The Five Senses in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments\t Kathrin Scheuchzer    PART FIVE: THE THEATRE AS SENSORY EXPERIENCE  Smell in the York Corpus Christi Plays\t Rory G. Critten and Annette Kern-Stähler  The Sensory Body in Shakespeare’s Theatres\t Farah Karim-Cooper    Afterword: From Gateways to Channels. Reaching towards an Understanding of the Transformative Plasticity of the Senses in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods\t Elizabeth Robertson  Index Nominum","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210684948823,"sku":"9789004315488","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-five-senses-in-medieval-and-early-modern-england-9789004315488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}