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Sensory Reflections : Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts / ed. by Fiona Griffiths, Kathryn Starkey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sense, Matter, and Medium : New Approaches to Medieval Literary and Material Culture ; 1Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 268 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110562347
  • 9783110562866
  • 9783110563443
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/60902 23
LOC classification:
  • GN406 .S485 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Contributor Biographies -- Sensing Through Objects -- 1. The Songbook as Sensory Artifact -- 2. Sensory Experiences of Low-Status Female Textile Workers in the Carolingian World -- 3. Appealing to the Senses: Experiencing Adornment in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean -- 4. Sensing Iconography: Ornamentation, Material, and Sensuousness in Early Anglo-Saxon Metalwork -- 5. The Vessel as Garden: The “Alhambra Vases” and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture -- 6. Theatricality, Materiality, Relics: Reliquary Forms and the Sensational in Mosan Art -- 7. The Wound’s Presence and Bodily Absence: Activating the Spiritual Senses in a Fourteenth-Century Manuscript -- 8. Birds in Hand: Micro-books and the Devotional Experience -- 9. Moved by Medicine: The Multisensory Experience of Handling Folding Almanacs -- 10. “putten to ploughe”: Touching the Peasant Sensory Community -- Reflections on Sensory Reflections: An Afterword -- Index -- Plates
Summary: This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Contributor Biographies -- Sensing Through Objects -- 1. The Songbook as Sensory Artifact -- 2. Sensory Experiences of Low-Status Female Textile Workers in the Carolingian World -- 3. Appealing to the Senses: Experiencing Adornment in the Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean -- 4. Sensing Iconography: Ornamentation, Material, and Sensuousness in Early Anglo-Saxon Metalwork -- 5. The Vessel as Garden: The “Alhambra Vases” and Sensory Perception in Nasrid Architecture -- 6. Theatricality, Materiality, Relics: Reliquary Forms and the Sensational in Mosan Art -- 7. The Wound’s Presence and Bodily Absence: Activating the Spiritual Senses in a Fourteenth-Century Manuscript -- 8. Birds in Hand: Micro-books and the Devotional Experience -- 9. Moved by Medicine: The Multisensory Experience of Handling Folding Almanacs -- 10. “putten to ploughe”: Touching the Peasant Sensory Community -- Reflections on Sensory Reflections: An Afterword -- Index -- Plates

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This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience. The rich potential of medieval matter (most obviously manuscripts and visual imagery, but also liturgical objects, coins, textiles, architecture, graves, etc.) to complement and even transcend purely textual sources is by now well established in medieval scholarship across the disciplines. So, too, attention to medieval sensory experiences—most prominently emotion—has transformed our understanding of medieval religious life and spirituality, violence, power, and authority, friendship, and constructions of both the self and the other. Our purpose in this volume is to draw the two approaches together, plumbing medieval material sources for traces of sensory experience - above all ephemeral and physical experiences that, unlike emotion, are rarely fully described or articulated in texts.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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